Posted on 05/18/2004 8:09:41 AM PDT by OldBlondBabe
"He's so black, lightnin' bugs foller him around in the daytime"
"Rich as" or "Dark as" "three feet up a bull's ass."
and: "He's so tight that he'd skin a flea for the hide and tallow."
One thing for sure, he definitely loves California and its people.
That's common but fading all through the mountains iin the southeast. Supposedly it is the last gasp of Elizabethan common speech. The settlers came early and stayed relatively isolated for a couple of centuries.
Wretched Petty was my favorite NASCAR driver.
Yeah, I reckon I've heard it in Tennessee, too, but Bamma? maybe somewhere north of B'ham?
OK, I confess I haven't read the entire thread, but it seems the old "kin" has been overlooked. Its a verb, as in y'all kin come on in. It also stands for cousin, as in hello, I'm Cecils son, yer kin, to which one replies, waall, y'all kin come on in and stay here.
Huntsville/Decatur
It's hotter than a burnt boot today
roun hea dats "wy ply"- at least in some neighborhoods. I was getting gas and an old fellow had his head under his raised hood. He saw me drive up and yelled at me "EY! yuga wy ply? lemma wy ply!" I did NOT understand him. I said "whut? try that in English." My wife who was born and raised hereabouts said he was asking for the loan of a pair of pliers.I got out my pliers and handed them to him and he proceeded to tighten his battery terminal and handed them back. Now I hear the word from time to time from old folks. It is a local pronunciation for a local term, to wit, "wire pliers," the kind best used for twisting wire.
When asked how he was doing, My uncle used to say "Finer than frogs hair split in two".
Or gag a maggot
YALL and ALLAYALL. No apostrophe. The apostrophe is a yankee attempt to make words that sound foreign to them make some sort of yankee sense.
Ha! I've been away too long.
"That's about as useful as a wicker bed pan”
"I need that like Custer needed more Indians.”
"That person's got more nerve than an abcessed tooth!"
"Who's screwing this pig? You or me?"
"I'm as full as a fat ladies sock" !
"That's as useful as a screen door on a submarine!"
"That is as hard as trying to nail Jello to a tree."!!
"There are three kinds of people in the world, those who can count, and those who cant."
"If you were any dumber, your ears would touch!"
“She's the kind of person where you scratch the surface and you find more surface.”
"If you had a brain you would take it out and play with it!"
"He's got a full six pack, but he's missing the plastic that holds it together."
If brains were gasoline, you couldn't run a piss ant's motorcycle around an anthill twice
" I am going to have to sit on my hands to keep from clapping"
Also as in "TAKE."
No. It means CARRY like youwould carry something in a basket. Just think of the truck as a big basket.
Bingo.
yaunto
want to
marker bump
Bump for later.
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