Things only people from the South know

8-27-03 | Unkown

[WKB]

Only a true Southerner knows the difference between a hissie fit and a conniption and that you pitch one and have the other.

Nobody but a true Southerner knows how many fish, collard greens, Turnip greens, peas, beans, etc. make up a mess.

A true Southerner can show or point out to you the general direction of "yonder."

A true Southerner knows exactly how long "directly" is - as in "Going to town, be back directly."

Even true Southern babies know that "Gimme some sugar" is not a request for the white, granular sweet substance that sits in a pretty little bowl in the middle of the table.

All true Southerners know exactly when "by and by" is. They might not use the term, but they know the concept well.

True Southerners know instinctively that the best gesture of solace for a neighbor who's got trouble is a plate of hot fried chicken and a big bowl of cold potato salad. (If the trouble is a real crisis, they also know to add a large banana puddin').

True Southerners grow up knowing the difference between "right near" and "a right far piece." They know that "just down the road" can be 1 mile or 20.

True Southerners both know and understand the differences between a redneck, a good ol' boy, and trailer trash. <> No true Southerner would ever assume that the car with the flashing turn signal is actually going to make a turn. True Southerners know that "fixin" can be used both as a noun, verb and adverb.

A true Southerner knows how to understand Southern a booger can be a resident of the nose, a descriptive ("That ol' booger!") or something that jumps out at you in the dark and scares you to death.

True Southerners make friends standing in lines. We don't do "queues," we do "lines." And when we're in line, we talk to everybody.

Put 100 Southerners in a room and half of them will discover they're related, if only by marriage.

True Southerners never refer to one person as "ya'll."

True Southerners know grits come from corn and how to eat them.

Every true Southerner knows tomatoes with eggs, bacon, grits and coffee are perfectly wonderful; that redeye gravy is also a breakfast food; that fried green tomatoes are not breakfast food.

When you ask someone how they're doing and they reply, " Fair to middlin.", you know you're in the presence of a genuine Southerner.

Southerners say "sweet tea" and "sweet milk." Sweet tea indicates the need for sugar and lots of it - we do not like our tea unsweetened, "sweet milk" means you don't want buttermilk.

And a true Southerner knows you don't scream obscenities at little old ladies who drive 30 on the freeway? You say, "Bless her heart" and go on your way.

[gitmo]

Southerners are reticent to demand someone do something, even the young'uns. It's much more polite to 'let' them do it. If they don't you politely whup up on em.

[Desparado]

I met a waitress in Miami who had worked for a while in Texas. She asked me if I knew what a "lil heffer" was. She said the men always used to call her that. She wasn't too happy when we told her it was a young cow. While I'm at it, you wouldn't want to tangle with some one who was "ill as a snake"! And You'ins could bring in the groceries if you wouldn't care to help me out.

[CindyDawg]

Bet he kept those cast iron skillets in the oven too, didn't he?

[MEG33]

I have been saying "I'll let you"...all my life without knowing the rationale for it!

[RJayneJ]

Sounds reasonable to me. By the way, don't ask the dog to watch your lunch while you go answer the phone. };^D)

[MEG33]

"Lil heifer" is a term of teasing endearment ,I believe,although it is a young cow.

[knak]

I always thought "you'ins" was a northern word? I always say "you guys" whether they're guys or not.

[CindyDawg]

Oh no. I'Ve "had this out" with you guys before. We have ya'll and y'all. There is a difference

"ya'll come in vs "y'all " come back :')

[WKB]

If that means in the hills , Yes

[WKB]

The Egg Bowl.

Played in Jackson

[WKB]

Wow. This thread is still going. I'm going to come back and read later. I checked out last night around 200 :')

Will wonders never cease.

[gitmo]

Yep, the cows grow longer legs on the downhill side.

[CindyDawg]

A pee can is an empty coffee can one takes on long car trips

but all the boys get a nehi in the bottle to drink at the start of the trip and you empty them "pee bottles" when you get to where you were goin.

[TexasCowboy]

I met a young Gyrene a couple of months ago who just got back from Gitmo.
He loved it, too.

[bootless]

Pol Salad Annie, btw, is the theme song that Lee Rodgers & Melanie Morgan play whenever Ann Coulter is on their show on KSFO... great song!

[Eaker]

They got grease in their grits??!
That's sacrilegious!!

Some of us that don't make the big money gotta go 50/50 lard/butter.

Never did like you rich folks!!!

;<)

[gitmo]

I stopped at a gas station out in the middle of nowhere about 3:00 AM one night. Some truck driver went in too, and the clerk asked him if he'd been in Gitmo. (His shirt had a Gitmo patch on it). The clerk had spent time there. I piped in that I'd lived there. The next person to come thru the door heard us, and said he'd spent years there. We had a little Guantanamo reunion then and there.

[Just_de_facts]

Which reminds me:

"Las nite, the nite befo, twenny fo men was at my do.
I got up an let em in, hit um in de head wit a rollin pin.
Is evybody ready? Nehi!!!!". This was the chant called
out during games of hide and seek to allow the players
time to hide and a shout of Nehi meant not ready.

[CindyDawg]

598 posts and nothing about tail gaiting. Got to have them for picnics and socializing.

[pointsal]

A true southerner names his male children "Bo" or "Beau" and the female children "Dixie".