We have lots of funny sayings.....I thought I would share a few. Have any of you heard these? Or do you have a favorite saying?
...sweatin' like a pig
...Drunk as Cooter Brown
...old enough to eat cornbread and not choke on it
...nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rockers
...mean as a snake
...easy as pie
...mad as a hornet
....livin' in high cotton
...up the creek without a paddle
Well, those are just a few. Do you have a funny saying? I think I could sit here typing them for hours!! "Git 'er done" is not one of my favorites. I hate that one--half the men here sound like Larry the Cable Guy anyway! ha!
What about favorite southern foods--
buttermilk biscuits ~ chocolate gravy ~ fried taters ~ cornbread ~ sweet iced tea ~ collard greens ~ peach cobbler ~ fried catfish ~ just about anything fried ~ fried okra ~ fried squash ~ pintoes ~ stuff fresh out of your garden
I don't know anyone who eats 'possum or gross stuff like that, but I have heard people say their grandparents ate them. Hopefully that was only because they had to....We have a 'possum that has been sneaking on our porch to eat--he doesn't seem too scared of us and for a second I considered trying to pet him. :) We have nick-named him Leonard....and he won't be anybody's meal!!
Its funny what people think about us Southerners....I actually did live outside Alabama and even outside the country for a little while. I couldn't believe some of the things people thought. One girl asked me if we have airports in Alabama! ha! I guess she thought we rode our horse and buggy out of Alabama to the nearest airport. I was only 18 then and I didn't realize what people really thought about the South until I travelled a little.
It is different here--I have to admit that. But I love it--I love our accents and how most people are friendly. Its more country where I grew up....when you drive down the road, everyone waves, even if you don't know who it is. (You probably know them, they are probably just driving a new truck!) I love that it isn't so busy here, not a lot of traffic and I love all the trees! And I love how when you meet someone, if you don't know them, after you talk a while you know someone they are related to. It always bugged me when I had a date or a friend coming over and Daddy would ask who their parents were. I'd say, "I don't KNOW!" (Probably rolled my eyes too...) I didn't know why it mattered who someone's parents were. Now I completely understand! Oh, and I love it that I knew everyone in my school. At my elementary & junior high school there were less than 20 people in my class. After the 4th grade, we had two grades in each class and the school only went to the 8th grade. That school is gone--but that's another story for another day.
Hi Denise, yep, that us huh. I don't feel to good today, I am pickin low cotton.
ReplyDeleteWell, "Bless your heart" Denise. I haven't talked to you "in a coon's age. But I just know "the south will rise again" because "I ain't just whistlin' Dixie". LOL We use the same ones you listed all the time and hundreds more. Yep, I think we are thought of very differently in many parts of the world, some places not very highly I'm afraid but "we let it roll off like water off a duck’s back". One of the foods I think you'll fine anywhere you go in the south is cornbread. Yum! Yum! Now that's eatin' "high on the hog". I'll always be a southern belle, now don't that "take the cake". Love your posts!! :)
ReplyDeleteYou're brave to consider pettin" one of those there possums. Yikes! Careful they bite!
Can't wait to see pictures of the progress on your studio. Looks like spring will be here soon. Buds and new leaves coming out on my Bradford pear trees. I'm plannig on doing alot of work outside if these rain storms will ever stop. Talk to you soon. Ya'll come back now! zoe
Aw, De...sorry you're not feeling well. Maybe tomorrow you'll feel finer than a frog hair.....you know the rest!
ReplyDeleteZoe! Those are good ones'' "in a coon's age" is something we say all the time!! Don't worry, I won't pet that 'possum. It crossed my mind for a second, but I reconsidered as he waddled away!! Cross your fingers that I will finish my bathroom this weekend--have to paint some pictures though. Oh, and I have daffodils blooming around my porch!!
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