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We have them up North, too.
"comparing apples and oranges" (attempting an invalid comparison), "a few cards short of a full deck", "honest as the day's long", "go take a long walk off a short pier", "garbage in, garbage out", and the like.
posted by
cpklapper
on June 11, 2010 at 7:06 AM
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Oh, my, but my family has a lot of these colloquialisms!
"Luckier than a two petered billy goat."
"Dumb as a stump."
And of course, weights and measures differ, such as the difference between a "sh*tload" and "a damn sh*tload."
There's a post in here somewhere...
posted by
strat
on June 10, 2010 at 12:33 PM
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They sound like Australians ...we have a saying for everything and Wiley
took quite some time toinderstand my speech...now it is so cute.....he translates for other Canadians.
posted by
Kabu
on June 10, 2010 at 7:31 AM
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Aww, bless yer heart!
posted by
SpitFire70
on June 9, 2010 at 9:48 PM
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TIMMYTALES
Z Don’t Southerners say the darnest things y’all
BC-A, Bill’s RJLs
posted by
BC-A
on June 9, 2010 at 8:23 PM
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I loved those sayings!!! There are lots of good ones ... like : "He is not the sharpest tool in the shed", " I have not seen you in a coon's age", " cuter than a speckled pup in a red wagon"... SOutheners are colorful and their metaphore sayings are quite effective in conveying what they mean :-) xoxoxo
posted by
Sinome
on June 9, 2010 at 7:39 PM
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Quite some interesting sayings they got. I find it interesting how languages involve within different segments of society.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on June 9, 2010 at 7:27 PM
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In defense of Southern Sayings
Those must all be sayings from Arkansas and Texas. I have lived here all my life and they are not common sayings in the Southeast! Bless y'alls hearts.
posted by
dancin_grandma
on June 9, 2010 at 6:18 PM
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Re: sam
It was a terrible joke! So ya git what pay fer, and that was no investment on my part! lol and lol sam
posted by
sam444
on June 9, 2010 at 3:27 PM
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sam
LOL.....That is above and beyond!!! The joke is not very funny though!!! lol
posted by
TIMMYTALES
on June 9, 2010 at 3:13 PM
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Here is a bit of what I came across:
“How the cow ate the cabbage” is a folk saying of the southern US, most often heard in Texas and Arkansas, and probably dates back to at least the 1940s. It comes from the punchline to a joke that would, in that period, have been considered at least slightly “off-color.” Here goes:
A circus had arrived in a small town, and one morning one of the elephants managed to escape. The fugitive pachyderm made its way to the backyard garden of an elderly (and very near-sighted) woman, where it began hungrily uprooting her cabbages with its trunk and eating them. Alarmed by the apparition in her garden, the woman called the police, saying, “Sheriff, there’s a big cow in my garden pulling up my cabbages with its tail!” “What’s the cow doing with them?” he asked, to which the woman replied, “You wouldn’t believe me if I told you!”
Source:
here
lol sam
posted by
sam444
on June 9, 2010 at 3:10 PM
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Re: TIIMMY, that's a new one on me, too - cows eating cabbage?
Ouch!!! Truely a delicate situation
posted by
TIMMYTALES
on June 9, 2010 at 2:45 PM
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TIIMMY, that's a new one on me, too - cows eating cabbage?
...there's another that fits right in here, though: "slower than a nudist trying to climb a barbed wire fence"..
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posted by
Rumor
on June 9, 2010 at 2:23 PM
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Re: Comment on Saying it Southern Style
They play soccer with a head of cabbage, but they don't eat it
posted by
TIMMYTALES
on June 9, 2010 at 11:54 AM
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Comment on Saying it Southern Style
Get a head of cabbage, set it in front of the cow at feeding time, then sit or come back and look.
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posted by
joab3
on June 9, 2010 at 11:52 AM
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