Great Southern sayings that make no damned sense

[rambling man]

I don't give a flying rats ass

You can't swing a dead cat without hitting (something that there is a lot of in a given area) example: "You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a Wal Mart in Arkansas.

Roll Tide

any others?

 

[morninggirl5]

Roll Tide

That makes perfect sense. It's that damn cow college yell of "War Beagle" that doesn't make sense.

 

[rambling man]

Really laughed my ass off on that one...I know where you liive!

 

[morninggirl5]

Don't live there, but the Bear would come up out of that grave and take back my diploma if I'd have let that one go by.



ROLL TIDE!

 

[ranajja]

Makes perfect sense to me

TIGER BAIT!

 

[KillerMuffin]

Nervous as a cat in a roomful of rockin chairs. No, that makes sense.

Hey ya'll, watch this! No, that makes sense, it's the activity following such sayings that make no sense and do well for population control.

I tell you what. Now that makes no sense, they never ever define what they intend to tell you.

I tell you what.

 

[rambling man]

I say that all the time...A conversation can be peppered with a slew of "I tell you what"'s and no one ever elaborates, leaving the non-Southerner pulling out their hair and screaming.

 

[SimplySouthern]

As is my motto ( I am a southern woman) I would like to include this one: Well, bless his/her heart.

No one ever means that, and you can bet your sweet ass (there's another one) that whatever follows "Bless their heart" is something mean about the person whom they're blessing.

Ex: Bless his heart, he is the stupidest person on Earth.

Another one.....you can't beat it with a stick. For example....That's a great price on "that". Yeah, you can't beat it with a stick.

More....'purt near...which is the exact opposite of a right far piece. 'Purt near you understand is something very near in proximity whereas a right far piece is way way way far away.

Another....people in the South don't drive people somewhere or take them there. They "carry" them. For example...I've heard people say. "I've got to go. I have to carry Momma to the doctor today...and it's a right far piece. She's got some mental problems...crazy as hell, bless her heart. "

More to come when I have time, and feel like coming *grin*

 

[rambling man]

All time hall of fame saying....

I'm fixin' to go somewhere...I'm fixin' to fix the bookshelf, etc.

Many parts of the South developed their own language almost. Anne Royall traveled through southern areas in the early 1800s and commented that it seemed like the people had not only ruined the English language but made up words

There are some examples right now that escape me of words people use in this area that sound just completely made up, but actually have not been used in those ways since the 1500s in England.

 

[Guest]

Another....people in the South don't drive people somewhere or take them there. They "carry" them. For example...I've heard people say. "I've got to go. I have to carry Momma to the doctor today...and it's a right far piece. She's got some mental problems...crazy as hell, bless her heart. "

Are you fixin to carry her, or ya gonna do it later?

 

[TN_Vixen]

I say "fixin'" all the time

or at least purt near.

Down yonder... i.e. Uncle Frank's house is down yonder.

Cute as a speckled pup

I reckon

 

[rambling man]

I remember now, the word hollering, or giving a holler. that was an ancient english usage that died out apparently everywhere but here...a holler is also a high and narrow valley with a creek winding down the middle

 

[KillerMuffin]

My mother in law's favorite "Slap you like a red-redheaded step chile"

"You might could wanna..." Might could wanna? You might could wanna put a lil' sugar in that tea. You might could wanna get a blanket, it'll be a cold one tonight.

Set yourself down. I don't say it, but oy vey.

 

[SimplySouthern]

Are you fixin to carry her, or ya gonna do it later?

Well, it is a right far peice...we better start out now.

Youins get in the truck.

 

[PolythenePam]

I have an uncle.....

who says--when something is absolutely beneath contempt--"I wouldn't hit a hog in the ass with that...."(fill in the blank with the inferior thing)......it just kills me.....

 

[miles]

"Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit."

 

[SimplySouthern]

Shit fire and save matches.

 

[PolythenePam]

"Does a fat baby fart??"

I think it's a rhetorical thing....

 

[PolythenePam]

....and if it's really useless....

it's "like tits on a boar hog"

 

[SimplySouthern]

OK...this one is hard to explain, but follow me.

If someone is doing something bad....say, for example they are singing...badly. really really badly.....

A southerner might say....

If she was singing for shit, she'd be a turd in the hole for Christmas.

Oh my. Now, I've never said that...but I've heard it. Lots.

 

[beckbabe]

People in the south don't put things away, only up...I'm fixing to put up this jam.

Sit a spell

Do what?

 

[morninggirl5]

People in the south don't put things away, only up...I'm fixing to put up this jam.

Sit a spell

Do what?

I'm fixing to put up this jam can also mean you are making the jam and canning it in Mason jars.

We put up a bushel of string beans and ten gallons of tomatoes.



Which leads to the question, why is it called canning when you're using jars?

 

[PolythenePam]

...and all that stuff you put up goes in the deep freeze....with God as our witness, southerners will never be hungry again....

 

[beckbabe]

LOL, that's cool Morning girl, lookie there you learned me something. I have heard "put up" used like "put those chips up before you go." Maybe even they didn't know what they were saying.

 

[crystalhunting]

"Damned fool can't see his head from his ass"







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