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Re: Ten Lively Southern Expressions
« Reply #25 on: May 31, 2017, 12:47:39 am »
Hotter than a firecracker.

Hotter'n a hamster fart in a wool sock.

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Re: Ten Lively Southern Expressions
« Reply #26 on: May 31, 2017, 12:50:09 am »
From my grandmother when one of us was listening to some music she didn't like.  "Who's rockin on that cat's tail?"
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
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Re: Ten Lively Southern Expressions
« Reply #27 on: May 31, 2017, 12:54:33 am »
He couldn't buy a 10 cent cup of coffee with a 10 dollar bill, if you know what I mean.
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Re: Ten Lively Southern Expressions
« Reply #28 on: May 31, 2017, 01:12:56 am »
The sun don't shine on the same dog's butt all the time.
"Bless your heart"

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Re: Ten Lively Southern Expressions
« Reply #29 on: May 31, 2017, 01:48:18 am »
Hotter than a two dollar pistol.
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Re: Ten Lively Southern Expressions
« Reply #30 on: May 31, 2017, 01:53:15 am »
"Bless your heart"

Ding! Ding! Ding!

I can't believe no one has mentioned that yet.
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Re: Ten Lively Southern Expressions
« Reply #31 on: May 31, 2017, 01:57:33 am »
Ding! Ding! Ding!

I can't believe no one has mentioned that yet.

Could have done with that one staying unmentioned. :tongue2:
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« Reply #32 on: May 31, 2017, 02:05:07 am »
Having EC post a "Southern" Expression is as cute as a red winged blackbird sitting on top a pumkin!

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Re: Ten Lively Southern Expressions
« Reply #33 on: May 31, 2017, 02:09:01 am »
I'll expand the discussion a little.


In jail everyone says, "than a mo**erfu**er". I never got used to this one.
It's colder than a mo**erfu**er outside.
It's hotter than a mo**erfu**er outside.
He's richer than a mo**erfu**er.
He's poorer than a mo**erfu**er.
It's a weird thing, but every description of anything is followed by, than a mo**erfu**er.

Cops alway say, "for me", after everything they tell you to do.
Step out of the car, for me.
Put your hands behind your back, for me.
Sit in the back seat, for me.
Watch your head, for me.
You can even see this on the show Cops. It is some kind of uncontrollable compulsion for them to say 'for me' after almost every sentence. It drives me crazy. I have no desire at all to do anything 'for me'. I'll do what they say, but I'm not doing it for them. I do it because it is the law. Now that you have read this, you will notice it all the time like I do.

Ghost hunters always qualify their questions. That is, if there is a bang or a knock somewhere, the first thing they always blurt out is, "Did you hear that!?" This is a phrase you will hear dozens of times in any ghost hunter show. Then they go to, "If that was you". I'm not sure what this is supposed to mean. 'If that was you, do it again.' I can picture a ghost or demon hanging around and thinking, 'I didn't do that.' The 'if that was you' qualifier has always confused me. Why not just say, 'Do it again!'. Why is there a need to specify which ghost you want to respond. Weird.

I know this is a little off topic, but it still has to do with phrases that certain groups of people use.
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Re: Ten Lively Southern Expressions
« Reply #34 on: May 31, 2017, 02:10:55 am »
Could have done with that one staying unmentioned. :tongue2:

Well, bless your heart.
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Re: Ten Lively Southern Expressions
« Reply #35 on: June 02, 2017, 12:54:28 am »
Wingnutisms

It's raining harder than a cow pissin on a flat rock. 
That boy is so hungry he's fartin dust.
He's shaking like a Kennedy at a gun show.
Busier than a one eyed cat watching 9 mouse holes.
I gotta crap so bad I could shit through the eye of a needle at 8 paces.
That boy is so tight you couldn't pull a pin out of his ass with a tractor.
Grinning like a chessie cat eating shit through a barbwire fence.
If your aunt had balls, she'd be your uncle.

I'm beginning to have regrets about this article... 

By the way, is this guy 888sunglass giving a thumbs up or the middle finger?

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Re: Ten Lively Southern Expressions
« Reply #36 on: June 02, 2017, 01:11:33 am »
Wow ... there are more of these than you can shake a stick at!
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Re: Ten Lively Southern Expressions
« Reply #37 on: June 02, 2017, 01:22:41 am »
For a good time look up Foghorn Leghorn quotes. You won't be disappointed.
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"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
- J. R. R. Tolkien

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Re: Ten Lively Southern Expressions
« Reply #39 on: June 02, 2017, 01:50:51 am »
I recall a Texas politician saying "That cat won't go to the litter box."

That dog won't hunt.

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Re: Ten Lively Southern Expressions
« Reply #40 on: June 02, 2017, 01:59:36 am »
Most of the ones I can think of are not spoken in mixed company.... uhg.

Happy as a ______ in tall cotton.
Like 2 monkies trying to ____ a football.
Like a cow pissing on a flat rock.
I am hungry enough to eat the a__hole of a dead skunk.

One that I heard in Texas that isn't R rated is, "He is so stupid that he wouldn't be able to pour beer out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel.

Bless his heart.