Colloquialisms

To a long winded person: "Does your train of thought have a caboose?"

Woofens/Janis: If you will scroll up to my post on Oct. 21 at 4:36 p.m you will find a story about "a'fixin" which you might like.
The oldtimers in this area frequently talk about "carrying" someone somewhere.

"Hosepipe, "You got me swingin'" and "Does your train of thought have a caboose?" all just "crack me up" LOLOL Thanks Woofens, dragonfly and Beth!

Marsue Missed that thanks :) LOL

How about warshing powders instead of laundry detergent?

yep, warsh those hands, too!

and then there is "garadge" (hard g sound) instead of "garage" (soft g sound)

and of course, there is "gahbahge" instead of garbage LOL

OMG ROFLMBO - does your train of thought have a caboose?
My DH found a picture of an April Fool's joke for iced potatoes.
Scoop of ice cream (vanilla) and caramel sauce or butterscotch. Serve to person who thinks it is mashed potatoes and gravy. Also found that mashed potatoes are used instead of ice cream by photographers when they are doing photography for ice cream.
I can't play any more today. My day pass has run out and I have to leave and go spend some quality time with DH watching all our favourite shows on the telley or boob tube or idiot box.
It's been a blast gang! Catch ya later - alligator.
Or - it's been a slice!
I wish I could stay and play but life calls.
Why do I have a feeling that I'm going to be lying in bed tonight having all these colloquiolisms running through my very warped brain?
Elaine

The Shop = Place in garage where Southern men keep their tools and sometimes go to repair things or listen to a ballgame on the radio.

How do you figure? = You have no clue what you're talking about.

Well, bless your heart. = Can't think of a polite translation for that one.

As all get out. = Very

A minute = A long time.

The Fire = stove burner.



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Marsue...you should tell my family how I know purt near everything!!!
Hahaha!! I don't think they would believe you!!

Good ones, andidandi! ---Do men really repair things in the "shop"? ROTFL


and now "I'm a'fixin'" to go spend some quality time with my DH--he's feeling kind of deserted "right about now"
Can't wait to see what all you "young'uns cook-up whilst I'm away!"
Edited to say:
Well, now, marcy, just tell them they need to spend some time around here and they'll find out how much you know! LOL

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greased lightin'; now that's fast! Thought of just now as the kitten went a skiddering across the floor. But it takes two to tango, so the dog took off after him faster than you could bat an eye. The two of'em runn' thru the house like a bats out of hell; and if the don't knock it off, they could both see the gates of heaven before the light of dawn.

Ruckus / Commotion = what grandparents (Southern only?) tell grandchildren they are causing when they get out of hand. Usually prefaced with "Which one of you is causing that .....?"

The Lake = Where you go for the weekend if you are from the south/midwest. The actual body of water may not be anywhere near your vacation home, but you still call it "the lake."

Shortcake = From the South, it's an actual shortcake, which is a biscuit like substance, usually served with strawberries. Outside of the South it could be anything. I'll just stop there. You really don't want to get me started on this.

Also "Great Room." Not really sure what that means, but I translate it as living room.

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Grampa used to say about someone that might be 1 french fry short of a happy meal, that**He is so dumb he couldn't pour *P* out of a boot with the directions written on the heel**...and **Little ships must stay near shore**, and **Loose lips sink ships**whenever we would try to tattle on a cousin etc..

Dusty , from the ORVG
who knows both Bonnie & Marcy!!! LOL

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I've been away too long!!!!! I missed all the fun! I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, but I know funny and that's y'all!!! LOL

LOL! ...nor "the sharpest knife in the drawer!" .... For being dumfounded " like a deer staring at a wristwatch!"

Dusty, you must be "purt near" smart as Marcy since you know Bonnie and her! LOL

SacValley, I guess I'll just have to tattle to Kiska 'bout her little sis saying all them things! Ha! but I like that threat about "seeing the gates of heaven before the light of dawn"! I guess that is the same thing as threatening someone with a "knuckle sandwich"!

garden6: a deer reading a wristwatch?-- never heard that one " 'afore"!

Kwanjin: "That's what you get" for staying away so long. "That'll teach ya, ya little varmint!"

andi, are you referring to that 'spongecake' that "THEY" try to pass off as shortcake? Oops--hope I didn't set you off!

Yes. Spongecake, or worse poundcake or angelfood. It's just wrong.

Okay y'all. I am purty near spent. I wouldn't even be wurth a plug nickle right now. I dun thunk of sum more.
Higher than a kite
Soft as a baby's bottom
Fakorkin - don't hit me with a 2x4. It is not a bad word. I use it as well as my brother-in-law. It sounds like a very bad word but it isn't.
It is a descriptive word when you get exasperated. - Like - that fakorkin phone has been ringing so much today it is nearly drivin' me around the bend.
Sly as a fox
He went after it like a fat kid on a smartie
He is a low life
He's living in the fast lane
I feel lower than a snake's belly
I am happier than a pig in poo
Mind your own bees wax
Tick a lock (means keep quiet)
Put a sock in it (means keep quiet)
Mind your p(s) and q(s) - don't know where that one came from?
Meek as a lamb
I went to get a cup of java and I tumped it all over my fakorkin lap cause I was buttin heads with my friend about her livin in the fast lane. She told me to mind my own bees wax and that made me madder than a wet hen (Oh not that hen again!) When I looked at her she was acting meek as a lamb allasudden and I could see the wheels turnin. I was just about to feel lower than a snake's belly but then I remembered sumpin. I knowed that she was behaven sly as a fox cause I heard that she dun come home last night drunker than a skunk or higher than a kite but she was not actin' like herself. I told her I learned this from her Mama and she said that her Mama should just mind her p(s) and q(s). I told her to put a sock in it cause that is not a nice thing to say about her Mama.
I dun told her that her new friends were low lifes and she had to stop livin in the fast lane. Well we agreed to have a sodey pop together and set a spell so we could cool off and settle down. We dun figured that cooler heads prevail at least that is what my Mama always said. After a spell I went to give her and hug and I smelled some of the devil's brew on her breath. I thought that she was drinkin sodey pop with me but she must have grabbed some liquor from the company cupboard and been on it quick as a fat kid on a smartie cause I never seen her make the switch. I knowed she had to get in her car and drive and I told her I was afraid she was gonna end up in the slammer if she kept on with her new ways. Well she gave me the evil eye, grabbed her car keys and done took off like a bat out of hell. I'm a hopin that next time I see her she will be acting meek as a lamb and will tell me that she dun seen the error of her ways. That would make me happier than a pig in poo cause her friendship means a lot to me.
I worry about her so much it makes me squirrelly. Our friendship was just tickedyboo until those new friends of hers started hangin round and got her caught up in livin the high life.

We all are havin' far too much fun!
Elaine

Whoa--that made me tired just reading it! You must have stayed up all night, Elaine, thinking those up!
You are correct--we're having way too much fun over here! LOL

Here's the so-called origin of "Mind your P's and Q's"

In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "Mind your P's and Q's."

Here's another version which sounds more reasonable...
The saying was derived from the early type setting industry, where one would have to arrange the letters in reverse in order to have them transfer onto the intended page. A common mistake was to switch the 'p' and 'q'.

Marsue- You are so smart! You have made me happy as a clam! When I grow up I want to be just like you!
Elaine

When I grow up you'll be the first person I notify! LOL

Oh no! My puter crashed and I am trying to use my DD's laptop with much trouble.
No more playing today cause I'd love to engage in a war of wits but I am terribly unarmed at the moment!
Hugs to all you clever people
Elaine

Never a dull moment on this thread!! ;0)

It is a fun thread-Procrastinator how do you come up with those? LOL! Do you all watch "My Name is Earl"? I just saw tonight's show and realized that his exwife Joy sometimes sounds a bit like Procrastinator! Maybe we have a script writer here at DG?

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No--I have never seen that show but our Procrastinator surely has a future as a script writer somewhere--maybe she should revive "Hee-Haw"? LOL

edited to say: "but, hold on jist airy minute! If she'uns a procrastinator that thar new show would nivver git off'n the ground!"

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Hey, I have been without internet service since the 23rd, and it took a long time to get caught up.

Thought everybody knew I was Bonnie, and hung out in Coffee...and, and the ORVG forums.

Waving to all, now I can keep up to date.

We do now. Waving back...8-)

Scuse my ignorance, what is ORVG?

Ohio Valley River Gardening

TKS
!!!

Or the other way 'round...river valley.

mmmm-River Gardening---anybody ever try that? but I like "Our Really Voluptuous Group" best!

ME TOO!!!

How'd y'all know that we were so voluptuous???

Well, it's like this: somebody somewhere in another thread in another forum long, long ago and far, far away, or so it seems, wanted to know what ORVG meant and then they took a guess and asked if it meant:
Our Really Voluptuous Group
. . . and that is how we know! LOL

Right on, Marsue! Or..."right arm", as a friend of mine says!

ROFL

I knew a woman who used to say "When G-d was handing out brains, you thought he said "rain" and hid under an umbrella so you wouldn't get any."

Well Renee`, I guess our ORVG secret is out... Ratz!!!!

ROFLLLL

"When they handed out brains, you thought they said "trains" and took the first one south."

Have you heard the expression, "He's light in his loafers" meaning a man who is gay?

Yep, heard that one! My ex (from Appalachia) had a lot of funny sayings, and I wish I could remember all of them. But I liked, "As nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rockin' chairs".