So, I'm from it, and still dont know how far a "hoot and a holler" is ??
Things you need to know if you move to the South
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What the heck is an okra?
I moved into a suburb of like minded (red) NY-NJ refugees, didn’t skip a beat. 
Be yourself, respect the new culture, don’t be a phony, you’ll get along ok.
Be yourself, respect the new culture, don’t be a phony, you’ll get along ok.
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I'll also take a pass on the okra, and I like my iced tea with a squeeze of lemon, no sweetener...
...Ben
What air ya, unejumicated?...It's right over yonder!...
...Ben
Yeah, Grandaddy died in 1965. I can remember about 12 vehicles in the fields near the barn.
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I travel all over Mississippi, parts of Tennessee and Arkansas and I can't recall the last time I saw a RC cola. It has to have been over 20 years.
Au contraire. That is not junk. That is accumulated wealth, using a yankee banking term. Sumbody's gonna need sum a them parts.
I remember a cartoon in a farming magazine from years ago. A farmer and a well dressed lady were standing beside a large pile of junk. The farmer said "Lady how dare you call my spare parts warehouse a pile of junk."
I would have a hard time running the homestead without my "spare parts warehouse". A while back a young person told me I was "repurposing"
Larry
In a few select localities you may have had to ask for an R-O-C Coca-Cola to get what you really wanted...
...BenI went in a bar in Gardiner Mt for breakfast one time. I asked for some grits. The lady said You’ll not grits here and you’ll not get sweet tea. I had to get alway back to Missouri to get either.
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It's pronounced okry not okra. Just like vodka is called vodky.
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Ole Joe Clark
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Not so. "Far, far" is well know in the South. It's so cold someone needs to build a "far". Or, "how far is it to the range? It's not to far." It's just right over yonder.
Have a blessed day, it's gonna be to warm to build a far.
Leon
Heyna? Er no?
I got here 42 years ago. Things I miss already:
1) Folks at the bar (club, these days) don't stand and remove hats when "Dixie" comes on the jukebox (none of those left either and that tune wouldn't be on it anyway).
2) Gun racks in pickups. Most times a lever action 30-30 and a pump 12 ga. Ready for any game, all year long. Great conversation starters.
3) Being able to swim in a "swimming hole." Back in the day, I and my current honey would dip in a lake to cool off. Not many gators about around 1980. "Egg layers" populate fast, any water more than 8 feet across and 2 foot deep has a bull gator at the bottom ready to eat.
4) 2 lane roads where you need the high beams at night due to complete darkness. I don't know that I've clicked them on in the 21st century.
5) Going down the end of the street past the "dead end barrier", setting up some paper plates for targets, blasting away with my Model 19 and nobody calling the cops or if called, talking guns instead of threats of "armed trespass."
6) Speaking clearly and having the receiver understand exactly what I need.
There's more but I already have a bonus point for this year. Joe
1) Folks at the bar (club, these days) don't stand and remove hats when "Dixie" comes on the jukebox (none of those left either and that tune wouldn't be on it anyway).
2) Gun racks in pickups. Most times a lever action 30-30 and a pump 12 ga. Ready for any game, all year long. Great conversation starters.
3) Being able to swim in a "swimming hole." Back in the day, I and my current honey would dip in a lake to cool off. Not many gators about around 1980. "Egg layers" populate fast, any water more than 8 feet across and 2 foot deep has a bull gator at the bottom ready to eat.
4) 2 lane roads where you need the high beams at night due to complete darkness. I don't know that I've clicked them on in the 21st century.
5) Going down the end of the street past the "dead end barrier", setting up some paper plates for targets, blasting away with my Model 19 and nobody calling the cops or if called, talking guns instead of threats of "armed trespass."
6) Speaking clearly and having the receiver understand exactly what I need.
There's more but I already have a bonus point for this year. Joe
In Georgia, the correct way of asking this is "Who's your people"?
Been South a few times. Still don't know which way is 'over yonder', 'yonder there', or 'yonder' is.
Amen (properly pronounced ah main).
Reggie TisFree
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My Pa!
My dad introduced that to me in my youth.
His favorite was Rootbeer/Peanuts!
I thought he was mean as a snake in my youth, turns out he just loved me a heap!
Today, his money is mud & I'll do anything for that 87 yr old man!
#MyDadRocks
My dad introduced that to me in my youth.
His favorite was Rootbeer/Peanuts!
I thought he was mean as a snake in my youth, turns out he just loved me a heap!
Today, his money is mud & I'll do anything for that 87 yr old man!
#MyDadRocks
