Southern Expression Really Old.

[AC Man]

I am 68 heard from my grandmother years ago tell me my great grand mother When questioned if she was going out dressed like that just as young people are today she would say
"No One Can Tell What You Look Like Riding A Fast Galloping Horse And That's The kind I Ride." Love that! Would have been 1880's But she said it all her life.

Any one have that beat? LOL

 

[THE PILGRIM]

I most certainly hope your Grandma was not -
Drunker than Cooter Brown!

 

[Tom Beavert]

I most certainly hope your Grandma was not -
Drunker than Cooter Brown!

Young girls would be worried about their slip showing, or some other small thing, my Grandmother would say 'they will never see it from a trotting horse.
Tom B

 

[Rustyt1953]

Me mum when speaking of someone's miserly qualities would say they were "tighter than Dick's hat band".

When surprised by something she would say "well, stuff one up me jumper".

Dad (certified hillbilly) when he lauded someone for their intellect would say "he's smarter than a house cat".

 

[soFlaNative]

Vintage version of "Looks OK while driving by" or similar.

 

[Onomea]

I most certainly hope your Grandma was not -
Drunker than Cooter Brown!

I just looked that up. We have our own Cooter Brown member here, but I'd never realized the origin of the name until now.

 

[67tempest]

My neighbor refers to cheap people as being "Tighter than the bark on a tree".

 

[Tom S.]

"Bless your heart." Not always meant in the way it sounds...

 

[series guy]

A blind man riding by on a fast horse would be glad to see it.

 

[Martyk]

He's/She's so tight that when they blink their kneecaps move.

 

[WR Moore]

Had to pick a grandson up from middle school the other day. Saw some jeans my mother wouldn't have let me wear to change oil let alone wear to school. Saw some other outfits that definitely displayed the contents. Including one young thing wearing a tee shirt. I assumed she had shorts under it, but that was a really high hem line.

 

[Muss Muggins]

Me mum when speaking of someone's miserly qualities would say they were "tighter than Dick's hat band".

When surprised by something she would say "well, stuff one up me jumper".

Dad (certified hillbilly) when he lauded someone for their intellect would say "he's smarter than a house cat".

"slower than smoke coming off cold cow manure . . . " (but we use a different word most times . . . )

 

[THE PILGRIM]

I’m gonna tell you just one more time -
I wouldn’t trade it for a Yankee Dime!

 

[CH4]

When I was a young boy, I remember my grandpa saying, “if her skirt were any shorter, she’d need a haircut.” I remember asking my barber, Geno, to explain it to me. Don’t think it applies as much today.

 

[old tanker]

"We may not be good, but we're the best you're gonna find 'round her." uttered by a grumpy old aircraft mechanic at some small grass strip out in the country.

 

[ron 57]

When I was young my Eastern Kentucky grandmother would say “Pon my word nonner”, usually when confronted with a situation she hadn’t expected. It wasn’t until much later I realized she was saying, “Upon my word and honor”.

 

[14daMoney]

"Bless your heart." Not always meant in the way it sounds...

oh my, I had an aunt that would say that. It still gets me PO'd if I hear that....

 

[14daMoney]

Had to pick a grandson up from middle school the other day. Saw some jeans my mother wouldn't have let me wear to change oil let alone wear to school. Saw some other outfits that definitely displayed the contents. Including one young thing wearing a tee shirt. I assumed she had shorts under it, but that was a really high hem line.

Hmmm, I can tell you from my years of driving a school bus that I've seen more than a few not so hidden goodies on full display.

One year, I had this jr HS gal who was the first student on in the morning (6:15 am) and it was always pitch black out when I'd get to her stop. The next students stop was about 12 - 15 from hers. In that time, she would go to the rear seat and change out of the clothes she left the house in (that her Mom obviously saw her leave in) and strip down completely and change into some slinky outfit for the school day to matchup with her girlfriends. Now, she either didn't care or was oblivious to the fact that besides the simple fact that the bus had no less than seven cameras, that at this time of the morning in total darkness all the windows of the bus inside acted more like mirrors than clear windows. I had to have our transportation director make a discrete call to her Mom to have her daughter stop, for fear of ever getting into an accident and having her found in a state of total undress..... little surprises me anymore, I just shake my head in bewilderment and listen to the sound of the marbles.....

 

[Retired W4]

Asking direction in LA (Lower Alabama) the old man says, It's down the road a fir piece. If'n you see the old Texaco sign ya went too fir.

 

[Tom S.]

Asking direction in LA (Lower Alabama) the old man says, It's down the road a fir piece. If'n you see the old Texaco sign ya went too fir.

I had a friend from Kentucky who always liked to tell folks he went to UCLA - Upper Corner of Lower Alabama.