Southern Expression Really Old.

[WardenRoss]

You can tell a man from Texas, but you caint tell him much!


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[Mike LaNier]

My grandfather, born in Montana in 1882, had a favorite saying when asked how he was: "I'm finer than frog hair, split three ways." He always started his sentences with, "I God..." and anyone not in his favor was a "goofy gunsel..." He's been gone for years, and at 82 I still remember the sound of his gravelly old voice.

 

[Greyman50]

Went in wally world in Savannah the other day and was shocked to see many real cashiers. One saw my expression and asked if anything was wrong and told her at home they have mostly self check outs. I told her I heard many wally worlds were going back to cashiers as folks were” Stealing them blind”. She busted out laughing and said she had never heard that. Told her it was an old saying and she should tell her friends….

 

[rwsmith]

Those mini lobsters were always crawdads when I was growing up. Just as any small sunfishes - bluegill, redear, pumpkinseed, etc. were perch.

Boy, Ima give you a whoopin your grandkids'll fill.

That ol boy was so tight he'd hang hay up in a tree and just let his sheep get a whiff of it.

I tried them one time and they tasted like something that came out of a ditch.

 

[jbtrucker]

My Grandpa said about a big womans rump walking by looked like couple coons fightin' in a tote sack

 

[Alpo]

I was perusing my old PMs t'other day (t'other - that's a southernism) and I found one I wrote to Cajun Lawyer some years back.

I asked him what they call them mini lobsters you find in the ditch. I told him that around here we call them crawdads. I asked if they called them crawdads or if they were crawfish or if they were crayfish.

He said they was mud bugs.

 

[djohns6]

I was perusing my old PMs t'other day (t'other - that's a southernism) and I found one I wrote to Cajun Lawyer some years back.

I asked him what they call them mini lobsters you find in the ditch. I told him that around here we call them crawdads. I asked if they called them crawdads or if they were crawfish or if they were crayfish.

He said they was mud bugs.

Mud bug is a slang name and is NOT the most commonly used name for them .

 

[Rustyt1953]

Call 'em what you like but I surely miss me some crayfish/crawfish/crawdad/mudbug boils.

 

[decuerno]

Not a Southern-Phrase…. but An Engishman friend of mine commented on a well-endowed bra-less young lady who’d wiggled-past wearing a T-shirt …resembled ….”two ferrets in a bag”…

 

[kmyers]

Call 'em what you like but I surely miss me some crayfish/crawfish/crawdad/mudbug boils.

We do have the boils here pretty regularly. Being married to a Cajun gal does come with nice benefits. She has given up on teaching me how to make a roux instead of just gravy. LOL

 

[decuerno]

We do have the boils here pretty regularly. Being married to a Cajun gal does come with nice benefits. She has given up on teaching me how to make a roux instead of just gravy. LOL

There was a fellow named Lauderdale… an “aerial application operator” (i.e. crop-duster)…who owned a beautiful turf runway near Caldwell, Tx. At one time, April of every year, …he’d Host a “CrawDad-Boil” at his little airfield.
It consisted of a huge amount of spicy boiled mud-bugs with corn and red-potatoes served on the newspaper-lined bottom of a cardboard beer-carton along with keg-beer and sweet-tea and live country music. It was “Free” for anyone arriving by airplane or motorcycle (Harley’s got preferred-parking). Everyone else who showed up paid…. $15, IIRC …. for all you can eat. (the sweet-tea was for the fly-ins, who also were encouraged to give free airplane-rides for the young-un’s… “Young Eagle Flights” it was called.
Quite a generous civic-minded gift to his fellow-citizens and strangers who were welcome.
God Bless those kinds of people.

 

[1961MJS]

Hi
I heard Crawdaddys, Crayfish, and Mud Bugs, but never heard Crawfish for some reason. Never ate all that many fish I caught since the closest local Crick back home was where the outlet to the sewage plant was. Granny's pond was where the cattle went to drink so the catfish had an unappetizing smell for some reason.
Later

 

[65-2x2]

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 know L.A. well, it is just up 231 from the Redneck Riveria.

 

[65-2x2]

My old shop teacher allways preached on, "Make the mostest of the leastest."

The post above about "bless your heart" was translated here as about the same line on Saturday Night live, "Jane you ignorant ..."{

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

In my neck of the woods it is "tighter than a tick."

 

[fiasconva]

Heard this challenge more than once: "Ya feelin' froggy, boy? Go ahead and jump!" That usually happened when one of my friends or my older brother decided to back talk their dads.
And "She's so ugly she could haunt a house."

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

Yont one?..................Do you want one?

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

Ya'll remember the "dish rag" hanging under the sink?

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Do you Yankee folks have Sugar ****?
I think the orgin is English.
The English sayings seem to persist more down South, maybe because half of us originated there.
I guess I’ll to tell you just one more time,
I wouldn’t trade it for a Yankee Dime!

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Another term we got from the Old Sod is ‘High Sheriff.’
Down South that usually refers to the Elected Sheriff.
And old school down South, think Robin Hood, the Sheriff is-was also the County Tax Collector.
Often his Wife or other family member would be appointed to operate that office.

 

[Alpo]

Queso - Spanish for "cheese"

'K, so - Southern for "this is the plan, and you probably ain't gonna like it"