and that is one of the things that really irked me when we lived in Georgia. We moved back to Alabama, they teach state history here.State history needs to be taught but it is not here. I dont figure most people even in Tn would get the way the quote is used without knowing its history.

My former math teacher when asked how he was doing "Finer than a greased frog hair split five ways."
When I was younger everytime someone would sneeze my grandfather would say "Scat cat you got your tail in the gravy."
When it's hot someone might say "It's hotter than six shades of hades."