Southern 101---Explanation of all things Southern

[scbatz33]

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Once you drink Shiner, you never go back

better than the beast? Does it come in a can?

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If this is the best MIlwaulkee can do, they should stop making beer.

 

[scbatz33]

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Those snow birds!!! My FIL used to say if you wanted to be in the south in Florida, You'd have to go north!!

Yeah, how many people have you ever heard of the live in FL all their lives and when they retire they say, "lets move to MI or NY"?

Not north like new york, north like Jacksonville!!!

 

[scbatz33]

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You forgot "they live down yonder in the holler"!

 

[Up-the-Creek]

Oh and,.."down by the crick." (creek)

 

[Lanissa86]

I don't know if ya'll have mentioned it yet, but I still get in trouble for sayin


ICE-BOX.... my friends will not leave me alone sometimes.

and I WARSH my clothes

and Toilet is a TOY-LET

 

[tampitt]

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Oh yeah a pallet is something on the floor that you sleep on, usually a folded up blanket or some quilts. Have no clue why it's called a pallet, however.

 

[Up-the-Creek]

I get laughed at over using the term "lollygagging".

 

[scbatz33]

This was so cool to read through.....

My hubby is a real southern man - he loves sausage, biscuits and gravy, greens, grits with load of butter and cheese, chitlings, fried every thing, Iced tea...all that southern stuff. I can't eat a lick of it. I just can't I don't put gravy (white or brown) on my food and I know It's the "house wine of the south" but I just can't drink iced tea.

I had a friend from Ireland who was offered "tea" by my former MIL and he said "sure". I said "Will, it's not what you think. It's served with ice and sugar" "I'll give it a go" he said....he never drank "tea" again!!! LOL!

Oh, and if you want some real pointers on being southern (at least a southern woman) "The G.R.I.T. S. Guide to Life" by Deborah Ford is too funny - and TRUE!

" Three secrets to speaking like a Southern Girl:
1. Take your own sweet time.
2. Bat your eyelashes slowly and speak at the same tempo.
3. Add syllables whenever possible."

Clarification on "the vapors" - it's not about being sweaty. It's about having your corset too tight and then feeling faint so you need someone to bring the smelling salts to keep you from passing out. The smelling salts were called "the vapors" So if someone was "getting the vapors" they were bringing smelling salts to you.

Of course southern women were always gonna faint for some reason or another, whether they were ill, couldn't breathe or their delicate sensibilities were insulted by some cad!

Lastly, I never knew I was so southern in my speech and manners and way of day to day life until I moved north of the Mason-Dixon line. I am a fish outa water up here. Folks look at me like I'm an alien when I say please and thank you. I drive the speed limit - I guess since I'm just not in such a hurry to be nowhere. And it's COLD!!! Seriously, someone forgot to order summer up here!

 

[KellyHM]

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Those snow birds!!! My FIL used to say if you wanted to be in the south in Florida, You'd have to go north!!

Yeah, how many people have you ever heard of the live in FL all their lives and when they retire they say, "lets move to MI or NY"?

I was born and raised in FL (4th generation) and you'll catch me dead before you catch me moving up north! Ok, maybe north to GA or SC where there aren't so many snow birds. By the way, if we have tourist season why can't we shoot 'em?

I love that saying!

 

[jjdward]

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Have you ever heard yourself on tape? I never thought I sounded so southern till i heard myself on tape. try it.