Southern 101---Explanation of all things Southern

[ranchhand]

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They sell kudzu products in the tourist shops on I95 now.

Give me a whistle means call me later.

And "being ugly" means being grumpy or argumentative.

Heavy rain is a toad strangler.

 

[Buckhorn Farm]

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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"?

Yes we Floridians in Florida, But we are mostly in North FL. I am a 5th gen. to the state and to this county family came here in the late 1800's I have land that has been in the family that long.

 

[enola]

I haven't read all the posts yet but here is my get adjusted to SC lingo story . . .

I work at Wal~Mart in the lawn and garden center. I moved here from WV.

The first week I was asked by at least 5 or 6 different people "where we moved the hose pipe to"

My answer was, garden hose is on the back wall, we have several different types. If you need help let me know.

The customer would say, I don't want garden hose, I want hose pipe. So, me, thinking they know what they are talking about..... Told them that all of the "pipe" in the store would be in hardware, if we carry it !

The store lost a lot 'hose pipe' sales for a couple of weeks. Then one day after being asked about hose pipe again, the woman across the counter from me says, "Honey you aren't from around here are you ?" Then she adds, "Hose pipe IS garden hose"

She was from "up North" just like me ! I talk to her everytime I see her in the store !

 

[Blue Skys]

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I haven't read the entire thread yet, but to answer your question... Yes, Shiner BOCK is the best beer ever made!!!

For summer time they have "smokehaus" which is mesquite smoked!!

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

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Oh how I agree with al this.

I am enjoying this thread.

 

[ranchhand]

Hose pipe would throw me off, first time I heard it was in this thread! I must be living under a rock....

I remembered another- when something ticks you off, it "chaps your hide".

 

[Boyd]

I usually say it chaps something else..........

 

[Blue Skys]

I keep getting all excited about the differences in the North and South, I can't get through the thread. I don't know if someone mentioned it, driving up north, the exits are not labeled by the mile marker, they are labeled by what exit it is. Example, on the Jersey turnpike (which by the way was very stinky) we had to go to exit 15 - no problem, 15 miles and we will be there - It was more like 100 miles down. Here in the south, if you are at mile marker 26 and your exit is 30, you have 4 more miles to go.

Well, now I forget all the others I was thinking about...

 

[Camelot Farms]

When I am in NY, I get goose-bumps

When I am in VA, I get chill-bumps

 

[Camelot Farms]

Like a pig in a poke? Another weird one my grandfather always used(and he wasn't southern but I guess since he was in the Marines in NC) was pole cat - for a skunk.

I think a skunk is a skunk but a polecat is a skunk with its stink removed....no. really. that's what I think.