You might be a “Southie” if...

[Mimi13]

lol! Yep, I've heard those too, "Lands sake" is new to me though.

"Bless your heart" Is a phrase that always sticks out to me because it's like this backhanded way of saying "You dumba**" under the guise of sympathy, lol.

Exclamations specifically, I've heard.
"Hell's Bells!"
"What in tarnation?!"
"I do declare!"
"Well I never!"

And when coming from a lady a hand is usually pressed to their chest when they say it, as if their heart is literally going to hop out of their chest from their shock at someone's audacity.

Yep, you’re right. My granddaddy used to say “What in tarnation!” all the time.

 

[1muttsfan]

That's way better than my Grampa's H-E-Double Toothpicks (mom used to roll her eyes so far up they sometimes got stuck)

 

[CluckNDoodle]

That's way better than my Grampa's H-E-Double Toothpicks (mom used to roll her eyes so far up they sometimes got stuck)

LOL! We used to say that as kids!

 

[hysop]

I don’t know if this is a southie thing but the first time I heard my husband say this I was like huh?

“the bottom’s about to fall out“

when it was sprinkling but about to get heavier.

 

[Mimi13]

That's way better than my Grampa's H-E-Double Toothpicks (mom used to roll her eyes so far up they sometimes got stuck)

My granddaddy’s was similar. He would come out with “Oh Hell-o No!” It made me laugh.

 

[guineapeeps]

a couple other Southie exclamations: Good Gravy!
Good gravy and the ground tore up......
Lands Sake
In all my born days

anyone have others to contribute?

My grandma grew up in the hills of West Virginia and was the “Southiest Southie” you’d ever meet. She had hundreds of crazy Southie sayings. One that stuck with me, for some reason was:
“He has two brains....one’s the size of a pea, and the other is a little bitty thing”

 

[CluckNDoodle]

You just reminded me of an old one my Papa used to say when he didn't know what I was talking about!
"I see, said the blind man." lol

I later heard.
"It's raining said the blind man as he peed into the wind"

 

[guineapeeps]

Thinking about all my grandmas sayings also reminded me of her cooking. It was so fattening, but so good....eggs fried in bacon grease, flaky pie crust made with lard, fried chicken and biscuits! Also loved to hear her talk. All us kids would make fun when she’d say aluminum foil, which came out sounding more like “al-you-min-eee-um full”. I wonder what some of the people from her era would have to say about the world today?

 

[Cebarmlds]

Thinking about all my grandmas sayings also reminded me of her cooking. It was so fattening, but so good....eggs fried in bacon grease, flaky pie crust made with lard, fried chicken and biscuits! Also loved to hear her talk. All us kids would make fun when she’d say aluminum foil, which came out sounding more like “al-you-min-eee-um full”. I wonder what some of the people from her era would have to say about the world today?

My parents and grandparents called it tin foil.

 

[1muttsfan]

My West Virginia Grannie made her cornbread with bacon grease. Heavenly. she did not, however, inflict us with okra or any of those other ( ) Southern specialties.