"It used to really get on my tits" and other expressions...got one?

[jswordy]

I say "fixin" now that I am in TN. In Virginia, "daggone" was a big one. As in, "That daggone thang, daggone it."

"Bad boy" was big to describe about anything in VA, too: "I got that bad boy taken care of."

In TN, people say, "I am fixin' to carry my car down to get it fixed." Strong folks down this way, let me tell you!

And here, you not only can "cut the light off," but you can "cut the light ON," too!

in Tidewater, VA, you will hear, "I don't know nuthin' a-BOOT it." That's old English mixed with Southern drawl.

Whereas, in NC they like to say, "That Jasper over thaiah, he's crazy."

It's a great country!

[FlashHarry]

1. "get's on my wick," "up my nose," etc.

Couple of my faves.

[Radical Activist]

2. I heard "fixin to" in texas a lot

but not as much in Tennessee. Although I'm sure it has appeal and use throughout the South. Anyway, I'm fixin to eat lunch so I better git.

[ceile]

44. Drives me nuts!!!

Born and raised in TX, but I refuse to say it and I correct people who do. AAGGHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[liberal N proud]

3. Southern friend of mine uses dad-blame-it all the time!

[guitar man]

4. My Dad

Is quite colorful and has a few. Among them:

"That makes my ass want to suck tank water!"

"That boy ain't got enough sense to figure out how to shove a greased cucumber up a hog's ass!"

"Couldn't pour piss out of a boot with instructions on the heel!"

[jswordy]

8. ROFL -- I think yer pa 'n' me would get along fine! n/t

[Zuni]

9. the boot-piss one

was one my dad used to say

[guitar man]

31. yep

that one was pretty common, I have no idea where the other two came from. Dad will be 75 this year, so no telling how long some of the phrases he utters have been around. "That boy's eat up with the dumbass!" is another fave of his.

[blue neen]

5. Here's an oldie but goodie.

"If his brain was gasoline, it wouldn't be enough to run a piss-ant on a motorcycle."

Definitely applies to the people in the Bush administration.

[jswordy]

6. These are fun! LOL! Keep 'em coming. I forgot:

"You be a low ball in tall grass."

"Happier'n two dead pigs in the sunshine."

"I might have been born at night -- but it wasn't LAST NIGHT!!!" (A personal fav.)

"That was so good, it'd make ya slap yer grandma!"

[Zuni]

11. here is a classic my dad used to say

"that loser has no balls. For a cup he could use a peanut shell and a rubber band."

[jswordy]

14. Hey Zuni...

"If you need me, I'll call ya!"

[Zuni]

16. I'll smell you later

[dean_dem]

7. "won't"

Not as in the contraction of "will not", but as in, "I went to his house yesterday, and he won't home."

Others: "It's hotter than two foxes fucking in a forest fire." or "Its hotter than two gerbils fucking in a wool sock." Conjures up a pretty funny mental image at least.

[jswordy]

10. Now in Alabama, "wont" is used like this:

"I wont to go to the store."

[jswordy]

12. "sale" is used like this here

"He told me he would sale it to me."

[Zuni]

18. Her ass was like

2 puppies wrestling under a blanket

[Freebird12004]

13. "horse-feathers"

that's all I got to say

[Zuni]

19. or Bullhockey

[arwalden]

15. Get Outta My Butt = Leave Me Alone

[Freebird12004]

27. ouch

[jswordy]

17. I worked with a woman from New Hampster who would say...

"That was a wicked lunch."

wicked = good up thar!

[Zuni]

21. wicked

I use that word. Awesome too

[jswordy]

35. She hated it when I called her state "New Hampster." So I did it a lot! nt

[Jessica]

20. Two from my Grandpa:

"Finer than hummingbird shit ..."

"Colder than a witch's tit ..."

:)

[Zuni]

23. Colder than an eskimo's balls...

I heard my dad say that before

[Jessica]

25. He also says

"Hotter than a three-peckered billy goat." :o

[achtung_circus]

38. Hornier than a 3-balled tomcat. nt

[Zuni]

40. "Wiser than a tree full of owls?"

[Zuni]

24. dupe

[ldf]

41. from my momma

"richern' four foot up a bull"

freaked me out. i said "MOMMA"!

[Patiod]

22. The whole kit & kaboodle

at least I think that's a regionalism.

And there's always the Pittsburgh construction I learned in college -- "hey - that shirt needs ironed"

[jswordy]

32. My Illinois mom would say that...I wonder if it

comes from something they all heard on the radio or in the movies?

[dean_dem]

49. So is it true that in West Pennsylvania..

they say "slippy" instead of slippery? One of my brother's old friends from Johnstown said she swore she heard the weatherman up there say one time, "Watch out folks, the roads are slippy out there!"

[blue neen]

51. Definitely true.

You also don't want to wear "slippy" shoes (mainly women's high heels)!

[legalcoffee]

26. Joke Inside

In a first grade class room the instructor announces that she would like the students to use the words "choo choo" in a sentence.

One little girl raises her hand and the instructor calls on her. She says "The train goes choo choo."
The teacher commends her.
A little boy in the back raises his hand and the teacher calls on on him. He says "When my mother sneezes, it sounds like choo choo."
The teacher praises him.
A little boy in the middle row raises his hand and the teacher calls on him. He says "My brother says that if you touch his car he will choo choo.
The teacher is underpaid.

hahahahaha. ha.

[NamVetsWeeLass]

28. Actually, the colloquialisms here get on my nerves...

If a patient falls the natives say "So and so is IN the Floor!"
(well, how in the hell hard did they fall that they have embedded themselves partially into the floor? Or were they using a jackhammer when this all happened?)
If they are relating a story of having to reach for something an hour ago or whatever... "I Retched right for it." (You almost threw up because why?)
If they want you to hand them something "Reach me that!" (Ummm, how about I hand it to you instead)
If they have a tassle cap or a ski cap on their heads "I got my Toboggan on" (You have a sled on your head?)
If they break something it's always "I busted it Clean Through" (as opposed to not so cleanly through?)
I have had ederly patients tell me "I am not taking those pills offa you, YER a YANKEE......" I hate to inform them that while I may indeed be a transplant from PA to WV they really officially didn't fight for the south either... (I know a lot of them did fight for the confederate army, but still, Officially, they were Union.)So, You are officially a Yankee too, now, take your drugs.
They seem to be fixin things constantly here too "I was fixin to get him ready for dinner"
They have to specify that you hand them an INK PEN "Gimme that there Ink Pen" (ok, but are you sure you don't want the crayon pen instead?)
They don't go home here "I'm goin' the house" (Yes, there is no "to the house" it is as I put it.)
They don't lay in bed "He's laying in the bed, or, I was laying in the bed" (THE bed, at least it isn't MY BED!)

Now, being from Pittsburgh, we also talk funny. But I haven't the time or patience to list that, so I will list the following:
www.pittsburghese.com. Before you ask, Yep, that is pretty much the way we talk.

On Edit: I have to say I hate the Expression "Git 'Er Done!!! Friggin Ron the Cable guy... It is like a Fucking mantra here.

[jswordy]

34. Uh, it's LARRY the Cable Guy...

...and I'm a fan. I don't care who ya are, that's funny!

so...


"Take a chill pill and cool it."

"Looks like yer gonna blow a gasket."

[NamVetsWeeLass]

53. I can explain that....

Ron White is also on the tape I saw, couple that and No sleep and you have Brain Death. Sorry about insulting your LARRY the cable guy, but, if you were here, You would understand... It gets old after the 50,000th time you hear it. Plus we have to have large stickers on our vehicles that say "Git 'Er Done" I think the man is funny, but that statement grates on my nerves.

[kiki]

29. "I'm trying to contain an outbreak...

...and you're driving the monkey to the airport."

OK, that was King of the Hill. But it's still a good one.

[Freebird12004]

30. "shit the bed"

I can't think of any worse imagery. But I get the idea that it's supposed to mean - things can't get any worse.

[Zuni]

36. I hear that all the time

[Freebird12004]

42. it's so gross

I was over 40 before I heard that one

[flvegan]

33. "Pissin' me off is like

jackin' off a polar bear with a hand full of sand spurs." Courtesy of my ex-father in law.

He had other colorful ones, many of which were based on various ways to partake in oral sex. Not looking to lock anything, though.

[jswordy]

37. My Connecticut FIL would say...

"Wait a half an hour."

"Don't go more than a hundred."

[achtung_circus]

39. Uglier,

than a dog fucking a pack of razor blades.

[legalcoffee]

43. in some parts of my family tree you will find this

Hey how long have you been here?
reply: "oh we just bearly got here" - goerge lopez/ no relation but so true

Were we suppose to meet you there?
reply: "use were suppose to be there at nine"

Why didn't you take care of the cake?
reply: "I didn't want to duet"

[txaslftist]

45. "I don't have a dawg in that fight."

"The whole famdamily."

"Dumber than a burnt stick."

"Hotter than hell with the burners on high"

"Colder than a witches teat in november."

"Colder than a crackhead's heart."

[jswordy]

47. "He's shittin' in high cotton." (rich man)

Band Alabama changed it to "Walkin' in high cotton" for a tune. But ever'body knows it sposed to be "shittin'.

[Red State Rebel]

46. Grinnin like a possum eatin shit on a flat rock ..and other gems from Mom

When she'd get mad at some one and tell them "take a flyin suck at a bluebirds ass"...???

If you asked whats for dinner/lunch.... "Chickens butt fried in grease, wanna piece"????

Ask where some is -"went to shit and the hogs ate her" (you had to go thru the barnyard to get to the outhouse :)

Stupid people "got no more sense than God gave a goose"

and various others.....

[mrbassman03]

48. Just "goddamn"...

It'll be an hour before that goddamn show is on...

[ragin_acadian]

50. courtesy of twentysomethin years on the gulf coast:

"slower than death on stilts"
"that boy could hide his own easter eggs"
"uglier than a stump fence"
"harelip the pope" - i have no idea what it means
"i already told ya' three times, twice already"

[blue neen]

52. "It's colder than a well-digger's ass in the Klondike."

Brr. True today.

[GOPisEvil]

54. It's raining like a cow pissin' on a flat rock.

Courtesy of my dad, the pill. :D