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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 8/5/2008 8:38:21 AM
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bluestone
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One I heard a lot was "If you don't behave I am gonna stripe your legs like barber poles"
which is what happened when a switching took place.
I guess kids don't get switchings anymore...
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 8/5/2008 8:40:58 AM
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I remember hearing this on a movie (Steel Magnolias) and then I started hearing it afterward IRL.
"_____ is so [messed] up he don't know whether to scratch his watch or wind his butt."
Edited in consideration of TOS...
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 8/8/2008 9:26:54 PM
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Yes, watch Steel Magnolias. It'll make you lonesome for the south!
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 8/9/2008 1:02:51 AM
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I loved reading this thread! I am a southerner, and most of what was said was my language. One memory I have points out something that hasn't been mentioned yet: sometimes southernisms are different from place to place, even within the same state, and from generation to generation in the same place. My family lived in the mountains outside of Roanoke, Virginia (anybody ever heard of Bent Mountain?) We called our meals breakfast, dinner, and supper, and I called my mom Mama, just like they did on the Waltons. Both of those things seemed to be dying out of the language, though, and I learned to call my mother Mom whenever I was talking about her, and Mama when talking to her, so I wouldn't seem different to the people around me. And there was always confusion whenever anyone outside the family said the word dinner. We didn't know if they meant the noon meal or the evening meal, because different people used the word different ways. We moved when I was six, just before I started school, a little over an hour away to the little town of Stuart, Virginia, where we lived for the next two years. There the accent is thicker. One day I asked my 2nd grade teacher what a word was I couldn't figure out. The teacher looked and replied, "That's rurn." I'd never heard of such a word and asked what it meant. As soon as the teacher gave the definition, the light came on, and I exclaimed, "Oh, you mean ruin!" My husband heard the story and says that my teacher must have thought I was "high-fallutin' "!
I guess that's a southernism. I was having trouble thinking of any that hadn't been mentioned. "high-fallutin' " is an adjective describing a person who is trying to make themselves seem better than those around them in terms of money or education.
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 8/9/2008 11:58:28 AM
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I believe you'll enjoy it also.
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 8/9/2008 2:49:44 PM
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We only rent a movie about once a year or so, so Netflix would not work out for us. By the time we go in and rent a movie somewhere, we are no longer on their files! We're just weird, I guess. But I think I saw it on sale at one of the stores I frequent some weeks ago, so I am going to look for it. 
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 8/9/2008 6:48:09 PM
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I bought it for $5 at Christmas time in Target.
Its wonderful!
Ooooh, my favorite southern phrase, "Well bless his/her heart...". Usually following is something bad about the person or something they did. You can get away saying anything about anybody as long as it begins or ends with "blessing their heart".
Example: Well, bless her heart, her teeth are so gapped a train could drive through.
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He has the mind of a child, bless his heart.
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 8/9/2008 6:48:43 PM
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Or maybe, "That's the ugliest woman I've ever seen. Bless her heart."
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 8/9/2008 7:03:18 PM
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And you remind me! I remember people talking about being "blessed out!" I would have said "cussed out!"
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 8/9/2008 7:07:00 PM
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And you remind me! I remember people talking about being "blessed out!" I would have said "cussed out!"
Blessed out is like being fussed at without the cuss words. At least that's the way I see it.
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 8/9/2008 11:38:56 PM
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I am a southerner (by birth, though I live in Indianapolis now), and I have never seen Steel Magnolias and have no idea what its about.
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 8/10/2008 1:03:56 AM
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And you remind me! I remember people talking about being "blessed out!" I would have said "cussed out!" Blessed out is like being fussed at without the cuss words. At least that's the way I see it.
Oh, wow! Another term I misunderstood -- or, at least, my mother misunderstood, because she was the one who defined it to me.
Well, I'm not surprised. I was only 8.5 - 12 while living there.
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I am a southerner (by birth, though I live in Indianapolis now), and I have never seen Steel Magnolias and have no idea what its about.
Well, you and I will have to watch it together!
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 8/10/2008 8:39:40 AM
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A few I remember my grandparents saying
Well, I swanny to goodness. (Usually used in exasperation from my grandpa to my grandma meaning I swear I have never been so fed up.)
Flapjacks (pancakes)
Tin foil (aluminum)
Yes'm (yes ma'am)
Yassuh (yes sir)
Okry (okra..which was always with maters (tomatoes) or deep fried)
skint (skinned, as in I skint my knee when I fell)
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 8/10/2008 12:46:22 PM
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Is this a correct version of a good blessing-out?
"I swanny, I tode you and tode you not to run with them flapjacks. And there you go, running with them, and you fell. You ain't just skint up your knee you're so worried about, but you ruint the tin foil wrapping. How'm I going to get the new ones I gotta make now to your sister's house and you knowing how sick she is. You jist get your cryin' self up and take her some of the okry and maters we had last night. They're in a bowl. And you jist splain your reckless self to her so's she'll know it weren't me what ruint that mess of flapjacks I promised her. Now, you get yourself going, or I'll stripe that sassy bottom of yourn till you know whut a good stripin' is!"
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 8/10/2008 12:58:01 PM
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Is this a correct version of a good blessing-out?
"I swanny, I tode you and tode you not to run with them flapjacks. And there you go, running with them, and you fell. You ain't just skint up your knee you're so worried about, but you ruint the tin foil wrapping. How'm I going to get the new ones I gotta make now to your sister's house and you knowing how sick she is. You jist get your cryin' self up and take her some of the okry and maters we had last night. They're in a bowl. And you jist splain your reckless self to her so's she'll know it weren't me what ruint that mess of flapjacks I promised her. Now, you get yourself going, or I'll stripe that sassy bottom of yourn till you know whut a good stripin' is!"
Exactly!
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