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[Sav'nBass]

This one is is the subject of one of my favorite Flula Borg videos.

He's thinking the wrong balls and the wrong walls.. but it is funny .. ROFL!!

 

[slobake]

When I was working as a laborer in Dallas they used to tell me "You're slower than a thanksgiving turkey on christmas. Still don't know what that meant.

 

[Sav'nBass]

That Thanksgiving turkey was a month late......

 

[Stdjazz4]

"Them dogs wont hunt"
"He'd rather climb a tree to tell a lie, than stay on the ground and tell the truth"
"Bless his heart"
"A GOOD friend would've stabbed you in the chest"
- the dirty dirty south

Also from down yonder...

"I need to go see a man about a dog"

(What a man says to excuse himself to go take a pee)

 

[catcauphonic]

Also from down yonder...

"I need to go see a man about a dog"

(What a man says to excuse himself to go take a pee)

Or the other end of that necessity >

'Drop the kids off at the pool'

 

[shadowtippy]

Or the other end of that necessity >

'Drop the kids off at the pool'

Or, The Browns are going to the Super Bowl.

 

[Jloch86]

When I was working as a laborer in Dallas they used to tell me "You're slower than a thanksgiving turkey on christmas. Still don't know what that meant.

Well, the turkey is dead. Plus it's a month late. Sometimes I scream, "JESUS CHRIST THIS $%#&@! PERSON IS SLOWER THAN DEATH!!" from the safety of my car.

 

[bobba66]

"Colder than a well diggers ass!"

 

[shadowtippy]

Well, the turkey is dead. Plus it's a month late. Sometimes I scream, "JESUS CHRIST THIS $%#&@! PERSON IS SLOWER THAN DEATH!!" from the safety of my car.

I usually go with "YOU DRIVE LIKE OLD PEOPLE #%&* (have sex)!!"

 

[D M C]

Slippery as a pig in a poke. (probably garbled, but it means hard to catch, also wiggly as a pig in a poke)

A poke is a generally southern rural synonym for a sack. A pig in a poke may be wiggly, but is ought not be slippery. The poke would see to that.

 

[5StringBlues]

She's got enough ass to save Russia!




From what?

 

[HaphAsSard]

A regional expression is "See how you are?"

It means you do something that you should not do or you do something in particular all the time.

Around here, that is often quickly followed by "Why do you gotta be like that?"

Perfectly current Italian to me! "Lo vedi come sei?" First I went "Duh..." - took me some secs to realise not everyone on the planet says that... Whoever you've heard it from in your areas may have ties to the ol' Boot.

 

[Gaolee]

A poke is a generally southern rural synonym for a sack. A pig in a poke may be wiggly, but is ought not be slippery. The poke would see to that.

That's true. I was garbling. The real phrase is slippery as a greased pig. Pig in a poke is something else. I think it is a sure thing, but I'm getting away from them thar hills a little to long to remember all of the official Appalachian jargon.

 

[RED J]

Slicker than snot on a door knob. I think it's pretty self explanatory.

 

[RED J]

"Real quick"

I can help. This is a self delusional expression used by people who don't have enough time to do something correctly, or, they want to do just one more thing even though it will make them late or keep others waiting. In their mind, time stands still when they say this.
Even though the outcome is always the same and the said deed takes the same time it would normally take w/o the "real quick" , they never give up trying. The most annoying example of this is the "real quick question" , which is never real quick, which will tie up the other person's time and productivity while they are milked for information.
Then the perp goes on his way doing more "real quick" things, yet never succeeding in getting meaningful things done "real quick"

 

[FunkHead]

"Run on down through thar" Referred to a beat up old pickup truck when I first heard it.

 

[ShadowImage]

Also from down yonder...

"I need to go see a man about a dog"

(What a man says to excuse himself to go take a pee)

I usually say "I need to go see my friend John".

 

[D M C]

I usually say "I need to go see my fiend John".

I usually say, "I need to take a whiz." More often than not, I take nothing, but leave a little sumpin behind.

 

[SteveC]

Around here we also put gas "on the car" which is odd. "Im gonna go put gas 'on the car' before we leave town" for example. Or "gas up" the car.

 

[Gaolee]

I can help. This is a self delusional expression used by people who don't have enough time to do something correctly, or, they want to do just one more thing even though it will make them late or keep others waiting. In their mind, time stands still when they say this.
Even though the outcome is always the same and the said deed takes the same time it would normally take w/o the "real quick" , they never give up trying. The most annoying example of this is the "real quick question" , which is never real quick, which will tie up the other person's time and productivity while they are milked for information.
Then the perp goes on his way doing more "real quick" things, yet never succeeding in getting meaningful things done "real quick"

I still say "right quick" instead of "real quick." Right quick doesn't mean in a hurry. It means get started sometimes. Sometimes it's just verbal noise that doesn't mean much of anything. "I might maybe just mosey on out of here right quick." That means I'm leaving soon, but with a lot more slowly pronounced syllables.