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Bless Your Heart
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It's being willing. I found out early that most men, regardless of cause or need, aren't willing. They blink an eye or draw a breath before they pull the trigger. I won't. ~ J.B. Books
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You forgot my two favorites,
Usetacould - “catch a pig? I usetacould”
Widjadidja - “you din’t bring yer wife widjadidja?”
that's what I was taught (learned 😁 for the other southern folk ) as a kid
I still have words that get out and get that WTH look,, where I use to work in the office while talking , I would hear from other members hold it , hold it , what you just say ?? and what does that mean 🤔
I always liked well bless there little heart 😉
"I called myself looking".....was what an elderly lady said to one of my friends when she hit his car with her car.
Being a northerner and having lived in the south a while, the strangest thing I ever heard was; After a visit at a southern friends house upon departure.
We say goodbye, friend says " Ya'll stay here" 😮
I later learned that I was supposed to say as we were leaving; "Ya'll come with us"
Usetadid - It worked before
And don’t forget the amped up version………….”Bless your ever-lovin’ heart!”
**For use when you want to give a strong insult…. but you ain’t quite ready to fist-fight over it.
...Guilty as charged, but yall forgot at least one...
..."Bless your little pea pickin heart"...
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Good friend of ours daughter married a guy from the south. Good kid and great send of humor. He said the southern folks just make a one syllable word into a 2 syllable word. Very true if you think about it😉
Really, it's a question of who's got the scruples? $0.00
C $240
T $75
L $188
S + T $255
Where do you get off!
Gotcha Covered
I think of Tennessee Ernie ford when I hear that one 😁
There are four rules to speaking "Southern".
One: It is so hot down there that everything must be done slowly, including talking.
Two: Because you speak slowly, you must shorten long words to finish them. Examples - Mississippi becomes Mizzippi and New Orleans becomes Nawlins.
Three: Short words have to be drug out a bit to keep the slow pace. This involve the "YW" rule such that can becomes cayan and box becomes bowox.
Four: It takes so long to complete an entire sentence that many people lose track of where one started. Therefore, sentences have to end with an upturned questioned tone which I can't duplicate in print but you've all heard.
Y'all come back now, Hear ?!
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Before I got big enough to be much help on our farm in the Texas Panhandle dad would hire college boys for the summer.
One year he hired a city boy from down south who was "very nice" ie, somewhat innocent.
After supper the first evening Mom grabbed the 5-gallon bucket of ice cream (7 kids plus a couple of helpers mean half-gallon boxes wouldn't make it through one meal) and, holding the serving spoon, said John got first serving and asked him if he wanted one scoop or three.
Having worked hard all day John said he'd take three 😁
Mom then took that spoon and pushed it across the top of that bucker, making a curl of ice cream nearly and inch thick and the full width of the bucket. Looked up and John and said, "That's one." His eyes got big and he said that would be plenty.
Then came the day dad told him to shut off an irrigation valve (12" diameter in ground) and "really sit on it" to make sure it didn't leak.
Valve was about a 5-minute walk from the shop where they were working and when John hadn't come back in 15 minutes dad drove to the valve and there was John, sitting on the valve, just like dad had told him.
Don't know where that phrase for making it "really tight" but dad just thanked him for making sure it didn't leak and they went to the next job.
John worked with us for a couple of years, really great guy.
I think he's now the head of the Catholic Church in the Philippines.
I lived in the Deep South for years but never did figure out one particular phrase. People would say something was set for "Tuesday week." Did that mean the upcoming Tuesday, or the Tuesday after that? Beats me. Still.
I have lived in the South for 70 yeas and I still don't know what "Tuesday week" means.
I remember my 6th grade math teacher Mr. Hammett would say to the noisy classroom, "Y'all quieten down"
For a week after or from the coming Tuesday, we say it that way or “a week from Tuesday” or a week after next Tuesday.. Only in Britain do they use “Tuesday week“ to mean the week after the next Tuesday.
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I don't know about "only in Britain" unless the UK has somehow annexed Columbus Mississippi!
Hey, l took the took the time to look it up, If you were really unsure of the definition you could have of done the same !
Did you ever stop to think it is an English phrase transposed to this country like all of us ... unless you are a Native American !
DAMN ! Talk about shooting the messenger !!!!! .Do your own * research next time !
Careful there guesshots, The south is also famous for having Feuds that last for generations! 😁
Sir, when I was consistently hearing the phrase there was no such thing as the internet. If you could tell me where I could have looked it up in the early 1970s, please do so. I did not hear it anywhere outside of the Deepest Darkest South in the decades since, and so the need to look it up vanished. Until this thread reminded me of it.
Oh, and bless your heart.
Was commonly used around here when I was growing up ,(I am 66). You still hear it from my generation but not from any of the younger folk . Eastern NC . I'm sure it would confuse them ,just as much as headlight dimmer on the floor and 3 on a tree would .
The need to look it up was renewed by this thread ! After 50+ years, still unsure. you felt no reason to type Tuesday week into a google search and press enter ! ... Then have the temerity to slight someone else's research !
Me thinks you would have been well served by the old adage (you may have to look this up) If you can't say something nice ... say nothing at all.
In that case...