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10-28-2007, 11:23 AM
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One I've been coming across recently is someone saying "I'm proud" instead of "I'm happy" or "pleased." Example: "I'm proud of those vegetables you gave us."
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10-28-2007, 04:25 PM
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Originally Posted by tuxedocat
I don't think I remember Fletcher's Barbe que restaurant--what is it close to?
I have caught many mullet myself with a cast net.
Do you know Mary's restaurant? I think it may still be there
We would go there after fishing in the gulf all day on the boat and I am going to go there again someday if it is still there. It was a small restaurant and they had starched white tablecloths and served the same dinner family style to each table. The dinner was gumbo, the dark black hot kind, fried chicken, fried oysters, shrimp. fish, wonderful deviled crab, as many as you wanted. I don't remember what all else. It was not all fried and greasy though. Great great food and atmosphere too. Oh yes, wonderful shrimp creole served over rice. And fabulous cornbread sticks. I'm not sure exactly where it is. It may be near Bon Secour
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Mary's is on the Mobile county side of the bay. Just over the Fowl river bridge going towards Bayou la Batre on highway 188. |
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10-28-2007, 04:31 PM
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People say 'Anyway' on the phone when they aren't sure what to say next..or maybe they just want to hang up..
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10-28-2007, 04:31 PM
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Love this thread. Of course, you know the football thing! WOW! But what pride each side has! I also love colloquialisms! Moving around, I find this one of the most fun things. Here are a few I have come across.
Fix'n to
Instead of goodbye it's "We'll be see'in ya..." Nice, never say goodbye
For thank you "We appreciate ya.." this is a very nice way to put it - more feeling...
Always in the South...
Yes Sir/Ma'am
No Sir/Ma'am
Mr. Mrs. Miss [name]
The best I have heard so far...
for unbelievable "Well I'll be a gold toilet!"
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I'm 48 years old and have lived in Alabama all my life. I have NEVER heard "Well I'll be a gold toilet". |
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10-28-2007, 08:15 PM
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Where the left lane on the interstate is the driving lane and the right lane is the passing lane.....
Who knew? Sign should be posted... Welcome to Alabama the Beautiful...Left is for traffic...Right is for passing...  |
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10-28-2007, 08:27 PM
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One time h and I went out to eat and were surrounded by those cultured people known as 'snowbirds.'
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There's a story up here in Huntsville about a couple of local fellows eating lunch at the diner - some damnyankees heard 'em talkin' and commented about how Southerners really -do- speak differently...
Those local fellows were Wernher von Braun and his German rocket team |
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10-28-2007, 08:54 PM
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Proud instead of Happy
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Originally Posted by harry chickpea
One I've been coming across recently is someone saying "I'm proud" instead of "I'm happy" or "pleased." Example: "I'm proud of those vegetables you gave us."
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My mother and her family always say 'Proud' instead of 'Happy'. It's obviously an Alabama thing; haven't heard it anywhere else and I've lived all over the U.S. My mother is 82 and has lived in MI for 60 years. She recently said "I'm so proud that Sarah is comin' up here to visit me". Her sister, Sarah, lives in AL. I was born there, but never lived there beyond babyhood. I love Alabamans! |
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10-29-2007, 08:10 AM
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I'm 48 years old and have lived in Alabama all my life. I have NEVER heard "Well I'll be a gold toilet".
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I'm 45- same here... that's why it was sooo funny! Got to get into the country and the hills to get the really good ones! |
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10-29-2007, 08:44 AM
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tuxedocat, I think the Mary's you referred to earlier was in Magnolia Springs, right on Hwy 98 near the intersection with Baldwin County 49. It was indeed memorable eating! Alas, it is no more, at least as you and I knew it. As I recall, Mary had been one of the principal cooks at that upscale restaurant next to Bon Secour Fisheries on the Bon Secour River. I can't pull the name up to save my life, but it was the one where they put in a round glass dining room right on the banks of the river. Anyway, I think when that place closed down, Mary opened the place over in Magnolia Springs. Sure wish it was still there.
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10-29-2007, 10:57 AM
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I'm 48 years old and have lived in Alabama all my life. I have NEVER heard "Well I'll be a gold toilet".
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Me neither...but I like it! |
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