Alabama/Southern slang (art, friend, live)

[UABinBHM]

One of my favorites my grandmother used to say:

- Nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rockin' chairs

[ebmom]

I like "busy as a one-legged man in a butt kicking contest"

[Sam I Am]

She just clatters like a loose shingle (for the lady who talks too much).

Lord, she was so upset she was sh***ing red roses.

Dance with the one what brung ya.

You could talk the horns off a brass toad (and I truly don't know what that means, but my mama said it all the time).

And for those poor folks who still say "Civil War"? - the whole time I was in school in Mississippi, it was The War of Northern Aggression....

That girl could eat corn through a picket fence (for someone bucktoothed).

[Tommy's Wife]

Thats funny! I have heard all those and use cattywompus in every day speech. That last one is so true. Lesson learned!:p

[Woodzman]

Ok, Being from Alabama. I have to say this. I married a gal from up north
(Beer Capital of the world) and We were @ Disneyland and I met some nice folks from Alabama and we were talking and They made the comit, So, you married a yankee! My wife look at the lady (eye to eye) and said, Yea, he did and if i remember right , we yankee's kicked your Butt! May I say, I had never saw her react like that. I told her, IF, we relocate to Alabama, You have got to be carefull of the way you put things. lol I can see it now, I may get my butt kicked a couple of times before she learns.
Being married to someone form up yonder, We still have our differences,
Like, When I want a coke, she wants a pop.
Like when I say fixin, she now look's at me like I'm crazy.
I'm not about to say "Get R Done", She'll think I'm cheating! lol Woodzman

[AndyG]

My grandmother, who grew up just outside Dothan, Alabama but lived in Gadsden most of her life, would say "It's comin' a cloud" when it was about to storm. Must be a south Alabama thing though, because she is the only person in the NE part of the state I ever heard say that.

[markdalton]

I used to live in Anniston. Although still very Alabama, it seems to be its own little world over there. They use expressions and talk in a different way from what I hear in Huntsville, Birmingham, south Alabama, and even nearby Gadsden. It's not bad or anything, just different. But I could see why anyone from outside the area would have a difficult time understanding some of the locals.

[arguy1973]

mayonaisee......mayonaisee alot of em people here

[winkie2]

I have so enjoyed this thread. My mother's family was all from Al. & Miss. & that's pretty much how my whole family talks. If you haven't seen somebody in a long while, they may say, "Lard how mercy(Lord have mercy) I aint seen you in a coon's age, come gimme a neck-hug". I have relatives who put extra letters in words & leave letters out, such as "rench out that warsh rag & wipe that baby's nose, I jist dispise nastness", or "hit's a shame I missed that sale at K-Marks". My teachers in elementary school would call children, "churen". If my mother was amazed or disgusted by something she often said, "waell, if that don't beat a goose a-gobblin' I'll pay". Another habit some of the older southerner's had, if you go visit someone, you drive up & sit in front of the house till someone sticks their head out the door & hollers,"yall git out", then you get out & go in. If you went someplace with someone, when they brought you back home, you would say, "yall come in with me" (of course not meaning it) & the equally polite reply would be "no thanks, we better git goin." Also where I was from "honey" was a polite term any white man used to address any age woman, & the black men called any woman "baby". None of it was flirty, just a polite & warm term of endearment.

[lookingtomove24]

There's a lid for every pot.
You make a better door then a window.

Well, you showed me didn't you?!

And you're point being??

What I used to do all night, now takes me all night to do.

That boy ain't right!

Why buy the pig when all you want is a piece of sausage? (woman's version of why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?)

Gives me the willies

I feel like I've been drugged through a knothole!

Whatever blows your skirt up.

Wally(an insult)

Lucy(an insult to a man of course)

balls to the wall.

To tell you shy or insecure male gay friends: OOOhhh, Can I be the girl today?? (Sometimes this goes over their head)

You!! Out of the gene Pool!!!!


Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today because if you like it today, you can do it again tomorrow.

Fugly as in that girl(boy) is F'UGLY!

I thought I'd share these with you to laugh.