Regional cliches... especially stuff parents say (home, snake, nursing home)

[dianalee4jc]

LOL! Thanks Nicole.

Finding explitives for a Christian novel can be fairly challenging!

Cheers,
Diana

[nicoled24]

ok, a couple more, then I've got to go to bed!

My mom used to say these to my brother; he was constantly in trouble!

"I'm going to beat the tar out of you..."
"I'm going to jerk a knot in your tail...."

AND because we didn't cut switches off the trees, she would threaten to
"go get the flyswatter!"

ok, that's all I've got...that's too bad about the negative posts...this is a fun thread.
Nicole

[Miker2069]

Originally Posted by dianalee4jc

Argh! More bad reps!

Nash County... in between Raleigh and Rocky Mount (Rocky Mount is split between Nash and Edgecombe)...this is North Carolina. If I wanted regional Georgia sayings I would have posted in the Georgia forum. But I want North Carolina sayings. So what's the beef??? Please be nice...I'm not hurting anybody here. I wuv y'all!

(And I'm praying about that tropical storm churning up your way... EEK! I was up there when Alberto came through. Just that amount of rain and I could see the fields flooding pretty bad. Of course, parts of Nash County are pretty low elevation...)

Cheers,
Diana

not to get off topic, but I don't get the reputation thing- in fact until now I didn't even know there was such a thing here- jeez....

[Cassie]

Originally Posted by Miker2069

not to get off topic, but I don't get the reputation thing- in fact until now I didn't even know there was such a thing here- jeez....

You have 368 reputation points and didn't know there was such a thing? < VBG> That's precious Seriously. At the bottom of each post there is a link posters can click on that says "rate this post positively." That's the one I use most frequently. That gives people *good* quick reputation. It does it anonymously. I have yet to see anyone complain about good reputation that was given without a name On the upper right of each post there's a scale. That's the one that is used for giving *bad rep* (lowered left of scale) or more detailed *good rep*. ( raised right of scale) There's a space for comments. It isn't supposed to be used if one simply disagrees with someone else's post, btw, or their own reputation will be downgraded.

So as not to get off topic, I think there are a couple of threads in the *other topics* forum about reputation.
http://www.city-data.com/forum/other-topics/

Apparently they've tweaked the system and made some changes from the way it used to work before I joined the forum or so I read in those threads.

Regards,

Cassie

[mhogan10010]

"Mash the button" instead of press the button
"Dope" instead of soda or coke or pop. As in RC Dope and a moon pie.
"He's a few bricks shy of a load" for a stupid person.
"She's madder than a wet hen" for someone who is angry
"He is older than dirt" for an elderly person.
"Beauty is skin deep, but ugly is straight to the bone" - For an unattractive person.
"Crooked as a barrel of fishhooks." for a dishonest person.
"I ain't lookin" for I'm not looking for, as in "I ain't lookin a job"

[Susanne]

What about "I was tore outta the frame!!" when talking about something that made you highly upset or angry? Hmmm.

I loved Cassie's "that's precious" when talking about the guy who didn't know about reputations yet he has 300+. Thanks for the explanation on that, Cassie. I gave you points for explainin' because I didnt' know either! :-)

One of my favorite Southern sayings is "bless his heart" right before or after you insult someone. Hehehe. (I know it's already been mentioned, but I love that one.)


I remember my dad saying something like "well, I'll be daw" (????) when I was smaller. He'd say this when told something that surprised him.

Like,

Dan: "Hey, Dave, did you know John eloped with Sally last week?"

Dave: "Well, I'll be daw'."


Really not sure what that last word was, but it sounded like "daw" when my dad said it. :-)


I can't think of any others right now. I'll have to think on it. Hmmm.

[kkahne9]

Sometimes when I would be to eager to do something or go somewhere my mom would say " hold your horses" or" hold your pants". "hold your water" was another popular one.

[nascarnancy]

My parents always tucked me in and said:

Good night, sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite.

Well I always thought they said "dead bugs"! Scared the heck out of me that a dead bug could bite.

[TornadoAlley]

Originally Posted by Miker2069

not to get off topic, but I don't get the reputation thing- in fact until now I didn't even know there was such a thing here- jeez....

Three months and you didn't notice the number going up or down on the right? I noticed right away Click "User CP" and you can read some feedback.

[Bethanytedder]

I have a couple. Apparently back in the early 20's and 30's, there was a washing powder out that was named the Gold Dust Twins. I guess they use a set of Twins on the box for advertising purposes. So my grandmother used:

Tighter than the Gold Dust Twins instead of what most of us would say about close people- Thicker than a band of thieves.

Hotter than Hades or the other word for hades if you are really mad.

She turned redder than a beet (embarrassment)
Hotter than a $2.00 pistol (Heard this one with the George Jones song and on its own)
Faster than lightning. Or Quicker than lightning.
I use to tell my kids in the days before car seats when the four of them were bouncing all over the back seat:

"If you don't stop that, I am going to put you out and pick up on the way back" Of course I wouldn't have done it but they must have believed it. It worked.