Texas Thangs Hard To Translate (stats, best, county)

[DisplacedTexan]

Originally Posted by TexasReb

Fillin' station! Now there's an oldie but a goodie!

I am wondering how many still say "breakfast, dinner, and supper"? Lunch has almost replaced "dinner" as the term for the noonday meal!

My father still refers to the noonday meal as dinner. I had gotten so used to saying lunch while at college, that we had some confusion when we planned to go out to eat one evening!

[DisplacedTexan]

Originally Posted by TexasReb

Tump or Tumped is one of the "great classics" of Texas/Southern speech, fer shore!

My late grandmother used to say that "Someone had done tumped the washtub over." whenever we had a hard rain. She also loved the expression Hell to breakfast. I always knew it was time to put away my toys when she would say: "DisplacedTexan, you have got crap scattered from Hell to breakfast!!"

[Hyun-Soo]

Do What?

Say What?

[TexasReb]

Originally Posted by DisplacedTexan

My late grandmother used to say that "Someone had done tumped the washtub over." whenever we had a hard rain. She also loved the expression Hell to breakfast. I always knew it was time to put away my toys when she would say: "DisplacedTexan, you have got crap scattered from Hell to breakfast!!"

LOL "All over Hell and half of Georgia" is one your post reminded me of as well. A lot of times it was used to describe a major whuppin. Such as "Yeah, Sam got drunk and messed with the wrong ol' boy the other night and got his butt kicked all over Hell and half of Georgia."

And yeah, that breakfast, dinner, supper thing that a lot of us grew up hearing and using can be very confusing. Not only to yankees but to even younger kids today. I think lunch was ALWAYS used in some contexts back then, but it usually referred to a quick bite to eat or something you packed up to take with you. Such as, one might take their lunch to work, but came home or sat down to eat dinner at noon.

I think it was when the federal "school lunch" program came into being, that "lunch" began to replace "dinner" as the popular term, regardless of the size of the meal or where one had it.

[TexasReb]

How 'bout this 'un, y'all? Racket

Translation: A loud noise created to the point it interferred and/or was unacceptable to/with normal interactions and the social situation. Very often used by parents to directly describe the decibel level made by their children.. and which needed to be stopped in a timely manner, lest physical punishment be the consequence.

For instance: "If you kids don't stop makin' that racket in yonder, I am gonna come in there and whup some butts..."

[EasilyAmused]

Things are Uge in Texas, not Huge.

[TexasReb]

Originally Posted by EasilyAmused

Things are Uge in Texas, not Huge.

I gotta take SLIGHT issue with that one, although I acknowledge the basic point. Things in Texas are yewge!

[GayleTX]

And if it's a little smaller, not really all that 'huge', it's just a 'biggo thang'.

[blueskies49]

Originally Posted by TexasReb

How 'bout this 'un, y'all? Racket

Translation: A loud noise created to the point it interferred and/or was unacceptable to/with normal interactions and the social situation. Very often used by parents to directly describe the decibel level made by their children.. and which needed to be stopped in a timely manner, lest physical punishment be the consequence.

For instance: "If you kids don't stop makin' that racket in yonder, I am gonna come in there and whup some butts..."

Or tell 'em to "QUIETEN DOWN!!"

[TexasReb]

Originally Posted by blueskies49

Or tell 'em to "QUIETEN DOWN!!"

LOL Yeah, that'n too, Miss Bluesie! BTW -- ain't seen you here in a while. Hope you had a great Christmas!