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06-28-2014, 08:51 AM
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Senior Member/RVM #90
Monaco Owners Club
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Columbus, MS
Posts: 54,771
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Do you speak southern?
Southernese 101
A possum is a flat animal that sleeps in the middle of the road.
There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 of them live in the South.
There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 of them live in the South, plus a couple no one's seen before.
If it grows, it'll stick ya. If it crawls, it'll bite cha.
Onced and Twiced are words.
It is not a shopping cart, it is a buggy!
Jawl-P? means, Did you all go to the bathroom?
People actually grow, eat and like okra.
Fixinto is one word. It means I'm going to do that.
There is no such thing as lunch. There is only dinner and then there's supper.
Iced tea is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it when you're two. We do like a little tea with our sugar. It is referred to as the Wine of the South.
Backwards and forwards means I know everything about you.
The word jeet is actually a question meaning, 'Did you eat?'
You don't have to wear a watch, because it doesn't matter what time it is, you work until you're done or it's too dark to see.
You don't PUSH buttons, you MASH em.
Ya'll is singular. All ya'll is plural.
All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect, or
animal.
You carry jumper cables in your car - for your OWN car.
You only own five spices: salt, pepper, mustard, Tabasco and ketchup.
The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require 6 pages for local high school sports, the motor sports, and gossip.
Everyone you meet is a Honey, Sugar, Miss(first name) or Mr.(first name)
You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.
You know what a hissyfit is..
Fried catfish is the other white meat.
We don't need no dang Driver's Ed. If our mama says we can drive, we can drive!!!
OOPS! This should have been put under RV Humor!
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Joe & Annette
Sometimes I sits and thinks, sometimes I just sits.....
2002 Monaco Windsor 40PBT, 2013 Honda CRV AWD
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06-28-2014, 09:21 AM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2011
Posts: 29
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You forgot "cutchee" It's what a knife will do to you...ie. "Watch that knife...it's sharp. It'll cutchee."
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06-28-2014, 09:36 AM
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Senior Member
Tiffin Owners Club
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Western NC
Posts: 592
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Joe,
I've read similar humorous takeoffs on speaking Southern, but that one may be the most accurate one yet. And yes, I've lived down here pert near all my life.
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2016 Allegro Bus 40AP
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06-28-2014, 09:41 AM
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Senior Member
Monaco Owners Club
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Summer- Lake Diefenbaker, SK; winter- Westbay Marine Village, Victoria, BC
Posts: 211
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Thanks, Joe. I needed that information.
We're currently in Grand Prairie, Alberta on our way to the Yukon and Alaska for two months.
Our travelling companions are two fine couples from Georgia. There's almost a language barrier between Georgia and Saskatchewan...I'm kidding of course!
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2007 Holiday Rambler 40 SKQ, 2012 Ford Explorer XLT
1966 Contl convert., 2009 Harley, 2000 Bayliner 3258
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06-28-2014, 10:07 AM
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Community Administrator
Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 53,543
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I'm in NC and begginn to understand some of the locals some of the time. However they don't understand Bronxese .
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06-28-2014, 10:20 AM
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Senior Member
Winnebago Owners Club Coastal Campers
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Marathon, Florida
Posts: 2,909
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We have friends in the CG we winter in from New England and some from Alabama or Bama. Some of the Alabama folks friends came to visit and had a real good Southern drawl. I actually had to translate Southern to New England and vice versa. Over a "few" beers we had a great time Y'all. Being from NY helped with one and living in Florida half the year the other.
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2004 Winnebago Vectra 40KD
Shep dog, R.I.P. Kenzie dog Toad 2015 Jeep Wrangler Willys Wheeler
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06-28-2014, 12:33 PM
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Senior Member/RVM #90
Monaco Owners Club
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Columbus, MS
Posts: 54,771
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Ya'll come!
Don't be a stranger, you hear!
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Joe & Annette
Sometimes I sits and thinks, sometimes I just sits.....
2002 Monaco Windsor 40PBT, 2013 Honda CRV AWD
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06-28-2014, 07:06 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: West Columbia SC
Posts: 809
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Our famous last words Hey Yall watch this
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06-28-2014, 07:20 PM
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Senior Member
Ford Super Duty Owner
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Pensacola Fl
Posts: 667
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bless his heart, poor thang
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06-28-2014, 07:23 PM
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Senior Member
Fleetwood Owners Club Ford Super Duty Owner
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Port Charlotte Florida
Posts: 2,721
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I like this one "I don't care to do it", translated to Yankee "sure, no problem". First time I ran into it I was taken back, thought I had a personnel problem. I finally asked "are you saying you don't mind doing it".
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06-30-2014, 12:29 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Norfleet, Florida
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Y'all just remember when you come down here.....
The gators have the right of way.
"A possum is a flat animal that sleeps in the middle of the road.
The same is true of the Armadillo.
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06-30-2014, 12:49 PM
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Senior Member
Vintage RV Owners Club Holiday Rambler Owners Club
Join Date: Sep 2012
Posts: 605
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rodneykrantz
Our famous last words Hey Yall watch this
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I heard it was, "Hey, hold my beer and watch this."
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06-30-2014, 02:03 PM
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Senior Member
Ford Super Duty Owner
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Lowell, Arkansas
Posts: 7,301
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If you're from Texas an armadillo is called possum on the half shell.
All armadillo's sleep on their backs with their feet straight into the air.
If you eat possum on the half shell it takes two. One to eat and one to watch for traffic.
We are both Yankee's but have lived in AR for 35 years and love it. A person can't help where they were born. But you can move if you so desire.
Our Son is a LT Col in the AF, with 4 college degrees works in the Pentagon and still says that Ya'all is a great word. If you want to get everybody's attention in a big gathering it works. "Hey Ya'all listen up."
I was born in PA and their/our word for Y'all is You-uns.
TeJay
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06-30-2014, 02:13 PM
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Senior Member
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Clifftall
I'm in NC and begginn to understand some of the locals some of the time. However they don't understand Bronxese .
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They are still trying to figure if you are a Yankee or a D*mn Yankee. A Yankee just visits or is passing thru. A D*mn Yankee decides to stay.
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