STRANGE THINGS I LEARNED LIVING IN THE SOUTH...
Is it just my wife or is it true of other Southerners as well? My wife is very literal. Telling her a joke is no fun at all because she will take everything within the joke literally and jokes don't work that way. It's very exasperating. Howard Cosell did a bit one time about how humor varied in various parts of the country. I wish I had that on tape.
burkphoto wrote:
This was much more typical in 1960 than in 2017.
I was born & raised in Winston-Salem. My parents were carpet baggers who moved to the south because of my dad's job just before WWII. After the war they came back & stayed. I never knew a lot of the words I heard at school & around the neighborhood weren't used outside the south. My first job after I got out of the Navy in 1970 was as an apprentice photographer at Alderman Studios in High Point.
burkphoto wrote:
This was much more typical in 1960 than in 2017.
There is still a small grain of truth here, that perhaps applies to natives in some rural areas of the Deep South, except in Florida, which is a true melting pot.
However, there are plenty of Northern and Midwestern transplants here, who are a bit more typically American. We even (gasp!) (yay!) have many people from all over the friggin' world, right here in High Point! And it is quite hard to find a true native Charlottean. Average residency in Charlotte is about 2.5 years.
The largest BMW plant in the world is in Greer, SC. With some of the cheapest labor in America, Southern states are magnets for rust belt companies who still want to manufacture in America. Boeing has a huge plant in Charleston, SC.
So... The quaint charm of the stereotypical cracker Southern lifestyle is getting harder to notice.
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WRONG! I have in-laws from Memphis and several towns in Arkansas, and this describes them to a T! And, I love every one of them. 😃
Hooty Johnson was from here,and was president of Augusta National also. Died last week.
samantha90 wrote:
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 of kinds that no one's seen before.
If it grows, it'll stick ya. If it crawls, it'll bite cha.
Onced and Twiced are words.
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 without 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 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 six spices: salt, pepper, garlic, 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.
You believe 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!!!
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As we drive down south and stop to eat, we eventually get to the point where the waitress asks us if we want sweet tea when we ask for iced tea. That's how we know we are in the south.
MTG44
Loc: Corryton, Tennessee
Don't forget that everybody lives "ova yonder" and "come back" means thank you.
I thought someone from Charlotte was a Charlatan....LOL
burkphoto wrote:
This was much more typical in 1960 than in 2017.
There is still a small grain of truth here, that perhaps applies to natives in some rural areas of the Deep South, except in Florida, which is a true melting pot.
However, there are plenty of Northern and Midwestern transplants here, who are a bit more typically American. We even (gasp!) (yay!) have many people from all over the friggin' world, right here in High Point! And it is quite hard to find a true native Charlottean. Average residency in Charlotte is about 2.5 years.
The largest BMW plant in the world is in Greer, SC. With some of the cheapest labor in America, Southern states are magnets for rust belt companies who still want to manufacture in America. Boeing has a huge plant in Charleston, SC.
So... The quaint charm of the stereotypical cracker Southern lifestyle is getting harder to notice.
This was much more typical in 1960 than in 2017. b... (
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You must be a Dam Yankee as well.
burkphoto wrote:
This was much more typical in 1960 than in 2017.
There is still a small grain of truth here, that perhaps applies to natives in some rural areas of the Deep South, except in Florida, which is a true melting pot.
However, there are plenty of Northern and Midwestern transplants here, who are a bit more typically American. We even (gasp!) (yay!) have many people from all over the friggin' world, right here in High Point! And it is quite hard to find a true native Charlottean. Average residency in Charlotte is about 2.5 years.
The largest BMW plant in the world is in Greer, SC. With some of the cheapest labor in America, Southern states are magnets for rust belt companies who still want to manufacture in America. Boeing has a huge plant in Charleston, SC.
So... The quaint charm of the stereotypical cracker Southern lifestyle is getting harder to notice.
This was much more typical in 1960 than in 2017. b... (
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Sam, you couldn't offend anyone.
samantha90 wrote:
This was meant as humor sorry if I offended you
Terrific and very funny! A few I've heard before, but many were first exposure.
Thanks
Mark
samantha90 wrote:
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 of kinds that no one's seen before.
If it grows, it'll stick ya. If it crawls, it'll bite cha.
Onced and Twiced are words.
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 without 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 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 six spices: salt, pepper, garlic, 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.
You believe 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!!!
A possum is a flat animal that sleeps in the middl... (
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samantha90 wrote:
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 of kinds that no one's seen before.
If it grows, it'll stick ya. If it crawls, it'll bite cha.
Onced and Twiced are words.
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 without 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 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 six spices: salt, pepper, garlic, 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.
You believe 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!!!
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Very funny, first time I had Okra I thought I was going to throw up my liver. Haven't touched it since.
Rich
Cary is a town between Durham and Raleigh and it's (ahem) rumored that it's name stands for Concentrated Area for Relocated Yankees. (Just tossin' it out here. I've lived on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line but because of my WV roots I'm the brunt of most geographical jokes/stories) <G> But for my brethren in NoCack take care this weekend it's gonna be close to a hunnert.
In the south, it is "all" COKE. An Armadillo, is a Possum in a shell.
phlash46
Loc: Westchester County, New York
burkphoto wrote:
No offense taken. I got a good laugh.
It's just that I've been here 57 years. I've seen a lot of late comers to the party make the mistake of underestimating how smart and shrewd the natives are. I've seen some folks with "way down South out-in-the-sticks" heritage do amazing things, at the very dear expense of outsiders who doubted them or poked fun. "Bless their hearts" is NOT a compliment, believe me!
The formation of Bank of America is a good example. A UNC-CH-educated, ex-marine Southerner from a small town in SC built NC National Bank into NationsBank and then into Bank of America, through mergers and acquisitions. There are many in San Francisco who still wonder what the hell happened to their bank...
My comments were merely meant as a warning to those who would believe the old stereotype of the ignorant Southerner.
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Spent 3 years in the Army with a lot of good ole boys...not nearly as slow as they wanted me to believe...
I'm a native of Louisville, which is the gateway to the south, literally. I moved to Michigan 35 years ago, but vowed to keep my accent. Successful to a tee.
My sister moved to Knoxville around the time I moved to Michigan, and her accent has deepened. A linguistics professor at U Tennessee, who attends the same church has studied the phenomenon. According to him, folks who move south will eventually develop an accent, even a mild one. However, when that person moves back north, the accent remains.
My wife and I drink brewed iced tea 365 days per year.
And for those who travel I75. When you cross the bridge into Kentucky, and get to Florence, note that the sign on the water tower states "Florence Y'all". When we see that, we know we're home.
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