Southerners (redneck preferred)

[tbb113]

Last week I was watching 'Do You Speak American?' on PBS and they mentioned the saying "Butter my butt and call me a biscuit". I LOVE that quote ... but I have NO idea when you would use it. Anybody want to fill me in on the correct usage of that saying :D

[badunnin]

Not a southerner, but I'd put it in the same category as "well slap me and call me Fanny!" In other words, well, whaddya know!

If I use this reasoning, my signature line could be "Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit! This Jesus is better than Tupperware!"

[MISSINDI]

I tivo'd that show, but haven't watched it yet - always interesting to find out euphanisms other parts of the country have. Dan Rather always has a plethora of good ones, particularly during election coverage.

Bethany -- I know your quote came from funniegrrl, but I missed the original post. What was the context? Just curious... hate to be missing out on the fun stuff! :D

[badunnin]

Originally posted by MISSINDI


Bethany -- I know your quote came from funniegrrl, but I missed the original post. What was the context? Just curious... hate to be missing out on the fun stuff! :D

It was one of the Jesus spammings last week. :)

[tamawrite]

I'm not a Southerner either, but I agree with Bethany that the phrase would be used in place of "Well, I'll be d@mned!"

[tbb113]

That was our guess as well. For whatever reason, both my younger son and I thought the phrase was great. I just can't see myself working it into a conversation though. It might end up being my tagline when I get tired of what I currently have :cool: :D

[Beth]

Well your comparison of rasing teenagers to nailing jello to a tree is a favorite of mine, but the biscuit line is pretty funny. If I slip and say that in front of my boys, I'll hear it a thousand times more! :D

[MISSINDI]

Originally posted by badunnin


It was one of the Jesus spammings last week. :)

Ahh, gotcha.

[Jazzmatazz49]

I'd say it means the same thing as "I swan!":D :D :D

[Tarheel YaYa]

This Southerner agrees!

It's from the same line of thinking that brings us the great "I'll be a monkey's uncle" phrase. :D

[funniegrrl]

Ya know ... you don't have to be a redneck to use regional colloquialisms ...

Not everyone who has a southern accent and uses colorful turns of phrase is a redneck. And there are plenty of rednecks who aren't southern.

[tbb113]

Originally posted by funniegrrl
Ya know ... you don't have to be a redneck to use regional colloquialisms ...

Not everyone who has a southern accent and uses colorful turns of phrase is a redneck. And there are plenty of rednecks who aren't southern.

I only used the phrase redneck in my title because when I googled the phrase it showed up mainly on pages devoted to rednecks. I figured they knew something I didn't.....

[little_bopeep]

Speaking of rednecks, here's (http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect/) a fun site. :D

[krispy spo]

Originally posted by tbb113
"Butter my butt and call me a biscuit". I LOVE that quote ... but I have NO idea when you would use it.

Sounds like something Paula Deen would say:D

[Melman]

Originally posted by funniegrrl
Not everyone who has a southern accent and uses colorful turns of phrase is a redneck. And there are plenty of rednecks who aren't southern.

I argued your first point for years with an old friend who moved here from the Boston area. Turned out after living here for a couple of years, he was "redder" than most of the people who grew up in this area. :D

The person I'd still say was one of the biggest rednecks I ever met was right out of New England. That was when I realized the term had NOTHING to do with location....it's all attitude. :D


Tyra...I've never heard that saying but the interpretations all sound logical.

[BarbaraL]

I love the tagline "raising teenagers is like nailing jello to a tree." Personally, I've used "Getting doctors to do something (or agree on something) is like herding cats."

[Wendy w]

I love Southern sayings. Unfortunately, a couple of my favorites are not repeatable here. One of my favorites is that's as useful as a milk bucket under a bull. About the nailing jello to a tree saying, I use it with great frequency at work when referring to some of the faculty. Catching them can be a challenge.

[Svadhisthana]

Originally posted by badunnin


It was one of the Jesus spammings last week. :)

This phrase makes it seem as though Jesus himself were doing the spamming. "Oh, that wacky Jesus, at it again. What will we ever do with him?"


One of my favorite sayings (don't know if it's southern in origin) is "oh, it's six of one and half a dozen of the other" This was my Grandmother's reply to the question: are boys or girls easier to raise?

[camNcurtsmom]

My grandma says, "I ain't seen you in a month of Sunday's" when you haven't been to see her in awhile.

My dad says, "I was as nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs." :)

Another one I heard growing up was.... "She or He was as dumb as a sack of hair!"

Tammi

[Jessica]

My friend Julie uses a great saying her mother brought from the Ukraine. The translation is, "You can't ride two horses with one @ss." In other words, you can only do one thing at a time.

I also love the dumb consultantspeak my DH bring home, like, "That dog don't hunt."

[BarbaraL]

My dad (who was in construction) used to say that someone was "half a bubble off" -- meant the same as "one brick short of a load", etc. It refers to a builder's level, where, when the air bubble is in the center of the level, the thing being evaluated is level; when the bubble is to one side or the other, the thing is slanted.

[Jessica]

Originally posted by BarbaraL
My dad (who was in construction) used to say that someone was "half a bubble off" -- meant the same as "one brick short of a load", etc. It refers to a builder's level, where, when the air bubble is in the center of the level, the thing being evaluated is level; when the bubble is to one side or the other, the thing is slanted.

LOL Barbara. In high school, our phrases for this were:

Two tacos short of a grande platter.

The mall is open but nobody's shopping.

[hollysmom]

"Fish or cut bait"

aka 'make a decision'

SSM

[hlao23]

Originally posted by hollysmom
"Fish or cut bait"

aka 'make a decision'

SSM

We always said "P**s or get off the pot"

[pschambers]

One of DH's favorite movies is an old John Wayne flick titled El Dorado There is this grizzly old guy in it and he says one of my favorite quotes "I'll be a suck-egged mule." I have no idea what a suck-egged mule is but it is funny.

Patti