Colloquialisms

[bigtiller]

bass ackwards.

That's one I use often.
I did a search and found it is on a couple other threads but surprisingly, not on this one.

 

[rontaki]

"Works as it should"
"Need gone"
"Down Yonder"
"Raat" (Right)

Was at a local restaurant/bar, I asked "What kind of light beers do you have"
She just looked at me and said "I'm sorry?"
I repeated myself... then a third time until I finally realized it.
"What kind of laat beer you got?"

"Works as it should" needs gone

As for the laat beer, I'd have said, I'll just have water.
The waitress might realize some tip money just flew out the window, hopfully to smarten up a bit in the future.

 

[Oaktree]

The waitress might realize some tip money just flew out the window, hopfully to smarten up a bit in the future.

Seems an odd thing to misunderstand, but it doesn't sound like she was rude or snarky about it. Regional accents can be hard to decipher sometimes.

 

[BravoXray]

"Works as it should"
"Need gone"
"Down Yonder"
"Raat" (Right)

Was at a local restaurant/bar, I asked "What kind of light beers do you have"
She just looked at me and said "I'm sorry?"
I repeated myself... then a third time until I finally realized it.
"What kind of laat beer you got?"

"Ass Raat" (That's right)

 

[Runner]

Just heard a new one:

“I rather sandpaper a wildcats ass in a phone booth than __________________”
(fill in the blank with something you really don’t want to do”

Can’t say I’ve ever heard or used that one before….lol

My old boss from Arkansas used a version of that: "Like trying to stuff a dishrag up a wildcat's ass". Based on some of his stories, we figured he probably knew how hard that would be from experience.

One of his classic stories was about the "flaming rat". He said he and his brother used to try to come up with unique ways to shoot rats back on the farm. One day he decided to try shooting a flaming arrow at a rat like he saw done in the western movies. Of course, the rat ran back into the barn and caught it on fire. So he didn't do that again.

 

[rontaki]

My old boss from Arkansas used a version of that: "Like trying to stuff a dishrag up a wildcat's ass". Based on some of his stories, we figured he probably knew how hard that would be from experience.

One of his classic stories was about the "flaming rat". He said he and his brother used to try to come up with unique ways to shoot rats back on the farm. One day he decided to try shooting a flaming arrow at a rat like he saw done in the western movies. Of course, the rat ran back into the barn and caught it on fire. So he didn't to that again.

 

[etpm]

Along with "Finer than a frog hair" We should include "If a frog had wings it wouldn't bump its butt" And "Is a frog's ass watertight?" I also, when I really want to insult someone will say "Eat Sh** And Die". I hafta be really mad to say it but the visual makes me smile and relieves my tension somewhat.
Eric

 

[LouNY]

I'm from new England and have never heard of a milk shake as a frap.

I would consider a Frap, one of those fru fru imitation coffees people pay $8 for.

Same here, it's always been a milk shake or shake. For me especially it's a Coffee Milk Shake..
And yea frap is some yuppie thing.

 

[LouNY]

Gotta go see a man about a horse.


(I have no clue what that actually means...)

Go take a leak, usually by just stepping out of sight around a tractor or truck or building corner.

 

[RayIN]

Go take a leak, usually by just stepping out of sight around a tractor or truck or building corner.

A local radio station announcer says, hold on, my truck needs water in the radiator. He starts a song playing and is back when it ends.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

I always heard: see a man about a dog was #1
See a man about a horse was #2

 

[2LaneCruzer]

We are in Ben Wheeler

My wife is from Gilmer. One of her friends came to visit and brought her young daughter, who wanted to go hang out at the swimmin' poo.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

The Swimmin' Poo! :

 

[Runner]

Recent post in the "Working Railroads..." thread reminds me of one my ex-father-in-law used to say: "I'm going to go shake my grates." His wife would say she was going to "Shake the dew off her lilly".

 

[part-time-Farmer-NC]

Remembered another one yesterday wife went and picked up a couple of cathead biscuits. MIne was a tenderloin hers a country ham. Biscuits were huge and yup big as a cat's head.

 

[JethroB]

Yont-to = Do you want to?
Outair = Out there

Jethro of the Beverly Hillbilly’s used to say he wanted to be a double naught spy or he was studying his guzintas. Huh??.
As an adult it finally dawned on me. A spy as in 007, or he was learning multiplication. (Five goes into ten twice)

 

[masscity]

I remember him saying he wanted to be a brain surgeon or a fry cook!

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Yont-to = Do you want to?
Outair = Out there

Jethro of the Beverly Hillbilly’s used to say he wanted to be a double naughty spy or he was studying his guzintas. Huh??.
As an adult it finally dawned on me. A spy as in 007, or he was learning multiplication. (Five goes into ten twice)

I think he said "double aught spy". Aught as in "double aught buck" shot.
007= zero zero seven, popular at the time so a 00 spy.

 

[JasperFrank]

Found out in England that you don't ask for Cream and Sugar for your coffee. You ask for Milk and Sugar.
I got corrected so many times, that there must be some sort of law, that milk can't be served as cream?

 

[ponytug]

Found out in England that you don't ask for Cream and Sugar for your coffee. You ask for Milk and Sugar.
I got corrected so many times, that there must be some sort of law, that milk can't be served as cream?

I was told that it was (is?) considered excessive to have cream in coffee. This is from the country that long believed ice milk was preferable to ice cream, and that ice cream should only come in vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry, with Neapolitan being excessively decadent.

Stiff upper lip, chaps. No heating the home from March through November, no matter the outside temperature, and remember to keep your water pipes on the outside of houses so when the pipes freeze, the cracked pipes flooding water won't damage things inside. And don't forget to add tea to milk in the cup, so you can see when the milk is sour, and not waste tea.

For me it is like going to Boston, and ordering a regular coffee to go, which automatically comes with four sugars and two creams.

Or iced tea in its various forms around the US, or what sweetened carbonated beverages are called...

Keeps me smiling.

All the best,

Peter