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    and other weird sayings.

    I learned that apparently that is a common saying on some parts of the country. I'd never heard it until Adam used it a bunch of times this week.

    What are some other local sayings that might not be so common in other parts of our country...or are just plain weird?

    I have a friend that says "hold onto your chewing gum!" in similar situations. I've now taken to saying it.
    Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live...
    Robert Southwell, S.J.

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    The odds are good; but the goods are odd!!
    If it pays, it stays

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    • #3
      Originally posted by phillygirl View Post
      and other weird sayings.

      I learned that apparently that is a common saying on some parts of the country. I'd never heard it until Adam used it a bunch of times this week.

      What are some other local sayings that might not be so common in other parts of our country...or are just plain weird?

      I have a friend that says "hold onto your chewing gum!" in similar situations. I've now taken to saying it.
      (S/he) looks like s/he's been drove hard and put up wet.

      S/he's not worth powder and shot enough to blow (him/her) away.

      I cussed (so-and-so) until a fly wouldn't pitch on him.
      "Since the historic ruling, the Lovings have become icons for equality. Mildred released a statement on the 40th anniversary of the ruling in 2007: 'I am proud that Richard’s and my name is on a court case that can help reinforce the love, the commitment, the fairness, and the family that so many people, Black or white, young or old, gay or straight, seek in life. I support the freedom to marry for all. That’s what Loving, and loving, are all about.'." - Mildred Loving (Loving v. Virginia)

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      • #4
        Awesome sauce. I've just been hearing this over the past 8 or 9 months and now a commercial uses it.

        The one that cracks me up is one my Grandmother used in very rare instances, "She/he looked like Death eating crackers". It conveyed the situation where a very ill person was more or less "bravely" carrying on when they should have been in bed.
        "Alexa, slaughter the fatted calf."

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        • #5
          I'd rather be dipped in shit.

          Smiling like a jackass eating briars.

          "in for a penny in for a pound" - You'd be surprised how many people have no idea what that means.

          God will get thee and I will be his messenger.

          Butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.

          She'd steal the candy from a baby's mouth.
          The year's at the spring
          And day's at the morn;
          Morning's at seven;
          The hill-side's dew-pearled;
          The lark's on the wing;
          The snail's on the thorn:
          God's in his heaven—
          All's right with the world!

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          • #6
            I still like "Jesus in a chicken basket" for total astonishment. Did Nova bring that one over?
            "Alexa, slaughter the fatted calf."

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            • #7
              I got one from my brother-in-law that I use occasionally. "He don't know within 40 miles where he shit last."

              And of course, Norm's, "You rock the mullet."

              My mom has a lot of Oklahoma sodbuster sayings but my favorite is, "He's as drunk as Cooter Brown."

              You could even write a song with it.

              Cooter Brown
              Cooter Brown
              Momma says I am as drunk as Cooter Brown
              And he is
              I woke on a porch
              In someone else's shorts
              But I ain't never been as drunk as Cooter Brown

              And so forth
              Last edited by Billy Jingo; Tuesday, May 20, 2014, 6:36 AM.
              “Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”

              ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

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              • #8
                "Lord willing, and the Creek don't rise."

                My mother and my grandmother used that one all the time when I was growing up.

                I was probably in my mid-30s before I learned that "Creek" was not referring to a smaller body of water, but instead to the Creek Indians. It suddenly made more sense to me why my mother would say such a thing in the middle of a summer drought, which puzzled me as a child.
                It's been ten years since that lonely day I left you
                In the morning rain, smoking gun in hand
                Ten lonely years but how my heart, it still remembers
                Pray for me, momma, I'm a gypsy now

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Novaheart View Post
                  I'd rather be dipped in shit.

                  Smiling like a jackass eating briars.

                  "in for a penny in for a pound" - You'd be surprised how many people have no idea what that means.

                  God will get thee and I will be his messenger.

                  Butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.

                  She'd steal the candy from a baby's mouth.
                  You left out "He wouldn't say 'shit' if he had a mouthful."
                  "Since the historic ruling, the Lovings have become icons for equality. Mildred released a statement on the 40th anniversary of the ruling in 2007: 'I am proud that Richard’s and my name is on a court case that can help reinforce the love, the commitment, the fairness, and the family that so many people, Black or white, young or old, gay or straight, seek in life. I support the freedom to marry for all. That’s what Loving, and loving, are all about.'." - Mildred Loving (Loving v. Virginia)

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Adam View Post
                    "Lord willing, and the Creek don't rise."

                    My mother and my grandmother used that one all the time when I was growing up.

                    I was probably in my mid-30s before I learned that "Creek" was not referring to a smaller body of water, but instead to the Creek Indians. It suddenly made more sense to me why my mother would say such a thing in the middle of a summer drought, which puzzled me as a child.
                    Maybe in your neck of the woods. Where Philly has her mosquito farm, we used to say, "Good Lord willing and the tide don't rise." Because if the tide got too high, the ferry couldn't make it across the Chesapeake and wasn't nobody going nowhere, to put it in the vernacular.
                    "Since the historic ruling, the Lovings have become icons for equality. Mildred released a statement on the 40th anniversary of the ruling in 2007: 'I am proud that Richard’s and my name is on a court case that can help reinforce the love, the commitment, the fairness, and the family that so many people, Black or white, young or old, gay or straight, seek in life. I support the freedom to marry for all. That’s what Loving, and loving, are all about.'." - Mildred Loving (Loving v. Virginia)

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                    • #11
                      "Pot committed" from Poker.
                      "Faith is nothing but a firm assent of the mind : which, if it be regulated, as is our duty, cannot be afforded to anything but upon good reason, and so cannot be opposite to it."
                      -John Locke

                      "It's all been melded together into one giant, authoritarian, leftist scream."
                      -Newman

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                      • #12
                        “As nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rockin' chairs.”

                        “I haven't seem [him/her] since Hector was a pup!”

                        “Gooder'n snuff and not as dusty!”

                        “Flat as a flitter.”

                        “Ain't got the sense that God gave an ant.” (Or geese, or a squirrel.)

                        “So buck-toothed he could eat corn on the cob through a picket fence.”

                        Everyone knows 'bless your heart, but I prefer, “Bless your little pea-pickin' heart.”

                        “Useless as tits on a boar.”

                        “Shit or get off the pot.” (Who says southerners can't be impatient?)

                        “Finer than gnat hairs split three ways.” Or for less format settings, “Shittin' in tall cotton.”

                        “That dog won't hunt.”

                        “Wouldn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.”

                        And two I hear a lot on a Washington DC-based netcast I listen to daily:

                        “As ugly as a tree full of owls.” and “Yuck with a hand gesture.”
                        “Any sufficiently advanced capitalism is indistinguishable from rent seeking.” ~ =j

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                        • #13
                          'Hector was a pup' and 'tits on a boar(bull)' I have heard. We say, "shoot or give up the gun". I've just heard 'ugly as a tree full of owls' and I'm desperate to use it conversationally.
                          "Alexa, slaughter the fatted calf."

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                          • #14
                            No blood... no foul!! - True Philly!!
                            If it pays, it stays

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                            • #15
                              Don't know shit from Shinola.
                              Colder than a well digger's ass.
                              Colder than a witch's tit in a brass bra. (Philly, true?)
                              Fell outta the ugly tree and hit every branch.
                              Half a bubble off of plumb.
                              Dumb as the day is long.
                              We are so fucked.

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