Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Loved your post on these,,,Dizzy


  

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13 Southern Sayings the Rest of America Won’t Understand

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Language discrepancies naturally arise in different geographic regions, like the raging pop vs. soda debate, but the South undoubtedly takes the cake.
Conversations south of the Mason-Dixon line will befuddle anyone not born there.
We chose 13 of the most ridiculous Southern sayings — and tried to explain them.
Cotton
1. “We’re living in high cotton.”
Cotton has long been a key crop to the South’s economy, so every harvest farmers pray for tall bushes loaded with white fluffy balls in their fields. Tall cotton bushes are easier to pick and yield higher returns. If you’re living “in high cotton,” it means you’re feeling particularly successful or wealthy.
2. “She was madder than a wet hen.”
Hens sometimes enter a phase of “broodiness” — they’ll stop at nothing to incubate their eggs and get agitated when farmers try to collect them. Farmers used to dunk hens in cold water to “break” their broodiness.
You don’t want to be around a hormonal hen after she’s had an ice bath.
3. “He could eat corn through a picket fence.”
This describes someone with an unfortunate set of buck teeth. They tend to stick up and outward, like a horse’s teeth. Imagine a horse eating a carrot, and you’ll get the picture.
4. “You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.”
A pig’s ear may look soft, pink, and shiny, but you’re not fooling anyone by calling it your new Marc Jacobs bag. A Southerner might say this about her redneck cousin who likes to decorate his house with deer antlers.
5. “You look rode hard and put up wet.”
No, this isn’t Southern sexual innuendo. The phrase refers to a key step in horse grooming — when a horse runs fast, it works up a sweat, especially under the saddle. A good rider knows to walk the horse around so it can dry off before going back to the stable. A horse will look sick and tired if you forget this step, much like a person who misses sleep or drinks too much.
6. “He’s as drunk as Cooter Brown.”
Cooter Brown is an infamous character in Southern lore. Legend tells that he lived on the Mason-Dixon line — the border between the North and South — during the Civil War. To avoid the draft on either side, Cooter decided to stay drunk throughout the entire war, making him ineligible for battle.
Inebriated Southerners have measured their drunkenness by him ever since.
7. “She’s as happy as a dead pig in the sunshine.”
When a pig dies, presumably in a sty outside, the sun dries out its skin. This effect pulls the pig’s lips back to reveal a toothy “grin,” making it look happy even though it’s dead. This phrase describes a person who’s blissfully ignorant of reality.
8. “She’s got more nerve than Carter’s got Liver Pills.”
Carters Products started as a pill-peddling company in the latter part of the 19th century. Specifically, Carters repped its “Little Liver Pills” so hard a Southern saying spawned from the omnipresent advertisements.
Alas, the Federal Trade Commission forced the drug-group to drop the “liver” portion of the ad, claiming it was deceptive. Carter’s “Little Liver Pills” became Carter’s “Little Pills” in 1951, but the South doesn’t really pay attention to history. The phrase stuck.
9. “I’m finer than frog hair split four ways.”
Southerners mostly use this phrase to answer, “How are you?” Even those below the Mason-Dixon know frogs don’t have hair, and the irony means to highlight just how dandy you feel.
The phrase reportedly originated in C. Davis’ “Diary of 1865.”
10. “He thinks the sun comes up just to hear him crow.”
On farms (not just in the South) roosters usually crow when the sun rises. Their vociferous habit wakes up the house, signaling time to work.
An extremely cocky rooster might think the sun rises simply because he crows. Similarly, an extremely cocky man might think the same when he speaks — and also that everyone should listen to him.
11. “That’s about as useful as tits on a bull.”
Only female dairy cows produce milk. Male cows are called bulls. And even if you could “milk anything with nipples,” bulls tend to be rather ornery. Good luck with that.
12. “That thing is all catawampus.”
Catawampus adj: askew, awry, cater-cornered.
Lexicographers don’t really know how it evolved, though. They speculate it’s a colloquial perversion of “cater-corner.” Variations include: catawampous, cattywampus, catty wonkus. The South isn’t really big on details.
13. “He’s got enough money to burn a wet mule.”
In 1929, then-Governor of Louisiana Huey Long, nicknamed “The Kingfish,” tried to enact a five-cent tax on each barrel of refined oil to fund welfare programs. Naturally, Standard Oil threw a hissy fit and tried to impeach him on some fairly erroneous charges (including attending a drunken party with a stripper).
But Long, a good ole’ boy, fought back. He reportedly said the company had offered legislators as much as $25,000 for their votes to kick him out of office — what he called “enough money to burn a wet mule.”
We Northerners may not know what that means, but at least we know where it comes from.
Bonus: Bless Your Heart
Almost everyone knows Southern women drop this phrase constantly. But it might not mean what you think it means.
In reality, the phrase has little to do with religion and more to do with a passive-aggressive way to call you an idiot. Depending on your inflection, saying “bless your heart” can sting worse than any insult.
Enjoy. and 
HAGD

Thursday, October 22, 2015

WHERE IS DIZZY?????

Has anybody seen him? Did he say he was gonna be gone or anything?

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Exhausted

WHERE IS DIZZY?????

My company left Sat. morning, and i collapsed. Today finally, i feel a little better. I was up every few minutes during the nights, having to go to the bathroom. I called the pharmacist yesterday and he suggested i use Oxytron patches. These are prescription strength and you wear one for 4 days before you change them. OMG.... They WORK! In just a few minutes after putting one on, it started working. So last nite i slept and was just up a couple of times.

My g/dotter and baby and bf, went to Utah to visit his mom. Then they are going to Northern CA to see his dad.  They were not sure when they would get back, but they will have to find another place to stay. Maybe the motor home. IF they can find a place to park it.

WOW, heavy rain, lots of it, is forecast for the next few days..I'm sooo ready. I might have lost my big tree in the front, and maybe a few other things, but there's just nothing i can do about it.

I'm seeing the Doc tomorrow about this hip, and hope he says "let's put a new one in tomorrow" lol.

Well, i'm already out of things to say, so yall tc, and

HAGD

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

4 weeks now


Aint he beautiful? lol,,, Told his Mom boys are supposed to be handsome but,, this one is more...

He smiles real big, and is kicking and playing with his arms and legs now. Cooing some too. We did tie dye shirts at her shower, and this is one.

Have another question for you travelers. How much less gas milage do you get towing a small vehicle? A Prius. Got a 400? engine. In my opinion you wouldn't hardly know it was there.

Our weather forecast still doesn't show any rain!!!,,,We are so burned, i'm not sure about my big tree in front, and a couple of other things, and i can't get out to water. Hit 101 yesterday !!!

I'm seeing the orthopedic doc next week,,hope he says, get in that hospital and let's put a new hip in you... lol Hard to sleep when you can't lay any way and not hurt. I doze in my chair a lot during the day.

Welll, nothing to say, said it all, so yall tc, and

HAGD


Thursday, October 1, 2015

Motor Home ?s

G/daughter and bf bought an 84 motor home and just wondering how much gas it will use to run the generator for the ac and other. It's a 4000 something size and i can find out more when they wake up, lol. He's thinking it would be like a car idling.
Appreciate any help here.
HAGD