Colloquialisms

[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