Note: work this into casual conversation
Our friend J. Stephen O’Brien just passed along this great new expression:
He’s nervouser than a bleeder in a cat-catching contest.
Yup. We Southerners do have a knack for colorful talk…
Our friend J. Stephen O’Brien just passed along this great new expression:
He’s nervouser than a bleeder in a cat-catching contest.
Yup. We Southerners do have a knack for colorful talk…
lullaby pit 
It’s been over forty years since I heard Tennessee Ernie Ford say, “He’s more nervous than a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs”, but I can hear him say it in my mind as clear as day right now.
~M~
It’s been over forty years since I heard Tennessee Ernie Ford say, “He’s more nervous than a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs”, but I can hear him say it in my mind as clear as day right now.
~M~
How ’bout, “Drunker than Cooter Brown?”
Aloha,
Jeff
How ’bout, “Drunker than Cooter Brown?”
Aloha,
Jeff
I hope somebody is writing these down.
I hope somebody is writing these down.
We ought to start a master list of Southern Colloquialisms. The South has more of them than all other regions combined,IMHO.
Jeff
We ought to start a master list of Southern Colloquialisms. The South has more of them than all other regions combined,IMHO.
Jeff