Funny Expressions From Your Neck of the Woods

[diaglo]

10. my hat of d02 knows no limits.



10. if you have to ask then you haven't been visiting many rpg forums.

 

[Henry]

Kei, is a "normal" intensifier for hard, so "kei hard" means: very hard.
For some odd reason, kei started to be used fas an "universal" intensifier, ergo "kei zacht"

Ironically, there's a local mom-and-pop computer reseller in my area called "Rock Soft Computers."


A lot of expressions have been globalized much quicker now than in the past, probably due to the spread of communications technology and the Internet. As a result, I can't think of any that another Southerner from the board hasn't already covered.

 

[der_kluge]

You've probably heard of a "two-bag" girl. You have to have two bags to date her. One for her, and one for you in case hers falls off.

And then there is a coyote date. That's where you wake up from being drunk, and find her laying on your arm, so you chew it off, in order to get away.


If something is sticky or persistent, you say that it's "sticks like stink on sh*t" or "like ticks on a dog".


If someone is stupid, they are "two cards short of a deck" or "not the sharpest pencil in the box".

A gullible person has "just fallen off the cucumber truck".

Someone who doesn't know what they're talking about "doesn't know anything about the price of tea in china."

I'll post more as I think of them.

 

[Wystan]

"Shaking like a dog sh*tt*ng razorblades" - From a song, but I've picked it up. Shaking like crazy.

"Flurb" - Slang among some LARPers I know (they do the kind of LARP where role-play means beat each other up) for nerds or excessive rolplayers. If you've ever had a character (or LARPed a character) with drow, elves, dragons, fairies, or cat-people in your background, you may be a flurb. If you have at least 2 of the above, you're almost definately a flurb. If yo uhave all of the above, you're some kind of patron Saint of Flurbiness

Well, my LARP character history has me being 1/2 fae, parents killed by Drow.... SO I guess I am a Flurb... First I heard of it...

 

[der_kluge]

The motherload:

http://www.thataintnormal.com/Features/Foleyisms.htm

 

[Macbeth]

Well, my LARP character history has me being 1/2 fae, parents killed by Drow.... SO I guess I am a Flurb... First I heard of it...

Don't worry about it. Sure, it's ment to be a bit of a stereotype, but it's not completely bad, more like what a Mac owner might call a Windows guy. Yeah, it's a bit of an insult, but not horribly so. More of a joke thing. You flurb.

 

[Aeson]

My sister for some reason says "mom and them" or with a twang "momanim" when asking about the location of our mother. "Where is momanim". This appears to be a southern thing.

These two are not limited to the south.

"know what I'm sayin" often used in the middle of what is being said but mostly used afterwards. Makes me want to say "no I don't know what your saying"

This also gets a reply of "heard dat".

Many I've heard are covered by that foley'ism site. I never thought that much could come out of one man. He must spout that stuff nonstop.

 

[orchid blossom]

I can't believe I forgot yaderhey. Used as a joke about our percieved Wisconsin accent (we do have one, but we don't sound like the people in the movie Fargo.)

It's basically Ya, there, hey, said really fast.

 

[thol]

bang a [left, right, yoo-ee] = take a [left, right, u-turn]
make a packie run = go to the liquor store
jimmies = sprinkles
milkshake = flavored milk
frappe = milk with ice cream
bubbler = drinking fountain
tonic = soda/pop/coke/soda pop (only people my parents' age say this now)
hoodsie = little cup of ice cream
calm your liver = don't be in such a hurry

 

[JimAde]

And if we're starting on food items: what do people in your area call a sandwich on a long roll?

Here it's a sub or a grinder