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Having done a bit of serious gardening, I can verify that it does produce "redneck"!dyanm said:I have heard the term originated from a derogatory intent toward farmers(very manual labor). (An ID mark would be their "red" necks, from working in the sun all day in the field) but I figure I qualify for membership as a girl from the "Heart of Dixie" if "nuthin" else.
It ain't rocket science or rat lab
Zakath said:Sorry to be absent, but I was over on another thread exposing a Reiki practitioner who was claiming her alternative "medicine" was the real deal...
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Those kinds of people really irritate me.
So, what'd I miss? Anything but Jesse whining?
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I just love little quips like that. I love the liberties some of my folk take with words and phrases giving no thought to it and the reactions they/we get. I was stopped by Yankees from MI in the middle of the UA campus who were asking for directions to a concert and told them "ya'll ain't too far from it -- as the crow flies" (should have seen their faces--then I welcomed them to "dixie and southern hospitality" and said follow me and led them where they were headed) I can say words like "change "(for a dollar) and nevah (never) and get lots of smiles...My late husband used to swear by saying "Jesus Christ and a couple of by-Gods", just rambling see ya'll....
How's yo mama and em?" And say "if you get to the dump, you've gone too far."
dyanm said:"
I can make the 1st one sound like it's all one word. In fact we used to play tricks on people we did not know by going up to them and acting like we knew em and saying that--the reactions were hilarious. I used to run a furniture store in a "small" town in northern Alabama and I would get delivery directions like
"You know where Sheriff so&so lives"?
Turn Where the old yellar school bus "used to be"
and my personal favorite "Take a right by the 3 plastic cows"
In order to get customers to give you a street address you had to ask them for their "911" address or otherwise this is the stuff you'd get.![]()