I guess I mostly identify with being Californian.
Oh, yeah. There was this time I was pinned down by this guy that played left tackle for varsity... Well, at least he used to before he was a vampire... Anyway, he had this really, really thick neck, and all I had was a little, little Exact-O knife ... You're not loving this story.
Buffy ,'Beneath You'
Spike's Bitches 38: Well, This Is Just...Neat.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
NoiseDesign - Nov 05, 2007 10:05:14 am PST #2680 of 10002
Our wings are not tired
Susan W. - Nov 05, 2007 10:10:25 am PST #2681 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Speaking of football fans, did you see LSU/Alabama?
Parts of it. I was rooting for y'all, of course.
I just realized that I'll be on a plane coming back from Oklahoma during Bama/Auburn this year. If I'd been paying attention when DH bought the tickets, I would've insisted on returning a day earlier or later, but normally they play the weekend before Thanksgiving. Of course, normally Thanksgiving isn't so early.
erikaj - Nov 05, 2007 10:13:10 am PST #2682 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I would totally count OK as cultural South because my grandfather was from there and ate pig's feet and said "Fixin' to," and "right yet" but it's not geographic South.
Emily - Nov 05, 2007 10:28:21 am PST #2683 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
My people said "fixin' to" and "crick" and "I'll swan," -- there's some linguistic overlap between south and deep midwest.
Steph L. - Nov 05, 2007 10:31:36 am PST #2684 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
"I'll swan,"
What does that one mean? I always read it in books when I was a kid, and I could never map it onto any phrase that I know.
hippocampus - Nov 05, 2007 10:36:23 am PST #2685 of 10002
not your mom's socks.
for when you really want to swear, but can't admit it. It has the added advantage of sounding as if you might faint.
tommyrot - Nov 05, 2007 10:37:49 am PST #2686 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
It has the added advantage of sounding as if you might faint.
In a graceful manner - i.e. more like a swan than a duck.
hippocampus - Nov 05, 2007 10:38:57 am PST #2687 of 10002
not your mom's socks.
always. though if you do it too much, you'll most likely come down with the vapors.
or an overwhelming sense of self-importance.
Susan W. - Nov 05, 2007 10:38:57 am PST #2688 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
"Might could" and "might should" are right up there with "y'all" and "fixin' to" as Southernisms I can't talk without. I also sometimes say "they's" when I mean "there's," but I've almost trained myself out of it, and it only comes out when I'm very tired or distracted.
Emily - Nov 05, 2007 10:40:30 am PST #2689 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
According to this post,
The Oxford English Dictionary has "swan" as a verb, labeled U.S. slang, derived probably (it says) from northern England dialectal "Is' wan," literally "I shall warrant" = I'll be bound; later taken as a mincing substitute for "swear." The first use in print recorded in the dictionary is from the year 1823.