If I ever move out of NC, I'm keeping "I reckon" and "bless your heart". So useful!
Welcome to the south, Liese!
Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!
Wash ,'Serenity'
F2F5: I forget that everyone isn't us
Plan what to do, what to wear (you can never go wrong with a corset), and get ready for the next BuffistaCon.
Calli - Jan 21, 2017 3:52:11 am PST #11904 of 12685
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Beverly - Jan 21, 2017 8:22:02 am PST #11905 of 12685
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I had to re-learn the southern I worked so hard to shed for drama school, but although I still eschew CEE-ment and IN-shurnce, I've reclaimed y'all, sugar, and bless your heart. Sugar's a good check-rein on somebody about to escalate a situation, if you use it in the right tone of voice.
SailAweigh - Jan 24, 2017 9:57:53 am PST #11906 of 12685
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I picked up howdy living in Tennessee and Arizona; I don't think I lost until I'd been back in the midwest for a number of years. It still pops out occasionally. The y'all converted back to you guys nearly instantaneously, though.
brenda m - Jan 24, 2017 12:53:37 pm PST #11907 of 12685
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
The three things I picked up living in Georgia: Budweiser, sweet tea and y'all.
Y'all I use naturally and unironically (mostly) but it comes and goes a bit depending on who and what is under discussion.
Sometimes I'll throw in an UMbrella or similar for humourous emphasis. (What was that furniture company that used to run all the ads in Georgia for living room SOOTs, that always cracked me up.)
Howdy is only when my sister and I are quoting the shark from Toy Story. ("Hi, I'm Woody! HOWDY HOWDY HOWDY.)
EpicTangent - Jan 24, 2017 1:54:49 pm PST #11908 of 12685
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
That's my primary use of "Howdy!" too!
Calli - Jan 24, 2017 3:14:18 pm PST #11909 of 12685
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I've kept "hiya" from my MI days. Which leads to "Hiya! How're all y'all."
JohnSweden - Jan 25, 2017 11:16:54 am PST #11910 of 12685
I can't even.
Hiya was my first word. (I was a friendly child until the world ground me down, apparently.) I use howdy and y'all a lot and I have no genuine right to do so, other than spending a lot of time around friends from Missouri and Kansas (SCA).
Liese S. - Jan 29, 2017 1:41:38 pm PST #11911 of 12685
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Howdy and y'all are inclusive! You can totally use them, it's ok!
Shir - Jan 29, 2017 9:28:29 pm PST #11912 of 12685
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Hear hear. Using y'all from a totally different continent.
Vortex - Feb 09, 2017 5:50:29 am PST #11913 of 12685
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
You GUYS! I had a MARIA! You all are jelly, I know,
So, I get this random text asking if I'm around Tuesday night. Turns out that she was in Mass and didn't want to drive back to PA that night. So, she decided to stop in Hartford. (and do you know that she had the nerve to suggest staying at a hotel? To paraphrase, "Hotels are for people without friends")
Had a lovely evening introducing her to my favorite Italian place in Hartford, then back to my place for (more) wine and chatting in jammies. Because I am old and had work the next day, we went to bed early (for us, usually we're up until 3AM).
But it was AWESOME. And we need to send lots of ~ma her way that she gets this customer and will be around more often. And our other NE-istas will be able to see her too!