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Thread #56733   Message #891055
Posted By: Giac
15-Feb-03 - 02:09 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: favorite southern US expression
Subject: RE: Folklore: favorite southern US expression
Having swarped and been swarped many times, here's an idear about it--

'at youngun' sayussed me and ah swarped him upside the haid.

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To someone who's bitchy:

Well, who licked the red offa yore candy?


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I do believe that c'yarn comes from carrion. The most common expression using the word here is, "stinks like c'yarn in the road."

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Don't have nuthin' to do with him, he acts plumb black guardish.

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Didn't see one of my late mother's favorites. If I said I wished I had a particular unobtainable thing --

Wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills up the fastest.