You know you are in the South when..... - Page 2

I am on email distribution list for Groupons...i hate anything to do with coupons but this stuff is actually pretty cool, i use it more for finding out what is out there within my region versus actually buying a coupons....anyways...today i got this...


Now correct me if i am wrong but...the ONLY BRAZILIAN treatment I know of is located "down-below" and you usually wax it NOT BLOW IT!!!

So, I am thinking of going to see if I like it…don’t know if $99 is worth the trouble for something that is not publicly viewable…I might just have to walk around and show people I know..
Can u see me doing my one liner : “hey wanna see my Brazilian blow out?”…
 

ROFLMBO

I have an e-friend who is from the South. When she was visiting a restaurant in Boston, she asked for some iced tea. She was very puzzled when the waitress delivered a bottle of Asti Spumate to her table.

"Wasn't that what you asked for?" the waitress said.

"No," replied Beth, "I wanted some aaaiced tay!"

When she realized it was her accent at fault, they both had a good laugh over it.

I moved from the North to down South and I am laughing over some of the above examples.  Sunsilver, your story reminded me of the first time my parents had my dad's relatives and Yooper friends come down and meet my parent's new neighbors and friends, my dad is from the U.P and the first time I heard Yoopers and Southerns together trying to carry on a conversation I think I hurt myself laughing OMG.  Some of the more funny miscommunications below

Yooper:
Babysit - the stuff in a baby's diaper
Bat - bath
Bush call - potty break
Da - the
Dippin - going smelt fishing, a big thing to many
Eh - emphasis after almost every sentence
Fudgie - tourists usually buying massive amounts of fudge
Give'er tarpaper - to work very hard
Knocking pine - a dateless Saturday night
Kits - kids
Holy Wah - really wow
Pank - to pack down
Mud - coffee
Sitt - sh*t
Snow Cow - moose
One holer - private bathroom
Two holer - public restroom
Pre'ner - pretty near
Side by each - standing side by side
Snow Cow - moose
Taught - the past tense of Tink (thought, think)
Quill pig - porcupine
Yah Hey - you're kidding me

Southern:
A mind to - thinking about doing it
Britches - pants
Fixing to - getting ready
Get up with - contact
Gussied up - dressed up
Hankerin for - craving
If I had my druthers - if I had my way
Lick - any amount
Reckon - suppose
Mash - to press
Sugar - affection
That dog will hunt - good idea
Used to could - used to be able to
yapper - mouth
Young'uns - kids
Y'all and You'uns

 

As one of the resident thread-killers, I'd like to put your mind at ease a bit, Lady Frost. The type of Brazilian that coupon refers to is a keratin treatment that's applied to the hair on your head; when combined with a 'blowout', which is the hairdressing term for styling the hair using a blow dryer and a brush, the Brazilian keratin treatment results in a very, very straight hairstyle that's extremely glossy and which holds the straightness for a sustained length of time. The Brazilian keratin treatment, however, also contains formaldehyde, which one generally tries to avoid unless you're being embalmed....

Regarding the manual appliance pictured, actually, it IS a 'glass tea bottle', also called a 'tea press'.  While most of us are familiar with the French coffee press, the French tea press is a real thing, and basically the same thing as the coffee press--except it gets used for brewing tea--and only tea--from loose tea leaves or other plant materials.

Mindhunt, you forgot the most basic of Yooper terms-- there's Yoopers, and then there's the rest of the world, known as Trolls.  Anyone who lives 'under the bridge' from the UP is classified as a troll.    

I also find their term for when things go awry to be pretty damn funny-- things go 'catty-whompus'.  

OK, that should slow down the jocularity here...carry on. 

Well Hexe that did kill the thread for me... I was waiting for pictures.  Good job.  

I don't know if this is suth'rn or where it originates: living in a dump = sheeit hole; sloppy work= slip shod, which comes from crummy horse shoeing job
Old age= long in the tooth ( horse term again)
This one I Know is suth'rn: when you're fixin to leave you say, " y'all come go wi'me." It's an expression that means you wish you could stay longer, but ya gotta get goin.

the one i figured out fairly quickly when i moved to the south......

"Bless your heart!".....sounds like a blessing and sympathy but in reality they are saying " Oh, My You are SOOOOO Screwed!"

short story.....when i first move to the south i was exploring outskirts of SC  when i somehow got lost and ended up on NC side...i never seen the sign "welcome to NC" so i was guessing i was somewhere near Tryon, I only been lost 30 min. I pulled over to try to get a grip on my location...behind me a bucket of rust pulls over and a man wearing nothing but overall comes over (similar to Jerry on American Hoggers) and says "darling....blah blah blah"...i didnt catch anything post darling part....i said: "I think i got lost, looking to get back to SC, somewhere near Landrum or Little Africa which ever is closer"..i figured if i get there i can find my way back home...he started telling me where to go but not once did i actually hear a street name and even when i really hard looked at the map he did not acknowledged its presence, actually there was not one word that i understood, i said "Sir, thank you so much but i don't understand a word you are saying" he stopped, chewed what ever was in his mouth bend forward and very loudly and slow said
"F-O-L-L-O-W   M-E!" i said "Ok" and off we went....after about 50 min going 30-35 miles an hour with a loooong tail of cars behind us (southerners are huge opposers of passing someone even if they can unless the first car gets half way off the road and starts profusely waving their hand to go ahead and pass)...as soon as i recognized the area I passed the old man and waved good buy...in CA i would have been dead 45 min ago...LOL

P.S...hexe......good job living up to your nick name..LOOOL