The Rules of the Southern life (if this don’t incite a riot, you men are asleep).
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Actually it's, "The Pig" in my neck of the woods
You mean bluegills, right?
I would say Texas is part of the south but really, it is part of the southwest. And definitely a cut above all others. Yes, I said that out loud, in my "outside voice."
10. We don't play lacrosse, hockey, or any of those other sissy Northern games, so don't ask about the scores. We...simply...don't...care.
Oh you mean sports that actually allow you to openly fist fight the opposing team. BuT SiSsY SpOrTs HurR DeRr, I'm FrOm tHe AnTiBelLum SoUth.
Oh you mean sports that actually allow you to openly fist fight the opposing team. BuT SiSsY SpOrTs HurR DeRr, I'm FrOm tHe AnTiBelLum SoUth.
BBQ is the pig, they say. Fair enough. I don't BBQ steaks, I grill them. Or, I smoke a brisket. I have grilled pork chops with just a dry rub but you could sauce it and carmelize that stuff. Chicken I would say is grilled. Either way, I just ate and I am hungry again, talking abou this.
Pineywoods and part of the gulf coast fit into the south. Prairies and lakes not sure. Big bend and panhandle I agree go with southwest. Everything else I'm not sure.
Hog cooked in a firepit still a family tradition on holidays
Texas is not part of "The South"
Texas is "Texas, Republic of"
As one of my coworkers once said, "Texas, yes I was born in this country"
Texas is "Texas, Republic of"
As one of my coworkers once said, "Texas, yes I was born in this country"
And if #10 were actually true, Dallas would give us back our fucking hockey team.
“Southern” hockey teams are Dallas Stars, Florida Panthers, Tampa Bay Lightning, Nashville Predators, Carolina Hurricanes. Probably not “the real” South though.
Southerners are known for their hospitality, but get on the wrong side of one and you'll see a Jekyl and Hyde transformation.
One of Tennessee's state songs includes a verse about the disappearance (and implied murder) of federal agents who went poking around where they didn't belong.
One of Tennessee's state songs includes a verse about the disappearance (and implied murder) of federal agents who went poking around where they didn't belong.
I recall playing hockey in my youth on the Frozen Trinity.... (River in Dallas)
ROFL!
Shrimp and Grits.... House of Blues, New Orleans.......
Now I'm hungry
How many players are from the "South"?
And I'm not talking about Southern Canada or Southern Russia or Finland
So instead of getting the army moving, tearing up tracks, marching towards the sea and burning @Mike Casselton’s plantation, General Sherman managed today to break into the pantry where he finished one bag of Meow Mix and tore the bottom out of another… and started in on that one. Little shit gorged himself.
He was lying on the bed when I got home looking like a half-inflated spotted blimp. So distended he looked like had eaten a whole gazelle.
And oh the guilty look.
Half rations for him for the next three days.
Little shit.
Sirhr
South Postpones Rising Again For Yet Another Year
HUNTSVILLE, AL–For the 135th straight year since Gen. Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, representatives for the South announced Monday that the region has postponed plans to rise again.
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Oldie but a goodie…
Sirhr
From my prospective, the pineywoods and that part of the Gulf Coast, east of Houston, are southern. The prairie and lakes are such a different land form (just 200 miles) it is almost like a different continent. The land and the people are really more southwest than southeast.
Glad he’s not a horse, or you would be facing a huge vet bill trying to help him through a major founder. Not a good thing.
However, Bandit is worried about him for sure. Climbed up in my lap and tried to type some encouragement and well wishes. Bandit is a wonder. (And a bandit and the Lord of Mischief). But he’s the Bandit.
He will be fine. Yeah horse foundering or twisting a gut is bad news.
Sherman will sleep it off and next month, I’ll
Leave a cat food bag on the counter by mistake or not quite latch the pantry door… and he’ll do it again. If I let him free feed, he would be 40 lbs of blubber.
It’s a constant battle with him. And about once every month or two, he wins a round.
Sirhr
Another thing about the southern accent. It depends on where you are. Especially in Texas. Tommy Lee Jones is from Houston. Matthew McConaughey is from southwest Texas. Bill Paxton (RIP) was from the Dallas area. The vowels are slightly different but the big difference is cadence. The Texas cadence is slower. One effect of theater training in these actors is that a bit of nasality was removed.
I say that because even though I can speak with a texan cadence, people can tell I was not born here but they don't know why. And I do. Born texans have significant nasal tone in their voice. I stumbled upon this listening to a local news station and the lady speaking was all nose, to me. I wondered how she could not hear that. Then realized, that's what she grew up hearing. As opposed to me being from the West Coast and not having a ton of nasality.
With enough training, you can get away from it. The actor John Hillerman played the character named Higgins with a good british accent. Hillerman was born and raised in Hondo, Texas. He took voice lessons to get away from that accent.
(Useless trivial sidenote: the african village in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls was actually filmed near Hondo, Texas.)
In Texas, we take our time speaking. Get used to it.
I say that because even though I can speak with a texan cadence, people can tell I was not born here but they don't know why. And I do. Born texans have significant nasal tone in their voice. I stumbled upon this listening to a local news station and the lady speaking was all nose, to me. I wondered how she could not hear that. Then realized, that's what she grew up hearing. As opposed to me being from the West Coast and not having a ton of nasality.
With enough training, you can get away from it. The actor John Hillerman played the character named Higgins with a good british accent. Hillerman was born and raised in Hondo, Texas. He took voice lessons to get away from that accent.
(Useless trivial sidenote: the african village in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls was actually filmed near Hondo, Texas.)
In Texas, we take our time speaking. Get used to it.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/houston-aeros-gordie-howe-fifty-year-reunion/ There's still an Aero's sticker on the window of what was my bedroom back then.
Texas, accents? Shara Fryer is all Texas. Also, don't forget Hillerman in Blazing Saddles.
Texas, accents? Shara Fryer is all Texas. Also, don't forget Hillerman in Blazing Saddles.
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Five of the six United States Senior Military Colleges are in The South -- The Citadel, VMI, Virginia Tech, North Georgia, and Texas A&M. Norwich is way up yonder.
At the Corps of Cadets at A&M, on steak night (if you held them up to the light you could almost see through them), after evening prayer and announcements all cadets stood and sang Dixie a capella. Except the yankees, who could choose to just stand there.
I don't think any can sing or play Dixie any more, except The Citadel on Parent's Day. Damn political correctness.
At the Corps of Cadets at A&M, on steak night (if you held them up to the light you could almost see through them), after evening prayer and announcements all cadets stood and sang Dixie a capella. Except the yankees, who could choose to just stand there.
I don't think any can sing or play Dixie any more, except The Citadel on Parent's Day. Damn political correctness.
#3; we order sweet iced tea
Cream of wheat; that you mix in your over-easy eggs with salt and pepper, I like jalapenos & cheese in mine, sopped up with said biscuits!
Still wrong.
"Goll dang"
You mean bluegills, right?
I mean if I'm in a foreign country, I will speak the language if I can.
I can identify a bluegill, green sunfish, pumkinseed, long ear, redbreast, etc, ad nauseum. No body got time fo dat!
If I'm in my country, I call them bream or shellcrackers.
Shellcracker
Everything else is just a bream.
Grits + good amount of butter + bacon(or sausage) + onions + serrano or cayennes + your favorite hot sauce or bbq sauce.. all crumbled/chopped up stirred together. Simple and tastes amazing.
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Pronounced "Brim"
I'm gonna say the shit will look like MRE turds, and they will hang over the side of the poop box.
He'll probably need some salad or prunes to clear out all that meow mix.
Having traveled most of this country for work, each location has their own "thing". The language varies from place to place for sure. BBQ varies by place and I enjoyed the variety. I only have 3 states left to have been to all 50. ND, SD and HI. Maybe someday.
The best ribs I ever had was just outside of Oklahoma City. It was some barn converted to a rib place with family picnic style tables. You could smell the meat from a mile away. The rest of Oklahoma was just depressing. Miles and miles of flat earth with places called broken this or broken that. Like Kansas but maybe hotter and with freezing rain.
The best brisket I had was in Charleston of all places. But the place is owned by a guy from Texas. Go figure. Damn good mac & cheese too. Lewis BBQ was the name of the place. The other places with the "pig" BBQ were good too.
Brisket breakfast tacos in Texas are fantastic. Rudy's and a small place in Rockport TX next to the Rockport Tackle Town shop. Great breakfast tacos.
The BBQ place across the street from the main Bass Pro in Springfield, MO is pretty good too. Great chicken wings there.
The south can have its bugs, heat and humidity. For those of you in the south, how in the hell is Bream pronounced Brim? And all panfish species outside of crappie are Bream. Doesn't matter if its a sunfish or Bluegill. It's still a Bream.
The only place in the country where I could not understand the English language was in Maine. I was working an event at Kittery Trading Post and this dude must have come out of the woods. He sounded like one of the characters from Southpark from Newfoundland. I had to have the guy at the counter translate his questions for me to understand. Pure gibberish to my ears.
I learned what a coonass was in Louisiana/TX. Also I have probably had the best food all around in Louisiana. Tony Chachere is a nice guy and makes a hell of a meal. Ribeye with crawfish etouffee with lump crab meat is delicious.
The state I liked the least was Mississippi. I haven't been down near the coast, but the rest of it sucked from my experience. Sorry if I am offending anyone from that state. Meridian is a first class shit hole in my opinion.
I enjoyed northern Alabama and have a good friend there. Arkansas was fun with great fishing. We have an office in Charleston and I spent a lot of time there training new people and standing up a department. SC isn't for me. NC was much the same to me. Florida...yeah not my thing either. I can say I have never really enjoyed any of my time in Florida and I have been through most of it. Maybe if I grew up in a frigid shithole with angry people (parts of the northeast) I would like Florida more? Georgia seems pretty diverse within the state. Atlanta is just San Francisco of the South with the worst traffic.
TN and KY were similar to me in some ways. I had a good time in Nashville during orientation week for Vanderbuilt college. I did not go there, just experienced the fun times of hot college girls in town that week, Hottest most humid day I ever experienced was in Nashville.
Grits with cheese is good. Regular grits seemed kinda bland to me. Not bad, not great, just bland.
Overall I can say that most people in the south and southwest were much nicer and more polite that CA. I enjoyed that part a lot. I enjoyed most places I went but just could not live there.
The best ribs I ever had was just outside of Oklahoma City. It was some barn converted to a rib place with family picnic style tables. You could smell the meat from a mile away. The rest of Oklahoma was just depressing. Miles and miles of flat earth with places called broken this or broken that. Like Kansas but maybe hotter and with freezing rain.
The best brisket I had was in Charleston of all places. But the place is owned by a guy from Texas. Go figure. Damn good mac & cheese too. Lewis BBQ was the name of the place. The other places with the "pig" BBQ were good too.
Brisket breakfast tacos in Texas are fantastic. Rudy's and a small place in Rockport TX next to the Rockport Tackle Town shop. Great breakfast tacos.
The BBQ place across the street from the main Bass Pro in Springfield, MO is pretty good too. Great chicken wings there.
The south can have its bugs, heat and humidity. For those of you in the south, how in the hell is Bream pronounced Brim? And all panfish species outside of crappie are Bream. Doesn't matter if its a sunfish or Bluegill. It's still a Bream.
The only place in the country where I could not understand the English language was in Maine. I was working an event at Kittery Trading Post and this dude must have come out of the woods. He sounded like one of the characters from Southpark from Newfoundland. I had to have the guy at the counter translate his questions for me to understand. Pure gibberish to my ears.
I learned what a coonass was in Louisiana/TX. Also I have probably had the best food all around in Louisiana. Tony Chachere is a nice guy and makes a hell of a meal. Ribeye with crawfish etouffee with lump crab meat is delicious.
The state I liked the least was Mississippi. I haven't been down near the coast, but the rest of it sucked from my experience. Sorry if I am offending anyone from that state. Meridian is a first class shit hole in my opinion.
I enjoyed northern Alabama and have a good friend there. Arkansas was fun with great fishing. We have an office in Charleston and I spent a lot of time there training new people and standing up a department. SC isn't for me. NC was much the same to me. Florida...yeah not my thing either. I can say I have never really enjoyed any of my time in Florida and I have been through most of it. Maybe if I grew up in a frigid shithole with angry people (parts of the northeast) I would like Florida more? Georgia seems pretty diverse within the state. Atlanta is just San Francisco of the South with the worst traffic.
TN and KY were similar to me in some ways. I had a good time in Nashville during orientation week for Vanderbuilt college. I did not go there, just experienced the fun times of hot college girls in town that week, Hottest most humid day I ever experienced was in Nashville.
Grits with cheese is good. Regular grits seemed kinda bland to me. Not bad, not great, just bland.
Overall I can say that most people in the south and southwest were much nicer and more polite that CA. I enjoyed that part a lot. I enjoyed most places I went but just could not live there.
Shrimp & Grits gone right , some class “a” shit 
Cheese Grits are good too , pour some PICKAPEPPA sauce on them…
Yums
Cheese Grits are good too , pour some PICKAPEPPA sauce on them…
Yums
I haven’t had pickapeppa in a loooooonnnnngggggg time.Shrimp & Grits gone right , some class “a” shit
Cheese Grits are good too , pour some PICKAPEPPA sauce on them…
Yums
Need to get some ordered! Thanks for the reminder
You can add this to the list:
When shit goes really bad, people pitch in and help. This is when the color of skin, political party or accent don't make any difference.
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Unsure of when the next one might arrive and aware of Robert Hall's critical head wound, they put him in the bed of their pick-up truck, strapping him down with bungee cords before making the drive to the hospital, his wife said.
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When shit goes really bad, people pitch in and help. This is when the color of skin, political party or accent don't make any difference.
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Unsure of when the next one might arrive and aware of Robert Hall's critical head wound, they put him in the bed of their pick-up truck, strapping him down with bungee cords before making the drive to the hospital, his wife said.
'Angels' saved her husband in Louisiana I-55 pileup: 'How do you repay someone for that?'
Jennifer Hall was on the job as assistant principal at a northshore elementary school when she missed a call from a stranger who, at that very moment, was stanching the
Pretty Dammed OLD! 3/4 century and working on making it the full 100+.
Best part, I have been blessed with fine health, am in good shape and still enjoy shooting, cycling and sailing. Going to PRS matches, is a guaranteed Lantern Rouge award, but better me to finish last than some struggling new comer. I won my share of matches in IHMSA so, its somebody else’s turn.
I’ve heard it’s only frowned upon to marry your first cousins in the south. Second and after is good to go. Family weddings are a superb opportunity to get your next bride… keep in in the family right?
Now, for my opinion, The Best Barbecue was in in an older wood frame of a place in Abilene, Texas. Old is the key word.
Don’t remember the name of the barbecue place, (been 18 years ago) but its a moot point anyway. They moved out of their old restaurant building into a brand new, brick and mortar and glass building and changed their entire method of operation. Just not the same. But do I miss the old place.
Our son was stationed in Abilene for a short time, and I really think that was the best base, best base town of all the places he served. If I had to live in Texas, and was not on the coast between Galveston and Corpus Christi, Abilene would be The Place!
Don’t remember the name of the barbecue place, (been 18 years ago) but its a moot point anyway. They moved out of their old restaurant building into a brand new, brick and mortar and glass building and changed their entire method of operation. Just not the same. But do I miss the old place.
Our son was stationed in Abilene for a short time, and I really think that was the best base, best base town of all the places he served. If I had to live in Texas, and was not on the coast between Galveston and Corpus Christi, Abilene would be The Place!
All this time we been on SH together. I did not know you were THE WillK.
I shot with the boys in Conover NC. Went to regionals in Lincolnton GA and Jackson MS.
Just looked. You aint been on the Hide long as I thought.
True story:
Here in the South, we'll say my nephew who's family was as Coonass as they get, lived on the levee, fought chickens, fight at the drop of a hat you name it. Well he was marrying and "uppy" type girl, proper, got money, family well to do. Reception was at a fancy "country club". So the liquor gets flowing and the Coonasses are having a great time, then one of the Coonass wives gets up and proposes a toast to the bride and groom: every one is quiet and she wishes Justin and Amanda the very best of life and the best of everything there is! Then she turns to all her kin folk and says: "I ain't never seen you mother fuckers look so good in my entire life". I fell out my chair and the fancy folks were shocked. I still laugh about it!
COONASSES!
Here in the South, we'll say my nephew who's family was as Coonass as they get, lived on the levee, fought chickens, fight at the drop of a hat you name it. Well he was marrying and "uppy" type girl, proper, got money, family well to do. Reception was at a fancy "country club". So the liquor gets flowing and the Coonasses are having a great time, then one of the Coonass wives gets up and proposes a toast to the bride and groom: every one is quiet and she wishes Justin and Amanda the very best of life and the best of everything there is! Then she turns to all her kin folk and says: "I ain't never seen you mother fuckers look so good in my entire life". I fell out my chair and the fancy folks were shocked. I still laugh about it!
COONASSES!
