Create Your Own Southern-Fried Aphorism Day!
Posted on April 27, 2007 @ 7:52 am
Good news, everyone! It’s April 27th, and that means it’s Create Your Own Southern-Fried Aphorism Day here at Apropos of Something. I’ll get the ball rolling with this one:
“If you can’t catch the chicken, sometimes you’ve just gotta bag yourself a hog.”
Now it’s your turn to coin your own nugget of old-timey wisdom in the comments. The best one wins a prize!*
*Void where prohibited. Which is everywhere.
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“Patience comes to those who wait.”
Maybe not Southern Fried enough? I’ll see what else I can come up with.
“Why that’s tougher than tickling a tadpole!”
That sounds more Southern Fried.
“A tie in sports is like kissing your sister. Which is to say it is very much enjoyable.”
“I ain’t done seen a yammagoogle like that since granny up ‘n chimmichanged the whippernanny!”
Why buy the cow when you kin jest shoot yer neighbor and take his?
Wait, maybe that a bit more “Deliverance” than “southern fried”…
I meant “WAS” a bit…you need an edit button on these comments, Jess!
An actual comment made by my normally quite sophisticated West Virginia husband, uttered while drunk: Y’all better do what the fuck I said!
That is some spicy gumbo. The devil must have done spit in the pot.
Famous last Southern words - “Hold my beer and watch this!”
You can’t catcha bullfrog with your pants down and expect to find gold.
I’m pretty sure I heard that on a Dr. Phil recently. Isn’t there a website that randomly generates Phil-isms?
“G’night son…see ya in the mornin Lord willin and the creek don’t rise.”