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.

Posted by Jess | Filed Under Random Musings |

12 comments so far...

  1. Phollower April 27, 2007 8:11 am

    “Patience comes to those who wait.”

    Maybe not Southern Fried enough? I’ll see what else I can come up with.

  2. Phollower April 27, 2007 8:13 am

    “Why that’s tougher than tickling a tadpole!”

    That sounds more Southern Fried.

  3. Chris April 27, 2007 8:27 am

    “A tie in sports is like kissing your sister. Which is to say it is very much enjoyable.”

  4. Datadog April 27, 2007 8:59 am

    “I ain’t done seen a yammagoogle like that since granny up ‘n chimmichanged the whippernanny!”

  5. Fuzzball April 27, 2007 9:18 am

    Why buy the cow when you kin jest shoot yer neighbor and take his?

  6. Fuzzball April 27, 2007 9:19 am

    Wait, maybe that a bit more “Deliverance” than “southern fried”…

  7. Fuzzball April 27, 2007 9:19 am

    I meant “WAS” a bit…you need an edit button on these comments, Jess! :D

  8. lisa April 27, 2007 10:03 am

    An actual comment made by my normally quite sophisticated West Virginia husband, uttered while drunk: Y’all better do what the fuck I said!

  9. MC April 27, 2007 12:53 pm

    That is some spicy gumbo. The devil must have done spit in the pot.

  10. Chris April 27, 2007 1:16 pm

    Famous last Southern words - “Hold my beer and watch this!”

  11. YMG April 28, 2007 1:43 pm

    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?

  12. Debbie April 30, 2007 4:23 pm

    “G’night son…see ya in the mornin Lord willin and the creek don’t rise.”


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