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Pastimes : Laughter is the Best Medicine - Tell us a joke
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To: PMS Witch who wrote (12284)11/1/1999 9:38:00 PM
From: John Carragher  Read Replies (1) of 62550
 
SOUTHERN EDUCATION

Southern Sayings:
Wild as a peach orchard hog.
So buck toothed he could eat corn-on-the-cob through a key hole.

Slick as an eel.

Slicker than a chased greased hog.

Full as a tick.

Fat as a tub o lard.

Ol' boy's tough as whit leather.

He ran like a scalded dog.

Rough as a cob.

Just as happy as if he had good sense.

Cold as a well digger's tail.

So dull he couldn't cut hot butter with a knife.

Tougher than a one eared alley cat.
Faster than greased lightning.
Better than snuff, ain't half as dusty.

She's limber as a dishrag.

Nervous as a long-tailed cat
in a room full o' rocking chairs.

So ugly she'd run a dog off a meat wagon.

Took off like Moody's goose.

As scarce as hen's teeth.

Purty as a speckled pup.

Done gone and got yankee rich.

Sorry as a two dollar watch.

So poor he'd have to borrow moeny to buy water to cry with.

Plumb tuckered out.

Older than the mountains and got twice as much dust.
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