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To: Ilaine who wrote (44713)9/17/2002 8:36:02 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 281500
 
<digression>("That dog won't hunt" is a Southernism for that won't work, that is not acceptable. I get a kick out of reading Europeans trying to understand Bush's Southernisms

following your digression, and OT: Remember when Clinton said, "He dudn't know me from Adam's off ox," and the rest of the planet said, Huh? What did he say?



To: Ilaine who wrote (44713)9/17/2002 10:08:20 PM
From: SirRealist  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
I will miss that old Cracker, Florida Governor Lawton Chiles, whose 'Southernisms' were always more apt than any other speechifyin' coulda been. He was the first I heard use the term "that dog won't hunt."

A couple of others:

"a cut dog barks."

"the old he-coon walks just before the light of day."

This offers a few more of the great phrases:
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