Contest Jul 02, 2012 to Jul 08, 2012 - Pyramid Path Orange/Black

[billf]

Did Bill's prediction come true? I hope not, that would just give him a big head

That's assuming it could get any bigger! lol

[Mike White]

Big Head Syndrome is a self correcting problem.

When yore right, it makes you look smart, and that makes the head swell.

When yore head can't get through the doorway, you look stupid, and that makes the head shrink.


Yes I know it's you're and your.
Everyone seems to decide which to use based on a coin flip.
My coin landed on edge, I went with yore.

[billf]

Now that actually made me laugh out loud. As for the big head, if I didn't get so many chances to prove myself wrong I wouldn't be able to go anywhere!

[GeorgiaStroker]

Your and you're are easy. You're is a contraction of "you are". If "you are" doesn't fit into the sentence then "your" is correct. If you hear Commander Data say "You're" then he is an imposter because Data can't use contractions. (I threw that in for fellow Trekker Michael) Now having said that don't get a Georgia boy started on the correct usage of "Y'all". And by the way there is no "You all" except in bad movies with Yankees playing the part of Southerners.

[billf]

Don't get me started on southern twang. I don't find anything sexier than a woman with a true southern drawl. I didn't care much for Reese Witherspoon until I heard her in an interview, now she is a favorite lol

[GeorgiaStroker]

There are lot's of great southern words. As children we learned that Nome is not a city in Alaska. Nome is the opposite of Yes'm and you say it to any female over about 16 years of age. My all time favorite southern word is Ahmoan. It replaces the entire phrase "I am going to" as in "Ahmoan go to the store" And the rest of the country is always confused by our use of "Fix'n". It means getting ready to do something, as in I'm fix'n to go to the store.

[billf]

My wife said that some time back, "I'm fix'n to make dinner". I said, "Damn woman, you been fix'n to do something all day but haven't got up off your chair yet." For dinner I made myself a sandwich. I guess she was spending the day fix'n to put me in my place.

[billf]

Over yonder is another good one. Even after all these years I'm still not quite sure how far that is.

[GeorgiaStroker]

Southern directions are a whole nuther thing. Over yonder is usually somewhere between purt near and a fur piece. Asking for directions will usually get something like. "Go down yonder to where the fillin' station used to be, and then bear left and go down to the first road past the tree that Bubba Johnson shot that big ole possum out of....and it gets worse from there LOL

[billf]

After 12 months in the desert I was informed it was my turn to take guys to use the phone to call home. I asked for directions. I was given the latitude and longitude and told, "make a 90 degree left at the dead sheep". The directions were spot on, dead sheep and all.