Quotulatiousness

November 8, 2012

Bless their hearts

Filed under: Humour, USA — Tags: , , — Nicholas @ 10:18

I used to work for a company that had offices in Tallahassee, Florida. Over several years, both on the phone and during on-site visits, I think I heard at least half of these phrases used in earnest.

H/T to Radley Balko for the link.

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4 Comments

  1. I’m glad I didn’t spend my formative years in a place where any of those phrases would be considered commonplace.

    Comment by Chris Taylor — November 8, 2012 @ 10:21

  2. I did spend my formative years in places where you could hear this stuff all day long and half the night: Oklahoma, North Carolina, Texas.

    I miss it.

    Comment by Brian Dunbar — November 8, 2012 @ 23:49

  3. Let’s just say that I could have used some of the clues in this video to explain just what was really being said in some of those “innocent” comments.

    Comment by Nicholas — November 9, 2012 @ 09:14

  4. No offence to Brian or southrons in general; I meant only that it was bad enough going through adolescence in the ’80s—so that big hair and neon colours are imprinted on my cerebral cortex as what women are SUPPOSED to look like.

    Comment by Chris Taylor — November 9, 2012 @ 14:07

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