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Date Posted: 02:27:39 11/25/03 Tue
Author: LLounger
Subject: Buggies, blinkers, Cokes, fixin' and scooch
What do y'all call those things? I, apparently, call them the above items. I call a sofa a sofa, not a "couch" or a davenport, as my Gran-Gran used to call it.
But when I go to the store I always ask the girls "Do you want to ride in the buggie or walk"?
I never even knew that was 'different'?
Blinkers = turn signals
Coke = And soda/pop. When asked, "What do you want to drink"... the response is "A Coke." The responding response would then be "What kind of Coke do you want? A Dr. Pepper? A Sprite? Diet?"
Fixin' is equal to "dammit, I'm about to, but so what, I'm flippin' late!" <--- Moi uses this term often.
Last night at Kim's party, I was shocked and amazed to learn that "scooch" is a word not used by many. I presented the dilemna "Doesn't that suck butt when you're trying to merge into traffic from the on ramp, and you go and scooch your car into the fray"... which was met by many "WTF is a scooch's?!"
Scooch means to scoot, or to maneuver, or to make one's way into the general public.
I'm becoming paranoid to the point where I'm afraid to talk! Yea, RIGHT!!! LOL ;-)
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"And" prefaced by the soda/pop word.... -- LaneySlackLounger, 02:33:40 11/25/03 Tue [1]
should have read as "any".
My complete bad. Sorry!
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Re: Buggies, blinkers, Cokes, fixin' and scooch -- Rose, 10:54:45 11/25/03 Tue [1]
Soda is coke... here anyway. Used to be pop up north, but in TX nobody knows what you're talking about when you ask where the pop machine is.
Buggie is a cart, but honestly, I like buggie better. ;)
I knew scooch was slang, but what exactly is a fray?
That may be my ignorance showing, but had to ask.
:)
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Re: Buggies, blinkers, Cokes, fixin' and scooch -- Rose, 10:56:15 11/25/03 Tue [1]
Soda is coke... here anyway. Used to be pop up north, but in TX nobody knows what you're talking about when you ask where the pop machine is.
Buggie is a cart, but honestly, I like buggie better. ;)
I knew scooch was slang, but what exactly is a fray?
That may be my ignorance showing, but had to ask.
:)
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dammit, I hate it when I do that. -- Rose, 10:57:18 11/25/03 Tue [1]
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I found a blonde joke that solidifies your 'blinker' statement. -- Rose, 11:55:25 11/25/03 Tue [1]
A lady took her friend to get her car from the mechanic. When her friend came out she asked her, "Is everything okay with your car now?"
Her friend said, "Yes, thank goodness. I was worried that the mechanic might try to take advantage of me, so I was relieved when he told me all I needed was twenty dollars worth of blinker fluid."
See, no worries... it is a word. ;)
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Hey, RosieCheeks.... -- LaneyLounge, 02:30:30 11/26/03 Wed [1]
per usual, I used the word in the wrong way. :-) Fray means an argument, conflict, disturbance.
But to me, when I'm trying to scooch onto the highway, it IS a fray (meaning a dilemna in some way.)
BTW, it's so nice to see your shining personality in here.
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Re: Hey, RosieCheeks.... -- Rose, 00:25:39 11/27/03 Thu [1]
Thanks Laney that was very sweet of you to say!
((((((((((((Happy Thanksgiving))))))))))))))
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I was fixin' to answer your question.... -- Jest R, 16:41:28 11/25/03 Tue [1]
When somebody scooched up and scared the bejeezus out of me. I darn near spilled my soda pop.
And you are different, my friend, very, very different. ;-)
Most of the colloquialisms you list in your post are, for me, endearing terms, regional in nature, and have nothing at all to do with being right or wrong, in terms of usage. I mean, if you are writing a term paper, you probably shouldn’t scooch up to the conclusion, or anything. But if you are talking to friends in a forum such as this, I think that almost anything could be claimed as artistic licence. Anyone who objects on the basis of proper English should be encouraged to go read a William Faulkner novel (choose any of them, they are all excellent) and study just how much more character and color is imparted through the use of dialect then could ever be imparted through the use of strict rules of English usage.
And so, being a character yourself, I think you should keep on being so. In my experience, it is part of the charm of all southern ladies, and part of the charm of cultural difference in general.
:-)
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Re: I was fixin' to answer your question.... -- Laney, 02:44:58 11/26/03 Wed [1]
Different, you say? Different from what/whom? ;-) I don't think that I'm so much different, just possibly more outwardly stranger than the average bear.
See the above post ( You Are Different and That's Bad )
Oof, I'm fixin' to differ as soon as I get my dander up!
BTW, I was rather impressed with the way that you incorporated the colloqui... umm the colloloqui... I mean the colonials into this post. Quite appropos, you character, you!
;-)
And so you know, the above post was made in jest (no pun intended). /moi who is proud to be a dIfFeReNt SoRt.
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Scoochie!!!!!!!!!!! -- EG~, 20:54:03 11/26/03 Wed [1]
I use this word all the time when, EB,PMDRAGGY or whatever the heck name he is going by these days, is laying not on his side or my side of the bed but right down the damn middle........Scoochie your arse over........LMAO!!!!!!
I use the term "buggie" up north an man did I get some looks. I still call a shopping cart a buggie!
And in my world.....It is POP!
And "fray" is something my teenagers love to do the cuffs of their jeans.
"Fixin to".......that is one of my favorite words.
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Speaking of pop -- Rose, 00:29:23 11/27/03 Thu [1]
You should have seen the look I got from a nurse once.
We were waiting for my son to see a doc, I asked her if we had enough time that I could go get him a pop.
She wouldn't answer me... Took some explaining. You'd think she'd have heard it somewhere before...
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Yikes, Rose -- LL, 03:56:57 11/28/03 Fri [1]
What did she think you had, a weasel?
;-)
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Re: Yikes, Rose -- Rose, 21:12:18 11/29/03 Sat [1]
I think she thought I was gonna pop him in the head or something.
Weasel... lol... took me a few minutes.
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