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Old 06-21-2014, 05:17 PM
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Down in South Carolina we say "hose pipe" which can mean anything from the hose nib to the hose itself all the way down to the hose sprayer.

I still say "Jiminey Crickets" when I really want to cut loose on the cussin'. Sometimes I'll through in Dagnabbit, more now with the popularity of the Geico farmer.

One time my dad banged his finger with a hammer and yelled "Dog bite a rabbit" but I never figured out what that meant.

Oh, and "You don't know sh#% from Shinola." That is old.

A friend of mine used to say "Better to be an old man's darlin' than a young man's slave" but I'm beginning to differ with her on that one.

And no one I know from the south really says, "Kiss my grits." That was just on TV.
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