Regional Dialects/Odd Sayings - Page 28

Paulie · 09-15-2004, 06:44 PM

If you're in something, it surrounds you in some way. So if you're sitting IN the floor, I figure you have become one with the flooring and require rescue. You have to sit ON it. It's a surface, like a table. You don't put your plate IN the table, right? It sits ON it. Same thing.

*blows smoke off tip of pen, rotates it around finger, and holsters it*

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Stargazer · 09-15-2004, 06:51 PM

We aren't discussing the logistics, Paulie. We're talking about the *origin* of the saying. :phhht

Paulie · 09-15-2004, 06:58 PM

Oh!

Uh....carry on then.

Stargazer · 09-15-2004, 07:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Paulie

Oh!

Uh....carry on then.

Aw. Don't run off.

I was just teasing.

I am curious to know where it comes from, though. ARe me and Lucy the only two people in the world that say it?

oneTVslave · 09-15-2004, 07:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Stargazer

I do think that it must be either Southern or Regional. I, obviously, say "in the floor" as well. Yes, I know its wrong, but I say it anyway. We need Unk and Muduh to weigh in here, I think.

What? In the floor? From the woman who scored a perfect score on the verbal part of her SAT?

Just messin' with ya.

I'm with you Paulie - sitting in the floor requires cutting a butt-sized hole in the linoleum or something.

Paulie · 09-15-2004, 07:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Stargazer

Are me and Lucy the only two people in the world that say it?

Yes.

SueEllenMishke · 09-15-2004, 07:30 PM

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Originally Posted by John

"A Good One": a good day. Proper Michigan etiquette is to say "have a good one!" to the checkout clerk when leaving the party store. Caz we're all, ya know, frien'ly and stuff.

Is this just a Michigan thing? I hear it all the time hear but thought the phenomenon was more wide spread.

One of my co-workers is from the UP and pronounces the word "sauna" as "sow-u-na," and also starts most of her sentences with "being as" or "seems as how."

My step-mom is from southern Ohio and uses some gems like "fixin', " "wallerin," ( I'm not sure I spelled that correctly, but as far as I can tell it means rolling around, as in "The cat is wallerin' on the table again."), and my absolute favorite: "damn a bear." So funny. It cracks me up every time!

SueEllenMishke · 09-15-2004, 07:30 PM

Sorry for the double post- I'm having some, um, computer issues.

Muduh · 09-15-2004, 07:57 PM

Ta Dah! You rang?
When I was a hillbilly I sat ON the floor and I still do all these years later. Except for the time I visited the folks with termites. then I sat IN the floor, but that's a discussion for a different thread I guess.

**hepcat** · 09-15-2004, 08:14 PM

Stargazer, you and Lucy come up with the darndest things. I've never in my life heard someone say they would sit in the floor.

The "have a good one" jogged my memory...one time when we flew into London, we were too tired to take the Tube with all our luggage so we splurged on one of those fancy taxis to our crummy little B&B. (Always ask to see the room first.

) When we paid & tipped the driver, he told my husband, "give her a good one for me." Was he just a perv, or is that an innocent expression somewhere?

09-15-2004, 06:44 PM	#271
Paulie Sexy evil genius Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not the regular cabana boy Age: 39 Posts: 11,787	If you're in something, it surrounds you in some way. So if you're sitting IN the floor, I figure you have become one with the flooring and require rescue. You have to sit ON it. It's a surface, like a table. You don't put your plate IN the table, right? It sits ON it. Same thing. blows smoke off tip of pen, rotates it around finger, and holsters it __________________ When you're ten years old and a car drives by and splashes a puddle of water all over you, it's hard to decide if you should go to school like that or try to go home and change and probably be late. So while he was trying to decide, I drove by and splashed him again. - Jack Handey Read Paulie's Precaps for Survivor:Vanuatu: 1-2-3-4-5

09-15-2004, 06:51 PM	#272
Stargazer RESIDENT JEDI MASTER Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: On a Rocky Mountain High Age: 34 Posts: 11,852	We aren't discussing the logistics, Paulie. We're talking about the origin of the saying. :phhht __________________ "Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter."- Yoda "I'll just see where Providence takes me and try to look like I got there confidently." - Craig Ferguson

09-15-2004, 06:58 PM	#273
Paulie Sexy evil genius Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not the regular cabana boy Age: 39 Posts: 11,787	Oh! Uh....carry on then. __________________ When you're ten years old and a car drives by and splashes a puddle of water all over you, it's hard to decide if you should go to school like that or try to go home and change and probably be late. So while he was trying to decide, I drove by and splashed him again. - Jack Handey Read Paulie's Precaps for Survivor:Vanuatu: 1-2-3-4-5

09-15-2004, 07:30 PM	#278
SueEllenMishke Asst to the Regional Mgr Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 1,036	Sorry for the double post- I'm having some, um, computer issues. Last edited by SueEllenMishke; 09-15-2004 at 07:40 PM.

09-15-2004, 08:14 PM	#280
hepcat Gleek Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: not sleeping Posts: 25,917	Stargazer, you and Lucy come up with the darndest things. I've never in my life heard someone say they would sit in the floor. The "have a good one" jogged my memory...one time when we flew into London, we were too tired to take the Tube with all our luggage so we splurged on one of those fancy taxis to our crummy little B&B. (Always ask to see the room first.) When we paid & tipped the driver, he told my husband, "give her a good one for me." Was he just a perv, or is that an innocent expression somewhere? __________________ Charles Nelson Reilly figured out cold fusion, but he never, ever told a soul.

09-15-2004, 07:57 PM	#279
Muduh FORT Fogey Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Tennessee Posts: 7,303	Ta Dah! You rang? When I was a hillbilly I sat ON the floor and I still do all these years later. Except for the time I visited the folks with termites. then I sat IN the floor, but that's a discussion for a different thread I guess.