The Loft Link-Up ~ Laughter

The tenor of my posts of late has been pretty serious. Serious is good, but once in a while one needs some levity. We live in a world that does not often give us reason to smile at ourselves. Today’s post at The Loft on the topic of LAUGHTER, hopefully, will be one that makes the corners of your mouth curl a bit and elicit some laughter from you.

I am reading the latest offering from Beth Moore entitled Audacious. Y’all, seriously, you need to read this book. I honestly did not think I could love Jesus any more than I already do. Really, He has done so much for me and I love Him so deeply that it was impossible for me to fathom anything deeper. Beth’s beautiful little book has taken me on a journey…a journey of discovery of all the things I love about Jesus that I had considered in the past, and those things that had never hit the gray matter of my brain before. I have fallen more deeply in love with Jesus than ever before.

In one of the chapters of Audacious Beth launches into a discussion of some of the ‘sayings’ and colloquialisms of her native Arkansas. I laughed out loud at some of them, then immediately was reminded that some of hers are also some of mine. Some were birthed from my family of origin, while others are unique to the region of the country in which I live. Then, the thought hit me that it might be fun to share sayings and phrases that make us unique.

So, here a few of mine, then I invite you to jump in and share some of the sayings that your family uses. Let’s get some laughter going with this fun little project!

Any time my Mom would see someone that she had not seen in a while, she would say, “I have not seen them ‘in a month of Sundays’. A month of Sundays. That is a long time….28 weeks to be exact.

I learned to ‘swanney’ from my Grandmother. This was acceptable language when one needed to emphatically let their displeasure be known, but did not want to be heard swearing. So, instead of saying, “I swear”, we said, “Well, I swanney! and everyone knew we were a little ‘put out’ at whatever was going on. My spell checker on my Mac wants to change ‘swanney’ to swanky. “Well, I swanky” just does not have the same ring to it.

To be ‘put out’ with someone was to be frustrated with the offender. ‘Put out’ was used only after the person had passed the ‘bless their heart’ phase. To ‘bless someone’s heart’ is to express that you either feel sorry for them or you think they are nearly a lost cause.

When a person is blissfully happy, we might say that she is ‘as happy as a dead pig in the sunshine’. I never quite understood that one, but we sure do use it a lot in these mountains.

If you have been around chickens very much, you know they are not fond of being wet, so when folks got really, really mad we would say that they were as mad as a ‘wet-settin’ hen’. That same person could also be ‘as old as the hills’, or if things were really bad, they might be ‘as dead as a doornail’.

Here in the South we call every carbonated soft-drink a ‘Coke’. The surest way to give away that you ‘ain’t from around here’ is to call a Coca-Cola, Pepsi, or other soft-drink a ‘pop’ or ‘soda’. Bless your heart!! You might just have to skip supper and go to your room as punishment.

‘Supper’ is the evening meal in the south, while ‘dinner’ or ‘lunch’ is eaten at noon. These have evolved a great deal over the past couple of decades with many southerners calling the evening meal ‘dinner’. See, we are trainable here in the South!

Okay, I’ve shared a few of the sayings that I grew up with, and still use. Now, it is your turn. Let’s hear ’em!!

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March 9 ~ Laughter

March 16 ~ Who Inspires You?

March 23 ~ Easter

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Now, it it time to get to today’s link-up. Our topic today is LAUGHTER.

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