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Would a Western Plainsman, transplanted to the South, do the trick? (I think maybe I might be capable of displaying good manners...) (I know I've got good taste in beautiful womanhood!)

I think I can measure up, given a chance. Or do I have to really become acclimated before I qualify?

First of all to be a southern gentleman, one has to understant the lingo. So I would like to offer some help in this capacity. Below you will find some words and phrases that are most helpful to understanding southerners.

Afterall communication is essential to any good relationship.

Redneck Southern Dictionary

1) HEIDI - (noun) - Greeting

2) HIRE YEW - Complete sentence. Remainder of greeting. Usage: "Heidi, hire yew?"

3) BARD - (verb) - Past tense of the infinitive "to borrow". Usage: "My brother bard my pickup truck."

4) JAWJUH - (noun) - the state north of Florida. Capitol is Lanner. Usage: "My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck and took it to
Lanner."

5) BAMMER - (noun) - the state west of Jawjuh. Capitol is Berminhayam. Usage: "A tornader jes went through Bammer an' left $20,000,000 in improvments." (Correction: Capitol is Montgomery - thanks, G. MacCrone!)

6) MUNTS - (noun) - A calendar dvision. Usage: "My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck, and I ain't herd from him in munts."

7) THANK - (verb) - Cognitive process. Usage: "Ah thank ah'll have a bare."

8) BARE - (noun) - An alcoholic beverage made of barley, hops and yeast. Usage: "Ah thank ah'll have a nutter bare."

9) IGNERT - (adjective) - Not smart. See "Arkansas native". Usage: "Them Bammer boys shore are ignert!"

10) RANCH - (noun) - A tool used for tight'nin' bolts. Usage: "Ah thank ah left my ranch in the back of that pickup truck my brother from Jawjuh bard a few munts ago."

11) ALL - (noun) - A petroleum-based lubricant. Usage: "Ah shore hope my brother from Jawjuh puts all in my pickup truck."

12) FAR - (noun) - A conflagration. Usage: "If my brother from Jawjuh don't change the all in my pickup truck, that thang's gonna catch far."

13) TAR - (noun) - A rubber wheel. Usage: "Gee, ah hope that brother of mine from Jawjuh don't git a flat tar in my pickup truck."

14) TIRE - (noun) - A tall monument. Usage: "Lord willin' and the creek don't rise, ah shore do hope to see that Eiffel Tire in Paris sometime."

15) RETARD - (verb) - To stop working. Usage: "My grampaw retard at age 65."

16) FAT - (noun and verb) - A battle or combat; to engage in battle or combat. Usage: "You younguns keep fat'n, n' ah'm gonna whup yuh."

17) RATS - (noun) - Entitled power or privilege. Usage: "We Southerners are willin' to fat for are rats."

18) CHEER - (adverb) - In this place. Usage: "Jest set that bare rat cheer."

19) FARN - (adjective) - Not domestic. Usage: "I cuddin't unnerstan a wurd he sed... mus be from some farn country."

20) DID - (adjective) - Not alive. Usage: "He's did, Jim."

21) ARE - (noun) - A colorless, odorless gas containing oxygen. Usage: "He cain't breath ... give 'im some are!"

22) BOB WAR - (noun) - A sharp, twisted cable. Usage: "Boy, stay away from that there bob war fence."

23) JEW HERE - (pronoun and verb) - Contraction. Usage: "Jew here that my brother from Jawjuh got a job with that bob war fence cump'ny?

24) HAZE - (pronoun and verb) - A contraction. Usage: "Is Bubba smart? Nah...haze ignert. He ain't thanked but a minnit'n 'is laf."

25) SEED - (verb) - Past tense of "to see". Usage: "Ah ain't never seed Noo Yawk City."

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26) VIEW - (verb and pronoun) - Contraction. Usage: "Ah ain't never seed Noo Yawk City ... view?"

27) GUBMINT - (noun) - A bureaucratic institution. Usage: "Them gubmint boys shore is ignert."

28) FIXIN' - (verb) - Preparing to. Usage: "Ah's just fixin' to do that now."


29) JEETJET (complete sentence) - Did you eat yet?

30) YONTEW (complete sentence) - Do you want to?

31) TWIRLY-TWEET (complete sentence) - Too early to eat.


32) TRAMPOLINE - (noun) - A bed that you can't get in trouble for jumping on.


33) WRENCH OFF (verb) - what you do instead of taking a shower. Usage: "Let me go wrench off before we go out tonight."

Mitchell, I am once again in your debt! While I have long prided myself on my linguistic and dialectic capabilities, I am, in reality, multilingual illiterate - That is to say that I can't read or write in half a dozen different languages. I will print out your "Southern Thesaurus" and carry it with me to be relied upon during those times when spittin, chewin' and drawing "pitchers" in the dirt with a stick simply won't suffice.

YMHOS,

TKT

(The Kansas Transplant)

Yes, of course. You have a great start by being a gentleman already and being interested in the correct use of language. As I've said before, your mother had no idea she was raising a Southerner, but she did a damned good job of it. Too, Mitchell has given you an English-to-Southern dictionary, so you're already two steps up in the game

As for your good taste in women: and thank you! If you get any better at chivalry, I'll have to start calling you "Rhett"!

Awwww... Shucks! But frankly, my dear, I could NEVER not give a damn where you're concerned!

cute, i am guilty of that kind of lanuage, have had a few new people at work from up north, and i told her i was fixin to do something, she actually thought i was talking about cooking... lol... anyway, this state thing is different, i ahvent been on in awhile, but hell. it is cool to know that there r single good guys out there. well have a good one, and be safe....

Well ladies and gentlemen, I moved to this great state from South Florida for its southern hospitality. In my time of being single here, a large number of women (is 4 a large number?) have told me how they have been sent messages and pictures about everything from guys professing their prowess in the bedroom to pics of hairy backs which these guys had the impression that this would be the things that ladies like to see and hear when they consider dating someone. I found that rather interesting if not appaling. Where do you suppose our attitudes about what the opposite sex is attracted to comes fom? Our peers, our family, or do get influenced in some other way?

Well my friend, some people were taught how to behave when they were children, others, well they will never learn. I think it is just animal behavior.

They might well attract another "animal", but a real lady will never respond to that kind of trash.

BTW, welcome to Tennessee, and to Cookeville.

Real ladies respond to real gentlemen.

Yes Ma'am, I reckon they do at that! And, sometimes, a very real EXCEPTIONAL lady will respond to a gentleman/Plainsman from Kansas and he will move to Tennessee just to bask in her glory.

Awww, shucks !

What have you got that makes you so high and mighty????????///

sounds like you need to get away from the redneck hill billies
and come on over to west tn.
we go to east tn every summer and make fun of the guys there
and have our way with the women

gibby6117 said, "What have you got that makes you so high and mighty????????///"

I believe I can answer that: Class! (Oh, and, um... typing skills!)

Marlon, this reply as much for Gibby6117 as for you. As far as your post to my thread, I respond by saying I went WAY out of TN to find my man--all the way to Kansas, in fact! And, I'm happier than I thought possible. (Thanks for the invite to visit West TN, anyway.) By the way, where the Hell is Pinson?

Gibby, did you read Marlon's post? That's what I'm talking about. More refined minds are more likely to be ABLE to get a good woman. (Or, should we assume you aren't looking for good/classy women?) It's your choice, my friend. If you're ignorant and proud of it, go for it and be happy. Not so high and mighty here, just making an assumption that you were looking for a LADY. If honky-tonk's and that ilk are your preference, I would never presume to judge. Was merely trying to give the "home boys" some friendly advice, that's all.

Thank you, you chivalrous man!