Posted on 03/15/2008 7:05:48 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
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I thought only FReepers from Texas could use “fixin”. ;)
Keep your head down.
Seems like GA has been finally getting some rain after the prayer meeting on the steps of the Georgia Capitol.
Hmm..
my family lives smack dab in the middle of the county above the second “a” in Atlanta..I’ve already called them..(I’m in Northern Indiana working)..
Nope, ‘fixin’ is a often used word in Georgia. Much to the dismay of my 6th grade teacher from Philly. Also, “ya’ll” is PLURAL people. I see so many people in Hollywood using to refer to ANYONE “Can ya’ll pass me the salt”. NO! You only use it when referring to one or more persons.
Redneck language lesson over.
We’re going to the dump then the post office, right now it’s barely overcast. We were going to go to the Spring Home Show down in atlanta but that’s where the suspected tornado hit yesterday and a lot of activities have been cancelled so we’re opting out of that one. Nice day to watch a movie or 2.
Right...Fix’n is a Texas word, but Georgian’s can say “JeetYet” better’n anybody.
Yeah, but maybe this is what you get when you leave it to politicians to do the praying.
“y’all” is singular but can be used for up to 3 people..”all y’all” is the plural used for more than 3...ROFL..
I think that's what you meant, unless there's more than one of you, in which case, ...y'all meant. (8^D)
You only use it when referring to one or more persons.
Redneck language lesson over.
Yup.
according to someone at the DUmp, this weather is the Republicans fault..(at bottom of this ridiculous post)
onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sat Mar-15-08 09:33 AM
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Atlanta braces for another severe storm
Source: AP
ATLANTA - Crews hadn’t even had time to assess the damage from a possible tornado that ripped through downtown, smashing skyscraper windows, sucking furniture out of hotel rooms, crumbling part of an apartment building and rattling a packed sports arena, before they braced for another storm on Saturday.
An even larger system than the one that hit Friday night was forecast to move through northern Georgia starting at daybreak, bringing heavy rains and high winds to the area, said Vaughn Smith, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Peachtree City. Crews were expected to be in downtown Atlanta then to determine whether Friday’s damage was caused by a tornado, he said.
At an early morning news conference, Mayor Shirley Franklin called the storm “what we now know was a tornado.” But weather service officials continued to say only that a “possible tornado” hit around 9:40 p.m., accompanied by a storm packing 60 mph winds.
I see it approaching on radar. This is what Georgia gets for turning Republican.
We’ve had drought, severe storms, economic problems, and an upturn in crime ever since Sonny and the rest of the GOP Klan took over.
God Hates Republicans.
Prayer does work - we know that. But I love it that the power of prayer has been so successful for those who are sick that the medical profession, who witness it over and over, finally did a study...and concluded, well, that they don't HOW it works but that the evidence is indisputable...hee hee.
One the other hand, The Creator set things up, weather-wise and all-wise, to work in a pattern to assure that this planet self-corrects on a regular schedule.
It doesn't change just because we decide to build large cities or concentrations of people in the areas that may get the variant weather a bit more than others. For example, when they built the first levies to change the course of the Mississippi = so's they could build in areas the old Mississip had flowed forever = Mark Twain warned them: "The Mighty Mississip will laugh at you one day." And it did.
Ditto, the example of New Orleans - built in a delta bowl - nature did her thing.
It isn't that natures out of whack. It's that we'll build in places like a flood zone with the "Well, it hasn't flooded in 100 years!" = and then along comes the 100 year flood. Only has to flood one time to wipe you out.
Ditto, build in Tornado Alley, in the high brush country in California, on a denuded mountainside, on a hurricane prone beach, overbuild for the amount of water in the local aquifers - and then blame nature when you get blown away, burned out or buried under a mudslide.
But I pray no tragedy comes to the people in the eye of this storm. We are never, no matter where we are, going to be totally safe from extreme weather...but it seems we are less prepared for it than we used to be.
The 7th governor of Tennessee, Sam Houston, was the first president of the country of Texas.
Tennessee is still called "The Volunteer State", because so many volunteered to go and fight for the freedom of Texas.
Sadly, what you’ve done facetiously is what others do seriously when they attempt to enlist the Almighty in their hate fests.
It’s been a long time since I’ve looked at DU for the simple fact that I see nothing interesting there.
that comment is from DU, not me..
We got a hail of a lot of falling stuff over here in north Mississippi last night. Hope it fills up your ponds.
Yes, I know. I'm sorry if my reply was not clear.
no worries..:)
If fixin is a Texas word my dear old grandpappy, born in 1873, and a born and bred Kentuckian, must have knowed a bunch of them fellers from the Lone Star state.
When grandpa said he was fixin to go to town on Saturday he meant just that, and I suspect I learned the original meaning of the term from those lessons. His Model T Ford needed fixin every time it went anywhere. Same with the mules. Harness needed fixin, wagons needed fixin, etc.
We are in the county to the left of you. We had a ton of lightening at 5 am. Didn’t stop for quite a while. We only ended up with one kid in the bed, though!
No, fingers got faster than my mind.
Thanks, hehe.
heh..and dependent upon where in Georgia you go, nothing is ever broken, it’s “tore up”..”Do you have an air pump??”..”Nah, it’s all tore up”..
No, no “a”. Not “a ‘fixin’” to, it’s just “fixin to”.
ie: “I’m fixin to go to the store, do you want a Coke?”
“Yeah, sure!”
“What kind?”
“I guess Sprite”
(hehe, threw in another Georgia/Southern euphamism)
It’s getting noisy in SE TN so I looked for a thread and I found this one..
:)
Yup, that’s about right too.
And we have Warsh Rags here, not washcloths.
welcome .. :)
They just put us under a tornado watch.
At least we are in for some more rain!
heh..yup, and the ever popular “Well bless her heart”..which for those of you NOT familiar with that term, it’s loosely interpreted to mean, “That bi*ch can go to he*l”..ROFL
Ok, admittedly I’ve only lived here for the past 24 years, but uh...aren’t spring storms something you can basically count on? I certainly remember very well grumbling year after year about March and April playing hell with my prized uptime. :-)
No it isn't. When I am talking to you, it's "y'all."
When I am talking to a group, it's "all y'all."
;^)
AHAHAHA!!! So true. YOU MUST have a southern lady in your presence, hehe.
Bless her heart... I’ve been on the receiving end of that insult before!
You are right! This is nothing new.
agreed, but it never hurts to give a heads up when a particularly nasty lookin storm is comin through...
I think the “r” is silent in “tore.” I say “dadnabit, it’s all toe up.” Or, losing my dawg “toe me up bad.” Or “that nadder las night flat toe up that bidden.”
Happns to the bestof us
Try ordering breakfast without the Fixn’s. Everything, except maybe pancakes and French toast comes with all the “fixns” which are grits and/or Hush Puppies.
New Years day meal includes the fixn’s if traditional, collared greens and blackeyed peas.
Oh my gosh, you are SO making me hungry. Cheese grits and hushpuppies!!
And collard greens with blackeyed peas with a big ole slice of cornbread (without the sugar in it please)
Oh gosh, can you tell I’m a southerner born and bred, hehe.
“fixin” carries the inference of immediate action.
“aimin” implies action somewhere in the future.
“I’m fixin to head to the WalMart.”
“I’m aimin to mow that lawn and get that old washer off the porch.”
Fun thead. Here’s hoping bad weather coming ya’lls way, goes away. I hafta to get out of here. I fixed breakfast this mornin and cleaned tha house, then took a nurther nap. It’s almost 12. I gotta git.
my daughter just called me in tears saying all hell is breaking loose just northeast of atlanta..
DUCK FOR COVER..
Any news from Gainesvillle, GA?
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