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Milo, in an other thread used the comment "suck hind tit"
not beign a country girl, i am guessing, that it is a reerence to multi teated animals (like a pig) . I know that the milk from pig teats is not all the same.. higher up (towards head and shoulder) the milk has more fat and nutrients, lower down, towards the tail, the milk is weaker.. and baby piglets quickly learn that, and establish a ranking order.. with the biggest strongest piglets getting an upper tit, and the lowest ranking of their peers getting a low tit.
WELL, my point is country saying like this have become very popular of late (dr phil of american tv is almost as famous for them as anything else..
so what is the most interesting such saying you know?
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Not sure if it's the most interesting, but 'slicker'n owl shit' comes first to mind. Seems to me it would take a certain narrow set of circumstances for anyone to know just how slick owl shit was.
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I don't know who Dr. Phil is but I once heard in a film a southern guy say "It's as useful as tits on a boarhog". Does this qualify for the slack-jawed yokelism? 
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I thought metaphor and simile have always been popular, but I could be mistaken. (Ya know, I'm just a simple country boy.) Is it just the rustic quality that makes these philisms quaint or memorable? If I said "as useless as teats on a taxicab" is that less quaint and more offensive? Key say?
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Well, not to put too fine a point on it, it would be difficult to be only as slick as owl shit or not as slick. Owls eat meat, nuthin' else. And that makes for rockhard excremental pellets. And owls also expel little "packets" containing the bones of their prey. American Scientific and Surplus sells them occasionally for disecting purposes!
In my mind I categorize most of these highly descriptive phrases as US Southern regionalisms, though not sure why. T
One other category of regionalism that comes to mind is the dropping of "to be" from sentences that for most of us require them. I remember very well the first time I heard this; a guy I worked with when I was in college looked out the window of the bank we were working in and said, "The lawn needs mowed." I knew immediately what he meant and made a silent vow to hogtie and beat any of my offspring who used this abomination. Ever after I have associated this regionalism with South Central Pennsylvania, which is where I have heard it the most. And it may not actually be a regionalism, I admit, but almost always the perp has hailed from that part of the country.
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it would be difficult to be only as slick as owl shit or not as slick.
You're mistaking those regurgitated pellets (of bone and fur) for owl shit, which is quite liquid and white, and can burn the paint off a truck. owl shit is indeed slick.
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ROFL! You know I've never had it said that nicely to me before: "TEd, you just don't know SHIT!"
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the paint off a truck
is truck paint particularly tenacious?
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If I said "as useless as teats on a taxicab" is that less quaint and more offensive? I'm not sure about the offensive question, but in NY it would be "...seats in a taxi cab" (er.. at least my two tree rides in them). "The lawn needs mowed." He was a'sayin' "this lawn need mowin'", but he done had a head cold. *********** Something tells me (although I've not sat through one of Dr'Phil's "sessions" <ahem>) that he would never use the quite *popular phrase "You go stick that where your mama never washed". 
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well, it got cold here yesterday, but not quite as cold as a witch's tit...
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