HONEY, DON'T GO BACK ON YOUR RAISIN : The Southern Thread, Part III

Yay Southern thread!

The deluge has finally ended, we've been in the 90s all week and are expected to hit the century mark this weekend.

Welcome Texas summer.

For realz? Your AC is on the fritz?

IT IS TOO HOT HERE

IT MAKES ME CRABBY.

On the second of four expected 100+ days, and it's SOUPY hot.

Hell it only got down to 82 at night. No end in sight! Glad I moved back.

Molly and I were at the Williamson County fair last night. There was a pageant for little girls. Apparently they have one every night. Everyone's a winner!

Stupid hot. If I have to cut on my A/C on the 10 minute morning drive to work, it's too goddam hot.

HIGH OF 103 TODAY

SOMEONE KILL ME PLZ

Yes. Someone got the "Judge's Choice" award. I have no idea what that means, but that little girl was not taking off her tiara.

Yes, a/c is going in and out. Dark muttered "jokes" about how this is a "L.E.A.N. event."

("L.E.A.N. event" = corporate buzzword mumbojumbo about systematic "efficiency improvement" cost-cutting. I have no idea what it stands for.)

I am sad I missed the Mule Show, though!

Also, when is it time to go see TEH DIRT TRACK?

xpost Employees will not be efficient if they are broiling inside office.

Characteristics of last night's "Judge's Choice" winner:

1. Significantly older than other competitors-- probably old enough to know better

2. Right at the "ugly age"-- crazy teeth, awful glasses

3. Spoke in bizarre, affectless monotone

Yeah, poor thing was really awkward.

You did not answer question re: dirt track. BRING ON THE SPRINT CARS PLZ.

oh man it's been so long since I've been to a dirt track race

Surely not Williamson County TX?

Our AC is working beautifully fortunately *knocks on wood*

Nope, Williamson Co., TN (aka the richest county in TN, which made the whole thing less gritty, and therefore less desirable)

milo, i LOVE the dirt track! Give me school bus races, figure 8s, four bangers, super modifieds, and Run What You Brung. However, sprint cars are def. my favorite.

Milan, Tennesse. Pronounced "MY-lin."

where is Atwood, TN?

this is all i need to see:

CLAYHILL MOTORSPORTS
PRESENTS
U.S.C.S. OUTLAW SPRINT CARS!!!
SAT. AUGUST 18TH

IT'S GONNA BE WILD!!!!!

Google maps claims it's 2hours and 25 minutes. That can't be! It's not 2 hours to Jackson, is it?

I'm in N.C. and everyone here is complaining about the heat. It's only 92F!!

oh man, I hope there is a little girl pageant when I go to my local county fair.

I know there is a county fair thread on ILE somewhere, I should go find it.

State Fair of Texas! Must go this year. . .Any Texans (Okies, Arkies) planning a trip to Dallas?

There was a pageant for the ladies too! They looked like drag queens.

I am REALLY hoping for a little girls and their sheep pageant.

Awwh! That would be the best! As I was eating my corndog, I noticed a stage full of tiny little bluegrass musicians (i.e. kids). They were so cute and off-key!

our new air conditioning was worth every penny of the 6K we paid for it. i look at 7 day forecasts in the triple digits and laugh now.

mapquest always over-estimates travel time: Mem -> Jxn = 1:20 (really less than an hour); Mem -> N'ville = 3:15 (really 2:45, tops)

Do you laugh at the electric bill? (xpost)

well they raised electricity by half this year and still our last one was lower than this time last year (is that right, pp?). so YES.

energy efficient units, you see

Our bill has been avg between 120-140 a mth so far. That might change as we hit triple digits.

sunny, our new AC unit is great on energy efficiency too! I just opened the elecric bill, and said, "is that all!?"

Our next one might hurt a bit. The last one was $225, which is a bit lower than last year, even with TVA rate increases over the winter. But I'm not cooling the detached office anymore...

we shut the doors to the den which isn't hooked up to the main system and the bathroom. Which I kind of hate b/c I don't like peeing in extreme heat.

wow. the only place our old system really worked was in the bathroom. with three cats, a dog and two people it sure got crowded in there. im not sure how much our bill is or was. pp is my personal accountant. if money matters were left to me we'd be destitute.

in other news, i was at an intersection in the river market (little rock) yesterday afternoon when tommy lee's tour bus did a slow turn in front my car. i caught myself simultaneously sitting up straighter, pushing my shoulders back and fluffing my hair . what a groupie ho.

How did you know it was his? Did he have his name emblazoned on it?

our bathrooms have no AC vents so that's why we shut the doors.

I once had a heating bill in Buffalo of $292. Mind you, that was during a remarkably awful February, even though we kept it at around 62 degrees. Also, our 11 foot ceilings and poorly insulated walls didn't help much.

I don't know what's worse: freezing for a month or sweating one's ass off.

freezing. You can always pile on more clothes, blankets.

xp: no name but it was clearly a tour bus and it was pulling into the venue he played at last night.

that or i was foxing myself up for a bunch of old ladies on a state capital tour.

it's too fucking hot. it's going to be 100+ for the rest of the week, with no hope in sight. leaving my house = pain.

Does NM count as the South or are we just talking the SE? Because that's what I think of as "the South" (ie the one that will rise again), but I'm all about talking about the heat.

I can't tell if my swamp cooler is working or not. I think it might not be. It's not so hot that I'm sweat factory just by sitting around. But the vents are not spitting out air, either. It took me a week in May to figure out it wasn't working after not using it since last October.

I'm pretty sure it's not working, but I don't want to actually call my landlady about it until I get some weird financial stuff straightened out with her first.

I can't walk my dog until twilight, like 8:30 p.m., so his little feet don't bake and make him die. :(

Abbott, SE, SW, whatever. South = stupid heat

My frail constitution can't handle it. I talked to my mom today and she was all, "Oh! It was only a high of 75 today! It's 68 right now!" I almost started crying.

Last week, after sitting outside in 95+ heat and drinking beer, then going to sweaty art gallery, followed by eating sushi in a restaurant with busted AC, I got really sick (i.e. vomfest).

Well, thinking about it, I didn't make the best choices, now did I?

OMG BBQ INDEX

tornadoh-noes!

hurricain't you go bother some yankees instead!!

thoughts with tornado people

our weather radios aren't going off here, but we're under (like most of the south) a tornado warning until 11pm.

Today we had a high of 98 and a low of 50.

Oh dear god.

That's freakish!

Southern hints from Heloise: sriracha + cider vinegar = perfect pepper sauce for greens or peas if you're out of the traditional stuff. I discovered that one tonight.

What the hell does HONEY, DON'T GO BACK ON YOUR RAISIN mean?

You got me.

Serious?

Absolutely serious.

"RAISIN'" I'm guessing.

i.e. something along the lines of Flatt & Scruggs "Don't Get Above your Raisin'?"

otherwise I got nothin'

will otm

It parses as "don't deny your upbringing."

Not that Accuweather is ever right, but they're calling for snow and rain two weeks from now!

OH GOD THE GROCERY STORES

I'm going to go now to avoid the nonsense.

You say that every time, but no you're not.

"Honey, don't go back on your raisin' " - Language: Rural Southern, poss. hill dialect; Most Likely Ancestry - Scots-Irish

Translated:
Honey - Endearment, used for people too close to be called "Hey you" but too distant for "Sugar," "Baby," "Sweetie" or "Hon."

Don't go back on - Don't reject, don't deny, don't renege. As in "Don't go back on your word, now," meaning don't change your mind, don't reverse yourself.

Your raisin' - Your raising. Your childhood teachings. Your moral foundation. Your upbringing. "Where you're from," in a philosophical, psychological sense.

Used in a non-Southern context: "You know Jenny ain't back in the 'hood. She done gone back on her raisin'."

Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week. Just throw chocolate.

*bow*

Sometimes, I start believing that maybe Arkansas is about as southern as Kansas.

Happy Birthday to one of my favorite southerners (and part time ILXer) Ai Lien!!

last night, local news reported that some kid tried to hijack a plane and crash it into the cajun dome during a hannah montana concert.

the newspaper says this is no longer the case.

Nashville area media have reported that the teen intended to crash or divert the plane to Lafayette, La., where Franklin resident Miley Cyrus had a concert scheduled. Bolds said he was unaware of any connection to the “Hannah Montana” performance.

The Hannah Montana concert in Louisiana is actually scheduled Friday, not Tuesday, the day of the teen’s flight.

TORNADOES!!!

Yay for lack of humidity! the air feels so thin and breathable!

Is this a "one day only" deal? I've been NOT walking to work because it's been TOO hot lately.

Yeah, it feels great today w/29% humidity. And NOAA says it's down to 59 tonight! I may actually sit outside to have my coffee tomorrow morning.

But the city hasn't run their mosquito-spraying truck this year, fuel prices probly, and we had a wet spring so there's skeeters out there big enough to fuck a turkey, as my crazy aunt would say.

skeeters so big, you gotta build a chain-link fence to keep 'em out.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080908/ap_on_re_us/recruiting_jews

71 degrees tomorro_Ow

An outdoor ice rink at Hot Springs — which delayed its opening a week because of warm weather in November — was closed Monday because of the cold, icy weather.

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fuck me it's cold

Ice rinks down douth work better in shopping malls.

rip Mall of Mem ;_;

I did not benefit from today's inclement weather. So bitter!

WMC are you and your ladies okay after last night in MS?

So, the city where Sarah goes to college is about 35 miles away, right? The storm system that killed a bunch of people in Yazoo City threaded the needle and went between our town and hers.

Hate this low-grade terror that lasts five months out of every twelve.

But yeah, we're all okay. Some of my garden's underwater. Thanks for checking on us, that gives me a warm fuzzy!

seriously its like this continual terror that you get used to so quick and then you talk some yankees and mention youre under a tornado watch when they ask about the weather and the way they react makes you remember just how fucked up it is.

but yeah, since ive been here i dont recall hearing of some many people getting killed by tornados in one storm system. im glad youre all okay.

Yankee interlude: I was very afraid of tornadoes when I was little! I had it all planned how we would hide in the basement under the metal laundry table. Of course it never happened.

Carry on.

i was terrified of volcanos! like lay awake in bed at night fearing lava scared. a quick google search shows the last volcano eruption in australia was 12000 years ago.

also - piranha

When I went to Florida on family vacation the first time, I was terrified of sharks -- not because they might eat me, because for some reason that seemed beyond the realm of possibility, but that their often-shed teeth would be in the sandy ocean floor, and I'd step on one and cut myself.

When we got back to Michigan and went to the beach, I was pretty trepidatious of that sand too.

haha i think everyone owned a shark tooth necklace at some point in the late 70s in sydney.

So glad I live on high ground. Wait until you see the sandbags.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgKsehkcIF8