SOUTHERNISM OF THE WEEK My ice is getting dry: A typically Southern descriptive way of simultaneously making a statement of fact and implying that the situation...
SOUTHERNISM OF THE WEEK A long drink of water: Someone who’s exceedingly tall or deep or mysterious and unfathomable. LET’S HEAR IT FOR THE GIRLS It’s...
SOUTHERNISM OF THE WEEK As cold as a banker’s heart (on foreclosure day at the widow and orphans’ home): With all due apologies to our banker...
It’s no coincidence that February is both Heart Health Month and National Chocolate Lovers Month. After all, chocolate has been stimulating hearts and minds, literally, for...
SOUTHERNISM OF THE WEEK Up one side and down the other: Descriptive phrase pertaining to how extensively one has explored or considered a situation or topic....
SOUTHERNISM OF THE WEEK Slow as molasses: Abbreviation of the expression “as slow as molasses going uphill in January”… harks back to a January 1840 Louisiana...
SOUTHERNISM OF THE WEEK When pigs fly: Reference to a mythical moment in future time, when something that currently is not possible comes to pass… which...
By Laurie Triplette ldtriplette@aol.com We’re almost a month into the New Year and certain changes in American food preferences are becoming apparent. Still putting bacon into...
By Laurie Triplette ldtriplette@aol.com Southernism of the Week: Heap: A whole lot of something, not a worn-out automobile. Usually emphatically refers to a measurement … such as...
By Laurie Triplette ldtriplette@aol.com Southernism of the Week: Jackleg: Refers to someone who is unskilled, unprofessional and probably unscrupulous performing some activity or service for which that...
| Sat, Aug 31 |  | vs Furman | W, 76-0 |
| Sat, Sep 7 |  | vs Middle Tennessee | W, 52-3 |
| Sat, Sep 14 |  | @ Wake Forest | W, 40-6 |
| Sat, Sep 21 |  | vs Georgia Southern | W, 52-13 |
| Sat, Sep 28 |  | vs Kentucky | L, 20-17 |
| Sat, Oct 5 |  | @ South Carolina | W, 27-3 |
| Sat, Oct 12 |  | vs LSU | L, 29-26 (2 OT) |
| Sat, Oct 26 |  | vs Oklahoma | W, 26-14 |
| Sat, Nov 2 |  | @ Arkansas | W, 63-35 |
| Sat, Nov 16 |  | vs Georgia | 2:30 PM ABC |
| Sat, Nov 23 |  | @ Florida | 11:00 AM ABC or ESPN |
| Sat, Nov 30 |  | vs Mississippi State | 2:30 PM ESPN or ABC |