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 As cold as a banker’s heart (on foreclosure day at the widow and orphans’ home): With all due apologies to our banker...
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: Fat, dumb and happy: What we become in a tryptophan stupor after consuming a hefty Thanksgiving meal and turkey...
Oxford School District is one of the best in the state according to the recent A-ratings for all its schools, but the administration is as much...