Comments on update stuff: Thursday

Oh, and revenoors are revoltin' while 'shiners are...

2008-08-13T10:51:00.000+07:00

Oh, and revenoors are revoltin' while 'shiners are revolted.

I've not heard any of those sayings either. I rem...

2008-08-13T10:41:00.000+07:00

I've not heard any of those sayings either. I remembered Cooter being a character in one of those northern-style "southern shows" wherein none of the good ol' boys know that "y'all" is plural. I have heard "drunk as a skunk" which doesn't make much sense, until you consider ol' Cooter forgetting his deodorant - and bath and cleanest dirty clothes.
As a footnote, I believe that head lice are more akin to cooties than cooters (unless it's a gender thing).
Although growing up, I never heard turtles called anything but turtles or terrapins, I have since learned that some turtles are indeed cooters.
Ha, I thought some of the clues I've had recently were odd.

* Isn't a cooter a turtle? Or a character on Dukes...

2008-08-10T22:17:00.000+07:00

* Isn't a cooter a turtle? Or a character on Dukes of Hazzard? Or head lice? When I was in high school, it was slang for female genitalia. Why on earth would any of these things be used in an analogy epitomizing drunkenness? And for the record: constructing this post I ignored the other two "theme" clues in the same puzzle; and--full disclosure--they were not quite as ridiculous. For the clue "Of exceptional quality, Southern-style" the answer was "goodasgrits", which strikes me as having been wholly invented by people who can only think of one or two Andy Griffith Show-isms for labelling southern culture; but at least it alliterates. And for the clue "Answer to 'How are you?', Southern-style", the answer was "fineasfroghair". It's yet another phrase I've never heard before, but one striking me as at least being somewhat witty: frogs' hair being so fine as to be kind of imaginary, you see.