Speaking Southern - One mo' time!

Things learned by living in the Carolinas.........




Possums sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air.

There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 live in the Carolinas.



There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in the Carolinas, plus a couple no one's seen before.

If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls, it bites.

Onced and twiced are words.

It is not a shopping cart; it is a buggy.

People actually grow and eat okra.

Fixinto is one word.

There is no such thing as "lunch." There is only dinner and then there is supper.

Sweet Tea is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it when you're two. We do like a little tea with our sugar!

Backards and forwards means "I know everything about you."

DJeet? is actually a phrase meaning "Did you eat?"

You don't have to wear a watch because it doesn't matter what time it is. You work until you're done or it's too dark to see.

You don't PUSH buttons, you MASH them.

You measure distance in minutes.

You may have to switch from "heat" to "A/C" on the same day.

You use "fix" as a verb. Example: "I'm fixing to go to the store."

All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect or animal.

You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.

You know what a "DAWG" is.

You carry jumper cables IN your car . . . FOR your car.

You only own four spices: salt, pepper, Tabasco and ketchup.

The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require 6 pages for local gossip and sports.

You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.

You find 100 degrees Fahrenheit "a little warm."

You know all four seasons: Almost Summer, Summer, still Summer and Christmas.

Going to Wal-mart is a favorite pastime known as "goin' Wal-martin" or off to "Wally World."

You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good pinto-bean or "fish stew eating" weather.

A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda, cola or pop . . . it's a Coke, regardless of brand or flavor. Example: "What kinda coke you want?"

Fried catfish is the other white meat.

We don't need no stinking driver's ed . . . if our mama says we can drive, we can drive.

Not EVERYONE can be from the Carolinas. It's an art-form, and a gift.
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Acknowledgement: this is from an email going around. If you know where it originated, please let me know.

Get up, and boogie . . .

The sages like to say that the second greatest wisdom in the world is music. Naturally, they hold that Talmud comes first.

Now I am not about to contest that, but music is an amazing thing. Consider its many uses - it is used to enhance all sorts of things: spiritual growth and devotion in prayers, the impact of a movie, the atmosphere of a shopping mall, or a ride in an elevator.

Even the great bard recognized perhaps the most important use of music:

"If music be the food of love, play on!"

So here are some places you might like to go - in your mind, at least.

First stop: Here is a dancing parrot. Eat your heart out, Holly Girl. You've got no tricks like this birdie.

So what?

Well, what if Dr Sacks is right, that music is "hardwired" into
our brains!

Here are other interesting links on the subject of music and the brain that you might like to explore.

PS: "Lady Madonna, lying on the bed. Listen to the music playing in your head"

Do you want to see the "other" Piano Man?

We saw Billy Joel in Feb this year, and enjoyed it.

Here are some tickets, face value 100 a piece, for Elton John - you know, the British Copy.

Friday, Nov 9

Section 122

Row J

Seats 15 & 16

North Charleston Coliseum

If you are interested, or know someone who is, contact seller at this email:

cindyinsc@comcast.net

Have fun.

We are leaving for Atlanta.

See you next week!

Recognizing the New WAM

While recognition of the New West Ashley Minyan by BSBI continues to be controversial in some quarters, Google recognizes this blog, for its ardent recognition and support of WAM.


Why not try it out - just do regular google searches, like:
wam charleston
or
west ashley minyan
or
minyan charleston
(By the way - remember, Charleston has the -on, minyan has the -an)

And on another front, did you see the realtor's ad for a house near the JCC in the Charleston Jewish Voice? "great access to the JCC and the New West Ashley Minyan". But, don't quote me . . .

and one last thing, if you haven't heard the DJ on radio W.A.M., just ask Chuckles Steinert to give you a sampler of his wonderful shpiel. Shtey toon'd!

It doesn't matter who you vote for . . .

. . . the government always gets in.

In the meantime, here is a site where you call the shots, and the 'puter shows you where the candidates stand compared to you.

Give it a whirl!

Serendipity Now !

What goes around, comes around - here is a friendly encounter recorded on the web, starring Ephraim, Ari and some guy called Ed.