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Originally posted by djmcmath
Ok, what the heck's a "4-square dooger?" What does it mean to "make a freight train take a dirt road?" Anybody know the etymology on these expressions? Anybody know the etymology on these expressions? Did I just say that twice?
While we're at it, anybody else got any winners of good metaphors?
I think the last one that took me off guard was during my first week in South Carolina. I was talking with my new neighbor (white middle-aged male, single, heavily overweight), and he described something that didn't fit in as "sticking out like a n***** at a Klan rally." 
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It's too bad to hear that people still talk like that over the fence to a neighbor in the south, just *assuming* that they won't be offended by a little "negro humor"....
Every region of the U.S., (and the world), has its own particular vernacular and colloqialisms, my Dad fought a war w/ young guys from all over the states and picked up some good ones.
I like the way Texas people make those funny analogies, like "busier than a one-legged man at an ass-kicking contest", or "hornier than a two-peckered billygoat", etc....
