View Single Post
  #8  
Old 08-21-2014, 05:39 AM
osreb osreb is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 54,203
Thanks: 26,865
Thanked 1,869,393 Times in 55,636 Posts
Default 80

9. “I’m finer than frog hair split four ways.”

Southerners mostly use this phrase to answer, “How are you?” Even those below the Mason-Dixon know frogs don’t have hair, and the irony means to highlight just how dandy you feel.

The phrase reportedly originated in C. Davis’ “Diary of 1865
Attached Thumbnails
Click image for larger version

Name:	!!ph02 (11).jpg
Views:	38
Size:	219.7 KB
ID:	6512717   Click image for larger version

Name:	!!ph05 (1).jpg
Views:	60
Size:	38.1 KB
ID:	6512718  

Click image for larger version

Name:	!!ph05 (2).jpg
Views:	45
Size:	92.5 KB
ID:	6512719   Click image for larger version

Name:	!!ph05 (3).jpg
Views:	22
Size:	90.6 KB
ID:	6512720  

Click image for larger version

Name:	!!ph05 (4).jpg
Views:	40
Size:	51.1 KB
ID:	6512721   Click image for larger version

Name:	!!ph05 (5).jpg
Views:	27
Size:	76.5 KB
ID:	6512722  

Click image for larger version

Name:	!!ph05 (6).jpg
Views:	36
Size:	80.5 KB
ID:	6512723   Click image for larger version

Name:	!!ph05 (7).jpg
Views:	37
Size:	342.3 KB
ID:	6512724  

Click image for larger version

Name:	!!ph05 (8).jpg
Views:	67
Size:	96.6 KB
ID:	6512725   Click image for larger version

Name:	!!ph05 (9).jpg
Views:	58
Size:	57.9 KB
ID:	6512726  

Reply With Quote
The Following 18 Users Say Thank You to osreb For This Useful Post: