Things I Learned in the South - 2 - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

uncle phil · 11-28-2009, 02:59 AM

If it grows, it’ll stick ya. If it crawls, it’ll bite cha...

LoganSnake · 11-28-2009, 03:01 AM

...what?

Daniel_ · 11-28-2009, 03:04 AM

Plants are spikey and hurty.

Animals are teethy and bitey.

seamaiden · 11-28-2009, 05:35 AM

I brushed up against a nettle plant once...felt like a thousand hornets had their way with my leg...for hours...but that wasn't in the south. Canada.

LoganSnake · 11-28-2009, 08:09 AM

Everything was simpler than I thought. I thought the first one was a metaphor for penis. Couldn't figure out what the second part meant. Five a.m. thinking.

Poppinjay · 11-28-2009, 09:09 AM

The penis metaphor also works. Southern boys are notoriously randy.

A friend of mine used to say if it bites, stings, or is poisonous, it grows in eastern North Carolina.

11-28-2009, 02:59 AM	#1 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	Things I Learned in the South - 2 If it grows, it’ll stick ya. If it crawls, it’ll bite cha... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

11-28-2009, 03:01 AM	#2 (permalink)
LoganSnake We work alone Location: Cake Town	...what? __________________ Maturity is knowing you were an idiot in the past. Wisdom is knowing that you'll be an idiot in the future. Common sense is knowing that you should try not to be an idiot now. - J. Jacques

11-28-2009, 03:04 AM	#3 (permalink)
Daniel_ Evil Priest: The Devil Made Me Do It! Location: Southern England	Plants are spikey and hurty. Animals are teethy and bitey. __________________ ╔═════════════════════════════════════════╗ Overhead, the Albatross hangs motionless upon the air, And deep beneath the rolling waves, In labyrinths of Coral Caves, The Echo of a distant time Comes willowing across the sand; And everthing is Green and Submarine ╚═════════════════════════════════════════╝

11-28-2009, 08:09 AM	#5 (permalink)
LoganSnake We work alone Location: Cake Town	Everything was simpler than I thought. I thought the first one was a metaphor for penis. Couldn't figure out what the second part meant. Five a.m. thinking. __________________ Maturity is knowing you were an idiot in the past. Wisdom is knowing that you'll be an idiot in the future. Common sense is knowing that you should try not to be an idiot now. - J. Jacques

11-28-2009, 09:09 AM	#6 (permalink)
Poppinjay You had me at hello Location: DC/Coastal VA	The penis metaphor also works. Southern boys are notoriously randy. A friend of mine used to say if it bites, stings, or is poisonous, it grows in eastern North Carolina. __________________ I think the Apocalypse is happening all around us. We go on eating desserts and watching TV. I know I do. I wish we were more capable of sustained passion and sustained resistance. We should be screaming and what we do is gossip. -Lydia Millet

11-28-2009, 05:35 AM	#4 (permalink)
seamaiden Psycho Location: With the man of my dreams in Halifax Nova Scotia	I brushed up against a nettle plant once...felt like a thousand hornets had their way with my leg...for hours...but that wasn't in the south. Canada.