Okay, Mythical Beasts,
it's time to learn some southern expressions.
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This stack of cards before us is chock full of them,
and as good ol' southern boys, Rhett,
we should be able to guess most of these correct, right?
Oh, come on. Don't set the bar too high.
So what we're gonna do is we're gonna take turns. We're working together.
I'll go first. We have 60 seconds to go through these cards
- and just use-- - Per round.
- Yeah. - Per turn. 60 seconds per turn.
I'm going to be trying to get you to guess as many as possible.
I can't do "rhymes with" or "sounds like."
- Yeah. - And I don't think we should be able
- to do charades. - No.
You have to say words to get you--
I can't say any of the words that are on here.
Yeah. Okay. Let's do it. Let's learn some southern slang.
And you can pass once per round.
- Okay. - Stevie, count us in.
Stevie:
Go!
Okay, uh...
Plum tickled!
- Okay, equine animals are-- - Horse!
And if you wanna secure them you say?
- Horse...strangle. - No. This is--
- Horse hold! - Yeah, and what's an expression?
Hold your horses!
Okay...
Use a southern accent.
- This is a place of worship. - Church!
And if you pass gas...
( stammering )
- Goes over like a fart in church. - Bam!
Uh, oh. Never heard this one.
Never heard this one!
Okay, this is an amphibian with a shell.
- A turtle. - And a bunch of 'em together would be a...?
- A "turtile." - No.
A bunch of cows together is a...
Herd. I heard dat!
I turtled that!
- I turd that! - No, no, no!
If you got a bunch of turtles. You already said it.
- A herd-- - A herd of turtles.
- Yeah. - Faster than a herd of turtles.
Okay another word for "feet." It's an animal we both have.
- An animal that we both own. - Stevie:
- Dog. Dogs! -
-
- What are they doin'? - Hot dogs!
- Walking dogs! -
- "What are they doing?" - "My dogs are killing me."
My dogs are killin' me. My dogs are hurtin'.
This one was, "Off like a herd of turtles."
Is that like a poop thing?
- ( laughter ) - No, off like a herd of turtles
is like--it starts off very slowly.
- I've never heard it either. - Never heard it, but,
I mean, you said "herd of turtles,"
- so I'm gonna give us that point. - (
Oh, he's gonna give us that point.
So we got three.
- All right. I'm ready. - I'm not impressed by us so far.
Stevie:
All right...
This is--um... This is something that happens in weather.
- When it's bad and there's lightning that comes from-- - Thunder!
- No, it's the-- - Clouds. Rain. Rain clouds.
- Storm clouds. - They form--yup.
And it's--you don't suck you...
- Blow the storm clouds! - Yup, so it--
- The storm's a-blowin'. - I've never heard this.
- The storm cloud's a-blowin'. - It's--
- The storm cloud's a-blowin'. - "It's Blowin' Up a Storm."
- We didn't get that one. - Okay.
Okay, this is a saying for when you're angrier--
Madder than a hornets nest.
Um, but it's, um, a chicken that's not dry.
Madder than a wet chicken.
- Madder than a wet hen. - Yes.
( giggles ) Okay.
Um, and this one's not fast--
Slower than balls!
Slower than, yes-- the last word is
a viscous substance that's sugary.
- Slower than molasses. - That's right.
Come on! We got more!
This is something you say when you can't believe what's going on.
- Stevie:
Two. One. Time!
( laughter )
- Like W-T-F. - Time.
What in tarnation!
- Agh! That's good! - That's hard.
- How do you clue that? - Why--W-I-T.
All right, so how many did we get? We didn't get this one.
- We got two. - We got molas-- we got two.
Blowin' up a storm.
- I--I-- - Blowin' up a storm.
I haven't heard that specifically, but that makes sense.
What I have said a lot growing up is,
Anything up a storm. Like, "He was spittin' up a storm."
- Yeah. - Or, "He was coughin' up a storm."
Coughin' up a storm. All right. I'm ready.
Stevie:
Okay, you're short and you say you come up to...
- Your knees. - And there's an insect.
There's an in-- ant knees.
- No. - Bees knees!
- This is a comment on how tall someone is. - The bee's knees!
- Okay, shorter than a-- - What's another name for a locust?
A cricket. ( laughs )
Another name for a locust is a horn--
I know what a-- a grasshopper.
- A grasshopper. - Yes, so you said knee and you said grasshopper.
- And this is how you use those terms - (
to talk about how tall someone is.
- Shorter than a-- - You haven't heard this one before?
No, I've never heard it. Shorter than the knees--
What's not low? Not low, but...
- Short. - Not low, but...
High. Higher than a grasshopper's--
I've said knee, I've said high, and I've said grasshopper.
You've said all those things, so put those together into a phrase.
- I've never heard it. You've heard this? - Yes. Say those things.
- Just say 'em back to me. - Knee, grasshopper, shorter.
- Stevie:
Knee high to a-- I said knee high grasshopper.
- ( mumbling ) A second ago. - Now that was not my fault.
- ( laughter ) - There is no way I can be blamed for any of that.
- Knee-high to a grasshopper. - "He's knee-high to a grasshopper."
- For somebody's that's short. - Never heard that.
But you don't--I gave--you said every single part of it.
- He's angry. Let's keep goin'. - Stevie:
- Okay, um-- - Locusts!
- This is when a grandma-- - Cricket.
wants you to kiss-- wants you to let her kiss--
- Gimme some sugar. - Yeah. That's it.
Um, this is what you say to someone
who cannot sing. And it's--
Sounds like a broken record.
Jack and Jill went up the hill
- and they were carrying-- - a pail.
- Well, not pail. but it's called a... - Bucket?
- Yeah. So, um-- - He couldn't catch a note with a bucket.
Well, it's not catch.
- What do you do with a bucket? - He couldn't toss--
- No. - He couldn't fill up a--
- bucket with his notes. - Nope. Once the bucket's full, what do you do with it?
- Empty. Pour it. - No, you take it Point A to Point B, by--
- Carry. He couldn't carry a tune in a bucket. - Yes.
Okay. Um, this is-- this is--
what you say when-- Barbara is a...
- Dog. - And this is what you say when, um...
something can't happen.
- When you agree with it in southern colloquialism. - Stevie:
- Any dog is possible. - Stevie:
- When you're shootin' birds, you're... - Stevie:
- Stoned. ( laughs ) - Let's try to get this one.
You're not stoned.
"When you're shootin' birds you're stoned."
- When you're shooting birds-- - ( laughing ) That's a southern phrase.
- Shootin' birds stoned, man. - When you're shooting an animal, you are a...
- You're doing what. - Hunting.
- Yup, so-- - Huntin' a dawg.
- Yep, so-- - Teach a dog to hunt.
- That dog will hunt. - That dog will hunt.
- That dog will hunt. That's what you say... - So we got two.
- when you agree with somebody. - All right, here we go.
- Stevie:
First, can we just reset to happiness?
- I'm very happy. - I know I frustrated you. I'm gonna try really hard.
- I'm trying. - When you said, "Barbara is a..." I said "dog,"
but when I said "These are animals that we own,"
you said nothing. For a while.
- So, just get on the same page, - Okay. All right.
- I'll be very happy. - Stevie:
- Dog! - Okay, this, uh, this is the place we all go--
- It's the state blank in October. - Fair.
- Yes. Oh, and-- - Fair--all's fair in love and war.
You're never gonna-- "Fair to Middlin'."
- I just don't--never-- - Fair to middlin' is like it's not great.
- Okay, dogs--what sound do dogs make? - Woof!
- Bark. - What do you call it?
- And then there's a big plant? - Bark. Tree.
- Yup, so... - Tree. Bark. Tree on the bark.
- When somebody's doin'-- - A big plant is a tree.
When somebody's doin' something that's--they're goin' the wrong direction.
- Opposite. - Not down, but...
- Up--up a tree. - Dog, bark, up, tree.
You've said all those things, so what's the phrase--?
Barking up a tree. Barking up the wrong tree.
- Yeah. My gosh. - Is that southern?
It doesn't have to be southern, it's a common expression
Can I point out that I know it's easier for you
because you have the answer.
Okay, what is the stake in the ground that holds up
- a barrier. - Tent.
- "Stake in the ground that holds up a barrier." - Stevie:
-
- He's arguing with a fence post. - Stevie:
- Here we go. - Why don't you give clues and I'll guess?
- Let's just keep that for the-- - You think I'm better at that?
I think I'm better at guessing, so let's just do that for the last two rounds.
Stevie:
All right. This is a saying
for not getting ahead of yourself.
It involves fine, feathered friends who lay eggs.
- Don't count the chickens before they hatch. - Yes.
Okay, um...
and this is another animal that you ride on with a saddle.
- Horse. - And it starts with the same word as the last one.
It starts with the same-- Don't--Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
Yes! Okay.
Um...uh...
This is when you're--
when some-- you're acquired
with your britches not up.
- Caught with your pants down. - Yeah.
This is somebody really drunk.
They are not one, two, but...
- Three sheets to the wind. - Yes. Okay.
Um... um, pass.
"Family tree ain't got no branches"?
Um...okay.
This is an impossible task involving the little feline pets that you hate.
- Stevie:
- Yes. And... - Stevie:
- We did pretty good that time, right? - Yeah, yeah, yeah!
So, we passed on this one--One, two, let's do one more.
- We got five. - We got five in that one!
- You do that again. - See?
- You do that again. - I found my calling. You do that again.
- Stevie:
Stevie:
Okay, uh, this one you're gonna whoop somebody!
And what's the thing called when you skin a buffalo
- and then you make it into a jacket? - I'm gonna whoop your hide?
- Yeah--well, no. It's-- - Tan your hide.
Yep. Um...
Uh...pass.
"Just fell off the turnip truck?"
Oh, I woulda gotten that.
- All right. When you're throwing a tantrum. - Pitchin' a fit.
No, it's a different type of fit.
Umm...uh...
- A snake makes this sound. - Rattle?
- No. With his mouth. - Hiss.
- Hissy fit. - Yes.
Okay, um...
( laughs ) This is somebody you feel sorry for
- but you're not really gonna do any-- - Bless his heart.
- Kinda like that. - Bless your heart.
You would actually say this in church.
- ( chuckles ) - I'll be prayin' for ya.
- Yeah, I'll pray for ya. - ( laughs )
All right, the next one. Uh... oh gosh.
- Can't pass. All right. - ( straining )
- The circular things on a car are...? - Tires!
- No. Wheels go... - Wheels.
- Wheels go up. - Stevie:
- And then what do wheels do? - Stevie:
They fall off. The wheels fall off! - Stevie:
-
- Bear. - Pokey.
- Your pet, Pokey. - Oh, hamster.
Hamster wheel. Runnin' in a hamster wheel.
- The wheel's are turning but the hamster's dead. - Oh, I never heard that one.
- That's a good one, though. - My dad would say,
when it's raining really hard, he would say,
"It's rainin' like a cow pissin' on a flat rock."
- Yup, I've heard that one. - I wonder if that one's in here.
"The engine is running, but nobody's driving."
There's lots of "you're really stupid" euphemisms
in the south. I don't know why.
If we ever go on "$25,000 Pyramid,"
we're gonna have to insist we never switch up.
Like, "No, no, no!" You bring a beard and I'll take glasses
and then we just... quickly switch so we can always be center place.
Link:
You're a great clue-giver, Link. You're a great clue-giver.
Let him know how great I am in the comments.
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