# Alls I know... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 22, 2000, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alls-i-know/13609 "2000-01-22T19:18:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2000, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alls-i-know/13609/1 "2000-01-23T06:13:00Z")
AAAHH!!! Why do people say that? It sounds so stupid!! I bet they found out what they know cuz they axe’d a question… that bugs me too. I usually just chalk it up to general-purpose drooling idiocy, but I just heard it on a documentary!! GAAAHHH!!! * * * – Teeming Millions: [http://fathom.org/teemingmillions](http://fathom.org/teemingmillions) “Meat flaps, yellow!” - DrainBead, naked co-ed Twister chat O p a l C a t [www.opalcat.com](http://www.opalcat.com) ---
**Author:** ![funneefarmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@funneefarmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/funneefarmer)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2000, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alls-i-know/13609/2 "2000-01-23T06:17:00Z")
You sure it wasn’t “awls I know…”, I love a good tool documentary. ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2000, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alls-i-know/13609/3 "2000-01-23T06:41:00Z")
OpalllCat, I lived in Grand Isle, Louisiana for a bit I always was called a “Yankee” which makes no sense since I am from Colorado. Anyhow, it was a big joke in the Coast Guard, “go axe your mother.” For me at 18 it was living in a foreign country as I rarely heard such odd phrases come from Americans before. I find that a friend of mine that was born in Montana and lived in Colorado for a long time picked up on the Southern accent in Florida and comes up with some weird things too such as “my bad” and “ifn” drives me up a wall! ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2000, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alls-i-know/13609/4 "2000-01-23T06:44:00Z")
I think I need to slow the repeat speed on my computer, OpalllCat sheesh! \< banging head on table, I’ve been mashing people’s screen names all over the place \> I need a beer! ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2000, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alls-i-know/13609/5 "2000-01-23T06:56:00Z")
Yeah, but that’s still not as bad as “I could care less” to mean “I couldN’T care less”… THAT bothers me to no end!!! Say what you mean! ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2000, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alls-i-know/13609/6 "2000-01-22T19:18:00Z")
Don’t worry about that, Opal - it’s a mute point. If you’re really concerned, drop by the liberry. You can relax by looking at some beautiful pitchers of fall foilige. 🙂 - Rick ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2000, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alls-i-know/13609/7 "2000-01-22T19:50:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by funneefarmer: > **You sure it wasn’t “awls I know…”, I love a good tool documentary.** How do hard-working farmers find time to be funny? I love regionalism in speech. I don’t consider it bad grammar – just extra flavor. Occasional bad grammar doesn’t bother me, but “had went” and “I seen” trip my trigger! ---
**Author:** ![Minxsmom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Minxsmom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minxsmom)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2000, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alls-i-know/13609/8 "2000-01-22T20:58:00Z")
Alls I know is “irregardless” and “at the present point in time” are the two that push my buttons. ---
**Author:** ![fuzzy-wuzzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b38774/32.png) [@fuzzy-wuzzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fuzzy-wuzzy)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2000, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alls-i-know/13609/9 "2000-01-22T21:43:00Z")
I hate it when people end their sentence with “you know”. No I don’t know. And it’s not being used as a question. It’s just how they end the sentence. I have a strong southern accent…but I don’t use the axe your mother. But I do use reckun, and ain’t and lots of others. I dated a guy from Vermont and he really made fun of me. We used the word “ill” to mean angry or on the bad side of someone, “it made me ill when I was late for work.” That’s not physical ill its an emotion. * * * “Do or do not, there is no try” - Yoda ---
**Author:** ![funneefarmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@funneefarmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/funneefarmer)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2000, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alls-i-know/13609/10 "2000-01-22T22:58:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by AuntiePam: > \*\* How do hard-working farmers find time to be funny? > > \*\* Are you kidding… “Y’alls remember that time when that cow swatted you upside the face with that $h!t covered tail ? Now that time was funny” ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2000, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alls-i-know/13609/11 "2000-01-22T23:12:00Z")
The reference desk at the local library, thirty years ago, had a small sign on it. It was done in nice hand calligraphy, on a white card in a wooden stand. It must have represented a few hours work, altogether. It said: **\

Please do not axe the libarian.\** I fell on the floor, and couldn’t get up. She was quite pleased. (Thanks for the wonderful memory Harva.) ## **\

Tris\** One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. – \*\*A. A. Milne \*\* ---

**Author:** ![special](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/special)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2000, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alls-i-know/13609/12 "2000-01-23T00:17:00Z")
hey, opal, it could have been worse. they could have showed the documentary in feb\_U\_ary. then you maybe could have cared less. irregardless. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2000, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alls-i-know/13609/13 "2000-01-23T02:03:00Z")
“Irregardless” and “orientated/disorientated” are the ones that bug me. “Orientated” means that one is facing east. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2000, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alls-i-know/13609/14 "2000-01-23T02:47:00Z")
I might could tell you alls I know, if’n I knew. ---
**Author:** ![Noggin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a6a055/32.png) [@Noggin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noggin)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2000, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alls-i-know/13609/15 "2000-01-23T02:55:00Z")
I’ve often heard the police on the news say “the suspect was moving at a high rate of speed” ---
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2000, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alls-i-know/13609/16 "2000-01-23T02:59:00Z")
That must have been in a crisis situation. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2000, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alls-i-know/13609/17 "2000-01-23T03:50:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by voltaire: > **Yeah, but that’s still not as bad as “I could care less” to mean “I couldN’T care less”… THAT bothers me to no end!!! Say what you mean!** Along the same lines of this, it really crumbles my crackers when someone over uses of the word “literally” as in “I was so scared, I literally jumped out of my skin.” Here’s your Texas English lesson for the day: Q. What’s the plural of “Y’all” in Texas? A. “All Y’all” Enright3 ---
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2000, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alls-i-know/13609/18 "2000-01-23T04:52:00Z")
seems like we knew that… ---
**Author:** ![inertia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d07c76/32.png) [@inertia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inertia)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2000, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alls-i-know/13609/19 "2000-01-23T05:17:00Z")
AB: I’m fixin’ to go to the sto’ ta’ git’ me some chitlins [have you any idea what chitlins are?] Ya’ll won’t some? No, we done ate ya’ know. BJ: Aunt Beula git me some uh them pork brains in milk gravy, huh? AB: Ok, Bubba Jr. just hold yer horses. Ya’ll know where Linda Lou is? BJ: Alls I know is when I axed her she said she’s a goin’ to smoke behind the Liberry with Elly May irregardless of what her momma’ said. AB: I could care less ‘bout Elly May, but I know my baby girl, Linda Lou, don’t smoke. If’n ya’ tell me she did I ain’t even gonna’ believe it. It’s a mute point. * * * Inertia’s entire philosophy in two words - Be nice. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2000, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alls-i-know/13609/20 "2000-01-23T05:31:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by AuntiePam: > …“had went” and “I seen” trip my trigger! I have a friend who could _not_ grasp the proper use of “seen” and “saw” no matter how I tried to explain it to her. Finally, in exhasperation, I said, "Ok, just think about the songs _‘I **Saw** Mommy Kissing Santa Claus’_ and _‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’_ that goes, “Mine eyes **have seen** the glory of the coming of the Lord.” She has to sing those song lines in her head every time, but at least she always gets it right now 😉 ## And if y’alls are interested, “all the sudden” drives me over the edge. I hear newscasters, and people who should just plain know better, use it all the time. Thems peoples I’d really like to axe! “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” - Anne Frank [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alls-i-know/13609.md?page=2)