HICKBONICS

The Association of Southern Schools has decided to pursue some of the seemingly endless taxpayer dollars pipelined through Washington by designating Southern slang, or Hickbonics," as a language to be taught in all Southern schools.

The following are excerpts from the Hickbonics/English dictionary:

HEIDI - (noun) - Greeting.

HIRE YEW - Complete sentence. Remainder of greeting.

Usage: Heidi, Hire yew?"

BARD - (verb) - Past tense of the infinitive "to borrow."

Usage: "My brother bard my pickup truck."

JAWJUH - (noun) - The State north of Florida. Capitol is Lanner.

Usage: "My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck."

BAMMER - (noun) - The State west of Jawjuh. Capitol is Berminhayum.

Usage: "A tornader jes went through Bammer an' left $20,000,000 in improvements."

MUNTS - (noun) - A calendar division.

Usage: "My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck, and I ain't herd from him in munts."

THANK - (verb) - Ability to cognitively process.

Usage: "Ah thank ah'll have a bare."

BARE - (noun) - An alcoholic beverage made of barley, hops, and yeast.

Usage: " Ah thank ah'll have a bare."

IGNERT - (adjective) - Not smart. See "Arkansas native."

Usage: "Them bammer boys sure are ignert!"

RANCH - (noun) - A tool used for tight'nin' bolts.

Usage: "I thank I left my ranch in the back of that pickup truck my brother from Jawjuh bard a few munts ago."

ALL - (noun) - A petroleum-based lubricant.

Usage: "I sure hope my brother from Jawjuh puts all in my pickup truck."

FAR - (noun) - A conflagration.

Usage: "If my brother from Jawjuh don't change the all in my pickup truck,that thing's gonna catch far."

TAR - (noun) - A rubber wheel.

Usage: "Gee, I hope that brother of mine from Jawjuh don't git a flat tar in my pickup truck."

TIRE - (noun) - A tall monument.

Usage: "Lord willin' and the creek don't rise, I sure do hope to see that Eiffel Tire in Paris sometime."

RETARD - (verb) - To stop working.

Usage: "My grampaw retard at age 65."

FAT - (noun), (verb) - a battle or combat; to engage in battle or combat.

Usage: "You younguns keep fat'n, n' ah'm gonna whup y'uh."

RATS - (noun) - Entitled power or privilege.

Usage: "We Southerners are willin' to fat for are rats."

FARN - (adjective) - Not domestic.

Usage: "I cuddint unnerstand a wurd he sed, must be from some farn country."

DID - (adjective) - Not alive.

Usage: "He's did, Jim."

EAR - (noun) - A colorless, odorless gas: Oxygen.

Usage: "He cain't breathe...give 'im some ear!"

BOB WAR - (noun) - A sharp, twisted cable.

Usage: "Boy, stay away from that bob war fence."

JEW HERE - (noun) and (verb) contraction.

Usage: "Jew here that my brother from Jawjuh got a job with that bob war fence cump'ny?"

HAZE - a contraction.

Usage: "Is Bubba smart?" "Nah...haze ignert. He ain't thanked but a minnit'n his laf."

SEED - (verb) - past tense of "to see."

VIEW - contraction "have you": (verb) and pronoun.

Usage: "I ain't never seed New York City... view?"

GUBMINT - (noun) - A bureaucratic institution.

Usage: "Them gubmint boys shore is ignert."