May 31, 2012
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Twanglish Lessons is your semi-regular, bi-weekly guide to mastering the finer points of the Official Language of the South. Remember, it’s not English; it’s Twanglish.
I’m sure most of these young ‘uns today would think “poke” is something you do on the Facebooks.
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May 30, 2012
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The only way you could simplify fishing any more than using a cane pole would be to just tie a line on a stick. But an oak branch or maple sapling could never capture the perfectly pragmatic spirit of the cane pole.
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May 28, 2012
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We at Real Southern Men wish to salute the bold and the brave who gave their lives to protect the dream of American freedom.
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May 25, 2012
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Twanglish Lessons is your official guide to mastering the finer points of the Official Language of the South. Remember, it’s not English; it’s Twanglish.
This week’s Twanglish Lesson is more controversial than we would have thought. Controversial because not everyone in the South has heard it.
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March 4, 2012
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In order to give our new readers a taste of everything RSM can be, we’re going to cycle through some of our most popular stories from the past eleven months, moving them up to the top of the front page.
In case you’re too impatient to wait for those, here are some links:
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May 23, 2012
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Southern men are notorious for playing hurt. What’s a half sawn-off thumb, a dangling ear or a broken leg to keep a man from doing what he needs to do?
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May 21, 2012
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Apparently, the state of Oklahoma is working hard to get themselves declared officially Southern. According to today’s Tulsa World, the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation is adding shotgun training to their existing offerings in the state’s schools. A program called Archery in the Schools is already in 310 schools statewide, and now shotguns are next. [...]
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May 16, 2012
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If you live outside the state of Florida, you may not even know the name Henry Flagler. If you live anywhere along Florida’s Atlantic coast, however, the name Flagler is unavoidable. There’s Flagler Beach, Flagler College, Flagler County and countless other institutions, both private and public, named for Henry Flagler. But who was he?
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May 15, 2012
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Filmmaker David Adams brings us a visual example of Twanglish at work in Clanton, Alabama.
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May 10, 2012
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Twanglish Lessons is your bi-weekly guide to mastering the finer points of the Official Language of the South. Remember, it’s not English; it’s Twanglish.
Today’s Twanglish Lesson is also a bit of a Real Southern Geography lesson.
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May 8, 2012
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Twanglish Lessons is your bi-weekly guide to the mastering the finer points of the Official Language of the South. Remember, it’s not English; it’s Twanglish.
Today’s Twanglish Lesson is about one of those “bless your heart” moments in life.
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May 7, 2012
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It may not be a universal rule of Southern manhood, but if you look at the Southern men who have had the most impact on the history of the world — Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Z.Z. Top, Charlie Daniels and the like — they all have one thing in common: a thick, manly beard.
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May 3, 2012
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The worst thing that could ever happen to a boy in my coastal Alabama elementary school was to get a new pair of shoes.
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May 2, 2012
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These days, kids wear running shoes, trail shoes, skate shoes, cross-trainers and those weird monkey-toe glove thingies that look like an error in evolution.
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April 30, 2012
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We started with 68 Southern Sweets, but when it came down to the final two, it was really no contest. Sweet Tea, that ultimate Southern drink, handily defeated Nanner Puddin’, garnering more than 81% of the vote. It’s no wonder that drinking the sugary nectar of Southern gods is one of the steps in our [...]
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Twanglish Lesson: Poke (featuring Tony Joe White)
Real Southern Rules: Cane Pole Fishin’
In Memoriam
