"Big-Foot/Bigfoot Land"

[Beverly Flanigan]

This is totally unrelated to anything, but Wilson's "the point is that"
reminded me of two alternate constructions:  "the point being that" and
"the reason being that."  How common are these, and is there any regional
siting for them (I doubt it, but--)?

At 11:27 PM 11/4/2004, you wrote:
>I didn't find these in HDAS or in DARE.
>
>Big-Foot Land : the South; the point is that, since Southern blacks go
>barefooted, they have bigger feet than their shoe-wearing Northern
>relatives.
>
>The Cotton Curtain : the Mason-Dixon Line in its extended meaning.
>
>Behind the sun : down South; over 60,000 Google hits (this is also the
>title of an R&B instrumental recorded before 1957 by at least two
>different bands, the name of a vocal by the Red-Hot Chili Peppers, the
>English title of a Brazilian movie, etc., etc.) reduced to one AMG
>cite. However, the earliest AMG cite, 1959, is too recent to be the
>record used as a themesong by a local St. Louis DJ ca.1953.
>
>Above the magnolias : up North.
>
>I know that this info may be worthless without any dates, except for
>AMG's too-recent date of 1959. But, "what the hell, eh?" as a Canadian
>friend says.