"Big-Foot/Bigfoot Land"

[Peter A. McGraw]

Or is the stress different on the one that means the South?  I.e., is the
South "Big-FOOT-Land" (where people have big feet), vs. "BIGfoot Land" (the
Northwest, where the Sasquatch roams)?

Peter Mc.

--On Friday, November 5, 2004 10:13 AM -0800 FRITZ JUENGLING
<juengling_fritz at SALKEIZ.K12.OR.US> wrote:

> Big-foot Land--the South?  Dang, I thought you were talking about ORegon,
> Washington, and BC. Fritz
>
>>>> wilson.gray at RCN.COM 11/04/04 08:27PM >>>
> 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.



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