I "Cotton" to Rob!

One of the things I love about chatting with people from different areas of the United States, and well this Twilight thing has taken me international now, is hearing different phrases of speech and expressions slipped in during conversation.

Just last week Jelena from Twiholic told me this blog was exactly "her cup of tea." What a lovely compliment! And I actually know what that expression means!

Recently I was emailing a few of my wonderful mentors/ friends in TEXAS who are not Twilight fans (not yet, anyway!) and I had gotten into the habit of including a picture of Rob on the bottom of my email. I usually made a little note saying how hot he was because I like to share!

One of said mentors, who is really one of the spunkiest young-at-heart, Maxine-loving women I have ever met wrote me back saying,

"I don't really "cotton" to that guy in the pic, but there are CERTAIN things about him that remind me of a very young Elvis, and I definitely liked him!"

Err....what? 

Okay so I admit I'm a little green and since entering Twitardia and then finding fanfiction my mind has definitely reserved itself a room in a sleazy Motel Gutter 8.

Ms. Mentor-like and I have never met in real life but I know she's a real pisser. So I'm thinking does that mean what I think it means? 

Did she just tell me that the picture of Rob isn't enough to cream her panties to?

So I asked her, and apparently it is just an expression. I pulled my mind up from the gutter smutshack long enough to decide yes I guess I have heard that expression before just not in terms of Rob! She also went on to tell me a lovely Texan expression that when something is done easily they say, "It was like putting socks on a rooster!"  (Hopefully I got that right because it sounds backwards to me!)

So I got another one from MamaTwied (not my mama!) who said that back in her day they would have said, "That boy hangs the moon for me!" I looooooooooooooooove that! Isn't that cute?

With texting and twitter I wonder if all these expressions will eventually be lost? Who has time to text out long expressions? We speak short and to the point now (well not me, I'm freakkin loquacious!) but what do we say about our guys? Anything centered around "hot!"

So tell me, do you have any of those expressions that you grew up with that would fit in? Ask your mom! Ask your grandma! Like I said, I love to hear new (old) phrases like that and I might surely use them because there are only so many variations of HAWT and HOT to use for Rob that I already feel like I'm running out!

Yeah Rob, you are exactly my cup of tea, you hang the moon and the stars for me, and OH HOLY HAWTNESS YES I "cotton" to you!

Meet you in our usual room at the Sleazy Motel Gutter 8!

***Love to my Texan chickadees*** -TT