My Mema used to say "Sure as a dog in Georgia" when she wanted you to know she wasn't foolin'. Or if someone did something very fast it was "Like Grant through Richmond". She also said she would measure our heads for knots! But she never did even spank a one of us girls. And when she was having a bad hair day, she said she "looked like the tail-end of bad luck with worse commin'up!" I miss my Mema. She was a hoot!