> Here are some expressions my more rural relatives use:
>
> "I haven't seen you in a coon's age!"
>
> "I haven't seen you since Hector was a pup!" (I don't get this one. Something about the Odyssey, I think.)
>
> "She's happy as a pig in s***."
>
> "I was spitting nails." (was angry)
>
> "Grampaw's drunk as a lord."
>
> Eh, that's all I can think of now. But there are plenty more I haven't heard outside of Pennsylvania.

You've never been where I am then. I live in New York and people here say some of those all the time. I think the only one I haven't heart is the Hector one. Unfortunately I can't think of any local expressions or colloquialisms. Give me a day or two, I might think of some...

Mel"Neither redheaded nor a step-child"anie