roll damn tide! | birmingham slang

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I'm not from Birmingham, and have never even been close, but this info from slanguage.com seems pretty consistent with what I've heard from people there. Enjoy!

• Da Ham - The Name of our fair city
• The Magic City - Birmingham's nickname after the steel industry died out.
• Bham - The proper way to spell the city's name when addressing an envelope
• Over the Mountain - Affluent area south of Birmingham on the other side of Red Mountain.
• The Met - The Hoover Metropolitan Stadium, home of the Birmingham Barons and Hoover High School Buccaneers
• The Grey Lady - Rickwood Field, former home of the Birmingham Barons
• The Stallions, Vulcans, Fire & Thunderbolts - Failed pro football teams
• The Bulls - Failed pro hockey team
• The Dome - Mythical building that will get pro hockey and football into the city
• Malfunction Junction - the interchange of I-65 and I-20/59
• Brookies - Derogatory term for people living in the upper-class, over-the-mountain city of Mountain Brook
• Vulcan - The statue of the Greek god of the forge which stands atop Red Mountain
• Moon Over Homewood - Vulcan's buttocks showing from under his loincloth over the upper middle-class, over-the-mountain city of Homewood
• Southside - The area between University Blvd and the crest of Red Mountain where the cool kids hang out.
• T-Town - Small town to the southwest of Birmingham
• Alabama - The University of Alabama (in T-Town)
• Bama - (See Alabama)
• The Tide - The University of Alabama football team
• Roll Damn Tide! - How we cheer the Tide. Also the proper way to say "goodbye" after a phone conversation. In fact, the only time this is not an acceptable phrase is at the end of a prayer in church. On that occasion, they use the standard "Ameyun."
• Cow college - Derogatory name for Auburn University
• Wawrrrrrrre Eeeee-Gull!!!! - How they cheer the Tigers (yeah, it doesn't make sense, what do you expect from a cow college)
• Goat Hill - Capitol Hill in Montgomery
• The Redneck Riviera - Gulf Shores, AL
• Pea See - Panama City, FL
• Coke - Can mean Coke, Pepsi, Mountain Dew, RC, 7 Up, Sprite, Dr. Pepper or Mr. Pibb
• Downinmuntgumry - Where the guvner resides. Always said as one word.
• Moe-BEE-uhl - The correct pronunciation of the largest Ala-freekin'-bama city on the Gulf Coast. Heavy emphasis on the middle syllable
• Remlap - A small town in Alabama. The story goes that the Palmer family settled a town called Palmerdale. When two of the Palmer brothers got into an argument, one brother moved eight miles down the road and started the town of Remlap. "Palmer" spelled backwards. It's on the map - just a few miles northeast of Bham.
• Cabahites - The correct Bamaspeak pronunciation of the Bham suburb of Cahaba Heights.
• Milo's - Local fast food chain with the best hamburgers in the world.