Exactly, how far away is over yonder?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

anybody know

[OffWithTheirHeads]

1. As the crow flies or hop skip and jump?

[Scuba]

2. Well, it's not in this neck of the woods.

[pipi_k]

3. I always thought it was

just this side of "down the road a spell"

[TrogL]

4. approximately 40 miles

[caraher]

5. A fair piece

Definitely much longer than a hop, skip and a jump

[DryHump]

6. Over yonder equals

the cumulative distance from the set of clotheslines in your yard, the crick (creek) and that first dirt dirt road right there.

[Iggo]

7. Half-a-league...

...or about a knot short of a hectare.

[OxQQme]

8. Twice the distance

to under yonder.

Over yonder was commonly used by my neighbors back in the days when I lived 5 miles up a county road.
The definition I bring from there is, "Just the other side of the creek, but not to the top of the hill."

[NV Whino]

9. I don't know, but I think there is a hill involved.

[Bucky]

10. About yay far.

Or pert'near

[dixiegrrrrl]

36. which is close to .."apiece"

as in " you go down this road apiece till you are pert near the package store, then go left. It's over yonder by the bridge"

[HopeHoops]

11. You have to convert that to furlongs per fortnight.

[Wounded Bear]

12. It's not as far as way over yonder, I know that....

It's more of a direction than a distance, anyway.

You have to point when you say "over yonder." And if you're going there, I wouldn't start from here.

[sharkman25]

23. Ding. Ding. Ding. Winner! N/t

[AsahinaKimi]

13. See dem trees way over dare??

and then just a bit farther between those trees by dat house is over yonder...

[grntuscarora]

14. To be precise, just over the river,

then through the woods.

[Art_from_Ark]

16. To grandmother's house we go

[pipi_k]

18. I bet

the horse knows the way...

[Art_from_Ark]

19. To carry the sleigh

through the Franken-storming snow-ow

[femmocrat]

15. Just past where the old church used to be.

[MiddleFingerMom]

17. It don't matter none cuz you can't get there from here, anyways.

[texanwitch]

20. Where old outfit lives.

When I was little I thought old outfit was a real person.

[dimbear]

21. I'm not really sure if it's ermine or mink or chinchilla, but it's

a fur piece.

[petronius]

22. A mite less'n a country mile, unless you're draggin' an ornery mule...

[Lady Freedom Returns]

24. A yonder is just over a hauler.

Why ya askin?

[sarge43]

29. But not as fer as a hoot 'n' hauler n/t

[JoeyT]

25. It's a fair walk.

What you wanna do is go down where the Walker's house use to be...They died oh...going on about fifty years ago now. House burned down a little after, it's all growed up now. Their son Jimmy moved away to the big city, don't know what came of him after that. Nothin good prolly, nothin ever does. So you go down past the Walker's house and take a left where the creek used to run before them bastards over in Latimer dammed it up and ruined all our fishin. Used to be some fine bream in that creek, yessiree. I spent many an afternoon as a youngun catchin dinner. You'll know you're where the creek used to run when you see the big tree. So you take that left and you're gonna walk a piece, maybe bout a mile until you see where the old store used to be, just a growed over slab of concrete now, and you'll take a right. Walk maybe two more miles and you'll be over yonder. Or was it a right where the old creek used to be?

I used to hate getting directions in the South.

[sarge43]

32. Old New England style

Yah take Livermoor Rud ta Booger Sanborne's place, then follah the lumber rud ta the cemetery then cross the brook then it's jest a piece up Mt Pierce.

As flatlander drives away,

"Hiram, you jest got that fool lost but good."

"Ayup I did, Jake. He wash back down come mud season."

[dixiegrrrrl]

37. and you nailed it!!!!!

It's even more fun when there are TWO people giving directions and correctong each other as they go along.

[RedCloud]

26. You can only get there tomorrow by walking. NEVER today.

[Marymarg]

27. Must be here.

Just this side of the point at which you can't so any further.

[Smickey]

28. It's wherever you.....aint.

[sarge43]

30. It's not at the end of the earth, but you can it from there n/t

[Ptah]

31. Halfway between Maui and California.

[lastlib]

33. It's a pretty fur piece......

...futher away than "just up yonder", but not as fur as "WAY over yonder".....


Hope that helps.

[flying_wahini]

34. It's a fur piece but not as far as the drop edge of yonder.

[In_The_Wind]

35. I reckon it's just over there ~

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