A Primer on Southern Belles

nowplayingEDRN · Jul 9, 2003

Hehehehehehehehe! That was awsum dahlin.....now I think I'll be fixin to have sum biscuts n'gravy.

eltrip · Jul 9, 2003

Thank you, sugah!

Ah have some friends who live in Ohio & they just go on & on about my suthern accent. Bless their hearts, they think names like "Chickamauga" sound funny but it hasn't occurred to them that names like "Maumee" & "Scioto" sound pretty funny to us in this part of the country!

krispynurse · Jul 9, 2003

Thank you darling eltrip. Sugar I guess I am considered on of those that belong in that there classification of G.R.I.T.S. being from Texas and all. I have been told I have a drawl even though I don't hear it. I completely understood everything that you talked about above. There are a couple of things that I can add though some people don't know what the back forty are, what cow-tipping is, or what the good ole boys are doing when they go out and go stump-breaking but a real Southern person will understand these terms. I even worked with this wonderful Canadian (no offense Canada) nurse that we even had to explain what a post hole digger was? We were trying to tell her it was one of the best tools to use in reference to killing a snake. :eek: :)

funnygirl_rn · Jul 9, 2003

An oldie but goodie!!! Thank ya kindly mame'!

jnette, ASN, EMT-I · Jul 9, 2003

Woooooooooot !!!

Eltrip, that was GREAT, and boy, can I relate ! See, I'm not just a regular ol' yankee, but one of thos DAMN yankees ! (the kind who don't go back home, but STAY !) So bless my lil' ol' heart, after 20 years here, I am STILL finding new things (words) I've not heard of yet... yup, never ate buiscuits 'n gravy 'til I moved here or pinto beans, or (YUM!) fried/wilted lettuce 'n onions ! Still can't stomach cornbread, tho'... OR the "swanee"... just goes all over me like hitting the wrong key on a piano. And I hear every BIT of what you had there on a dailey basis ...and then some ! Did you know that men carry "pocketbooks" ? Yup. Instead of wallets/billfolds. My hubby calls cheese "them cheese" as in "where'd ya put them cheese?"

Hee.

And yeppers, I was one of those (bless my heart) who said that about my "young'uns" when we moved down here..." OMG, my kids are going to TALK like THIS????" :eek: Well, guess what? Now when I visit my sis, she says "geeeeeeeeesh, you sure do sound like THEM !" :rotfl: I love it. Wouldn't go back for love or money.

nowplayingEDRN · Jul 10, 2003

Well bless my heart, I know what a post hole digger, cow tippin' and the back 40 are. I eat biscuts n'gravy andadore colla'd greens n'corn bread. So tell me, how'd I get stuck north of the Mason-Dixon line?? I am a'fixin to go up and git my daughter so I'll quit a'for a case of the vapors sets in and I swoon!

CardioTrans, BSN, RN · Jul 12, 2003

Oh and don't forget "I do declare"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! said in my best scarlett o hara voice of course........ wouldnt live anywhere else but right here in Bama