Southern Women

[Teresa]

SOUTHERN WOMEN

Southern women appreciate their natural assets:
Clean skin.
A winning smile.
That unforgettable Southern drawl.


Southern women know their manners:
"Yes, ma'am."
"Yes, sir."
"Why, no, Billy!"


Southern women have a distinct way with fond expressions:
"Y'all come back!"
"Well, bless your heart."
"Drop by when you can"
"How's your Momma?"


Southern women know their summer weather report:
Humidity
Humidity
Humidity

Southern women know everybody's first name:
Honey
Darlin'
Shugah


Southern women know the movies that speak to their hearts:
Fried Green Tomatoes
Driving Miss Daisy
Steel Magnolias
Gone With The Wind


Southern women know their religions:
Baptist
Methodist
Football


Southern women know their country breakfasts:
Red-eye gravy
Grits
Eggs
Country ham
Mouth-watering homemade biscuits with momma's homemade jelly

Southern women know their cities dripping with Southern charm: Charleston (Chawl'stn)
Savannah (S'vanah)
Fort Worth (Foat Wuth)
New Orleans (N'awlins)
Atlanta (Addlanna)


Southern girls know the four deadly sins:
Having bad hair and nails
Having bad manners
Cooking bad food
Wearing too much makeup in the summer
Southern girls know men may come and go, but friends are fahevah!

If you're a Northern transplant, Bless your little heart, fake it.
We know you got here as fast as you could.....!!!

 

[Mango]

Tootsie: Is this Southern night? I saw your other thread.
Funny, a gullfriend sent me that a few months ago.
Question though? What do you call a Native new Yorker who calls SoWal home too? A Snotherner?

I should start thread about things I had to get used to. Having bought 3 years ago, initially it was defintely a culture shock for me.

1) Took me a while to accept and like someone calling me Ma'am.
2) That Southern people bring gifts to weddings, and Northerners cash rolled up in a cannolli.
3) My initial shock when we wet to get breakfast sandwich locally in SoWal and was asked if I wanted any gizzards with that.
4) That we were on Southern time, and things were a lot slower paced vs. N.Y.
5) Y'all vs. Yo in New York
6) That Southern men have hair still in their 40's.
7) That people were very polite.

I have grown to really love it all.

 

[Teresa]

Tootsie: Is this Southern night? I saw your other thread.
Funny, a gullfriend sent me that a few months ago.
Question though? What do you call a Native new Yorker who calls SoWal home too? A Snotherner?

I should start thread about things I had to get used to. Having bought 3 years ago, initially it was defintely a culture shock for me.

1) Took me a while to accept and like someone calling me Ma'am.
2) That Southern people bring gifts to weddings, and Northerners cash rolled up in a cannolli.
3) My initial shock when we wet to get breakfast sandwich locally in SoWal and was asked if I wanted any gizzards with that.
4) That we were on Southern time, and things were a lot slower paced vs. N.Y.
5) Y'all vs. Yo in New York
6) That Southern men have hair still in their 40's.
7) That people were very polite.

I have grown to really love it all.

I still don't like to be called Ma'am,, and I was raised saying it to "older" people. guess that's why its always been a shocker when someone calls me ma'am - I don't feel like a ma'am... but I do say "ya'll" every other word. something they left out here, is whenever you meet someone new, you ask: what church do you go to? I love saying "I'm Catholic, but I don't go to church..." many southerners won't like any part of that answer.

 

[DD]

Mango, come to Texas and you'll see lots of other stuff you never heard of!!

 

[Mango]

Mango, come to Texas and you'll see lots of other stuff you never heard of!!

Been to Texas a few times. I couldn't get over seeing a church every other block. :shock: My hands got tired making the sign of the cross.
My sis lives there.

 

[DD]

Been to Texas a few times. I couldn't get over seeing a church every other block. :shock:

Yep, forgot your sister lives here, huh? Yes, we're definitely in the bible belt.

 

[Mango]

I still don't like to be called Ma'am,, and I was raised saying it to "older" people. guess that's why its always been a shocker when someone calls me ma'am - I don't feel like a ma'am... but I do say "ya'll" every other word. something they left out here, is whenever you meet someone new, you ask: what church do you go to? I love saying "I'm Catholic, but I don't go to church..." many southerners won't like any part of that answer.

That's how I felt initially, but I realized that it was just a sign of respect by Southerners when people older than me called me Ma'am.
Guess it is just what Southerner refer to a lady as.

 

[dbuck]

Mango, the south is also referred to as "The Bible Belt," that's the reason there is a church on every corner.

 

[DD]

We need lots of divine intervention!

 

[Mango]

Mango, the south is also referred to as "The Bible Belt," that's the reason there is a church on every corner.

You mean there really isn't a belt designed to hold a Bible?