
Southern women know their summer weather report:
Humidity
Humidity
Humidity
Southern women know their vacation spots:
The beach
The rivuh
The crick
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 cities dripping with Southern charm:
Chawl’stn
S’vanah
Foat Wuth
N’awlins
Addlanna
Southern women know their elegant gentlemen:
Men in uniform
Men in tuxedos
Rhett Butler
Southern girls know their prime real estate:
The Mall
The Spa
The Beauty Salon
Southern girls know the 3 deadly sins:
Having bad hair and nails
Having bad manners
Cooking bad food
More Suthen-ism’s:
Only a Southerner knows the difference between a hissie fit and a
conniption fit, and that you don’t “HAVE” them,
you “PITCH” them.
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Only a Southerner knows how many fish, collard greens, turnip greens,
peas, beans, etc., make up “a mess.”
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Only a Southerner can show or point out to you the general direction
of “yonder.”
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Only a Southerner knows exactly how long “directly” is, as in:
“Going to town, be back drekly (directly).”
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Even Southern babies know that “Gimme some sugar” is not a request for
the white, granular, sweet substance that sits in a pretty little bowl
in the middle of the table.
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All Southerners know exactly when “by and by” is. They might not use
the term, but they know the concept well.
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Only a Southerner knows instinctively that the best gesture of solace
for a neighbor who’s got trouble is a plate of hot fried chicken and a
big bowl of cold potato salad.
If the neighbor’s trouble is a real crisis, they also know to add a
large banana puddin’!
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Only Southerners grow up knowing the difference between “right near” and
“a right far piece.” They also know that “just down the road” can be 1
mile or 20.
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Only a Southerner both knows and understands the difference between a
redneck, a good ol’ boy, and po’ white trash.
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No true Southerner would ever assume that the car with the flashing
turn signal is actually going to make a turn.
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A Southerner knows that “fixin” can be used as a noun, a verb, or an
adverb.
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Only Southerners make friends while st andi ng in lines, … and when Heres one proof of my Southern-ness
we’re “in line,”… we talk to everybody!
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Put 100 Southerners in a room and half of them will discover they’re
related, even if only by marriage.
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In the South, y’all is singular, all y’all is plural.
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Southerners know grits come from corn and how to eat them.
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Every Southerner knows tomatoes with eggs, bacon, grits, and coffee
are perfectly wonderful; that red eye gravy is also a breakfast food;
and that fried green tomatoes are not a breakfast food.
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When you hear someone say, “Well, I caught myself lookin’,” you know
you are in the presence of a genuine
Southerner!
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Only true Southerners say “sweet tea” and “sweet milk.” Sweet tea Sweet milk and corn bred!Ummm Ummm!
indicates the need for sugar and lots of it — we do not like our tea
unsweetened. “Sweet milk” means you don’t want buttermilk.
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And a true Southerner knows you don’t scream obscenities at little old
ladies who drive 30 MPH on the freeway.
You just say,”Bless her heart”… and go your own way.
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To those of you who are still a little embarrassed by your
Southerness: Take two tent revivals and a dose of sausage gravy and
call me in the morning. Bless your heart!
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And to those of you who are still having a hard time underst andi ng all
this Southern stuff…bless your hearts, I hear they are fixin’ to
have classes on Southernness as a second language!
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And for those that are not from the South but have lived here for a
long time, all y’all need a sign to hang on y’alls front porch that
reads “I’m not from the South, but I got here as fast as I could.”
Southern women know
men may come and go, but friends are fahevah !
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From my friend, KRISTI!