Re: Southern Women
Posted: August 9th, 2009, 11:04 pm
I think if you went downstate of Chicago, you'd be fine with the use of ma'am and sir.
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You're probably right about that. I have a couple of co-workers who commute from IL. One has lived several places in the South and has commented that S. Illinois is very similar to AL and AR in many respects.Lavabe wrote:I think if you went downstate of Chicago, you'd be fine with the use of ma'am and sir.
My wife's parents have two or three cousins in common. The closest relation in common, though, is that her father's first cousin is her mother's third cousin, so it doesn't REALLY count. My wife also has a pair of distant cousins who are "into" each other. They're either first or second cousins to each other, I forget which. Nice.colchar wrote:CathyCA wrote: _____
Put 100 Southerners in a room and half of them will discover they're related, even if only by marriage.
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You'll also find that those southerners in the room who are married to each other were related, often closely related, before they actually got married.
Someone asked for a pimp smiley? ;)captmojo wrote:What type of lady would one find in East St. Louis? You know, the ones right alongside the river.
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Not sure the guy above would pass for a pimp. We don't have a pimp smilie.
Jerry Lee Lewis was the only other one I knew.Miles wrote:Wow. Check out the list of cousin couples:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin_couple
bjornolf wrote:Jerry Lee Lewis was the only other one I knew.Miles wrote:Wow. Check out the list of cousin couples:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin_couple
When I saw the list, I figured out where they got the name. (How embarrassing for me.colchar wrote:bjornolf wrote:Jerry Lee Lewis was the only other one I knew.Miles wrote:Wow. Check out the list of cousin couples:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin_couple
Josiah Bartlett was on that list. I always knew there was something wrong with the prez in West Wing.
I think most Southerners reject West Virginia because it became a state by abandoning them (it split from Virginia) when it came time for secession before the Civil War.Turk wrote:I think West by God Virginia is Southern in attitude and maybe dialect, but not in cuisine or climate.
You mean, the War Between the States, right?bjornolf wrote:I think most Southerners reject West Virginia because it became a state by abandoning them (it split from Virginia) when it came time for secession before the Civil War.Turk wrote:I think West by God Virginia is Southern in attitude and maybe dialect, but not in cuisine or climate.
You mean, The war of Northern Aggression, right?Lavabe wrote:You mean, the War Between the States, right?bjornolf wrote:
I think most Southerners reject West Virginia because it became a state by abandoning them (it split from Virginia) when it came time for secession before the Civil War.
The War of Northern Aggression is what I always heard it referred to.captmojo wrote:You mean, The war of Northern Aggression, right?Lavabe wrote:You mean, the War Between the States, right?bjornolf wrote:
I think most Southerners reject West Virginia because it became a state by abandoning them (it split from Virginia) when it came time for secession before the Civil War.