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11-13-2004, 09:59 PM
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Cute list, especially #23!
Actually, no one I know uses "y'all" as singular, so I would consider that wrong.
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Cosign. Y'all is plural, as in two of the four of y'all in attendance. All y'all means that all four of y'all better be there!!
As for he needed killin', I can totally understand that. Just yesterday, when the Scott Peterson verdict came down, I heard two or three people say, "He needs killin'," in response. I agreed.
And while I'm on my shoebox, when will Northerners learn that putting sugar into iced tea is NOT sweet tea?!?!?!? If I can't have sweet tea, I'll take it plain, thank you!
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11-13-2004, 11:21 PM
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And while I'm on my shoebox, when will Northerners learn that putting sugar into iced tea is NOT sweet tea?!?!?!? If I can't have sweet tea, I'll take it plain, thank you!
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I take it that it's easy to get sweet tea in Pittsburgh? 
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11-13-2004, 11:56 PM
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And while I'm on my shoebox, when will Northerners learn that putting sugar into iced tea is NOT sweet tea?!?!?!? If I can't have sweet tea, I'll take it plain, thank you!
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I wondered when someone would say something about that. I don't know how, but I understand that there is a special way of "brewing" Sweet Tea which includes adding the sweetener early and boiling the tea slowly or something. It isn't just adding a lot of sugar.
Anyone who knows how care to explain how it's made?
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11-14-2004, 12:33 AM
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I have my own secrets.  Someone else care to share?
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11-14-2004, 03:30 AM
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I am not SSS1365 but I gotta represent Southern VA!  I grew up in Virginia Beach. My mom still lives there
But SisMadly this list is SO true!
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what part of southern VA did you grow up in? I grew up in Suffolk....
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11-14-2004, 08:12 AM
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Re: Tips for Northerners Moving to the South
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13. The first Southern expression to creep into a transplanted Northerner's vocabulary is the adjective "Big ol'", as in "big ol' truck" or "big ol' boy." Eighty-five percent begin their new Southern- influenced dialect with this expression. One hundred percent are in denial about it.
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I will actually admit to this, it's true!
And I have yet to find one native southerner that can pronounce my daughter's name correctly...but then again, there's enough Mexicans here to make up for that.
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11-14-2004, 08:38 AM
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Originally posted by DeltAlum
I wondered when someone would say something about that. I don't know how, but I understand that there is a special way of "brewing" Sweet Tea which includes adding the sweetener early and boiling the tea slowly or something. It isn't just adding a lot of sugar.
Anyone who knows how care to explain how it's made?
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The only thing that I know about sweet tea is that if you add the sugar before it cools, whenit cools, the sugar stays mixed with the tea. Also, for those truly obsessed with sweet tea done right (my Dad was after he went to Tulane,) make ice cubes out of the sweet tea. When you add the ice cubes, as they melt, the sweet tea doesn't dilute.
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11-14-2004, 08:45 AM
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Southern transplant
I was a northerner who moved to the South when I was 16 years old. We moved all over the place b/c Dad was in the military and his last assignment was in the Florida panhandle (Lower Alabama). I went to school in Alabama and learned so much. Seventeen years later, I still choose to live here and can appreciate many of those comments. I had to laugh when I went to Ohio for a conference. A friend from Louisiana and I were talking; the director stopped for a second, and asked us a few questions. We asked her why, and she said she just loved hearing our southern accents!! My family in Colorado always teases me about my developed accent as well.
So I thought I would offer a few tips from my own experience!
1) No, that is not cream of wheat. They are called grits, and you do not put sugar on them.
2) Do not be surprised if some of the first questions folks will ask you include:
a. if you are kin to so and so
b. what church you attend
3) men will hold the doors open for you
and to quote a great song...
4) We say Grace and we say Ma'am.
I love it here!
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11-14-2004, 09:29 AM
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I take it that it's easy to get sweet tea in Pittsburgh?
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Honestly, it's IMPOSSIBLE. I never found a decent glass during the short time we lived there.
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11-14-2004, 11:52 AM
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Re: Re: Tips for Northerners Moving to the South
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Originally posted by AlphaFrog
I will actually admit to this, it's true!
And I have yet to find one native southerner that can pronounce my daughter's name correctly...but then again, there's enough Mexicans here to make up for that.
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Is it mahr-ee-ah-nah??
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11-14-2004, 12:05 PM
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what part of southern VA did you grow up in? I grew up in Suffolk....
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A little town called Farmville, which is about an hour west of Richmond. Of course I don't have even a hint of a southern accent, so people don't believe me when I say I'm from there.
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11-14-2004, 12:07 PM
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Always enjoyed being from the Middle of the USA.
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Would go South and people would love to hear My Nothern accent.
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Would go North and people would love to hear My Southern accent.
What is great, I have always seemed to pick up the local accent withing a short period of time and talk like a Native! 
Ah life is good. Dont travel anymore though! 
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11-14-2004, 01:02 PM
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Honestly, it's IMPOSSIBLE. I never found a decent glass during the short time we lived there.
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You've got to go to Manchester or the North Side. I've been to some places in the Hill District that have it too.
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11-14-2004, 02:47 PM
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Re: Tips for Northerners Moving to the South
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4. If you do run your car into a ditch, don't panic. Four men in the cab of a four-wheel drive with a 12-pack of beer and a tow chain will be along shortly. Don't try to help them. Just stay out of their way. This is what they live for.
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that is so funny. and in a lot of places in the South, it is very true
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11-14-2004, 02:55 PM
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I take it that it's easy to get sweet tea in Pittsburgh?
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No, it's darn near impossible! That's why I spend as much time as possible on the road! It's funny, PhoenixAzul, but I was going to mention a place on the North Side that does it right, too!
As for the how to make it, we use a sugar syrup at home. It's not quite so gritty that way.
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