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Sequoia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 06:36 PM
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The GRITS Guide to Life (1950s throwback for women)
Edited on Tue May-01-07 06:38 PM by Sequoia
The Grits (Girls Raised In The South) Guide to Life (Paperback)
by Deborah Ford
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41XG7VJKZFL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

I got this for a birthday present and nearly got an ulcer reading some of the crap about how women in the south ought to be and act. Real cute, some might say, but for me it was a primer on how to be a 1950s woman all over again. Crap like; how to get and keep a man, and how he cherishes his "cocktail hour" and knows how to BBQ but no southern women cooks outside...WTF! Oh, and here's a gem...southerners care about family and that's why after the Civil War ex-slave women looked for their children. Yeah, you old cow, children your damn people enslaved and sold so don't get on your high horse with me. If you want to cringe and throw things against the wall this is the trash for you. TRASH, TRASH, TRASH, and it isn't cute at all. Who wants to be a dumb souther belle bitch who only cares about how to get and keep a good ole boy who runs around and cheats on you but you gotta stand by your man 'cause sometimes it's hard to be a woman with a good timing man. Once I got out of high school that was it for me and to be a woman like that is a living hell.
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ret5hd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 06:42 PM
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1. I guess the lil' woman got all upset...
now you just sit down 'afore you get the vapors, ya' hear? You want a mint julip honey?
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1620rock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 06:53 PM
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2. It sounds like a guide for Rebublic women.
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ret5hd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 06:58 PM
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3. Sounds like a guide to drive women to suicide. (nt)
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 07:18 PM
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5. "Why don't you make a pitcher for both of us"
is the next line.

Thanks for reminding me why I LEFT.
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Sequoia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-02-07 10:50 AM
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6. Why, thank yu, and how 'bout some fried okra with that.
Most of it's in fun and hey, those buttermilk biscits with red eye gravy...yummy!
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Manifestor_of_Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-04-07 12:25 AM
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7. Get Aunt Pittypat her smelling salts.
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-01-07 07:09 PM
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4. That Deborah Ford? She's got a pretty face but it's too bad
she let herself go. Bless her heart!
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Wiregrass Willie Donating Member (436 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-05-07 06:09 AM
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8. Away down yonder ...

In that same genre, I got a kick out of ---

"We're Just Like You only Prettier"
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