[LNewman]

AND REMEMBER: If you do settle in the South and bear children, don't think we will accept them as Southerners. After all, if the cat had kittens in the oven, we wouldn't call them biscuits.

I'm right THERE with that! In So. Cal. we are LOUSEY with KITTENS, oven and otherwise. It's base stupid.

NOW ... motoring on to be FLAMEworthy. ;)

BLESS YOUR HEART

A Southerner can get away with the most awful insult, just as long as it is accompanied by the words "Bless her heart" or "Bless his heart." As in, " If they put his brain on the head of a pin, it'd roll around like a BB on a six-lane highway, bless his heart." Or, "She's so bucktoothed, she could eat an apple through a picket fence, bless her heart."

It ain't mine though I concur. It's attributed to Celia Rivenbark ... something that was forwarded and pertinent.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Ya got that right! The Bless Yer Heart phrase is an easy out. You could really flame someone on FR and be okay so long as you add it in the...