My Daughter has to sing this tomorrow

[Babs]

Come on, don't rip off Foxworthy.....do something more elaborate than that.

Wow. A Foxworthy fan. You really are a southern boy. You got a R.I.P. 3 sticker on the back of your extended-cab?

[SteelBlue]

I can't decide whether to be offended, upset, indifferent.

It looks like you went with 2/3.

[creekster]

Wow. A Foxworthy fan. You really are a southern boy. You got a R.I.P. 3 sticker on the back of your extended-cab?

He doesn't drvie a pick up, he drives a station wagon and makes fun of those of us that do drive pick-ups. SO he isn't a real southern boy.

[Surfah]

Wow. A Foxworthy fan. You really are a southern boy. You got a R.I.P. 3 sticker on the back of your extended-cab?

It says Cruisin' In Memory of The Intimidator.

[wuapinmon]

He doesn't drvie a pick up, he drives a station wagon and makes fun of those of us that do drive pick-ups. SO he isn't a real southern boy.

Again, you have me wrong. I don't make fun of people who drive F-150s. I just notice that a lot of people like Hallelujah drive F-150s, but not that all people who drive F-150s are like Hallelujah. It's like yall don't understand what I say.

[Babs]

It's like yall don't understand what I say.

HEY! Back off the y'all. That's my schtick! And you don't even know how to spell it. Southern, my ---.

[wuapinmon]

Wow. A Foxworthy fan. You really are a southern boy. You got a R.I.P. 3 sticker on the back of your extended-cab?

Now this is much better. No, I don't, but I did put a RIP #3 license-plate frame on my mom's car, upside down in half-staff fashion as a joke. Even better, we took it to Wal*Mart for an oil change, and they turned it right side up, even though it has nothing to do with an oil change.

[wuapinmon]

HEY! Back off the y'all. That's my schtick. And you don't even know how to spell it. Southern, my ---.

It's not schtick, that's how I talk. And, I know it has an apostrophe, but I omit it purposefully.

[Surfah]

Now this is much better. No, I don't, but I did put a RIP #3 license-plate frame on my mom's car, upside down in half-staff fashion as a joke. Even better, we took it to Wal*Mart for an oil change, and they turned it right side up, even though it has nothing to do with an oil change.

When he passed the local funeral parlor had a memorial service for Dale Sr. The turnout shut the roads down.

[Babs]

It's not schtick, that's how I talk.

oh, baloney. You'd better watch it 'cause I'm fixin' to get real mad.

[BoylenOver]

I think the song is unnecessarily divisive, does nothing to teach the children of the complexity of the situation (she was chosen to be the person to be arrested), is grammatically incorrect in several ways, and these are first-graders.

It's good to know why you're really upset, now.

First graders should be singing grammatically-correct songs. If you start them off on the wrong foot, God help us when they're trying to read Shakespeare in 8th grade.

[creekster]

Again, you have me wrong. I don't make fun of people who drive F-150s. I just notice that a lot of people like Hallelujah drive F-150s, but not that all people who drive F-150s are like Hallelujah. It's like yall don't understand what I say.

ARe you makin' fun of me? Ahm a gonna get mad if you are.

Francis, lighten up, I was just kidding.

[wuapinmon]

I am Southern.

I was born in Alabama, the #2 ranked Southern state in the country. From there I moved to Georgia, clearly the top Southern state of them all, according to any metric you want to use. I lived there until age 19, a two year stay in Costa Rica, back for another two years in Atlanta. Five years in the lone and dreary world of Utah, and then five years in Louisiana, only fifth ranked in Southerness, but still part of the Confederacy. From there to South Carolina, last in rankings due to sparse population and all those Yankees at Hilton Head and Myrtle Beach, but bold enough to fire first.

I eat grits. I think sweet cornbread and cole slaw are abominations. Coca-Cola is the only soft drink that matters and a pronoun for any other drink; I like Ted Turner; I like "Dixie;" I know all the words to "Georgia on my Mind;" I can impersonate a cacophony of katydids; I know what a crappie is; I get misty when Stonewall Jackson talks to Jim on Christmas Eve in Gods and Generals; I could go on and on.

The South is my favorite place I've ever been.

[Babs]

I think the song is unnecessarily divisive, does nothing to teach the children of the complexity of the situation (she was chosen to be the person to be arrested).

Actually, I did notice the inaccuracy of the story as depicted. Rosa didn't wake up one morning and say, "This isn't right and I'm going to do something about it." She didn't say, "I think I'll go raise hell today." She said she just got on the bus like she always did, she was sitting there, the bus driver asked her to move, and she simply decided she was too tired. She was too tired to move, and she was too tired to care what would happen if she didn't.

She never set out to take on the evil white man. Come to think of it, I don't think she would have even approved of the song.

[Babs]

I am Southern.

I was born in Alabama, the #2 ranked Southern state in the country.

Yes, Virginia, he does have a sense of humor!