Quail_Antwerp: Words from the Barnyard...

[emilosevich]

I don't think rhubarb is still making. Let me check my freezer. I froze some last year and could have Darrell bring it to you if you'd like. I had the good intention of making Strawberry/rhubarb jam, but never did.

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

I don't think rhubarb is still making. Let me check my freezer. I froze some last year and could have Darrell bring it to you if you'd like. I had the good intention of making Strawberry/rhubarb jam, but never did.

I'd appreciate it!


So this week I learned that down South and out in Texas, people get by insulting you by saying "Bless your heart" or "Bless their hearts"! which could translate into "you poor fool" or "boy you really are ignorant, aren't you?" or "what a idiot(s)" or basically any other insulting thought you're having at the time towards the person(s) whose heart your blessing.

This phrase totally applies to some people in my life. I just want to "bless their heart" nearly every day - or every time something stupid and controversial or something that totally contradicts some thing they just told me : ie, we don't have gas to take the kids to VBS 40 miles away, so the church paid our gas for us. Tomorrow cousin A invited us to go swimming <in their pool 55 miles one way>, and we're no fools, we're going to take them up on it" and in the next breath "we don't have gas $ to go anywhere"

Well bless their heart!

There's a lot more involved than that, but I'm just too irritable to explain it and HELLO PEOPLE I'M PREGNANT DON'T TICK OFF THE PREGGO LADY.

*deep breathe in, exhale sloooooooooooooooow*

you may now return to your regular scheduled posting.

 

[AL]

Yes , we have many meanings hidden in that syrupy sweet Southern phrase.... you picked the polite ones

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

Yes , we have many meanings hidden in that syrupy sweet Southern phrase.... you picked the polite ones

Oooh trust me - I wasn't thinking the polite ones - but this is a family forum so I had to be good.

 

[i_am2bz]

So this week I learned that down South and out in Texas, people get by insulting you by saying "Bless your heart" or "Bless their hearts"! which could translate into "you poor fool" or "boy you really are ignorant, aren't you?" or "what a idiot(s)" or basically any other insulting thought you're having at the time towards the person(s) whose heart your blessing.

Yes, very true. I only heard this phrase since moving to NC. "Did you see that idiot just run that red light? Bless his heart!" "She doesn't know her a$$ from a hole in the ground, bless her heart!"

Kinda like saying "That jerk should just drop dead...God forbid!" :/

 

[lorihadams]

Oh yes, bless your heart darlin', Sometimes when I say it I really do mean it but then there are those times that it really is an insult.

Gotta love southern women.....we really know how to kiss your a$$ while we shove our foot up it don't we....

 

[~gd]

I don't know how young some of y'll are (Bless your hearts) but that was the catch phase of 'the church lady' as played by Dana Carvey on the old Saturday Night Live TV show, you know back when the show was funny...~gd

 

[gettinaclue]

I was born and raised in NC and I'd always hear that.

"She cain't seem to catch on to the math and if she ain't a careful, she's gonna flunk her grade. But she tries, bless her heart."

"I don't know why she stays with that drunken fool. I'da left him long ago. I guess that just proves she's a better Christian than me, bless her heart."

Oh yeah, depending on how it's used determines on what kind of "Blessing" you're getting.

 

[Wifezilla]

I had a friend from Arkansas explain "bless her heart" and "darlin' ". I'm a northerner though. I prefer the direct route ala Red Forman. "dumbass!!!!"

 

[Henrietta23]

I had a friend from Arkansas explain "bless her heart" and "darlin' ". I'm a northerner though. I prefer the direct route ala Red Forman. "dumbass!!!!"

Well, if nothing else proves I'm a northerner, that does!!