Makin’ Friends
Courtesy of my cousin in Birmingham, Alabama…
A girl from the South and a girl from the West coast were seated side by side on an airplane. The girl from the South, being friendly and all, said, “So, where y’all from?”
The West coast girl said, “From a place where they know better than to use a preposition at the end of a sentence.”
The girl from the South replied: “So, where y’all from, bitch?”
December 8th, 2005 at 10:29 am
That was quite funny, actually. I hate language snobbery.
December 8th, 2005 at 10:59 am
AWESOME! I’m from the south and I despise uppity people from out west or the north (God forbid).
I would never be that quick on my feet - how I wish I were.
December 8th, 2005 at 11:01 am
good one, I agree with kern. I hate Lanuage Snobs. Cause I am from Newfoundland, and I got one Heck of an Accent…
December 8th, 2005 at 2:04 pm
What’s a preposition?
December 8th, 2005 at 5:30 pm
Oh, I like that! I’m not exactly from the SOuth (well, I guess technically I am, living in good ol’ Virginia), but some people can be seriously snobby. And I agree with Higgrongrin–I wish I could come up with snappy comebacks that quickly…
December 8th, 2005 at 7:55 pm
Oh, how I wish I could be that quick witted! That was awesome!!
December 8th, 2005 at 10:42 pm
Perfect. But usually it’s some idiot who immediately starts making fun of the fact that I just said “y’all.”
December 9th, 2005 at 11:30 am
Ok, so is anyone going to answer the question of, “what is a preposition?” I know, I should know this stuff by now, being that I’m in college and whatever, but since I didnt wanna be a Language Snob,I just chose not to memorize it. HELP!
December 9th, 2005 at 1:47 pm
That’s funny.. and I live out ‘west’.. but really, we’re not all that bad.. c’mon..
December 9th, 2005 at 5:50 pm
Prepositions: things that modern languages invent to do away with case endings of nouns.
December 9th, 2005 at 7:15 pm
Well played.
December 9th, 2005 at 7:56 pm
“From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.”
–Sir Winston Churchill
My former boss was forever scolding me for ending a sentence with a prepostion (and I probably did it more than I normally woud have because it bothered him so much), so I would restate it with a bastard at the end.
:)
December 10th, 2005 at 1:28 am
I visited the west coast and found that many people ended their sentences with prepositions, especially late at night after drinking. I was prepositioned all the time.
December 11th, 2005 at 2:27 pm
Yall -vs- Youz
C’mon over -vs- Youz ova her’now
Acess Road -vs- Feeder
Dinner -vs- Supper
Kick yo ass -vs- Ima gonna clobber ya on a counta youz looked at me.
…and the wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round!
Gotta love the great USA, at least we have the freedom to talk, write, eat, look, dress & act the way we want. Coould you imagine life in Iraq? Not that it to some is a great place to live…but c’mon seriously, would you give up one day of USA life to see what the flip side is like? NOT ME!
December 12th, 2005 at 8:47 pm
I enjoyed that story when I first saw it on a episode of “Designing Women”. I giggled again when I read it here. Classic jokes never lose their style.
December 16th, 2005 at 2:56 pm
That made me laugh out loud.