My friend Emily and I used to have a joke that you can say anything about anyone if you follow it up with "God love him (or her)." It's a Southern thing, I think.
"That hair looks atrocious! God love her."
"He's dumber than a fencepost--God love him."
It works for any manner of catty comments.
I've also discovered in marriage that "I love you" covers up a world of sin. For instance, my husband just walked in the room, insinuated that there were too many chores for him to do for us to go see the movie I've been wanting to catch. After my whiny little, "Eighh!", I followed it up with "I love you". And all is well. Usually, it makes him laugh more than anything.
My final word observation: nothing good can come after the phrase, "excuse me, but..." Bill and I were walking in the mall and passed a couple in front of us who was having a rather heated conversation. The wife (girlfriend? mistress?) interrupted the man and said, "ex-CUSE me, but..." I didn't catch the end of it, but we were in agreement that it couldn't be anything good.
"ex-CUSE me, but...your hair looks really nice today."
"ex-CUSE me, but...I've really enjoyed our evening."
Nope, that guy had done something heinous, and he was suffering the wrath of the double-x chromosome.
25 September 2005
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3 comments:
"bless her/his heart" is another good one to use.
"That is the ugliest baby ever, bless his little heart."
haha
you got spammed!!!!!!
i hate spam! i'll go switch to the word protection...but you know it's only a matter of time before they figure that out, too.
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