Southern Fried Thursday

Here are some of you favorite quotes from one of my favorite movies...

Loretta Lynn: Hey Doolittle Lynn, who's that sow you got wallowin' in your jeep?

Girl: What'd you call me?
Loretta Lynn: A sow, that's a woman pig!

Doolittle: Hop in; I'll run you back up to the house. What are you doin' in this bottom anyway?

Loretta: I came to see the doctor.
Doolittle: What for, you sick?
Loretta: Yeah, I'm sick alright; I'm goin' to have a baby.
Doolittle: [laughing] You know, Loretta, we may have found something you know how to do.


[Doolittle walks out of the door after an argument with Loretta]

Loretta: Doolittle; are you leavin'?
Doolittle: [come back in the house] Naw, Loretta; *I* ain't leavin'.
[Loretta walks up to her parents' house]
Ted: Well, look whose back!
Loretta: Doolittle's done throwed me out.
Clara: Maybe it ain't to late to stop you from ruinin' your life.
Ted: I believe married life is makin' you fat, girl.
Clara: [to herself] Oh, no!

Loretta: I done wrote me a song Betty Sue. Your mama dadgome songwriter now.

Betty Sue Lynn: That's a nice song mama.
Loretta Lynn: Thank you baby


[the morning after the wedding night]

Loretta: This food's cold.
Doolittle: That's 'cause it froze on the way over here from the damn restaurant. You want a hot breakfast, you got to come with me.
Loretta: You think I'm going over there with you and all them folks knowin' what we been doin' in here?
Doolittle: Hell's Bells, Loretta. You think this is somethin' the rest of the world ain't caught onto yet? They don't give a damn.


Loretta Lynn: [Loretta is trying out a new song] It goes like this 'It'll be over my dead body, so get out while you can', then it drops down to 'cause you ain't woman enough to take my man!'

Doolittle: Where'd you come up with the idea for that song, Loretta?

Radio station manager: And come off that dumb hillbilly act!

Doolittle: If you knew Loretta, you'd know that ain't no act.
Loretta Lynn: Thank you, honey.


Loretta Lynn: An' stoppa that growlin'. You sound like a big ol' bar.


Loretta Lynn: [Loretta catches Doo with another woman] Woman, if you want to keep that arm, you better get it off my husband.

Girl at fairgrounds: Who are you telling what?
Loretta Lynn: I don't know who you are, but I know what you are.


Loretta Lynn: [Loretta is trying to practice the guitar but her sons keep interrupting] If you boys don't settle down on this porch I'm gonna have to whup you!

Loretta & Mooney's child: That's right!


Loretta Lynn: [in a radio interview] Shoot, we've been driving so much, I don't know where I am half the time. But it's fun. We sing, and talk, and Doo - that's my husband - he'll get to acting horny.

Speedy West: [shocked] What!
Loretta Lynn: And the more I laugh, the hornier he gets, and then he'll say, "Loretta, spread me up another one of them baloney sandwiches!"


Loretta Lynn: [In the bathroom of the honkytonk when Doo is trying to convince her to sing on stage for the first time] Loretta says : "I may be ignorant, but I ain't stupid!"

USELESS INFO TUESDAY

~  The longest possible time an individual can serve as president of the United States is 10 years.  Under Amendment 22 of the U.S. Constitution ratified in 1951, "No person shall be elected to the office of President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once."

~  The term blue blood originated in Spain.  Blue blood was claimed by pure-blooded aristocratic families to differentiate themselves from those who had intermarried.  They were not referring to the color of the blood they bled, but rather to the blueness of their veins, which could be seen clearly through their fair skin.

~  Honey has played a part in the game of golf.  Before the solid core of golf balls was introduced in the late 1960's, most golf balls had a rubber center that was filled with a liquid, which was frequently honey.

~  The U.S. used to distribute cigarettes free to GIs beginning in 1917.  General John J. Pershing claimed that cigarettes were needed "as much as bullets" to win World War I.  They were eliminated from C rations and K rations in 1975.

~  Yoko Ono released an album in 2007 titled "Yes, I'm a Witch."

ANOTHER BEST COSTUME EVER!

Don't you love it?  He came as one of the rescued Chilean miners in the rescue capsule!  My friend ran in the Spooktacular 5K race on Saturday.  She said he ran the entire way in this costume taking baby steps.

BEST HALLOWEEN COSTUME EVER!

Will we ever live Antoine Dodson down?  Love it!  Happy Halloween!

SOUTHERN FRIED THURSDAY

Taking a different approach to Southern Fried Thursday....Oh, it is still Southern, it is just the Southern Europe.  Here are some pictures Rachel took on our wonderful trip to Italy and Greece!  These are all from Pompeii.

Beautiful gardens on the outside of the city wall.

I could not believe the neat feeling you got walking around the old ruins.  It was a trip of a life time!  I can't wait to go back to Europe...maybe when Rayray graduates from college.

There were dogs all over Pompeii, and Athens too.  The just roamed freely and everyone pitched in and fed them and took care of them.

There were stones like this all over the city.  The image of the male genitalia was pointing you in the direction of the nearest brothel!  The kids got a big kick out of it!

GETTING HALLOWEENY!

Things are looking spooky at Miss Sweephay's shop!  TCW and I stopped in last Saturday to get our pumpkins for the 4th Annual Pumpkin Carving.  There is a witch watching over the beautiful mums and pansies at the front door!  I can't wait to attend one of her gardening classes.  Btut went for container gardening and said she had a blast.  Y'all should check into it.

While we were there I met the Gourd family - Tolfur, Lulu Mae, and Jim Bob...

...and she has the most beautiful pansies and mums.  I have never seen a blue flower before except for some Hydrangeas.  Miss Sweephay pointed out that there are very few things in nature in the color blue.  I had not thought of that before.  They were gorgeous!

Love, Love this metal bottle dragon...I think I will call him Grottle Rex.

If you need some beautiful, huge mums, this is the place to go. 

Gorgeous! 

USELESS INFO TUESDAY

I should have probably included something about tornadoes, but I didn't want to press my luck.  Stay safe!

~  Aardvarks eat ants and termites.  The name aardvark means "earth Pig" in the Afrikaans language.

~  When it comes to per capita alcohol consumption, Luxembourg's residents out drink all other countries.  The World Health Organization found that residents of the tiny European country each consume roughly 284 bottles of beer and 88 bottles of wine annually.

~  The 1997 hit movie "Good Will Hunting" was filmed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

~  The Porsche Cayman is named for a relative of the crocodile.  It is named for the caiman because it is "small, agile, fast, and a little bit aggressive," according to a Porsche executive.

~  In 1901, Queen Victoria was buried with a plaster cast of a hand.  The cast was made from the hand of her beloved husband, Albert, who died 40 years earlier.

~  A copy of the Magna Carta made in 1297 was sold at auction in 2007 for an incredible amount of $21,321,000.  It was purchased by billionaire David Rubenstein, who has made it available for display at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.