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A true southerner names his male children "Bo" or "Beau" and the female children "Dixie".

It is common knowledge that Jerry Lee Lewis, Mickey Gilley and Jimmy Swaggart are cousins. I recently learned that all three have the same middle name.

My priest's daddy, Malcolm Lee, named his sons David Lee and Michael Lee. David Lee was expected to follow the tradition, but has been a disappointment to Malcolm Lee.

My daddy was Robert Lee.

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Jimmy Swaggart, Mickey Gilley and Jerry Lee Lewis are all from feriday Louisiana hometown of that news anchor Howard K Smith. I used to date a boy from there,,forty odd years ago. I cannot believe I missed this thread. Did anyones grandparents ever say "fetch me that pipe",,mine did. They had all kinds of odd sayings. And my father "carried" my mom to the store alot. And contrary to popular notions, I ate grits with sugar and butter as a kid, loved them. And my grandmother had ice delivered for the ice box,,we still call the frig the ice box to this day. And tomatoes on toasted white bread with mayonaise is God's gift to man. Along with tuna fish salad, biscuits, fried catfish, fried chicken, mashed potatoes and banana puddin'. And lemon meringue pie and chess pie. And homemade icecream and homemade strawberry shortcake, the biscuity kind not that disgusting stuff from the supermarket.