Today I bring you Nanny-Maw. For those who are not sure what Tik-Tok is, it’s a social network where people post very short videos, like Vine used to be.
This is me and Jeaniene Frost at the conventions.
This is giving me flashbacks to high school.
I am homesick for North Georgia. OMG, how did this even happen?
You can find more of Nanny-Maw on Tik-Tok. While hysterical, some of Nanny-Maw is a biting satire, and it hurts. Some people might find it offensive.
Hilarious! For some reason my screen keeps sinking though. Not sure what that’s about.
Thanks for the good laugh on a workday Monday!
Thank you for the chuckles.
Oh The Raven. Had to do an analysis of a poem for a term paper. Most picked a 20 line poem, but I did The Raven. The prof wrote, “you get an A+ for having the balls to do The Raven.” Best paper ever. I still have it over 30 years later.
SAD FACE! My work blocks TikTok so I can’t see this till I get off work in 3 whole hours.
I am bad at waiting…. (so says all the BDH)
I don’t have a Tik Tok account and can’t watch the videos, but I’m sure they’re interesting.
You don’t have to have an account with Tik tok to watch the videos. If you are not seeing them, your browser may be blocking them. 🙂
Try clicking where it says”original sound – NannyMaw”
A box then popped up saying to open TikTok app. I closed the box (x at the top right corner)
A number of videos appeared with the NannyMaw one in the top left corner
Click on it to play
I don’t have Tiktok either and it worked for me.
Thanks for posting. NannyMaw was funny 😄
Thank you! That worked for me.
Oh my gosh! That’s hilarious. I have only 3 things to say.
1. Remember, all southerners are not a mix of Nanny Maw, Beverley Hillbillies, and Dukes of Hazard.
2. That said: I grew up on Tennessee and have lived here for 56 years. The gossip video is so true to life. I have witnessed those kind of conversations between family, coworkers and neighbors all my life. Lol.
3. For those of you who need translation for Southern American Englinh there is a book called “How to Speak Southern ” by Steve Mitchell. I’ve given this as a gift to perplexed yankees for about 40 years. Yeah, it’s still in print. Great fun. You can find it on Amazon.
Thanks y’all so much for this. I laughed till I cried.
The Raven = taco.
“is my teaching interrupting your conversation?”
OMG. *falling over. LOLOL
Love it. thank you for sharing. Not to be taken too seriously.
OMG! I am ROFL! That was all so to true!
TikTok has become my favorite, late-stage pandemic time suck. I’m particularly fond of @yourkoreandad because he is so sweet and affirming. When clients are being horrible or the news gets to be too much, I just go and deathscroll his TikTok feed.
OMG the English teachers! To this day, 3 years later I still have no idea what my son’s 5th grade teacher wanted when she instructed her class to annotate Bud, Not Buddy and show “thorough interaction with the text.” That kid never got an A. It didn’t matter how mamy figurative language words, and character traits he identified. Now in 8th grade they haven’t annotated anything.
I live in the south. I can totally see this.
All that’s missing is to be passing something to your friend and hear the dreaded phrase, “And is there something you’d like to share with the rest of the class?”
And oy, George Warshington. I grew up with that one, too, and it took me years to get the “r” out of wash when I spoke.
Yep, one of my teachers used to give lessons on The War of Northern Aggression.
The rest of us call it the Civil War.
I still love the idioms and well-meant smothering of Southern women, but they can be tart-tongued. I learned early on that “Bless your heart” was code for “You’re so stupid, but we love you anyway.”
I always took “Bless your heart” as, “You’re pretty stupid, and I hope somebody loves you anyway” … my very southern grandmother and great aunt didn’t use that phrase … but they would speak in French when they didn’t want the rest of us knowing what they were saying — northern Louisiana version of southern.
My family would always speak in Italian so the kids wouldn’t know what was being said. Except we all learned the good swear words.
This made me laugh so hard, I woke up the cat on my lap. I was raised tri lingual – standard Midwestern (parents), Scandahoovian (maternal grandparents Ida and Sigurd, first generation Americans), and Mississippi redneck (paternal aunt and uncle).
I was introduced as my “damnyankee” cousin and found out that it was 2 words in second grade history class back in Minnesota and that using it entitled me to skip the rest of the class and meet the principal. Fortunately he had a sense of humor so the paddle stayed on its nail on the wall. This was the early 1960s so applying a paddle to a posterior was legal but seldom used. One swat only.
Grandma Ida came with us one year to Florida for Christmas and we stopped on our way home to see Dad’s family. It was hilarious. Neither side of the family could understand the other so we had to translate. Not kidding.
I’m in tears over the last video.
True story – it took me years – YEARS – to stop writing\typing wash as warsh because that was how I pronounced it growing up. I’m fixin’ ta warsh the dishes. I SWEAR!
I’ve since completely gotten rid of my Southern Accent – but I can pull it out (or, uh, it may come to light if I’m very tired or have had a few LOL) when needed….
Arkansan here. I swear I was an adult before I realized naked wasn’t pronounced “neck-ed”.
I moved to TN a couple of years ago from cosmopolitan Atlanta. First time I heard someone say “warsh”, I fell out of seat….this is absolutely spot on.
As someone not from the South, who currently lives in the South, this was a bit painfully too real lol.
Send help
Some of the videos that TikTok seems to think are trends for me (to watch after I watched the linked videos) really make me wonder what it thinks I like to watch. 😲😳😉😊
Thk u for today’s chuckle.
Not relevant at all to this post, but ROOMBA!
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Try clicking on the comment button on each of the videos! It will open in Tiktok, and then you can watch. That’s how I did it, since it wasn’t working for me regularly.
Oh my gosh. That last one was my 4th period class today. Hootin’ and hollerin’ and “is my teaching interrupting your talking” LOL
Thanks for the giggle. and to top the day off the fire alarm has just gone off.
Haha We have the same taste in tik tok ! I just watched this last night before bed.
I remember seeing that first one not too long ago and dying of laughter. Mostly because I had just finished a 30 minute conversation with my friend that must have looked just like that. #GeorgiaPeach for the win. Love that miss my area of Georgia (I’m 20 from Blueridge mountains)
English teacher here 🙋🏻♀️ And wrapping up Lord of the Flies with my sophomores. Yeah, THAT scene is never not awkward to read and discuss in class. 🤦🏻♀️ 🤣
Oh no not tik tok please
My dad’s family lived outside Waco. The parents and grandparents came from Mississippi before, during and after the War between the States. The children were born, raised and schooled in Waxahachie and Maypearl. Their accent was deep south with a Texas drawl. There were wax recordings of them speaking. It was awesome. The only recording remaining is a very scratchy vinyl record, a copy of a wax recording, of some of the children singing a hymn.
Ah yes…”Hush”. When a Southern Woman tells you to “Hush Up!” it’s…serious business. Just ask my 6-year-old.
Ha ha, these are hilarious – thanks for the laugh!
Hahahaha, hush!
:))))
I saw this yesterday and died laughing. This is for historical romance fans:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcIpwrdfI1c
Famalam has some good comedy sketches if you can get the series’ in USA.
So apparently Middle TN is southern enough to completely understand that first conversation hahahaha
I don’t use TikTok but this is funny enough I’d be tempted to make an exception for this if it wasn’t for knowing I’d hear the same running to the Dollar General.
East Tennessee certainly is.
I’m dying over here! Ah, the sounds of my childhood. We actually chose our children’s names in part based on what they’d sound like if an elderly Southern Sunday school teacher hollered them across the playground (since we expected to be living in the South). At least one lovely name was eliminated this way. (“Laila”, Hebrew for “night”. Just try it Southern-style, but not if anyone around you is drinking anything lol.)
OMG I laughed so hard. Must be the slightly…dark…humor of doctors (and other medical personnel). The Clerk at Saint Butthole just killed me…I know it is not funny if pain medication is not available (factories in India exploding..leaving everyone without paracetamol/ibuprofen/whichever factory just exploded or grossly ignored hygiene and was forcefully shut down). BUT sometimes it’s just so bad you have to laugh about it. “He is on his deathbed at this point it probably won’t matter if he gets addicted.”
I literally had so many teachers like this and I’m not even from the American South.
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A Mere Formality … still (a) the best.
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Never thought much about what “the raven” meant (I was more into Poes stories) until the Simpson’s did it for Halloween. Great tv moment, imo.
Pretty sure the words “now hush” have came out of my mouth before in my class, but it was probably “All you all better hush right now.” Everybody knows that all you all is a greater number than you all.
Thank you for this amazing insight into what for me is something very, very foreign and novel. I have enjoyed listening to Ginger Billy on Facebook and learning about Southern life.