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Another Texas thread
I was going to append the following question to the stay safe austin people thread, but didn’t want to alarm anyone.
I just want to know if it’s common to refer to your father as “Daddy” in Texas, even through adulthood. I saw ochotona do it once, and then read Lawrence Wright using it in his ‘God Save Texas’ book.
Doesn’t really warrant its own thread, but it’s too long for a signature. More Texas questions to follow, I’m sure.
I just want to know if it’s common to refer to your father as “Daddy” in Texas, even through adulthood. I saw ochotona do it once, and then read Lawrence Wright using it in his ‘God Save Texas’ book.
Doesn’t really warrant its own thread, but it’s too long for a signature. More Texas questions to follow, I’m sure.
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Is this in reference to Daddy Longlegs or Puff Daddy or generic Daddy? . It’s been several decades since I lived in Texas but I do seem to remember use of Daddy to refer to ones father.
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I think it's a Southern thing. Probably more recently, with the homogenization of the culture in big cities, more of a rural Southern thing.
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Aha, thank you.
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My daughter is Audrey
My son is Alex... hmmm, Alexey would turn him into a Russian. Proof of collusion.
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DNA has its own language (code), and language requires intelligence. There is no known mechanism by which matter can give birth to information, let alone language. It is unreasonable to believe the world could have happened by chance.
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Audrey is a great girls name. Well chosen!
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Texas born....still here. Only one of my friends still refers to his dad as "Daddy". We gave him shit over it in our high school / college years.
Thinking back on it......I remember my dad telling me I'm "too old to call him Daddy anymore". I would guess around age 10? maybe I don't recall exactly, but I do know we were in his truck at the time.
Thinking back on it......I remember my dad telling me I'm "too old to call him Daddy anymore". I would guess around age 10? maybe I don't recall exactly, but I do know we were in his truck at the time.
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I kind of like it. I couldn’t get away with it, but I like it as a southern thing. I can picture W doing it, or maybe I even saw him (a portrayal) doing in the biopic.
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My wife and all of her siblings have that same ending, suitably adjusted for gender:
Bobby
Bebe
Annie
Patty
Susie
I guess that must be a Texan thing although I have never thought about it that way before.
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Has anyone read the Robert Caro series on LBJ? Good stuff (so far)