I wanna bring back a southern term that was popular in the 1970’s and has since disappeared from the popular vernacular. I can clearly recall my mother talking to her best friend Gladys C. for hours on the party line (while drinking tab and listening to Barry Manillo on the radio), and this word punctuated nearly every other sentence.
“Can you believe it? Tacky!”
“Did you see what she wore to church today? Tacky!”
“All that blue eye shadow! Tacky!”
“All those kids actin’ out at the mall? Tacky!”
So today after the potluck when the leftover food was commandeered by a non-participant and doled out to a group of ungrateful kids, all I could think was…..TACKY!!!
When you have a word like “Tacky,” what more can you say? Tacky says it ALL. Some might call this BITCHY-but if you don’t know the difference, then we probably need to break up-right here and now. So this is the clarion call: Bring Back “Tacky!!!” And I’m calling on my southern gal-pals to resurrect this oldie but goodie out of the hope chest. (Southern gals have a patent on this word-so why not enjoy the privileges of ownership?) Next time you witness a questionable action or deed, call it like you see it….TACKY!
I hope this will illicit some TACKY responses from the blither blather readership!
WHO the he** had the nerve to commandeer our food? That's not just TACKY --- it's another good ole Southern word: TRASHY.
ReplyDeleteYou don't steal two items from Southern women: their food or their husbands.
LOL Lois! Tacky is as Tacky does. Unfortunately the one to whom you are referring was not born and bred in the South or even in the good ole USA either. I was just PISSED when I heard about this faux pas.
ReplyDeleteTacky... is when you get a piece of broken pottery for Christmas from a family member. For real!!! OR tacky is one of the many comments out of my mother-in-law's mouth.
ReplyDeleteI could go on and on about Tacky. :)
oooohhhh!!!! good ones, SC!!!
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