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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Monday, February 23, 2004 - 9:55 pm
*has never seen Ya-Ya Sisterhood*
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Monday, February 23, 2004 - 10:11 pm
has never seen ya-ya sisterhood. dd is 16. was ya-ya out before she was born?
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Monday, February 23, 2004 - 10:36 pm
Tabbyking I think the movie is only a couple years old, tho I'm not sure.
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Spygirl
Member
04-23-2001
| Monday, February 23, 2004 - 11:19 pm
Wargod, that is a great story! Thank you for sharing that with us.
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Max
Member
08-12-2000
| Monday, February 23, 2004 - 11:28 pm
Read the book (Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood) or listen to it unabridged on tape (wonderfully read by Judith Ivey). Then, if you still want to watch the movie, great! The book is just SOOOO much better!! 
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 12:18 am
i heard the movie sucked, to be polite . i was only kidding about it being current, because i rented the dvd and could not watch it for even 5 minutes! i do have a friend whose book club read it and they enjoyed it. i believe max is right and the book would be much better than the movie (as is often the case!) the 'watching too much of the ya-ya' comment kinda bugged me, since my daughter IS my baby girl, so i just pretended i'd never heard of the ya-ya to show it wasn't why my dd was my baby girl! stupid movie.....
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 7:13 am
Some of you have said you call your daughters or close friends/relatives "babygirl." I just thought it was odd for someone who doesn't know me and never met me to call me that. No one else thinks it is unusual?
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 7:23 am
Well, I think it's more of an informal social address used by some people, intended as a compliment or term of endearment, like "honey." I doubt that his bosses would approve of him addressing the customers in such a relaxed manner, but I don't find it unusual for other settings.
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Azriel
Member
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 8:14 am
Julieboo, I have had a lot of men call me honey and sweetie. For some people, especially older men in the south, it's just a habit and I don't think it's meant to be disrespectful. I actually thought that babygirl was a Southern thing. We use a lot of endearments in the South. I use a lot of them myself. I used to call Kady's son Sugar Bear (pronounced Shu-gah bear) until he was old enough to get indignant and proclaim to me, 'I'm not no sugar bear! I'm a boy!'
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Kady
Member
07-30-2000
| Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 8:50 am
Awwww...Azriel, I slipped up one time and called him Sugar Bear. He said that's Janet's name for me. I guess that means I can't use it. 
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Kady
Member
07-30-2000
| Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 8:52 am
Bernie Mac calls the littlest girl on his show Baby Girl all the time. I just now thought of that.
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 10:38 am
"Some of you have said you call your daughters or close friends/relatives "babygirl." I just thought it was odd for someone who doesn't know me and never met me to call me that. No one else thinks it is unusual?" I'm not sure I'd say it's unusual, but I wouldn't like it if I didn't know the person.
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Yuhuru
Member
09-27-2001
| Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 11:07 am
i believe it's equivalnt to 'honey' and it's used mostly by black men. this mcdonalds worker is probably very friendly, bubbly person who is just spreading the bubbly. he probably calls all women who come to mcdonalds mcdonalds. i'm sure his boss could care less.
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 11:41 am
Kady: I was thinking about that. And, in a recent episode, he called one of his other nieces "baby girl" and ended up with a green-eyed monster. He explained to Brianna that the other niece was A baby girl, but she was HIS baby girl. I decided it was probably a way to call someone a "sweet" name when you can't remember their actual name, and then it might just continue as a pet name.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 12:13 pm
I agree Yuhuru. It's also being used alot on tv and in music.
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 1:40 pm
i still don't believe it's used 'mostly by black men', but maybe where some of you live, it is. i don't think i ever heard a black man call someone that in my presence...but i remember calling little girl patients 'baby girl' while taking care of them in the e.r. to me it's just a "caring and feeling close" term. 'baby doll' on the other hand, makes me think of shorty pj's and sounds 'cheap' to me! it's like a gangster term for his 'moll' or 'doll'......
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Not1worry
Member
07-30-2002
| Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 5:14 pm
When I first read this thread, I didn't have a clue about this. Never heard the term used except for actual infant females. Today at the store I heard some guy and say it and boy, did my head whip around to see who it was! Now I'm going to be hearing it everywhere, you all put it in my head.
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Hippyt
Member
09-10-2001
| Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 5:21 pm
I would bet his boss doesn't mind either. Sounds like the guy is very friendly,and probably a well-liked employee.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 5:35 pm
Well, lets put it this way - I worked for McDonalds back in the '70's and if a customer was addressed as anything other than "Ma'am" or "Sir" and they were over the age of 14, you could plan on finding a new job. If I caught any of our professional staff addressing a client, customer or business contact as "baby girl", there'd be an extremely harsh warning the first time and a firing the second time. And they'd only get the second chance if the customer/client/business contact didn't complain. It's completely unprofessional and potentially extremely insulting in an over-familiar fashion in a business and service environment. Do I think this kid at the window intends it that way? Not at all. He's probably the friendliest person you could ever meet. Nonetheless, it's not what's intended, it's how it's how it may be received.
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 6:05 pm
one other thing Julie- they do see you when you order at the screen - they have the cameras there so they can look to see who it is on the monitor- not just when you pull to the window.
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Hippyt
Member
09-10-2001
| Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 6:11 pm
Well,I think it also has to do with the fact that Julia is a regular in the drive through. There are certain people,such as the grocery cashier,movie rental guy,that I deal with on a regular basis.They talk to me in a much more casual way than they would someone they didn't see regularly. In fact,they are part of the reason I go to the places over and over.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 7:28 pm
I think he wants her
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Yuhuru
Member
09-27-2001
| Wednesday, February 25, 2004 - 10:55 am
i love you pamy. that put a smile on my face tabby- when i said it was used mostly by black men i was referring to when it's used to address an adult woman. lots of people use baby girl when referring to little babies. dh, ds, and i all call our dd baby girl tvch, i'm sure the no caps thing is bugging some of you-cause it's buggin' me, but i'm having problems with my shift key-sorry
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