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Serate
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08-21-2001

Monday, February 23, 2004 - 9:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
*has never seen Ya-Ya Sisterhood*

Tabbyking
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03-11-2002

Monday, February 23, 2004 - 10:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
has never seen ya-ya sisterhood. dd is 16. was ya-ya out before she was born?

Serate
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08-21-2001

Monday, February 23, 2004 - 10:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Tabbyking I think the movie is only a couple years old, tho I'm not sure.

Spygirl
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04-23-2001

Monday, February 23, 2004 - 11:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wargod, that is a great story! Thank you for sharing that with us.

Max
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08-12-2000

Monday, February 23, 2004 - 11:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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!! :-)

Tabbyking
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03-11-2002

Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 12:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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.....

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 7:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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?

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 7:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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.

Azriel
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08-01-2000

Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 8:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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!'

Kady
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07-30-2000

Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 8:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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. :-)

Kady
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07-30-2000

Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 8:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Bernie Mac calls the littlest girl on his show Baby Girl all the time. I just now thought of that.

Serate
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08-21-2001

Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 10:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
"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.

Yuhuru
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09-27-2001

Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 11:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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.

Lkunkel
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10-29-2003

Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 11:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 12:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I agree Yuhuru. It's also being used alot on tv and in music.

Tabbyking
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03-11-2002

Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 1:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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'......

Not1worry
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07-30-2002

Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 5:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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.

Hippyt
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09-10-2001

Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 5:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I would bet his boss doesn't mind either. Sounds like the guy is very friendly,and probably a well-liked employee.

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 5:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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.

Legalboxer
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11-17-2003

Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 6:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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.

Hippyt
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09-10-2001

Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 6:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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.

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 7:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think he wants her

Yuhuru
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09-27-2001

Wednesday, February 25, 2004 - 10:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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