Smiley Anders for October 15, 2009

• By SMILEY ANDERS
• Advocate columnist
• Published: Oct 15, 2009 - Page: 1B

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LSU fans are getting younger and younger and seem likely to start yelling for the Tigers at birth, as soon as the doctor slaps their behinds.

Wanda “Nannie” Mayers says her 14-month-old grand-daughter Addison Grace is already a big LSU fan:

“Her proud Da-Da and Poppa B are graduates of LSU and BIG fans, so she sees LSU a lot.

“When we’re anywhere and she sees a tiger, she always growls — just like Mike the Tiger.

“The other day Poppa B put on his gold T-shirt with ‘Tigers’ written across the front and Addison saw his shirt and growled!

“The other day Addison and I were walking around the yard and she saw an LSU flag (no tigers on it)  and growled again!”

“Is that an LSU fan or what?”

(I have to wonder: what would she do if y’all were Arkansas fans?)

More on Southspeak

Our comments on the way Southerners can stretch out one-syllable words reminded Jack Belcher of this:

“As a young boy in south Georgia, I would hear the old ‘fire and brimstone’ preachers making a three-syllable word out of ‘God’ by pronouncing it GAW-WUD-DUH.”

And Sarah Stravinska, who lives in Chestnut up in Natchitoches Parish, says, “Speaking of accents, the locals here kept referring to the ‘Polish jury.’

“I was puzzled because there don’t seem to be many Poles in this area, and would a whole jury of them even be a good idea?