The Atlanta translator dictionary (Sandy Springs, Dunwoody: house, living, zip code)

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Originally Posted by aries4118

Informal poll...

What would you rather be--

an East Cobb Snob?

a Dunwoody Housewife?

or a Buckhead Betty?

I actually was #2 at one point...well, actually a Dunwoody Divorcee, considered by many Dunwoody Housewives to be the most dangerous of predators.
Does anybody have any Dunwoody Housewife jokes? They were very popular cocktail chatter in the 80's.
Here's one:
How can you recognize a widow in Dunwoody?
She's the one wearing a black tennis outfit.

[RainyRainyDay]

Originally Posted by LovinDecatur

I actually was #2 at one point...well, actually a Dunwoody Divorcee, considered by many Dunwoody Housewives to be the most dangerous of predators.
Does anybody have any Dunwoody Housewife jokes? They were very popular cocktail chatter in the 80's.
Here's one:
How can you recognize a widow in Dunwoody?
She's the one wearing a black tennis outfit.

Hilarious!

Back in 2004, Garrison Mill E.S. had a concert to celebrate the school's 20th anniversary. A large group of PTA moms and teachers performed a number "We're the East Cobb girls", sung to the tune of Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl". They started out holding shopping bags from upscale stores, and then as the song progressed, they pulled out props like tennis racquets and danced with them. The lyrics were clever, the delivery good and it was a most entertaining send-up of the "East Cobb snobs" image.

(From time to time, people claim here in the Atlanta forum that the north-east portion of Cobb County "isn't East Cobb". I don't know whether I should be pleased by this intelligence or not! )

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Originally Posted by RainyRainyDay

(From time to time, people claim here in the Atlanta forum that the north-east portion of Cobb County "isn't East Cobb". I don't know whether I should be pleased by this intelligence or not! )

I love the setting of arbitrary boundaries to describe an area associated with a particular set of values. Very anthropological.
These are probably the same people who claim that the 'real' Buckhead is west of Peachtree and the 'real' Dunwoody is north of Mt Vernon. I've heard these claims as well.

[aries4118]

Originally Posted by LovinDecatur

Does anybody have any Dunwoody Housewife jokes? They were very popular cocktail chatter in the 80's.
Here's one:
How can you recognize a widow in Dunwoody?
She's the one wearing a black tennis outfit.

I remember that one...our teacher told us about it in high school (in the 90's)...this was in East Cobb too. (!)

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Originally Posted by aries4118

I remember that one...our teacher told us about it in high school (in the 90's)...this was in East Cobb too. (!)

There was another joke about how a Dunwoody Housewife eats a banana...the TOS prohibits me from telling that one.

Here some others I could add:

L5P = Little Five Points
Emoroids = Emory students
'The Connector' = the merging of I-85 and I-75 through the city
'Buford Corridor'- the Hispanic-dominated segment of Buford Hwy that runs from Lenox Rd to Duluth
Chambodia = a nod to the predominance of Asians in Chamblee
The Loop = Buckhead Loop
Semblerville = a reference to any area that has a big-box retailer-dominated Sembler development at its center ie Edgewood, Lindbergh Center and now Brookhaven
Boystown = a nod to Midtown's large gay male population
Stepford = occasionally used to refer to East Cobb, Alpharetta, Dunwoody, Roswell or Cumming
The Golden Crescent = a reference to the affluent Northern Arc suburbs between I-75 and I-85 north of I-285
The Golden Ghetto = a rather dated nickname for Sandy Springs

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Originally Posted by LovinDecatur

There was another joke about how a Dunwoody Housewife eats a banana...the TOS prohibits me from telling that one.

Here some others I could add:

L5P = Little Five Points
Emoroids = Emory students
'The Connector' = the merging of I-85 and I-75 through the city
'Buford Corridor'- the Hispanic-dominated segment of Buford Hwy that runs from Lenox Rd to Duluth
Chambodia = a nod to the predominance of Asians in Chamblee
The Loop = Buckhead Loop
Semblerville = a reference to any area that has a big-box retailer-dominated Sembler development at its center ie Edgewood, Lindbergh Center and now Brookhaven
Boystown = a nod to Midtown's large gay male population
Stepford = occasionally used to refer to East Cobb, Alpharetta, Dunwoody, Roswell or Cumming
The Golden Crescent = a reference to the affluent Northern Arc suburbs between I-75 and I-85 north of I-285
The Golden Ghetto = a rather dated nickname for Sandy Springs

Also, we could add Ponce. When you tell someone to "go down Ponce and take a right," they literally look at you as if you have grown another appendage. One that same note, someone should make a phonetic reference guide to Atlanta. We know we pronounce things differently here. Such as:

Ponce de Leon Ave- We are aware it's wrong
Hoschton
Dekalb County
Decatur
Dacula
Morrow
Vinings
Smyrna

I'm sure there are others I cannot currently think of.

[aries4118]

Originally Posted by LovinDecatur

There was another joke about how a Dunwoody Housewife eats a banana...the TOS prohibits me from telling that one.

Here some others I could add:

L5P = Little Five Points
Emoroids = Emory students
'The Connector' = the merging of I-85 and I-75 through the city
'Buford Corridor'- the Hispanic-dominated segment of Buford Hwy that runs from Lenox Rd to Duluth
Chambodia = a nod to the predominance of Asians in Chamblee
The Loop = Buckhead Loop
Semblerville = a reference to any area that has a big-box retailer-dominated Sembler development at its center ie Edgewood, Lindbergh Center and now Brookhaven
Boystown = a nod to Midtown's large gay male population
Stepford = occasionally used to refer to East Cobb, Alpharetta, Dunwoody, Roswell or Cumming
The Golden Crescent = a reference to the affluent Northern Arc suburbs between I-75 and I-85 north of I-285
The Golden Ghetto = a rather dated nickname for Sandy Springs

Another one...

West CornCobbs: used by people (a lot them "East Cobb Snobs") to refer to the people of West Cobb County (seen as less refined, less posh, etc. then East Cobb).

Then there are the ones about Decatur...

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Awesome! I'm from Savannah and even I got 5 of 'em.

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Originally Posted by aries4118

Another one...

West CornCobbs: used by people (a lot them "East Cobb Snobs") to refer to the people of West Cobb County (seen as less refined, less posh, etc. then East Cobb).

Then there are the ones about Decatur...

The worst one I've heard lately is my gay friends calling the Ansley Mall area Vaseline Valley.

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Originally Posted by LovinDecatur

The worst one I've heard lately is my gay friends calling the Ansley Mall area Vaseline Valley.

Oh yeah, I forgot...

Krogay: The Kroger next to Ansley Mall.


And there's the one about the Home Depot in the Lindbergh Area...