I don't have Florence King here with me anymore, but she had an essay somewhere on the word "nice" and what it meant in the South. Hilarious. Read it a long time ago, but sure would like to come across that one again.

In one part of the essay, she wrote about what "nice people" were in the South, and how important it is to have one "nice" piece of furniture and what constituted a nice piece of furniture. I think it was her repetition of the word nice that built up the humor in the essay.