dave01
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THINGS I LEARNED LIVING IN THE SOUTH |
| A possum is a flat animal that sleeps in the middle of the road. |
| There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 of them live in the South. |
| There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 of them live in the South, plus a couple no one's seen before. |
| If it grows, it'll stick ya. If it crawls, it'll bite cha. |
| Onced and Twiced are words. |
| It is not a shopping cart, it is a buggy! |
| Jawl-P? Means, Did you all go to the bathroom? |
| People actually grow,eat and like okra. |
| Fixinto is one word. It means I'm going to do that. |
| There is no such thing as lunch. There is only dinner and then there's supper. |
| Iced tea is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it when you're two. We do like a little tea with our sugar. It is referred to as the Wine of the South. |
| Backwards and forwards means I know everything about you. |
| The word jeet is actually a question meaning, 'Did you eat?' |
| You don't have to wear a watch, because it doesn't matter what time it is, you work until you're done or it's too dark to see. |
| You don't PUSH buttons, you MASH em. |
| Ya'll is singular. All ya'll is plural. |
| All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect, or animal. |
| You carry jumper cables in your car - for your OWN car. |
| You only own five spices: salt, pepper, mustard, Tabasco and ketchup. |
| The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require 6 pages for local high school sports, the motor sports, and gossip. |
| Everyone you meet is a Honey, Sugar, Miss(first name) or Mr.(first name) |
| You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday. |
| You know what a hissy fit is.. |
| Fried catfish is the other white meat. |
| We don't need no dang Driver's Ed. If our mama says we can drive, we can drive!!! |
| You understand these jokes and forward them to your Southern friends and those who just wish they were from the SOUTH. |
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