Post by tiredofscams on Feb 2, 2006 23:05:37 GMT -5
**borrowed**
Things I learnt sinz I ben in Alabama:
Possums sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the
air.
There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 live in Alabama.
There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in Alabama,
plus a couple no one's seen before.
Onced and Twiced are words.
It is not a shopping cart, it is a buggy.
And let us never forget, it's not a garden hose or simply hose,
it's a "hosepipe" (one word).
Fire ants consider your flesh as a picnic.
People actually grow and eat okra.
Mamanem means the whole family. ("Are mamanem comin?")
There ain't no such thing as "lunch". There's only dinner and
then there's supper.
Backards and fards means I know everything about you. (Backwards
and forwards for the Northerners) Jeet? is actually a phrase meaning "Did you eat ?"
You know you're from Alabama if:
1. You measure distance in minutes.
2. You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same
day.
3. Stores don't have bags; they have sacks.
4. You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one
in it, no matter what time of the year.
5. You use "fix" as a noun. Example: I am fixin'to go to the
store.
6. All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit,
vegetable, grain, insect or animal.
7. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave
both doors unlocked.
8. You carry jumper cables in your car .... for your OWN car.
9. You know what "cow tipping" is.
10. You only own four spices: salt, pepper, chili powder, and
catsup. No genuine Alabamian ever called it "Catsup". Down here
it's "Ketchup"and let's not forget pepper sauce for the turnip greens!
11. The local papers cover national and international news on One
page but require 6 pages for sports.
12. You think that the first day of deer season is a national
holiday.
13. You find 90 degrees Fahrenheit "a little warm."
14. You know all four seasons: Almost summer, summer, still
Summer, and Christmas.
15. You know whether another Alabamian is from east, west, or
middle Alabama as soon as they open their mouth.
16. Visiting Wal-Mart is a favorite pastime known as "going to
town." (True anywhere you are from)
17. You describe the first cool snap (below 60 degrees) as good
Chili weather.
18. A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda, cola, or pop... it's a
Coke,regardless of brand or flavor. Sample: "What kinna coke ya want?"
19. Fried Catfish is the other white meat.
20. You understand these jokes and forward them to your friends
from Alabama....
Things I learnt sinz I ben in Alabama:
Possums sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the
air.
There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 live in Alabama.
There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in Alabama,
plus a couple no one's seen before.
Onced and Twiced are words.
It is not a shopping cart, it is a buggy.
And let us never forget, it's not a garden hose or simply hose,
it's a "hosepipe" (one word).
Fire ants consider your flesh as a picnic.
People actually grow and eat okra.
Mamanem means the whole family. ("Are mamanem comin?")
There ain't no such thing as "lunch". There's only dinner and
then there's supper.
Backards and fards means I know everything about you. (Backwards
and forwards for the Northerners) Jeet? is actually a phrase meaning "Did you eat ?"
You know you're from Alabama if:
1. You measure distance in minutes.
2. You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same
day.
3. Stores don't have bags; they have sacks.
4. You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one
in it, no matter what time of the year.
5. You use "fix" as a noun. Example: I am fixin'to go to the
store.
6. All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit,
vegetable, grain, insect or animal.
7. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave
both doors unlocked.
8. You carry jumper cables in your car .... for your OWN car.
9. You know what "cow tipping" is.
10. You only own four spices: salt, pepper, chili powder, and
catsup. No genuine Alabamian ever called it "Catsup". Down here
it's "Ketchup"and let's not forget pepper sauce for the turnip greens!
11. The local papers cover national and international news on One
page but require 6 pages for sports.
12. You think that the first day of deer season is a national
holiday.
13. You find 90 degrees Fahrenheit "a little warm."
14. You know all four seasons: Almost summer, summer, still
Summer, and Christmas.
15. You know whether another Alabamian is from east, west, or
middle Alabama as soon as they open their mouth.
16. Visiting Wal-Mart is a favorite pastime known as "going to
town." (True anywhere you are from)
17. You describe the first cool snap (below 60 degrees) as good
Chili weather.
18. A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda, cola, or pop... it's a
Coke,regardless of brand or flavor. Sample: "What kinna coke ya want?"
19. Fried Catfish is the other white meat.
20. You understand these jokes and forward them to your friends
from Alabama....