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My wife teaches English at the local high school. Believe it.
| 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! |
| Jaw-P? means Did y’all go to the bathroom? |
| People actually grow and eat okra. |
| Fixinta is one word. It means I’m preparing to do that. |
| There is no such thing as lunch. There is only dinner and then there is 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. |
| Backwards ‘n forwards means I know everything about you. |
| The word jeet is actually a phrase 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. |
| Nodejew? is a common response to the question, Did you bring any beer? |
| You measure distance in minutes. |
| You switch from heat to A/C in the same day. |
| All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect, or animal. |
| You know what a dawg is. |
| You carry jumper cables in your car - for your OWN car. |
| You only own five spices: salt, pepper, Tonys, Tabasco and ketchup. |
| The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require 6 pages for local high school sports and motor sports, and gossip. |
| You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday. |
| You find 100 degrees Fahrenheit a bit warm. |
| You know all four seasons: Almost summer, summer, still summer, and Christmas. |
| Going to Wal-Mart is a favorite pastime known as goin’ Wal-Martin or off to Wally World. |
| You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good chicken stew weather. |
| 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 dag-nabbit. |