Things to Know About 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 go to the bathroom?
– People actually grow, eat, and like okra.
– Fixinto is one word. It means I’m going to do something.
– 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’s 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?’
– Y’all is singular. All Y’all is plural.
– 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, motorsports, and gossip.
– Everyone you meet is a Honey, Sugar, Miss (first name), or Mister (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 Driver’s Ed. If Mama says we can drive, we can drive!
– Why did the chicken cross the road? To show that stupid possum that it can be done.
