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Things I HAVE LEARNED FROM LIVING IN ALABAMA...

Possums sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air.

There are 5,000 types of snakes on earth 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.

If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls, it bites.

Onced and Twiced are words.

It is not a shopping cart; it is a buggy.

People actually grow and eat okra.

'Fixinto' is one word.

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!

Backards and forwards means 'I know everything about you.'

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 them.

You measure distance in minutes.

Sometimes you have to switch from 'heat' to 'A/C' in the same day.

'Fix' is a verb. Example: 'I'm fixing to go to the store.'

All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable,
grain, insect or animal.

You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both
unlocked.

You know what a 'DAWG' is or 'ELEFUNT '

You carry jumper cables in your car . . . for your OWN car.

There are only four spices: salt, pepper, Tabasco and ketchup.

The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but
require 6 pages for local gossip and sports.

The first day of deer season is a state holiday.

100 degrees Fahrenheit 'a little warm.'

We have four seasons: Almost Summer, Summer, still Summer and Christmas.

Going to Wal-mart is a favorite past time known as 'goin' Wal-martin' or off to 'Wally World.'

A cool snap (below 70 degrees) is good pinto-bean weather.

A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda, cola or pop . . . it's a Coke,
regardless of brand or flavor. Example: 'What kinda coke you want?'

Fried catfish is the other white meat.

We don't need no stinking driver's ed . . . if our mama says we can
drive, we can drive.

Hey..Roller316 may take exception to that Alabama comment

Please don't confuse the similar moniker, definitely not the same guy....

I'm not actually from Alabama nor have I ever lived there. However I have lived in the south for 25 of the last 35 years and have friends from all over the south (including Alabama) and was married to a woman who was VERY southern when I met her.

For you new guys, do a search on member "RollTide" and you'll get an idea of what I was referencing.

Roller, glad you enjoyed the post.

Wit

We eat okra up here too.

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Hell, I even grow okra.

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