Texas

[winr]

1. A possum is a flat animal that sleeps in the middle of the road.

2. There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 of them live in Texas

3. There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 of them live in Texas.

4. If it grows, it'll stick ya. If it crawls, it'll bite cha.

5. 'Onced' and 'Twiced' are words.

6. It is not a shopping cart, it's a buggy.

7. 'Jaw-P?' means, 'Did y'all go to the bathroom?

8. People actually grow and eat okra.

9. 'Fixinto' is one word.

10. There is no such thing as 'lunch.' There is only dinner and then there is supper.

11. 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.

12. Backwards and forwards means, 'I know everything about you.'

13. The word 'jeet' is actually a phrase meaning, 'Did you eat?'

14. 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.

15. You don't PUSH buttons, you MASH EM.

16. 'No. Jew?' is a common response to the question, 'Did you bring any Coke?'

17. You measure distance in minutes.

18. You switch from heat to A/C in the same day.

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

20. You know what a 'DAWG' is.

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

22. You only own four spices: salt, pepper, Tabasco and Ketchup.

23. The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require 6 pages for local gossip and high school football.

24. You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.

25. You find 100 degrees Fahrenheit 'a bit warm.'

26. You know all four seasons: Almost summer, summer, still summer, and Christmas.

27. Going to Wal-Mart is a favorite past time known as 'goin' Wal-Martin' or 'off to Wally World.'

28. You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good stew weather.

29. Fried catfish is the other white meat.

30. We don't need no dang driver's ed. If our mama says we can drive, we can drive, dag-nabbit.




Ricky.

[ezernut9mm]

ricky, that reminds me of when i was a kid from 6 til i was 9 i lived in harker heights near killeen.
we were out from dawn til dusk all summer and had to get home when the street lights came on or you would hear mom yelling at the top of her lungs for us to come in.
hang ten t-shirts and cut off shorts and tier tread sandals.
when we weren't jumping our huffys off of homemade ramps we were fetching golf balls out of the municipal golf coarse pond for 5cents each.
one of the other cool things to do was to stand in the middle of the street bare footed and see who would run off first. lol. grass never felt so cool after doing that.
i really liked living there and i miss it.

[ABA]

Most of that list will work anywhere south of the Mason Dixon line.

[66 POJ]

Most of that list will work anywhere south of the Mason Dixon line.

yep!

[Michelle]

Its funny that you post that today. At dinner today (the twelve oclock meal) I was in a local eatery when a man walked in and ask a friend did Jeat yet. (did you eat yet) I told my mother we have a language all our own. So much of what you posted is so true. The Aussies are just as bad. I have a couple of Aussie friends that come to the US for the ATHS truck show every couple of years and although they speak english I can hardly understand a word that say when they get to talking. I am sure that when I talk to another local they have just as hard a time understanding us.

[Alan Mclennan]

Its funny that you post that today. At dinner today (the twelve oclock meal) I was in a local eatery when a man walked in and ask a friend did Jeat yet. (did you eat yet) I told my mother we have a language all our own. So much of what you posted is so true. The Aussies are just as bad. I have a couple of Aussie friends that come to the US for the ATHS truck show every couple of years and although they speak english I can hardly understand a word that say when they get to talking. I am sure that when I talk to another local they have just as hard a time understanding us.

YEP!

I attended the National high school rodeo finals, in Springfield IL in 2001, a young girl serving me, asked me to repeat myself 3 times ( can I have 2 hot dogs and a lemonade please!), to which she said OOOOOWWWEEEE I love the way you say that!
Greg`s partner Rose and I had a good chin wag at SS3, even Greg couldn't understand Rose!, once we got going!

[ezernut9mm]

i love it. did she call you sug (shugg) or hon? i just love the way those texas girls talk.

[Brian Taylor]

My old friend was a Scott with a very Gaelic drawl he married a girl from deep Kentucky. She would have to translate when they go out to eat, the waitress would ask ,,...... and his wife would repeat it to him without the kentucky in it and he would answer she would then translate again without the gaelic drawl.
We worked together for a long time and I would have to walk around the office with him to translate for those who could not understand too.
And for the Texas thing my wife feels that all the snakes live here in Texas, she is from Indiana.

[Uncle Skip]

The armadillo is the Texas State Speed bump.

U@ss

[DukeRoche]

Ezer, I know Harker Heights very well. We lived in Copperas Cove towards the end but spent most of the time living on post. I'd like to agree the most with #27. In the 6 years I was in Texas I never met more people loyal to WalMart in my life. You would think Christ himself was there baptizing people. And there is no safe time to go for us non Texans wanting to avoid the crowd. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, WalMart in Texas is packed