Things I Learnt In Alabama
My post below came to me in the form of an email from an old friend.
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.
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.
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 forwards means I know everything about you.
Jeet? is actually a phrase meaning "Did you eat yet?"
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 verb.
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 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
wal-marts."
17. You describe the first cool snap (below 70 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....
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.
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.
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 forwards means I know everything about you.
Jeet? is actually a phrase meaning "Did you eat yet?"
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 verb.
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 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
wal-marts."
17. You describe the first cool snap (below 70 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....
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