Hey you Southern folks...
Is this true?
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 the South.
3. There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 of them live in the South, plus a couple no one's seen before.
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 is a buggy!
7. Jawl-P? means: Did you all go to the bathroom?
8. People actually grow, eat, and like okra.
9. Fixinto is one word. It means I'm going to do something.
10. There is no such thing as lunch. There is only dinner and then there's 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. It is referred to as the Wine of the South.
12. Backwards and forwards means I know everything about you.
13. The word jeet is actually a question 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. Y'all is singular. All Y'all is plural.
17. All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect, or animal.
18. You carry jumper cables in your car for your OWN car.
19. You only own five spices: salt, pepper, mustard, Tabasco, and ketchup.
20. The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require 6 pages for local high school sports, motorsports, and gossip.
21. Everyone you meet is a Honey, Sugar, Miss (first name), or Mr (first name).
22. You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.
23. You know what a hissy fit is..
24. Fried catfish is the other white meat.
25. We don't need no dang Driver's Ed. If our mama says we can drive, we can drive!!!
AND one more:
26. Why did the chicken cross the road? To show that stupid possum that it CAN be done!
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Is there anything more important that local high school sports and the first day of deer season other than your religion? .
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Allen , the natives on the outer banks ,around Corolla ,Duck ,Avon, Harkers Island etc talk like that too. They generally are referred to as "hoi toiders" .
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wolfpack: 30468190768667/comments/30468230015003
Is there anything more important that local high school sports and the first day of deer season other than your religion? .
BBQ
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wolfpack: 30468190768667/comments/30468230015003
Is there anything more important that local high school sports and the first day of deer season other than your religion? .
NAW
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Sweet Tea and Sun dresses
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wolfpack: 30468190768667/comments/30468230015003
Is there anything more important that local high school sports and the first day of deer season other than your religion? .
NAY NAW.
I can still hear my mamaw saying “if y’all are gonna be bringing beer into my house you better put in a paper sack so the neighbors don’t see”
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NC Tourist Bureau used to give away a little pocket sized book called "The Queen's English". Folks along the Outer Banks still used a dialect of Elizabethan English. And yes, instead of "high tide" it is "hoi toide".
I used to do mine inspections in SW VA, WV and Kentucky. You can still find yourself in some spots back in the hollers that you get asked the two questions.
#1. "Y'all ain't from 'round heah- are yah?"
#2. "Y'all got kin folk 'round heah?" 😬
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Ya'll go to Youtube and search for sh!t southern women say.
Boy Howdy, they cut no slack and all pretty accurate.
One can say just about anything about anyone as long as "Bless their heart" is used in the ending.
Oops, sorry, I got the asterik or something like that😮
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Single syllable words are always spoken as 2 syllable words😉
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They talk a little less deep South here, but...
would you believe most people in southern Chicago are mixed as to which side they are on, and you drive 25 miles Southwest, around Joliet, and there is no longer any doubt? No, I am not sayin' because of the Nascar track.
Most of Illinois would have rebelled if not for Cook, Lake, and DuPage counties.
I think "The Man With No Name" was meant to give an ambiguous answer to which side he was on in that movie when he said "Illinois."
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asop, that's the "Y/W" rule i wrote about above.
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Uncle Remus and Ber' Rabbit was required reading down here from 1st grade to the 12th, we considered it our English books. 😉
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I was in Fourth Grade in Atlanta, 1961. Our teacher was from the old Southern aristocracy. Ms Causey taught the class a song. All white kids, this was in the days of segregation. We all stood beside our desk, and we put our hands on our hips. We shook our hips side to side, and we sang "Me and my Mammy gonna pick a bale of cotton. Me and my Mammy gwine a' pick a bale a day."
Then, all of us 10 year old kids put our hands high over head, shook our fingers, and cried out "Oh, Lawdy!" And then we bent over and put our hands on the floor. We rolled our hands, as though we were picking cotton, and cried out "Pick a bale of cotton!" Then the hands back over the head, "Oh, Lawdy!" then hands back on the floor "Pick a bale a day!"
It is from this old spiritual.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ILbUduwBkgSomething tells me the kids up in Yankeeland were not learning this song in school.
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It was " Mammy's little baby loves shortnin' bread" ar my elementary school.
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Most importantly, Southern Folk(real southerners) will HELP anybody they see in distress. The world would be a better place if more people were like southern folk!
We never had much, still dont, but we have our pride and will help anyone in need. Thats what this country needs now more than anything!
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Oh yea, and we drink tea down here (no need to call it sweet tea in the south). Its a GIVEN that means SWEET tea. If you need unsweet, you gotta ask for it! If you order tea, it WILL be sweet😁
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Agree with Mike55
Growing up my parents (well same for us)
They Never turned any one away
we had our small house packed with family and friends more often than not . some for months
mom would cook and it may not have filled every one up but every one had some food And a dry place to sleep
Private time was non existing to say the least lol
Same when we went to.south visiting family down south they had little but kindness and making us as comfortable as possible
Lot of good memories from back then
As for me I have helped countless people stranded/ broken down on the road I have did countless car repairs for free to help some people I did not even know all pay it forward I hope karma took notes lol
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Talking about FRIENDLY folk! My right shoulder hurt for a week from all the waiving I returned to those I passed driving around SW Virginia! 😁
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Brookwood: 30468190768667/comments/30468195883547
Talking about FRIENDLY folk! My right shoulder hurt for a week from all the waiving I returned to those I passed driving around SW Virginia! 😁
they all wave in them big cities too, though it usually is only with one finger................
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Southerners like sweet tea.
I was working as a paramedic in a small town in Georgia. One day, we were called to transfer a pt. from the hospital back to her home. This was a 51 year old gal. She had just had her right foot amputated at the ankle, because the foot had gangrene, because she had diabetes. And the doc was in the room when we were loading her up on the stretcher, and he said to her "Now Ms. Julie I'm telling you again, get off of that sugar, or your diabetes will get worse, and we will be back here next year, amputating your entire right leg."
She said "Yes sir, doctor."
We took her home, she lived in a nice little 2-bedroom house with her 55 year old sister. Sister was making up a batch of tea. These Southerners don't mess with a 5 pound bag of sugar, they buy the ten pound bag of Dixie Crystals, that way they only need one bag per week.
Sister was mixing up a big 1/2 gallon batch of sweet tea and I watched her put about two pounds of Dixie Crystals in there. As we loaded our patient onto the bed, she said "Oh sister, give me a big glass of that sweet tea on ice. That tea at the hospital weren't no good!"
There is an absolute epidemic of diabetes in Georgia. I wonder why.
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Southern tea= 3 tea bags,1 gallon of water,5 pounds of sugar.
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buddyb: 30468190768667/comments/30468256652827
Southern tea= 3 tea bags,1 gallon of water,5 pounds of sugar.
Sounds about right. Just add one cut up lemon
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first time i went to Utah, i found out didnt everyone drink sweet tea, heck they didnt even know what it was.
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"There is an absolute epidemic of diabetes in Georgia. I wonder why."
There is an epidemic of diabetes in the ENTIRE country! Everyone eats "fast" food and lots of it! Cant just single out Ga in that one!
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We were visiting friends in Wisconsin and while out to dinner at a “supper club” (that’s what they call them up there). I ordered iced tea and the server told me they only serve iced tea in the summer. WHAAAAAAAT.
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varian, I've lived in Utah for 35 years and everywhere I order iced tea, they ALWAYS ask "sweet or un?"
I only drink it "un". Or as an Arnold Palmer.
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Rocky Raab: 30468190768667/comments/30468246802331
varian, I've lived in Utah for 35 years and everywhere I order iced tea, they ALWAYS ask "sweet or un?"
I only drink it "un". Or as an Arnold Palmer.
Arnold Palmer is one of my all time favorite beverages.
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Read about UK diabetes. It's worldwide.
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cut junk food and more daily aerobics
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""2. There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 of them live in the South.""
Our 'Southern' (Proper Adjective) snakes know when it is hot as blue blazes - you go to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and cool off doing some surfing - and since you are on the beach - you need to scarf down 'sweet tea' - shrimp - & - grits - preferably cheese grits.
Best Regards - AQH
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