Guest guest Posted October 9, 2006 Report Posted October 9, 2006 > > THINGS I HAVE LEARNED LIVING IN LOUISIANA: > > 1. Possums sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in > the air > 2. There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 live in LOUISIANA. > 3. There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in > LOUISIANA plus a couple no one's seen before. > 4. If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls, it bites. > 5. Onced and twiced are words. > 6. It is not a shopping cart; it is a buggy. > 7. Fire ants consider your flesh as a picnic. > 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. Ice 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. Backards and forwards means " I know everything about you. " > 13. 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 them. > > YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM LOUISIANA IF: > > 1. You measure distance in minutes. > 2. You've ever had to switch from " heat " to " A/C " in the same > day. > 3. You use " fix " as a verb. Example: " I'm fixing to go to the > store " > 4. All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, > vegetable, grain, insect or animal. > 5. You install security lights on your house and garage and > leave both unlocked. > 6. You know what a " DAWG " is. > 7. You carry jumper cables in your car...for your OWN car. > 8. You only own five spices: salt, pepper, tony chachere's, > tabasco and ketchup. > 9. The local papers cover national and international news on > one page but require 6 pages for local gossip and sports. > 10. You think that the first day of deer season is a national > holiday. > 11. You find 100 degrees Fahrenheit " a little warm " . > 12. You know all four seasons: Almost Summer, Summer, still Summer > and Christmas. > 13. You know whether another LOUISIANAN is from NEW ORLEANS, north > or south as soon as they open their mouth. > 14. Going to Wal-mart is a favorite past time known as " goin' Wal- > martin " or off to " Wally World " ....Mall Mart > 15. You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good > Gumbo weather. > 16. 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? " > 17. Fried catfish is the other white meat. > 18. We don't need no stinking driver's ed....if our mama says we > can drive, we can drive. > 19. You understand these jokes and forward them to your friends > from LOUISIANA (and those who just wish they were). Not EVERYONE can > be a LOUISIANAN, it's an art form and a gift from God > > jaime EG > , I live in SW MS only 50 miles from LA and it is about the same here. It took me a long time to learn the lingo and when I first moved here in 2000 I needed an interperter to understand the people. I could have used this dictionary back then. God Bless us all! Barbara R IPF 1/2003 Quote
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