Livin In Louisiana

THANGS I LERNT WILE LIVIN IN LUZIANA


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 YOUR 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: Tony's (Chachere?), salt, pepper, 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 lit tle warm".
12. You know all four seasons: Deer Season, Duck Season, Crawfish Season, Summer.
13. You know whether another LOUISIANIAN is from, north or south as soon as they start talking (speaking).
14. Going to Wal-mart is a favorite past time known as "goin' Wal-martin" or "off to Wally World".
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
LOUISIANIAN, it's an art form and a gift from God.

Yes this was stolen from an email that was sent me.
True so true.
Peace yall
Moon

Dang Badmoon,

I just read your post and I was "fixing" to get homesick for "Lou...weeezzeee...ana" and I haven't even left the state.

You about got it covered. You did forget one thing......

How you know...when you are from Louisiana....."you are eating boiled crawfish and the person tells you DON'T eat the dead ones.....and you know what they mean!!!!!!!"......


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Moon I follered everything ya wrote. Scared me...
I felt better after not understanding anything Twin wrote.....


Jerry

Man yall making me miss home so much its sad, I think yall need to add something bout them stinging caterpillers though, every time i step on anything thorny here I get homesick, only the pain just last for a minute not hours lol . Well enough for now cause Im fixin to run to wally world

What ya did forget to mention is something most wouldn't understand or believe to be racist. One of my favorite things to tease some old boy trying to claim he's from LOUISIANA, is if he knows the different's between a Cajun and a Coonass. Having half my family as a Coonass I still lay claim to living in the best place on earth, but that's most Texan's point of view to begin with.

cerooth wrote:What ya did forget to mention is something most wouldn't understand or believe to be racist. One of my favorite things to tease some old boy trying to claim he's from LOUISIANA, is if he knows the different's between a Cajun and a Coonass. Having half my family as a Coonass I still lay claim to living in the best place on earth, but that's most Texan's point of view to begin with.

You were spot on with that one. Yep yep.

Did yall hear about the Coon-ass and the Aggie having a feud??
The Aggie was throwing TNT at the Coonass and the coonass was lighting it and throwing it back.
He he he he.

Moon