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Things I learned living in Texas .

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

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. "Jaw-P?" means "Did ya'll 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 beer?"

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.

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 know as "goin' Wal-Martin" or "off to Wally World".

28. You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good chicken 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, dad gummit .

That is all so funny Cricket!!
Cindy and I discussed 'fixinto' once!!
We both agreed "how else would you say it!!!" ...

I had a very good feeling some of these saying and such spread farther than Texas. I remember in grade school the whole class agruing with the teacher when she said 'fixing to' is NOT proper english. we didn't have a clue as to what she was talking about! ha ha

29. Fried catfish is the other white meat.!


Yep!

Those are good! Some of them I can relate to. We do things a little bit different here up north. Don'tcha know?? We don't really talk like that but I guess we sound like that to some.

I was trying to remember what part of the country or city says 'yous guys'? Detroit?...bronx?
I get teased sometimes when I throw out the 'A?', at the end of a sentence when I'm joking around. I believe that is a Canandian saying?

We say "you guys" all the time!!!

I say you guys too but I lived in California a while. I don't say ya'll.


17. You measure distance in minutes.

Or cigarettes. One time we were lost in Florence, SC and pulled into a gas station and asked a guy standing outside how far 52 was. His answer was "'bout 2 cigarettes." No joke.


I have a friend from Ohio and she makes fun when we say "over yonder." She says Yonder is a town in Texas.

What was your answer? That's the only way I can think of.

Yup...

I hear people say about distance that 'it's just a crows fly from here'.

I don't think yonder is a town in texas! but lots of people do say 'over yonder' around here.

actually, "as the crow flies" means if you go straight there, it's one distance and if you take the "normal" route it is another, longer distance! we say that in fl too!!

"it's 7 miles as the crow flies, or on the dirt roads, about 30 minutes"

AWWWW.....maybe THAT'S why that saying never meant any sense to me!
thanks for 'splain'in.

Yep, we say that in Illinois too. here it means that if you were to go (to where ever) in a straight line it would be that distance.--But of course no one can get there that way---