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Possums sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air.


There are 5,000 types of snakes on earth and 4,998 live in Alabama .


There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,0 00 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.


People actually grow and eat okra.


'Fixinto' is one word.


There is no such thing as 'lunch.' The re is only dinner and then supper.


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!


Backwards and forwards means 'I know everything about you.'


DJeet is actually a phrase meaning 'Did you eat?'


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.


You don't PUSH buttons, you MASH them.


You measure distance in minutes.


You'll probably have to switch from 'heat' to 'A/C' in the same day.


'Fix' is a verb. Example: 'I'm fixing to go to the store.'


All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect or animal.


You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.

You carry jumper cables in your car . . . for your OWN car.


There are only four spices: salt, pepper, Tabasco and ketchup.


The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require 6 pages for local gossip and sports.

The first day of deer season is a national holiday.


100 degrees Fahrenheit is 'a little warm.'

We have four seasons: Almost Summer, Summer, still Summer and Christmas.


Going to Wal-mart is a favorite past time known as 'goin' Wal-martin' or off to 'Wally World.'


A cool snap (below 70 degrees) is good pinto-bean weather.


A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda, cola or pop. . . it's a Coke, regardless of brand or flavor. Example: 'What kinda coke y ou want?'


Fried catfish is the other white meat.


We don't need no stinking driver's ed . . . if our mama says we can drive, we can drive.


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LOL..thanks 2 Each!!!

Did you hear that Garmin is coming out with a special "Alabama" Edition GPS??
It tells you to "go over yonder" when giving directions and features some of our common landmarks like "hollers", "braynches", trailer parks and junk yards. Ain't gonna be no reason fer gittin' lost no more!!! It's the perfect gift fer any Bubba, Earl or Paw-paw this Christmas!
The shopping cart / buggy thing reminds me of the first time I went to Wal-Mart with my mama. We moved here from NJ and they didn't have any Wal-Marts up there back then. So we enter the store and the greeter was very nice. He had a buggy and he offered it to my mama and said "you need a buggy ma'am?" She had no idea what he had just said so she looked at him like he was nuts. He again asked "would you like a buggy?" She finally realized he was offering it to her and looked at him and said "do you mean a cart??" He looked right back and said "I mean this thing here, do you want it?" It was so funny to see that elderly man go from sweet and humble to annoyed in 10 seconds flat! She took the cart. Then at the end of the trip the cashier had to explain to her the difference between bags (plastic) and sacks (paper). Big Grin
I have read these before bur i just cackle every time I read it.. how can i save this till I can git me a printer. I want to keep it this time. and by the way. I don't know about up north around Florence but us folks here in Winston county not only have sacks we have "pokes"
and you don't bathe with a wash CLOTH. it is a wash RAG. You wash your dishes with a dish RAG not a dish cloth.
Ya'll seriously tho.. no joke. Can you imagin the culture shock these people feel when they move here from NJ NY or where ever?
I have a freind who moved to the US from Germany. She married a man in the military and moved here. always lived in the upper part of the US(further "up north" than Florence)til he retired
She said she had lived here 2 years before she relized that "ruint" wasn't really a word!!! "that milk is ruint" "That ground beef is ruint" that is was the way we were pronouncing "ruined" The "ruint" is pronounced with 1 syllable
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Originally posted by mawbear11:
Ya'll seriously tho.. no joke. Can you imagin the culture shock these people feel when they move here from NJ NY or where ever?
I have a freind who moved to the US from Germany. She married a man in the military and moved here. always lived in the upper part of the US(further "up north" than Florence)til he retired
She said she had lived here 2 years before she relized that "ruint" wasn't really a word!!! "that milk is ruint" "That ground beef is ruint" that is was the way we were pronouncing "ruined" The "ruint" is pronounced with 1 syllable


You mean ruint isn't a word? Eeker
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Originally posted by CrustyMac:
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Originally posted by mawbear11:
Ya'll seriously tho.. no joke. Can you imagin the culture shock these people feel when they move here from NJ NY or where ever?
I have a freind who moved to the US from Germany. She married a man in the military and moved here. always lived in the upper part of the US(further "up north" than Florence)til he retired
She said she had lived here 2 years before she relized that "ruint" wasn't really a word!!! "that milk is ruint" "That ground beef is ruint" that is was the way we were pronouncing "ruined" The "ruint" is pronounced with 1 syllable


You mean ruint isn't a word? Eeker



And pronounced by some Alabamians as "rurnt"
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Originally posted by Monet-Lisa: stewed okra is Alabama's version of escargot Wink
Hi Monet and Howard,

Fried okra is the greatest food since banana sandwiches with peanut butter and mayonnaise. Stewed or boiled okra is punishment; the chef is trying to get even with you.

On the other hand, escargot is the one food that will top fried okra. In the early 1960s, friends took us to Dino's (Dean Martin) Restaurant on Sunset Strip in Hollywood. They wanted me to eat escargot -- but, after watching them eat it, I passed. The best escargot are the ones sautéed in garlic sauce and then put back into the shell. You hold the shell in a small clamp and using a very small two prong fork, dig out the escargot and eat it with hot bread and a good beaujolais wine. However, when I saw my friends picking the dark escargot out that shell -- it reminded me of someone picking their nose. That night I passed on escargot.

In 1969, we were living in Huntsville and went to a restaurant where a friend was the hostess. She introduced us to the maitre de and he insisted that they had the best escargot to be found anywhere. I passed; so he said, "I will put an order on the table and if you don't want to eat them, that is okay."

Out of curiosity, I tried one -- and have been hooked on escargot since that night.

In the early 1970s, a friend's daughter had her twelfth birthday; so, I took them to my favorite restaurant, Chez Cary, in Orange, California -- one of only two five star restaurants in Orange County at that time. I secretly told her mother that I would order escargot for the daughter and myself -- but, until she ate some, we would not tell her about escargot. All was well until the waiter, when he brought the escargot, looked at the twelve year old girl and asked, "Oh, you like snails?"

I had to eat both orders that night; much to my pleasure.

The food fit for God: Fried Okra and Escargot! If I had not just finished dinner, I would be hungry right now.

God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,

Bill

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