What i've learned living in Ga.
Things I have learned living in Georgia.......
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 Georgia.
3. There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in Georgia
plus a couple no one's seen before.
4. Squirrels will eat anything.
5. Unknown critters love to dig holes under tomato plants.
6. Raccoons will test your crop of melons and let you know when
they are ripe.
7. If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls, it bites.
8. Onced and twiced are words.
9. It is not a shopping cart; it is a buggy.
10. Fire ants consider your flesh as a picnic.
11. People actually grow and eat okra.
12. Fixinto is one word.
13. There is no such thing as "lunch". There is only dinner and
then there's supper.
14. 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!
15. Backards and forwards means "I know everything about you."
16. Jeet? is actually a phrase meaning "Did you eat?"
17. 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.
18. You don't PUSH buttons, yo u MASH them.
You know you're from Georgia 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. ????
9. You only own four spices: salt, pepper, Tabasco and ketchup.
10. The local papers cover national and international news on
one page but require 6 pages for local gossip and sports.
11. You think that the first day of deer season is a national
holiday.
12. You find 100 degrees Fahrenheit "a little warm".
13. You know all four seasons: Almost Summer, Summer, still
Summer and Christmas.
14. You know whether another Georgian is from Atlanta, north or south
Georgia as soon as they open their mouth.
15. Going to Wal-mart is a favorite past time known as"goin'
Wal-martin" or off to "Wally World" or Walmark!
16. You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good
pinto-bean weather.
17. 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?"
18. Fried catfish is the other white meat.
19. We don't need no stinking driver's ed....if our mama says we
can drive,we can drive.
20. You understand these jokes and forward them to your friends
from Georgia(and those who just wish they were). Not EVERYONE can be a
Georgian, it's an art form
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Originally Posted by VanillaMaggie
