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

• There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 of them live in the South.

• There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 of them live in the South, plus a couple no ones seen before.

• If it grows, it’ll stick ya. If it crawls, it’ll bite ya.

• It is not a shopping cart, it is a buggy!

• When you get out of your car ya “get down”

• People actually grow and eat okra.

• Fixinto is one word. It means I’m fixing to do that.

• 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.

• You don’t PUSH buttons, you MASH em.

• You measure distance in minutes.

• You switch from heat to A/C in the same day.

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

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

• On average you only own five spices: salt, pepper, Tony’s, Tabasco and ketchup.

• You find 100 degrees Fahrenheit a bit warm.

• You know all four seasons: Almost summer, summer, still summer, and Christmas.

• You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good Gumbo weather.

• Fried catfish is the other white meat.