Possums sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air.
Raccoons will test your crop of melons and let you know when they are
ripe.
If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls, it bites.
Onced and twiced are words.
It's not a shopping cart; It's a buggy.
Fire ants consider your flesh a picnic.
People actually grow and eat okra.
Fixinto is a word.
There is no such thing as "lunch". There is only dinner and then there
is supper.
Ice tea/Sweet tea is appropriate for all meals.
Backards and forards means "I know everything about you."
Jeet? 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 ‘em.
You know you're from Tennessee if:
You measure distance in minutes.
"...your favorite shirt is orange cause you can wear it to the game on
Saturday, huntin' on Sunday, & to work for the highway dept. on Monday and never have to change!"
You've ever had to switch from "Heat" to "A/C" two or three times a day.
You use "fix" as 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 know what a "DAWG" is.
You carry jumper cables in your car...for your OWN car.
You only own 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.
You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.
You find 100 degrees Fahrenheit "a little warm".
You know all four seasons: Almost Summer, Summer, still Summer and
Christmas.
You know whether another Tennessean is from east, middle, or west
Tennessee as soon as they open their mouth.
Going to Wal-Mart is a favorite past time known as "Goin' Wal-Martin" or
Goin' to "Wally World".
You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good soup-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 you want?"
You know what cowtippin' and snipe huntin' are.
Fried catfish is the other white meat.
We don't need no stinking Driver's Ed....if mama says we can drive, we
can drive.
Posted on Jan 5, 2007, 7:43 PM from IP address 71.212.71.149