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Dennis Peacock
03-31-2003, 3:59 PM
You know you're from Arkansas 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 know what a razorback is.
4. You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one in it, no matter what time of the year.
5. You use "fix" as a verb. Example: I am fixing to go to the store.
6. All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit,
vegetable, grain, insect or animal.
7. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
8. You carry jumper cables in your car... for your OWN car.
9. You know what "cow tipping" is
10. You only own four spices: salt, pepper, texas pete and catsup.
11. The local papers cover national and international news on one page but requires 6 pages for local gossip and sports.
12. Your think that the first day deer season is a national holiday.
13. You find 100 degrees Fahrenheit "a little warm"
14. You know all four seasons: Almost summer, summer, still summer, and Christmas.
15. You know whether another person from Arkansas is from east, west, or middle Arkansas as soon as they open their mouth.
16. Going to Wal-mart is a favorite past time known as "goin
wal-martin" or off to"Wally World"
17. You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good
pinto-bean weather.
18. A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda, cola, or pop...it's a Coke, regardless of brand or flavor, Example: "What kinna coke you want?"
19. Fried Catfish is the other white meat.
20. "Lard" is used as a bedroom massage oil.

Dr. Zack Jennings
03-31-2003, 4:21 PM
I agree
Sounds like a pretty fair description except you didn't say anthin' 'bout Mamma or trains or goin to prison.

And the answer is Yes.

The Question is: "In Stone county, if a man and his wife git divorced,..... are they still brother and sister?

<center>There ain't a pertier place on earth....
and.... the people are nice.

Steve Clardy
03-31-2003, 4:22 PM
but you are right on on the rest of it. Steve, originally from Rogers, Ark.
















Fergot the main thing. If 16 of your 27 cousins are Billy Bobs, then you know you ar from Ark.

Hal Flynt
03-31-2003, 5:08 PM
Possums sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air.

There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 live in Tennessee.

There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in Tennessee, plus a couple no one's seen before.

Squirrels will eat anything.

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 is not a shopping cart, it is a buggy.

Fire ants consider your flesh as a picnic.

People actually grow and eat okra.

Fixinto is one word.

A tank is a dirt hole in the ground that holds water for irrigation, watterin' the cows, swimming, or a weekly bath.

There ain't no such thing as "lunch". There's only dinner and then there's supper.

Iced tea is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it when you're 2.

Backards and forwards 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.

Darn near everyone knows 5 or more cloud types (cause they got to be look'n out for them there ternayders-(translation: tornados)

You know you're from Tennessee if:
1. You measure distance in minutes.
2. You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
3. Stores don't have bags; they have sacks.
4. You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one in it, no matter what time of the year.
5. You use "fix" as a verb. Example: I am fixing to go to the store.
6. All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect or animal.
7. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
8. You carry jumper cables in your car...for your OWN car..
9. You know what "cow tipping" is.
10. You only own four spices: salt, pepper, ketchup, and Tabasco.
11. The local papers cover national and international news on one page but requires 6 pages for local gossip and sports.
12. You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.
13. You find 100 degrees Fahrenheit "a little warm."
14. You know all four seasons: Almost summer, summer, still summer, and Christmas.
15. You know whether another Tennesseeian is from east, west, or middle Tennessee as soon as they open their mouth.
16. Going to Wal-Mart is a favorite past-time known as "goin wal-martin" or "off to Wally World."
17. You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good chili weather.
18. A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda, cola, or pop ... it's a Coke, regardless of brand or flavor. Example "What kina coke you want?"
19. Fried Catfish is the other white meat.
20. You understand these jokes and forward them to your friends from Tennessee.
21. And your darned proud of the Troops no matter what!

Bobby Hatfield
03-31-2003, 7:37 PM
If you see walkin customers trying to buy automotive Freon in the parts store. (Do it Yourself Chemical makers)