Things I learned from Texas :

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Things I learned from Texas:

1. A possum is a flat animal that sleeps in the middle of the road.
2. There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 of them live in Texas.
3. There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 oft hem live in
Texas, plus a couple no one's seen before.
4. If it grows, it'll stick ya. If it crawls, it'll bite
cha.
5. 'Onced' and 'Twiced' are words.
6. It is not a shopping cart, it is a buggy.
7. 'Jaw-P?' means 'Did ya'll go to the
bathroom?'
8. People actually grow and eat okra.
9. 'fixinto' is one word.
10. There is no such thing as 'lunch'. There is only dinner
and then there is supper.
11. 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.
12. Backwards and forwards means 'I know everything about
you.'
13. The word 'jeet' is actually a phrase meaning 'Didyou
eat?'.
14. 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.
15. You don't PUSH buttons, you MASH EM.
16. 'Nawd. Joo?' is a common response to the question 'Did
you bring any beer?'.
17. You measure distance in minutes.
18. You switch from heat to A/C in the same day.
19. All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect or animal.
20. You know what a 'DAWG' is.
21. You carry jumper cables in your car --- for your OWN car.
22. You only own five spices: salt, pepper, TexasPete, Tabasco and Ketchup.
23. The local papers cover national and international news on one
page, but require 6 pages for local gossip and motorsports.
24. You think that the first day of deer season is a national
holiday.
25. You find 100 degrees Fahrenheit 'a bit warm'.
26. You know all four seasons: Almost summer, summer, still summer, and Christmas.
27. Going to Wal-Mart is a favorite past time known as
'goin' Wal-Martin' or 'off to Wally World'.
28. You describe the first cool snap (below 70degrees) as good chicken stew weather.
29. Fried catfish is the other white meat.
30. We don't need no dang driver's ed. If our mama says we
can drive, we can drive!
31. You understand these jokes and forward them to your Texas friends and those who just wish they were from Texas
 
Thats funny, I'm from Florida ad heard all those locally, some people talk that-away round here, in certain circles that is.
 
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22. You only own five spices: salt, pepper, TexasPete, Tabasco and Ketchup.

alright, you must have been in the highfalutin part of texas. everyone where my family is knows that ketchup is a vegetable, and you can get all the salt you need out of Tabasco.

my grandmother's tea wasn't made right unless there was about a 1/4 cup of sugar undissolved in the bottom of the gallon jar (that's saturated solution).
 
I guess the one that I've had the most trouble with is:

10. There is no such thing as 'lunch'. There is only dinner and then there is supper

If you don't learn the difference, it can make you really late for a date. Never until I moved here did I hear "Lunch" called "Dinner". Supper and Dinner were interchangable as far as I knew. It's a different world down here, y'all.
 
Native Texan here!

Gilley's from Urban Cowboy was real....I live ~2 miles from where it used to stand before it burned down.

Houston has 3 weeks of fall, 3 weeks of spring and 10-1/2 months of summer.

Never ask for cheese dip with your chips....ask for Queso

Pasadena is sometimes called "Stinkadena" due to all of the chemical plants and refineries. Locals will tell you that it is the smell of money!

Don't flip someone off while driving in Texas....you may end up getting shot.
 
Chick-Fil-A and Golden Corral are the only places that I have found in the Houston/Pasadena area that sell sweet tea. My wife is from Atlanta, so we get spoiled on how easy it is to find sweet tea when we visit out there.
 
It's more common than bottled water around me.

And as another northerner now down here, it really is a different world.
 
16. 'Nawd. Joo?' is a common response to the question 'Did
you bring any beer?'.
That should just be ya. In my circles not even a question.
The main problem in the south is yankees coming down here thinking it is different, finding out it is, then trying to change it.
 
The main problem in the south is yankees coming down here thinking it is different, finding out it is, then trying to change it.


2rowdy

You got that right
 
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