LaRue Medlin
Well-Known Member
THINGS YOU WILL LEARN FROM LIVING IN SOUTH CAROLINA ...
1. Possums sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air.
2. There are 5,000 types of snakes on earth and 4,998 live in South Carolina .
3. There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in South Carolina plus a couple others no one has ever seen
before.
4. If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls, it bites.
5. Onced and Twiced are words.
6. It is not a shopping cart; it is a buggy.
7. People actually grow and eat okra.
8. 'Fixinto' is one word.
9. There is no s uch thing as 'lunch.' There is only dinner and then there is supper.
10. 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!
11. Backards and forwards means 'I know everything about you.'
12. DJeet? is actually a phrase meaning 'Did you eat?'
13. 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.
14. You don't PUSH buttons, you MASH them. You also measure distance in minutes.
16. You have to switch from 'heat' to 'A/C' in the same day.
17. 'Fix' is a verb. Example: 'I'm fixing to go to the store.'
18. All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect or animal.
19. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
20. You know what a 'DAWG' is.
21. You carry jumper cables in your car . . for your OWN car.
22. There are only own four spices: salt, pepper, Tabasco and ketchup.
23. The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require 6 pages for local gossip
and sports.
24. The first day of deer season is a national holiday.
25. 100 degrees Fahrenheit 'a little warm. 'We have four seasons : Almost Humid, Humid, still Humid and
Christmas.
26. Going to Wal-mart is a favorite past time known as 'goin' Wal-martin' or off to 'Wally World.'
27. A cool snap (below 70 degrees) is good pinto-bean weather.
28. 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?'
29. Fried catfish is the other white meat.
30. We don't need no stinking driver's ed . . if our mama says we can drive, we can drive.
31. If you understand these jokes please share them with your friends from South Carolina (and those who just
wish they were). EVERYONE can't be a South Carolinian; it takes talent.
1. Possums sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air.
2. There are 5,000 types of snakes on earth and 4,998 live in South Carolina .
3. There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in South Carolina plus a couple others no one has ever seen
before.
4. If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls, it bites.
5. Onced and Twiced are words.
6. It is not a shopping cart; it is a buggy.
7. People actually grow and eat okra.
8. 'Fixinto' is one word.
9. There is no s uch thing as 'lunch.' There is only dinner and then there is supper.
10. 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!
11. Backards and forwards means 'I know everything about you.'
12. DJeet? is actually a phrase meaning 'Did you eat?'
13. 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.
14. You don't PUSH buttons, you MASH them. You also measure distance in minutes.
16. You have to switch from 'heat' to 'A/C' in the same day.
17. 'Fix' is a verb. Example: 'I'm fixing to go to the store.'
18. All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect or animal.
19. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
20. You know what a 'DAWG' is.
21. You carry jumper cables in your car . . for your OWN car.
22. There are only own four spices: salt, pepper, Tabasco and ketchup.
23. The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require 6 pages for local gossip
and sports.
24. The first day of deer season is a national holiday.
25. 100 degrees Fahrenheit 'a little warm. 'We have four seasons : Almost Humid, Humid, still Humid and
Christmas.
26. Going to Wal-mart is a favorite past time known as 'goin' Wal-martin' or off to 'Wally World.'
27. A cool snap (below 70 degrees) is good pinto-bean weather.
28. 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?'
29. Fried catfish is the other white meat.
30. We don't need no stinking driver's ed . . if our mama says we can drive, we can drive.
31. If you understand these jokes please share them with your friends from South Carolina (and those who just
wish they were). EVERYONE can't be a South Carolinian; it takes talent.