> >Subject: Life in Georgia
> >
> >Things I have learned living in Georgia
> >
> >
> >1. Possums sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air
> >
> >
> >2. There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 live in Georgia.
> >
> >
> >3. There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in Georgia plus
> >a
> >couple no one's seen before.
> >
> >
> >4. Squirrels will eat anything.
> >
> >
> >5. Unknown critters love to dig holes under tomato plants.
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> >6. Raccoons will test your crop of melons and let you know when they
> >are
> >ripe.
> >
> >
> >7. If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls, it bites.
> >
> >
> >8. Onced and twiced are words.
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> >
> >9. It is not a shopping cart; it is a buggy.
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> >10. Fire ants consider your flesh as a picnic.
> >
> >
> >11. People actually grow and eat okra.
> >
> >
> >12. Fixinto is one word.
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> >
> >13. There is no such thing as "lunch". There is only dinner and then
> >there
> >is supper.
> >
> >
> >14. Ice tea is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it
> >when
> >you're two. We do like a little tea with our sugar!
> >
> >
> >15. Backards and forwards means "I know everything about you."
> >
> >
> >16. Jeet? is actually a phrase meaning "Did you eat?"
> >
> >
> >17. 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.
> >
> >
> >18. You don't PUSH buttons, you MASH them.
> >
> >
> >
> >You know you're from Georgia 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 use "fix" as a verb. Example: "I'm fixing to go to the store "
> >
> >
> >
> >4. All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit,
> >vegetable,
> >grain, insect or animal.
> >
> >
> >
> >5. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both
> >unlocked.
> >
> >
> >
> >6. You know what a "DAWG" is.
> >
> >
> >
> >7. You carry jumper cables in your car...for your OWN car.
> >
> >
> >
> >9. You only own four spices: salt, pepper, Tabasco and ketchup.
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> >
> >
> >10. The local papers cover national and international news on one page
> >but
> >require 6 pages for local gossip and sports.
> >
> >
> >
> >11. You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.
> >
> >
> >
> >12. You find 100 degrees Fahrenheit "a little warm".
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> >
> >
> >13. You know all four seasons: Almost Summer, Summer, still Summer and
> >Christmas.
> >
> >
> >
> >14. You know whether another Georgian is from Atlanta, north or south
> >Georgia as soon as they open their mouth.
> >
> >
> >
> >15. Going to Wal-mart is a favorite past time known as"goin'
> >Wal-martin" or
> >off to "Wally World".
> >
> >
> >
> >16. You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good
> >pinto-bean
> >weather.
> >
> >
> >
> >17. 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?"
> >
> >
> >
> >18. Fried catfish is the other white meat.
> >
> >
> >
> >19. We don't need no stinking driver's ed....if our mama says we can
> >drive,
> >we can drive.
> >
> >
> >
> >20. You understand these jokes and forward them to your friends from
> >Georgia
> >(and those who just wish they were). Not EVERYONE can be a Georgian,
> >it's an
> >art form and a gift from God!
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