I don't normally forward e-mails that I receive like this one, but if you've ever lived in or visited Texas, you know that it's a whole different world.
A possum is a flat animal that sleeps in the middle of the road.
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There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 of them live in Texas
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There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 of them live in
Texas , plus a couple no one's seen before.
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If it grows, it'll stick ya. If it crawls, it'll bite cha.
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Onced and Twiced are words.
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It is not a shopping cart, it is a buggy!
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Jawl-P? means, Did you all go to the bathroom?
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People actually grow, eat and like okra.
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'Fixinto' is one word. It means I'm going to do that.
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There is no such thing as lunch. There is only dinner and then
there's supper.
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Iced tea is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it
when you're one year old. We do like a little tea with our sugar. It is
referred to as the Wine of Texas .
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Backwards and forwards means I know everything about you.
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The word 'jeet' is actually a question meaning, 'Did you eat?'
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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.
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You don't PUSH buttons, you MASH em.
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Ya'll is singular. All ya'll is plural.
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All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit,
vegetable, grain, insect, or animal.
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You carry jumper cables in your car - for your OWN car.
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You only own five spices: salt, pepper, mustard, Tabasco and
ketchup.
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The local papers cover national and international news on one
page, but require 6 pages for local high school sports, the motor sports, and
gossip.
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The
first day of deer season is a national holiday.
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You know what a hissy fit is and you dont have em, you pitch em
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Fried catfish is the other white meat.
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We don't need no dang Driver's Ed. If our mama says we can
drive, we can drive!!!
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