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17 March 2007 |
Things I've learned living in Oklahoma |
- Possums sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air.
- There are 5000 different snakes and 4998 live in Oklahoma.
- There are over 10,000 kinds of spiders. All 10,000 are in Oklahoma. Plus a couple no one's ever seen before.
- If it grows, it sticks. If it crawls, it bites.
- Onced and twiced are words.
- It aint a shopping cart. It's a buggy.
- People actually grow okra and eat it.
- Fixinto is a word.
- There is no such thing as "lunch". There is dinner and then supper.
- Iced tea is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it when you turn 2.
- Yes, most of us do like a little tea with our sugar.
- Backwards and forwards means "I know everything about it" .
- Djeet is slang for "Did you eat?"
- You don't have to wear a watch cause it don't matter what time it is.
- You work til your done or until it's too dark to see.
- You measure distance in minutes.
- You have to sometimes switch between the heat and the AC on the same day.
- You use fix as a verb. "I am fixing to leave for the store."
- You carry jumper cables for your own car.
- The local paper has one page for international news and six pages devoted to local sports.
- The first day of hunting season should be considered a holiday.
- You find 100 degrees F., just a little warm.
- The four seasons are Almost Summer, Summer, Ice, and Christmas.
- Wal-Mart is a favorite past time. It is known as Wal-Martin' or going to Wally World.
- The first time the weather hits 70 degrees or below, you call it a cold snap and start up a pot of beans.
- Carbonated beverages are Coke.
- Catfish is the other white meat.
- We don't need driver's ed. If mama says we can learn to drive, we learn to drive.
- Sorry not everyone can be an Okie...It's an art form and a gift from God.
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