Georgia On My Mind
I am Georgia born and raised so I speak this “language”…I have no idea where this originated, but I found it on my Facebook wall this afternoon {from 2009} and since it gave me a few chuckles, I thought I would share it with you!
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 Georgia.
3. There are 10,000 types of spiders.. All 10,000 of them live in Georgia.
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’s a buggy.
7. ‘Jaw-P?’ means, ‘Did y’all 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, ‘Did you 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. You measure distance in minutes. “How long did it take you to get here?”
17. You switch from heat to A/C in the same day.
18. All the festivals across Georgia are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect or animal.
19. You know what a ‘DAWG‘ is.
20. You carry jumper cables in your car — for your OWN car.
21. You only own five spices: salt, pepper, Texas Pete, Tabasco and Ketchup.
22. The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require six pages for local gossip and high school football.
23. You {or your dad and brothers} think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.
24. You find 100 degrees Fahrenheit ‘a bit warm’.
25. You know all four seasons: Almost summer, summer, still summer, and Christmas.
26. Going to Wal-Mart is a favorite past time known as ‘goin’ Wal-Martin’ or ‘off to Wally World’.
27. You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good hog killin’ weather.
28. Fried catfish is the other white meat.
Hilarious! I lived in Valdosta when I was a youngin’.
Jennifer, you did?! I did know that! My brother and his crew live there now – and they love it!