In Alabama
> >> Possums sleep in the middle of
> >> the road with their feet in the air.
> >>
> >> There are 5,000 types of snakes
> >> on earth and 4,998 live in Alabama .
> >>
> >> There are 10,000 types of
> >> spiders. All 10,000 live in Alabama, plus a couple no one's seen
> >> before.
> >>
> >> If it grows, it sticks; if it
> >> crawls, it bites.
> >>
> >> Onced and Twiced are words.
> >>
> >> It is not a shopping cart; it is
> >> a buggy.
> >>
> >> People actually grow and eat
> >> okra.
> >>
> >> 'Fixinto' is one word.
> >>
> >> There is no such thing as
> >> 'lunch.' There is only dinner and then supper.
> >>
> >> 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!
> >>
> >> Backwards and forwards means 'I
> >> know everything about you.'
> >>
> >> DJeet is actually a phrase
> >> meaning 'Did you eat?'
> >>
> >> You don't have to wear a watch
> >> because it doesn't matter what time it is. You wor****il you're done
> >> or it's too dark to see.
> >>
> >> You don't PUSH buttons, you MASH
> >> them.
> >>
> >> You measure distance in minutes.
> >>
> >> You'll probably have to switch
> >> from 'heat' to 'A/C' in the same day.
> >>
> >> 'Fix' is a verb. Example: 'I'm
> >> fixing to go to the store.'
> >>
> >> All the festivals across the
> >> state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect or animal.
> >>
> >> You install security lights on
> >> your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
> >>
> >> You carry jumper cables in your
> >> car . . . For your OWN car.
> >>
> >> There are only four spices:
> >> salt, pepper, Tabasco and ketchup.
> >>
> >> The local papers cover national
> >> and international news on one page, but require 6 pages for local
> >> gossip and sports.
> >>
> >> The first day of deer season is
> >> a national holiday.
> >>
> >> 100 degrees Fahrenheit is 'a
> >> little warm.'
> >>
> >> We have four seasons: Almost
> >> Summer, Summer, still Summer and Christmas.
> >>
> >> A cool snap (below 70 degrees)
> >> is good pinto-bean weather.
> >>
> >> 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?'
> >>
> >> Fried catfish is the other white
> >> meat.
> >> We don't need no stinking
> >> driver's Ed . . . If our mama says we can drive, we can drive.
> >> If you understand these jokes
> >> please forward them to your friends
From Alabama (and those who just
> >> wish they were).
> >>
> >> EVERYONE can't be an Alabamian;
> >> it takes talent.
You might say it's an art form or a gift from God!


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