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shipperx: Go to google and type "you know you're from [your state] when... and bold the ones that apply.
You've never met any celebrities -- other than Fred Thompson. [Hahaha! I love this one!]
"Vacation" means going to the family reunion.
You know all four seasons: Almost Summer, Summer, Still Summer, and Christmas.
You laugh when people from anywhere north of Tennessee try to say or spell "y'all." [Listen very carefully to me, people of the earth: It's Y'ALL. Absolutely not ya'll. It's a contraction of "you" and "all." Putting the apostrophe after the a DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE and makes you look dumb. Thank you.]
It's "Mar-vull," not "Mary-ville." [One of my best friends is from Maryville!]
It's "Knox-vull," not "Knox-ville."
A toboggan is a hat, not a sled.
You butter your hot biscuit by cutting it open, putting a slab of butter inside, and closing it back up again. [This one confuses me. How else would you butter a biscuit?]
Pigeon Forge is not pronounced with a French accent.
Gatlinburg does have an "L" in it and it should be pronounced. [Who pronounces it differently? Seriously?]
Sales tax is 9.75%.
You shop at Wal-Mart for groceries, not at a grocery store. [Well, I don't, because I love in "the city." But all of my relatives in various small towns scattered across the state do, and that's where I shop when I'm with them--which is often. So I'll bold this one.]
You don't drive in Knoxville on game day. EVER. [I've never had any reason to be anywhere near Knoxville during that time, but even I know the truth of this statement, and I would never, under any circumstances, do this.]
You or your friends chew. [Well, I don't, obviously, because I think it's the nastiest thing in the universe, but yeah, I have friends who do. Unfortunately.]
You can't remember the last time you saw snow.
You know when Elvis Presley Day is.
You know all of the words to "Rocky Top."
You avoid going anywhere near Bristol Motor Speedway on race weekend. [Again, never had any reason to be in that area on race weekend, but I know enough not to.]
You think it's worth it driving to Alabama just to save 1.25% on the sales tax. [Ha!]
You eat "dinner" at noon and "supper" in the evening. [It's slightly more complicated than that. "Dinner" is your large meal of the day, whenever you eat it--so it's always "Sunday dinner," even though we eat it at noon--but supper has to be at night. So supper can also be dinner, but dinner isn't necessarily supper.]
Your Wal-Mart has specific parking spots for horses and buggies. [Okay, now you're just being silly.]
You use "commode" in conversations and absolutely no one knows what you're talking about. [This confuses me, too. I mean, yeah, I use that word. But people know what I'm talking about. Doesn't everybody use that word?]
You barely get snow days because there's hardly ever any snow. Better yet, you get snow days if your local weather stations predict even the slightest bit of snow!
You and everyone you know goes to one vacation spot: Panama City. [We aren't big beach people, so we go to, like, Washington D.C. instead, but yeah, everybody I know who's middle class definitely goes to Panama City. All of my rich friends, though, go to, like, Sanibel.]
You know how to do the watermelon crawl. [Um, no. I don't line dance.]
Everything is COKE, and if you don't like it, tough. Ex: "You want a COKE?" "Sure." "Which kind?" "Dr. Pepper." [YES.]
You're in a Carhartt jacket one day, shorts the next, and no one thinks anything about it. [Well, except for the Carhartt part.]
Everyone you know owns a truck, and at least one of those trucks is just painted with primer or more colors than the rainbow. [I love my truck. I'm always going to drive a truck.]
You measure distance in minutes, not miles.
You drive through a rich neighborhood and see the wannabe redneck kids with their brand-new Fords and their designer holey jeans and cowboy hats. [Yeah, rich kids either pretend to be rednecks or pretend to be gangster. I laugh at all of them.]
Boomsday in Knoxville is equal to New Year's Eve at Times Square.
Knoxville becomes the third largest city every Saturday in the fall. [Actually, I think it's always the third largest, but it becomes significantly larger on game day. SIGNIFICANTLY. See: the one about not driving there.]
Sweet tea is THE DRINK...no questions, no exceptions. Most people from Tennessee begin drinking sweet tea even before they can drink out of sippy cups. 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! [Oh, amen!]
You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
You use "fix" as a verb. Example: "I'm fixing to go to the store." [Most useful verb EVER.]
All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect, or animal. [One day, I want to travel to all the state festivals and write a book about it--the Catfish festival, the RC Cola and Moon Pie festival, Mule Day, etc. I think it would be way fun.]
You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked. [Again, we don't because we live in "the city," but all of my relatives do this. They never lock their doors because you don't have to in small towns.]
You know what a "DAWG" is. [Oh, God. Let's pretend like I don't.]
You carry jumper cables in your car -- for your OWN car. [This baffles me. Who else would they be for? I mean, sure, you let people borrow them if they need them, but what?]
You own only four spices: salt, pepper, Tabasco, and ketchup. [I, currently, only do own these four "spices." My mama has lots more, of course, but I think everyone knows you could make do with only these and be perfectly fine.]
The local papers cover national and international news on one page but require six pages for local gossip and sports.
You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.
You find 100 degrees Fahrenheit "a little warm."
Fried catfish is "the other white meat." [And I'm having it TODAY!]
You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good pinto-bean weather. [Or good chili weather.]
You're convinced you don't need driver's ed -- your father's and uncles' pickup trucks were training enough.
Possums sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air. [I feel like I have been seeing so many dead possums in the road lately. Like, more than usual. And I can't figure out why. In other news, possums are the grossest creatures in the world.]
There are 5,000 types of snakes, and 4,998 live in Tennessee.
There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in Tennessee plus a couple no one's seen before.
If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls, it bites. [CHIGGERS ARE THE DEVIL'S OWN CREATION. Seriously. God created the world and then there was the fall. And THEN the devil created chiggers.]
Onced and twiced are words.
It is not a shopping cart; it is a buggy.
Fire ants consider your flesh a picnic.
People actually grow and eat okra. [Favorite food!]
"Fixinto" is one word.
Backards and forwards means "I know everything about you."
Jeet? is actually a phrase meaning "Did you eat?" [This is one of my uncle's favorite jokes.]
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.
And, while we're at it, this one, too, which is also fromshipperx: Comment and I will give you ten actors and ten actresses. Then post in your Livejournal with your favorite films of theirs.
Actors:
Michael Caine: The Man Who Would Be King
Clive Owen: Children of Men
James McAvoy: Bright Young Things. Featuring David Tennant in a bad moustache!
Robin Williams: Uh, Aladdin? I don't like Robin Williams.
Montgomery Clift: I Confess
Henry Fonda: Twelve Angry Men. Also, because my sister and I watched it six million times when we were young, Yours, Mine, and Ours.
Lawrence Olivier:: Rebecca
Dustin Hoffman: Finding Neverland. Although this is reminding me that I really need to see All the President's Men.
Hugh Grant: Sense and Sensibility
Actresses:
Bette Davis: All About Eve. But I want to see Now, Voyager
Diane Keaton: Father of the Birde
Anne Hathaway: I'm not that fond of her, and I've seen relatively few things she's in, so I guess I'm gonna go with The Princess Diaries, which is silly but endearing.
Molly Ringwald: The Breakfast Club. But I'm not a huge John Hughes fan.
Audrey Hepburn: Charade.
Demi Moore: True story: I've never seen anything she's in. Really.
Goldie Hawn: Yeah, never seen anything with her, either.
Sarah Jessica Parker: I've seen some stuff she's in...but I don't like any of it. Sorry!
Cate Blanchett: The Talented Mr. Ripley
Kate Winslet: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Or Sense and SEnsibility.
shipperx: Go to google and type "you know you're from [your state] when... and bold the ones that apply.You've never met any celebrities -- other than Fred Thompson. [Hahaha! I love this one!]
"Vacation" means going to the family reunion.
You know all four seasons: Almost Summer, Summer, Still Summer, and Christmas.
You laugh when people from anywhere north of Tennessee try to say or spell "y'all." [Listen very carefully to me, people of the earth: It's Y'ALL. Absolutely not ya'll. It's a contraction of "you" and "all." Putting the apostrophe after the a DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE and makes you look dumb. Thank you.]
It's "Mar-vull," not "Mary-ville." [One of my best friends is from Maryville!]
It's "Knox-vull," not "Knox-ville."
A toboggan is a hat, not a sled.
You butter your hot biscuit by cutting it open, putting a slab of butter inside, and closing it back up again. [This one confuses me. How else would you butter a biscuit?]
Pigeon Forge is not pronounced with a French accent.
Gatlinburg does have an "L" in it and it should be pronounced. [Who pronounces it differently? Seriously?]
Sales tax is 9.75%.
You shop at Wal-Mart for groceries, not at a grocery store. [Well, I don't, because I love in "the city." But all of my relatives in various small towns scattered across the state do, and that's where I shop when I'm with them--which is often. So I'll bold this one.]
You don't drive in Knoxville on game day. EVER. [I've never had any reason to be anywhere near Knoxville during that time, but even I know the truth of this statement, and I would never, under any circumstances, do this.]
You or your friends chew. [Well, I don't, obviously, because I think it's the nastiest thing in the universe, but yeah, I have friends who do. Unfortunately.]
You can't remember the last time you saw snow.
You know when Elvis Presley Day is.
You know all of the words to "Rocky Top."
You avoid going anywhere near Bristol Motor Speedway on race weekend. [Again, never had any reason to be in that area on race weekend, but I know enough not to.]
You think it's worth it driving to Alabama just to save 1.25% on the sales tax. [Ha!]
You eat "dinner" at noon and "supper" in the evening. [It's slightly more complicated than that. "Dinner" is your large meal of the day, whenever you eat it--so it's always "Sunday dinner," even though we eat it at noon--but supper has to be at night. So supper can also be dinner, but dinner isn't necessarily supper.]
Your Wal-Mart has specific parking spots for horses and buggies. [Okay, now you're just being silly.]
You use "commode" in conversations and absolutely no one knows what you're talking about. [This confuses me, too. I mean, yeah, I use that word. But people know what I'm talking about. Doesn't everybody use that word?]
You barely get snow days because there's hardly ever any snow. Better yet, you get snow days if your local weather stations predict even the slightest bit of snow!
You and everyone you know goes to one vacation spot: Panama City. [We aren't big beach people, so we go to, like, Washington D.C. instead, but yeah, everybody I know who's middle class definitely goes to Panama City. All of my rich friends, though, go to, like, Sanibel.]
You know how to do the watermelon crawl. [Um, no. I don't line dance.]
Everything is COKE, and if you don't like it, tough. Ex: "You want a COKE?" "Sure." "Which kind?" "Dr. Pepper." [YES.]
You're in a Carhartt jacket one day, shorts the next, and no one thinks anything about it. [Well, except for the Carhartt part.]
Everyone you know owns a truck, and at least one of those trucks is just painted with primer or more colors than the rainbow. [I love my truck. I'm always going to drive a truck.]
You measure distance in minutes, not miles.
You drive through a rich neighborhood and see the wannabe redneck kids with their brand-new Fords and their designer holey jeans and cowboy hats. [Yeah, rich kids either pretend to be rednecks or pretend to be gangster. I laugh at all of them.]
Boomsday in Knoxville is equal to New Year's Eve at Times Square.
Knoxville becomes the third largest city every Saturday in the fall. [Actually, I think it's always the third largest, but it becomes significantly larger on game day. SIGNIFICANTLY. See: the one about not driving there.]
Sweet tea is THE DRINK...no questions, no exceptions. Most people from Tennessee begin drinking sweet tea even before they can drink out of sippy cups. 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! [Oh, amen!]
You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
You use "fix" as a verb. Example: "I'm fixing to go to the store." [Most useful verb EVER.]
All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect, or animal. [One day, I want to travel to all the state festivals and write a book about it--the Catfish festival, the RC Cola and Moon Pie festival, Mule Day, etc. I think it would be way fun.]
You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked. [Again, we don't because we live in "the city," but all of my relatives do this. They never lock their doors because you don't have to in small towns.]
You know what a "DAWG" is. [Oh, God. Let's pretend like I don't.]
You carry jumper cables in your car -- for your OWN car. [This baffles me. Who else would they be for? I mean, sure, you let people borrow them if they need them, but what?]
You own only four spices: salt, pepper, Tabasco, and ketchup. [I, currently, only do own these four "spices." My mama has lots more, of course, but I think everyone knows you could make do with only these and be perfectly fine.]
The local papers cover national and international news on one page but require six pages for local gossip and sports.
You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.
You find 100 degrees Fahrenheit "a little warm."
Fried catfish is "the other white meat." [And I'm having it TODAY!]
You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good pinto-bean weather. [Or good chili weather.]
You're convinced you don't need driver's ed -- your father's and uncles' pickup trucks were training enough.
Possums sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air. [I feel like I have been seeing so many dead possums in the road lately. Like, more than usual. And I can't figure out why. In other news, possums are the grossest creatures in the world.]
There are 5,000 types of snakes, and 4,998 live in Tennessee.
There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in Tennessee plus a couple no one's seen before.
If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls, it bites. [CHIGGERS ARE THE DEVIL'S OWN CREATION. Seriously. God created the world and then there was the fall. And THEN the devil created chiggers.]
Onced and twiced are words.
It is not a shopping cart; it is a buggy.
Fire ants consider your flesh a picnic.
People actually grow and eat okra. [Favorite food!]
"Fixinto" is one word.
Backards and forwards means "I know everything about you."
Jeet? is actually a phrase meaning "Did you eat?" [This is one of my uncle's favorite jokes.]
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.
And, while we're at it, this one, too, which is also from
shipperx: Comment and I will give you ten actors and ten actresses. Then post in your Livejournal with your favorite films of theirs.Actors:
Michael Caine: The Man Who Would Be King
Clive Owen: Children of Men
James McAvoy: Bright Young Things. Featuring David Tennant in a bad moustache!
Robin Williams: Uh, Aladdin? I don't like Robin Williams.
Montgomery Clift: I Confess
Henry Fonda: Twelve Angry Men. Also, because my sister and I watched it six million times when we were young, Yours, Mine, and Ours.
Lawrence Olivier:: Rebecca
Dustin Hoffman: Finding Neverland. Although this is reminding me that I really need to see All the President's Men.
Hugh Grant: Sense and Sensibility
Actresses:
Bette Davis: All About Eve. But I want to see Now, Voyager
Diane Keaton: Father of the Birde
Anne Hathaway: I'm not that fond of her, and I've seen relatively few things she's in, so I guess I'm gonna go with The Princess Diaries, which is silly but endearing.
Molly Ringwald: The Breakfast Club. But I'm not a huge John Hughes fan.
Audrey Hepburn: Charade.
Demi Moore: True story: I've never seen anything she's in. Really.
Goldie Hawn: Yeah, never seen anything with her, either.
Sarah Jessica Parker: I've seen some stuff she's in...but I don't like any of it. Sorry!
Cate Blanchett: The Talented Mr. Ripley
Kate Winslet: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Or Sense and SEnsibility.