Important Facts about Tennessee

NON Tennesseans PLEASE BE SURE to read last line.

• 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 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.
   
• A Tennessee State trooper pulled over a pickup on I-65. The trooper asked, "Got any ID?"  The driver replied, "Bout whut?"
    
• Onced and Twiced are words.
   
• A man had a flat tire, pulled off on the side of the road, and proceeded to put a bouquet of flowers in front of the car and one behind it.  Then he got back in the car to wait. A passerby studied the scene as he drove by and was so curious he turned around and went back. He asked the fellow what the problem was.  The man replied, "I have a flat tire."  The passerby asked, "But what's with the flowers?"  The man responded, "When you break down they tell you to put flares in the front and flares in the back.  I never did understand it neither."
   
• It's not a shopping cart; it's 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 work until 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.
   
• Going to Wal-mart is a favorite past time known as 'goin' Wal-martin' or off to 'Wally World.'
   
• 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 Tennessee (and those who just wish they were).
   
• EVERYONE can't be from Tennessee; it takes talent; you might say it's an art form or a gift from God!