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Ranger Mom
08-29-2007, 02:41 PM
Some of these I have heard before, some I hadn't. There is a football reference in there somewhere... :p


Armadillos sleep in the middle of the road with all four feet in the air.

There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 live in Texas.

There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in Texas, plus a few no one has ever seen before.

Raccoons will test your melon crop and let you know when they are ripe.

If it grows, it will stick you. If it crawls, it will bite you!

Nothing will kill a mesquite tree.

There are valid reasons some people put razor wire around their house.

A tractor is NOT an all terrain vehicle. They do get stuck.

In West Texas the wind blows at 90 mph from Oct 2 till June 25; then it stops totally until October 2.

"Onced" and "twiced" are words. "Coldbeer" is one word.

People actually grow and eat okra.

Green grass DOES burn.

When you live in the country you don't have to buy a dog. City people drop them off at your front gate in the middle of the night.

The sound of coyotes howling at night only sounds good for the first few weeks.

When a buzzard sits on the fence and stares at you, it's time to see a doctor.

"Fix-in-to" is one word.

There ain't no such thing as "lunch". There is only dinner and then there's supper.

"Sweetened ice tea" is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it when you are two.

"Backwards and forwards" means I know everything there is to know about you.

"Jeet?" 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 measure distance in minutes and hours.

You can switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.

Stores don't have bags, they have sacks.

You will see a car with the engine running in the Wal-mart parking lot with no one in it, no matter what time of the year.

All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, a vegetable or a varmit.

You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.

You carry jumper cables for your own car.

You know what "cow tipping" and "snipe hunting" are.

You only have four spices in your kitchen: Salt, Pepper, Catsup, and Tabasco

You think everyone from north of Dallas has an accent.

Sexy underwear is a tee shirt and boxer shorts.

The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require six pages to cover Friday night high school football.

The first day of deer season is a national holiday.


You know which leaves make acceptable toilet paper.

You find 100 degrees a "tad" warm.

All four seasons are: Almost summer, summer, still summer and Christmas.

You know whether another Texan is from East, West, North, or South Texas as soon as he opens his mouth.

Going to Wal-mart is a favorite past-time known as "goin Wal-Martin" or "off to Wally-world."

You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good chili weather.

A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda, cola, or pop... It's a Coke regardless of brand or flavor.

Real Texans understand these jokes

crzyjournalist03
08-29-2007, 04:02 PM
Many of these are way too true!

The only one I don't quite agree with is the one about the spices...I've never seen a Texan spell it "catsup"...it's "ketchup".

rangerjim
08-29-2007, 04:13 PM
Last year some relatives came down and we went to eat. My daughter ordered a coke and the waitress said what kind of coke and she said dr. pepper. My relatives didn't know what was going on - thought that was pretty dang funny..........

crzyjournalist03
08-29-2007, 04:21 PM
Originally posted by rangerjim
Last year some relatives came down and we went to eat. My daughter ordered a coke and the waitress said what kind of coke and she said dr. pepper. My relatives didn't know what was going on - thought that was pretty dang funny..........

haha! I have a memory of being a young child burned in my head where we went to a restaraunt and the waitress asked me what I wanted...I said "a coke", and waited for her to ask me so I could tell her I wanted sprite, but she never did, and I was sad when they brought me a coke and I think my parents ended up having to ask the waitress to bring me a sprite. I must have been about 4 at the time, but it's just one of those weird places in my childhood that I remember perfectly.

3afan
08-29-2007, 04:30 PM
Originally posted by crzyjournalist03
"catsup" / "ketchup".

in Australia its tomato sauce

crzyjournalist03
08-29-2007, 04:34 PM
Originally posted by 3afan
in Australia its tomato sauce

is it the same thing or is it creamier like the stuff that goes on spaghetti?

sweetwater07
08-29-2007, 04:57 PM
i think i concured with just about everything on that list....wow..:D