Possums sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air.
There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live here, 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.
Houses have 'Winders' and 'Windas', never has a window been seen East of I-75
People actually grow and eat Turnips.
No one has an Idea... They have an idear.
'Fixinto' is one word.
There is no such thing as 'lunch.' There is only dinner and then there is supper.
'Pop' is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it when you're two.
Backards and forwards means "I know everything about you.
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'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 know the distance between Harlen and Kingsport'.
You measure distance in minutes.
You know who/which store has the best deal on cases of Miller Lite beer.
'Fix' is a verb. Example: 'I'm fixing to (or 'fixinto') 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 know what a 'WILDCAT' is.
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 and kids receive an excused absence from school.
100 degrees Fahrenheit 'a little warm.
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We have four seasons: Almost Summer, Summer, still Summer and Christmas.
A cool snap (below 70 degrees) is good pinto-bean weather.
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.
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