Psycho-Babble Social Thread 794308

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You know you're from TX if (oldie but a goodie):

Posted by TexasChic on November 10, 2007, at 18:01:19

1. You measure distance in minutes.

Doesn't everybody do that?

2. You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.

Definitely

3. You use "fix" as a verb. Example: "I am fixin' to go to the store."

I admit I am guilty of this

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

I don't know what snipe hunting is.

5. You think everyone from north of Dallas has an accent.

Because they do!

6. You find 100 degrees a "tad" warm.

Or a typical day.

7. You know all four seasons: Almost summer, summer, still summer and Christmas.

Right now its between still summer and Xmas.

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

Totally

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

We had that a few days ago, now its summer again.

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

This is too true.

11. You know a TANK is a dirt hole that holds water for irrigation, watering the cows, or swimming.

I didn't learn this until we lived in East TX.

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

Mmmm, sweet tea.

13. "Jeet?" is actually a phrase meaning, "did you eat?"

This is usually followed by an offer of beans and cornbread... and of course sweet tea.

14. You understand these jokes

-T

 

Re: You know you're from TX if (oldie but a goodie): » TexasChic

Posted by Phillipa on November 10, 2007, at 20:56:59

In reply to You know you're from TX if (oldie but a goodie):, posted by TexasChic on November 10, 2007, at 18:01:19

T got a transplanted Yankee here and NC the ones who were born here are like that but it's cold now. And never heard of sweet tea til Nc or corn bread. We ate in CT lots of veggies no fat and no sweets. Very small portions and we talke of miles and traffic jams Phillipa

 

Re: You know you're from TX if (oldie but a goodie):

Posted by seldomseen on November 11, 2007, at 11:02:32

In reply to You know you're from TX if (oldie but a goodie):, posted by TexasChic on November 10, 2007, at 18:01:19

I was born in the south and a lot of those apply to my state as well.

The biggest difference I see is that we pronounce jeet slightly differently - we say ja'eet, which easily (and often) becomes ja'eetyet.

We can also tell the difference between a good ole boy and a r*dn*ck because the r*dn*ck will just throw their beer cans out of the window when they are driving, whereas the good ole boy will throw them in the truck's bed.

A town is growing when they get a caution light. Explosive growth is when they get a stoplight or a hardee's - then something has to be done to stop it.

A holler is a geographic location with multiple trailers in it in addition to a verb meaning "to yell such that people over yonder can hear you".

All tea is sweet, so we just say tea. Until someone gets "the sugars" then they drink water and complain.

People, as well as livestock can founder. As in "I can't eat another bite of granny's slaw - I foundered on it last Sunday"

Plum is a fruit as well as an adverb/adjective meaning totally. "I'm plum wore out".


They're funny - because they're true.

Seldom.

 

Re: You know you're from TX if (oldie but a goodie): » TexasChic

Posted by angela2 on November 11, 2007, at 14:05:56

In reply to You know you're from TX if (oldie but a goodie):, posted by TexasChic on November 10, 2007, at 18:01:19

haha that was funny. and interesting!

 

Re: You know you're from TX if (oldie but a goodie » seldomseen

Posted by TexasChic on November 11, 2007, at 18:03:19

In reply to Re: You know you're from TX if (oldie but a goodie):, posted by seldomseen on November 11, 2007, at 11:02:32

Its funny because there's alot of difference between small towns in TX and large ones. Alot of the things you said could apply to small TX towns, but large ones would be clueless. Like how I didn't know what a tank was until I lived in East TX.

But I've only heard of hollar from people from Kentucky - don't know if that's where you're from or not (and of course you don't have to tell if you don't want to).

This list has been going around by email for ages, and I cut out the ones I didn't think applied. Its just for fun of course, nobody's the same.

-T

 

Re: You know you're from TX if (oldie but a goodie » TexasChic

Posted by seldomseen on November 12, 2007, at 22:16:59

In reply to Re: You know you're from TX if (oldie but a goodie » seldomseen, posted by TexasChic on November 11, 2007, at 18:03:19

It's not kentucky, but it's not not far from it.

Let me just put it this way - one of my great aunts once said that "She didn't want to own something so big what she couldn't dig a hole big enough to put it in"

And there you have it.


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