This pretty well sums it up:

THANGS I LEARNT WILE LIVIN IN LUSIANA

1. Possums sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air.

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

3. There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in LOUISIANA plus a couple no one's seen before.

4. If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls, it bites.

5. 'Onced' and 'Twiced' are words.

6. It is not a shopping cart; it is a buggy.

7. Fire ants consider your flesh as a picnic

8. People actually grow and eat okra.

9. Fix & into is one word: FIXINTO

10. There is no such thing as 'lunch'. There is only dinner and then there is supper.

11. Ice tea is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it when you're two. We do like a little tea with our sugar!

12. Backards and forwards means 'I know everything about you.'

13. Jeet? is actually a phrase meaning 'Did you eat?'

14. 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.

15. You don't PUSH buttons, you MASH them.

YOU KNOW YOUR FROM LUSIANA IF:

1. You measure distance in minutes.

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

3. You use 'fix' as a verb. Example: 'I'm fixing to go to the store'.

4. All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect or animal.

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

6. You know what a 'DAWG' is.

7. You carry jumper cables in your car...for your OWN car.

8. You only own five spices: Tony's, Tabasco, salt, pepper, and ketchup.

9. The local papers cover national and international news on one page but require 6 pages for local gossip and sports.

10. You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.

11. You find 100 degrees Fahrenheit 'a little warm'.

12. You know all four seasons: Deer Season, Duck Season, Crawfish Season, Summer.

13. You know whether another LOUISIANIAN is from, north or south, as soon as they start talking.

14. Going to Wal-mart is a favorite past time known as 'goin Wal-martin' or 'off to Wally World'?

15. You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good gumbo weather.  YEP!

16. 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?'

17. Fried catfish is the other white meat.

18. We don't need no stinkin driver's ed....if our mama says we can drive, we can drive.

Some of that stuff is funny, and some of it applies all across the south.

All of my ex-in laws are in Louisiana.
All of that is true.

Sounds alot like NC.

Yep





 

I bet you ain't from here. Am I right?

Most of that applies to Oklahoma

Most of this stuff is from the whole Southeastern US

Fudge you!  What've you got against okra?

All that may be true, but we're a hell of a lot friendlier than them yankees!!

I gotta say, this is not MY original material. I received it in an email. Been living in Louisiana since the age of 3. I'm 41 now, so I guess I CAN say I'm from here.
   One thing I would have added is that we don't know what a median is (to seprate lanes of traffic); over here it is called the neutral ground.
Okra.......love it. stewed, in gumbo, or battered and fried. Mmmmmmmmm.

Multiple reasons why I love living in the Ark-la-tex-oma region! My favorite thing a local has said to me is " You ain't got no accent. Where ya from Australia?"

Some of that does not apply to Louisiana at all.  A lot of it applies to the south in general.





As an example, I don't know a single soul who says, "Lusiana."  That's what people from out of state say call Louisiana, much like they call New Orleans, 'Nawlins.

Yep, except, my grandfather insists it's pronounced "Lew-see-ana."

I was stationed at Fort Polk for 5 years and loved every minuet of it, I would move back there or Texas. My wife thinks I am nuts.

Bite yer tongue.  Come down and join us for some fried okra and catfish and we'll change your tune.

I Grow my Own.
Nothing better that picking a young okra off the bush and eating it on the spot...

I loved living in Louisiana, and thats coming from a California boy, One thing I did notice when I first arrived in Lafayette was how hot all the chicks were, I've lived in WA for the last three years, and LA has hotter women by far.

That wife of yours ain't quite right.

YOU KNOW YOUR FROM LUSIANA IF:
19. You carry your Tobasco in a camo tobasco holster on your belt.
20. You consider the Holy Trinity to be bell pepper, onion, and celery.
21. When someone mentions 'water bugs' you salivate.
22. You drink Community Coffee but serve your guests Maxwell House.

Most of that list applies to any part of the south east or almost any rural part of America, sounds like it was made by a northern urban transplant...