Thangs Texans Know About Texas

• Armadillos sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air.
• Roadrunners don't say "Beep Beep"
• 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 couple no one's seen before.
• If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls, it bites.
• Nothing will kill a mesquite tree.
• There are valid reasons some people put concertina wire around their house.
• You cannot find a country road without a curve from corner to corner.
• A tractor is NOT an all-terrain vehicle. They do get stuck.
• Onced and Twiced are words.
• It is not a shopping cart, it is a buggy.
• Fire ants consider your flesh as a picnic.
• Graduating 1st in your class means you left in the 8th grade.
• Coldbeer is one word.
• People actually grow and eat okra.
• Texans really don't have an accent.
• When the world ends, only cockroaches and mesquite trees will survive.
• 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 gate in the middle of the night.
• The sound of coyotes howling at night only sounds good for the first couple of weeks.
• When a buzzard sits on the fence and stares at you, it's time to go to the doctor.
• Fixinto is one word.
• A tank is a dirt hole in the ground that holds water for irrigation.
• The word dinner is confusing. There's only lunch and then there's supper.
• Tea is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it when you're 2.
• Backards and forards means I know everything 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.

More Texanisms: You (we) know you're from Texas if:

• You measure distance in minutes.
• You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
• Stores don't have bags; they have sacks.
• You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one in it, no matter what time of the year.
• You use "fix" as a verb. Example: I am fixin' 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.
• You know what "cow tipping" and "snipe hunting" is.
• You only own four spices: salt, pepper, ketchup, and Tabasco.
• You think everyone from a bigger city has an accent.
• You think sexy lingerie is a tee shirt and boxer shorts.
• The local papers covers national and international news on one page but requires 6 pages for local gossip and sports.
• You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.
• You know which leaves make good toilet paper.
• You find 100ºF "a little warm."
• You know all four seasons: Almost summer, summer, still summer, and Christmas.
• You know whether another Texan is from east, west, north or south Texas as soon as they open their mouth.
• There is a Dairy Queen in every town with a population of 1000 or more.
• Going to Walmart 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.

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