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[lilydale]

Swiped from krisnreine. - Google for "You Know You're From [your state] If" and bold the ones that apply...



~When out of town you stop and ask somebody if they know where the drive-thru daiquiri shop is.
~The crawdad mounds in your front yard have over taken the grass
~You greet people with "Howzyamama'an'em?" and hear back "Deyfine!"
~When giving directions you say "uptown" or "downtown" or "over by da bayou" or "across the levee"
~You refer to the median as "the neutral ground"
~When you refer to someplace way up north, you really mean Shreveport or Monroe "where it gets real cold"
~Your burial plot is six feet on top instead of six feet under
~Your favorite coffee is Community and you have it sent to you by relatives if you go out of town for a spell.
~You can pronounce Tchopitoulas, Atchafalaya, Pontchartrain, and Ouachita, but can't spell any of them
~You don't worry when you see ships sailing higher in the river than the top of your house
~You judge a po-boy by the number of napkins you use
~You know a po-boy isn't a kid from poverty level parents
~The waitress in a sandwich shop tells you a fried erschter po-boy dressed is healthier for you than a Caesar salad.
~You can eat Popeye's and Zapp's for lunch and wash it down with Barq's and still feel fine
~The four seasons in your year are crawfish, shrimp, crab and king cake
~You rinse your hands in the sink with a lemon to get the smell of crawfish off
~You're not afraid when somebody wants to "ax you" something
~You don't learn until college that Mardi Gras isn't a national holiday
~You thought all states had parishes
~You think purple, green and gold look good together, and even eat things of those colors
~Your last name isn't pronounced the way it's spelled
~You spent a summer afternoon on Lake Pontchartrain catching blue crabs
~You describe a color as "K&B purple"
~You like your rice and politics dirty
~You pronounce the state's largest city "Nawlins"
~You know those big roaches can fly, but you sleep the night through anyhow
~You thought everybody skied on bayous
~You know that the rain forest is less humid than Louisiana
~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 use "fix" as a verb. Example: I am fixing to go to the store.
~You carry jumper cables in your car... for your OWN car.
~You know what "cow tipping" is.
~You only own four spices: salt, pepper, Tony's, and Tabasco.
~You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.
~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. Example: "What kinda coke you want?"
~You've ever wore shorts at Christmas time.
~You learned to drive a boat before you could drive a car
~You know what a nutria rat is but you still pick it to represent your baseball team. (Geaux Zephyrs)
~You have a ditch on at least one side of your property
~You assume everyone has mosquito swarms in their backyard.