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This is pretty long, so I apologize in advance. I did remove some. As for the jump in numbers from 63 to 1, it's because they came from different sources.
Some of these can apply to the South in general.
You know you're a North Carolinian if...
1. You know Pepsi originated in New Bern.
2. You've taken trips to the mountains to look at leaves.
3. You watched as Dale Earnhardt was the only man who ever lived who could go 200 mph, spin somebody out, call them a you-know-what, and win the race, all in the last lap.
4. A tobaggon to you means a knit cap, not a sled.
5. You sold Krispy Kreme doughnuts for a school or church fundraiser before those glazed doughnuts went global.
6. The local newspaper covers state, national and international news in one page, but sports requires six pages.
7. Sixty degrees Fahrenheit is “a little chilly.”
8. You have no problem spelling or pronouncing “Topsail.”
(That's top-suhl.)
9. Your school classes were canceled because of a hurricane.
10. You know more about ACC basketball than professional basketball.
11. You think South Carolina was dead weight well shed.
12. You know tea (meaning iced tea) is served sweet unless you specifically ask for unsweetened and that sweetened is the only way to drink it.
13. You’ve ever had to switch from “Heat” to “A/C” in the same day.
14. Most of the festivals around the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, edible animal or tobacco.
15. You say "catty-wampus" and "ah-ite".
16. You can tell if another North Carolinian is from Eastern or Western North Carolina as soon as he opens his mouth.
17. You can spell words such as Ocracoke, Fuquay-Varina and Chocowinity.
18. You have actually uttered the phrase, “It’s too hot to go to the pool.”
19. You know what “cow tippin” is.
20. You say, “it don’t” instead of “it doesn’t.”
21. You eat collards and black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day.
22. You sometimes eat country ham, grits and eggs for supper.
24. Every real man owns a truck, or at least dreams of it.
25. You know what a turkey shoot is.
26. “Onced” and “twiced” are words.
27. “Fixinto” is one word. So is "ustacould" and "ustabe".
28. “Backards and forwards” means “I know everything about you.”
29. “Jeet?” is actually a phrase meaning “Did you eat?”
31. You know that “barbeque” means cooking pork on an open pit and “cook out” means hamburgers and hotdogs or steaks.
32. You have a general idea where ”over yonder” is.
33. You know what a pig pickin’ is.
34. Getting the switch means you did something wrong.
35. You know what a cane pole is for.
36. You have sucked the juice from a honeysuckle blossom.
37. You know what a toadhouse is, and you know how to find doodlebugs.
38. You have spent the night on a fishing pier.
39. You go to the schoolhouse, churchhouse and kitchenhouse.
40. You do not have to wear a watch, because it doesn’t matter what time it is. You work until it is done or it is too dark to see.
41. You season your vegetables with bacon grease or pork meat.
42. You don’t think it’s weird to eat fried fish or pork chops for breakfast.
43. When considering marriage, Chevy vs. Ford ranks right up there with religious differences.
44. There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in North Carolina, plus a couple no one's seen before.
45. It's not a shopping cart, it's a buggy.
46. You know what a "Tar Heel" is.
47. You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as "good pinto bean weather". (I say "good chili weather" or "good stew weather", but we did eat pinto beans a lot when I was a kid and we were poor.)
48. There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 live in North Carolina.
49. "Vacation" means going to a NC beach.
50. You know Krispy Kreme was started in Winston-Salem and makes the best doughnuts!
51. You know the following: Duke - Smart Asses, State - Farmer's Kids, Carolina - Preps, ECU - Drunks.
52. You know NC is the birthplace of flight.
53. The weather man forecasts snow and/or ice and you go to the store for milk, bread, eggs and toilet paper.
54. You can name at least 3 of the 4 racing Pettys.
55. You've been to at least one of NC's lighthouses.
56. You know that NC has two state flowers - the dogwood blossom and construction barrels.
57. You know what NC town Mayberry is based on.
58. You know that Andrew Jackson was born in NC, not SC.
59. Saying you're "so ill" usually doesn't mean that you're sick.
60. You call kids "yunguns".
62. You welcome Yankees with open arms as long as they don't make fun or try to change you.
63. You've ever "heard tale" of something.
1. Every time you visit someone you’re offered something to eat and a glass of sweet tea.
2. You don’t use the expression “you guys” for females.
3. Yesterday is pronounced “yesterdee.”
5. You buy “Cheerwines.”
6. You’re more comfortable barefooted.
7. You know that “chunk” the ball means to throw it.
8. You can recognize a copperhead and your heart drops when you see one.
9. You gigged a water moccasin while after frogs.
10. You sat down to a black lady’s table (assuming you are white) and pigged out and didn’t even realize you weren’t kin folks.
11. You think that those “Yankee interlopers” from Virginia are carpetbaggers, when all they are is kin coming back home.
12. You have at least one relative who grows collards.
13. When you talk stock you’re talking chickens, cows, turkeys, and cars.
14. You know the definition of “onliest.”
15. You know what "nabs" are.
16. You know that Texas Pete is made in Winston-Salem, not Texas.
17. Your supper is cornbread and a glass of milk.
18. You blowed a tar, or caught somethin’ on far.
19. You know that “3” and Earnhardt are synonymous.
20. You meet someone and ask before ending the conversation, “What church do you go to?”
21. You call a garden hose a hose pipe.
22. Sure and shore are pronounced the same.
23. The kids have a day off from school because it might snow.
24. You always say, “Yes, ma’am", "yes, sir", "no, ma'am", "no, sir". Also, "thank you" and "please".
25. You know what “gimme some sugar” means.
26. You make friends while standing in lines.
27. You know that those brown and black furry cater pillars are called woolly worms.
28. You know that all of those bad drivers in Charlotte aren’t from there.
29. You know what drop cords are.
30. July meant picking wild blackberries and getting chiggers all over you in the process.
31. You eagerly waited for May so you could go pick wild strawberries.
32. You know that Junior means Dale Earnhardt Jr.
33. Your first word was “Da-Da” and you were trying to say “Dale Earnhardt.”
34. You consider Virginians Yankees.
35. Your grandmother swept the yard with a broom.
36. Two of your daily chores were to go to the garden and pick the veggies that were ripe and get the eggs from the chickens.
37. It used to take 30 minutes to get to the grocery store in town, and when you were there you usually got a box of Animal Crackers to keep you quiet.
38. You wash your clothes with washin' powder.
39. You’re just piddlin' when you’re working around the house.
40. You tell your young’ns to quit cuttin' up when they are getting into mischief.
41. You’re lollygaggin’ when you’re wasting time.
42. You know that wallerin' is something you do in the hay or in the bed.
43. Unruly kids make your momma’s hand itch.
44. You’ve ever been slap dab or right square in the middle of something.
45. You know the difference between sugar ants and fire ants.
47. When you leave church, the whole family goes to mother’s or grandmother’s house.
48. You have entered or seen a hollerin’ contest.
49. You have kudzu growing in your backyard.
50. You’ve watched cloggers at a 4th of July celebration.
51. Your Sunday dinner is collard greens, potato salad, fried chicken and barbecue.
52. You know the word cruck means truck.
53. You know tearing up a tail has nothing to do with an animal.
54. You know all about sandspurs and licking your fingers before pulling one off your foot.
55. As a child you ran barefoot into the middle of a sandspur patch and had to be carried out, and still wouldn’t put on your shoes.
56. A textile plant was known as a cotton mill.
57. You called a slip a “shimmy.”
58. You’ve put lightnin’ bugs in a jar.
59. You know what it means when someone says they're "tarred".
60. You know the sound of a Whipporwill, a Bob White and a cicada.
62. You know what "sand gnats" are.
63. You've ever picked pecans off the ground and ate them.
64. You've ever had to "live off the land" - deer your dad shot, chickens from your coop, eggs your chickens laid, vegetables from your mom and grandma's garden, fish & clams your dad caught.
65. You know that hush puppies aren't just shoes and are an absolute must with seafood.
66. You know it's not proper for a woman to wear pants to church.
67. You know what "I swanny!" means.
68. You've gone barefoot to the grocery store as a kid and had to run across the hot parking lot.
69. You grew up drinkin' sweet tea, grape soda, Sunkist, Sun Drop, and Mr. Pibb.
71. You have used the phrase "that boy ain't right".
72. You've ever used the phrase "give out", as in "I'm give out".
73. You call a stomach bulge a "pooch".
74. You know that a gully washer or a frog strangler is a severe rain storm.
75. You were “in the bed,” not just “in bed.”
76. Your family sat out on the front porch after supper and sang hymns together.
77. After a good meal you say that it would “make a tadpole slap a whale.”
78. You say, “He loves peanut butter better than a hog loves slops.”
79. You say, “Ain’t he cute as a speckled puppy!”
80. You put sinkers (corn meal dumplings) in a pot of stew or collards.
81. You call sweet potatoes “music roots.”
82. You call lima beans “belly busters.”
83. You know the difference between “gee” and “haw.”
84. You have spent evenings calling bobwhites.
85. You know if something’s wompersided, it’s crooked.
86. You go to the horsepittle instead of the hospital.
87. You know the plural form of “y'all” is “all y'all.”
88. You know what a mader sandwich is.
89. You know that “Yaw get on” means please leave.
90. You know maypops are car tires ready to blow out.
91. You use the term “crank the car” when you really mean start the engine.
92. Wherever you go doesn’t stack up to home.
94. You've pulled cicada shells off of trees.
95. You holler for the youngins.
96. You used to throw rocks in the air to watch the bats swoop down at them.
97. You rode on the back of a pick-up truck with your feet dangling off the tailgate.
98. Sun Drop, Sunkist, or Grape Nehi was a staple in your life.
99. You played games like hide-and-seek and tag with all the neighborhood kids on hot summer nights.
100. You can still find a dirt road to cruise around on.
101. You walked a mile to your friend’s house to play and when it was time for you to go home your mom would whistle for you.
102. You say that someone "just ain't got no sense" when they do something foolish.
103. The days of the week are Sundee, Mondee, Tuesdee, Wednesdee, Thursdee, Fridee, and Saturdee.
104. You say "puh-tay-tuh" or "tater" instead of potato and "tuh-may-tuh" instead of tomato.
105. You say "mus-kee-tuh" or "skee-tuh" instead of mosquito.
106. You say "catty-wonkered".
108. Cities ending with "ville" are pronounced "vuhl".
109. Saying "y'all" isn't just a cute expression; it actually means something.
110. There are big dogs (usually labs) in the back of every truck.
111. You still see Dale Earnhardt tributes on cars.
112. You have a sunburn from May to October.
113. Your family has fried chicken once a week.
114. You can tell the difference between cotton fields and tobacco fields while driving.
116. You get your carbs from biscuits, rolls, pancakes and grits.
117. You own at least one surf shop or seafood restaurant t-shirt.
118. No matter what those people in Ohio say, we are still "first in flight".
119. The Coca-Cola 600 is as big as the Super Bowl.
120. You prefer Chick-fil-A to KFC.
121. You know pastry is a chicken stew, not a dessert item.
122. Your grandpa always wore overalls and your grandma always wore an apron.
123. You would rather eat at Bojangles than McDonald's.
124. As a kid, you went sledding in a kiddie pool or a trash can lid because a good snow was too rare for you to own a real sled.
125. You know what it means when somebody’s not studying you. "I ain't studyin' him."
126. You knew not to do anything bad when your mama couldn’t see you because Jesus was watching.
127. North Carolina will always be home no matter where you live.
128. You grew up hearing, "Quit slammin' that screen door!".
129. You either were related to someone whose house was haunted or you knew of a house or location near you that was haunted. No one could convince you otherwise.
130. You woke up to the jingle, “Nothing Could Be Finer Than to Be in Carolina in the Morning.”
131. Your mama says she's going to knock you slam out.
132. You've ever taken scraps out.
133. Cement is pronounced cee-ment.
This 99% applies to Alabama...134. Do you know what the iron bowl is???
135. A mixed marriage in Alabama is an Auburn and Alabama Fan.
1. You can pronounce things like “Tchoupitoulas,” “Burgundy,” and “Chartres” and know that none of them sound like they look, or like the rest of the country would pronounce them.
2. You don’t think it’s weird to be driving on a street starting with “North” or “South” while actually driving east or west.
3. You know that there’s no such thing as “North” or “South,” but there’s uptown, the CBD, the Quarter, downtown and the westbank.
4. It’s not at all strange to you that the westbank is actually in the eastern part of the city.
5. It’s a streetcar, NOT a trolley.
6. You know the people wearing massive amounts of beads in the middle of July and actually waiting for the walk signal to change at a crosswalk are tourists.
7. You just found out from a tourist that what you do every time you get to an intersection is known as “jaywalking” and that it’s apparently a crime.
8. You expect classes to be cancelled and businesses to be closed when the temperature gets lower than 50°. Who drives when the roads are icy?
9. You love Hubig’s pies, and anytime you see them at a gas station, you buy one of each kind because you never know when you’ll find them again.
10. Every time you go out of state, people ask you if you’re from New York or the Caribbean, but both you and New Yorkers can easily tell the difference between a New Yorker and a y’at.
11. You hate it when people pronounce New Orleans as “noo orlEENZ" or "Nawlins.”
12. You think people are joking when they say that bars close at 2 am in other cities.
13. In aspiring to drive like cab drivers, you’ve almost mastered driving 40 mph in the quarter while successfully swerving around potholes and tourists.
14. You find it perfectly normal to order takeout at 3 am, although you normally don’t get back from the club until about 4 or 5.
15. You say “neutral ground,” and it hurts your ears to hear someone say “median.”
16. You go to “the show,” not the movies or movie theater.
17. Even though it only snows about twice a decade, you have snowballs every summer and get confused at first when someone says “snowcones.”
18. You pull out your winter clothes when the highs get in the upper 60s because you know how cold the wind is coming off the lake and the river.
19. Who buys groceries? You make groceries.
20. You know that the only people who get mugged are the idiots who walk alone at 4 am, and you probably think it’s good that they’ve learned their lesson.
21. You’ve got Tony Chachere’s and Tabasco in both regular and travel sizes.
22. You get really excited on the rare occasion that you can turn left at an intersection without going past it and making a u-turn.
23. You can’t imagine life without crawfish.
24. You rarely end up on Bourbon, and when you do it's usually only to bring someone who's visiting.
25. Your family has a favorite spot for at least three Mardi Gras parades.
26. You’re used to seeing beads hanging in the trees on St. Charles.
27. When you’re away, you automatically season everything before tasting it because you know there’s no way it already has enough flavor.
28. You’ve recently discovered that your car has something called a “turn signal,” but you still haven’t quite figured out how it works and don’t really care to know. If you used to use it, this probably just reminded you that they exist.
29. You laugh every time you see restaurants in other cities with signs that say “Authentic New Orleans Cuisine.” Then you feel kind of bad for the people who believe those signs and seriously consider bringing them some real food. If it says New Orleans/Nawlins/Louisiana-Style then it ain't real.
30. You love drive-thru daiquiri shops, and don’t find them at all out of the ordinary.
31. You know that you shouldn’t wait in line at Café du Monde and that you have to sit down at a table before it’s been cleaned if you want to be fed before the end of the day.
32. You’re very picky about your muffalettas, jambalaya, étouffée, pralines, and gumbo.
33. You know the pronunciations of the foods you eat. “muf-uh-lot-uh,” “jum-buh-lie-uh,” “a-two-fay,” and “praw-leens.”
34. You know it’s just plain dumb to touch an NOPD horse, and you feel like you’re endlessly keeping your drunk friends who are visiting away from them.
35. Actors who think they seem more authentic by speaking in a southern or cajun accent make you want to cry (i.e. that episode of Boston Legal).
36. When you're out of town and tell someone where you live, they look at you like you're Jessica Simpson holding a can of tuna fish.
37. You have no desire to flash for beads, considering every storage space in your house, from the closets to the attic to the garage, would burst if you tried to squeeze in anymore beads.
38. You can easily point out a tourist at Mardi Gras as the one flashing to get beads. It's obnoxious on Bourbon, but it's kind of funny anywhere else because you know the NOPD is somewhere nearby and will be there in a heartbeat.
When you say YO, SON, KID, WORD, FALL BACK, AIGHT, TRUE STORY, MADD, WHATEVA, PA, PAPI, MA, MAMI, YEA YEA YEA, , HOP OFF, BALLIN, AND VARIATIONS OF THE SORT, on a regular basis. I walk and talk fast so keep up, KID. I got the New Yawk accent which means I say tawk, cawfee, dawg, BUT'N, WATAH etc. I don't say excuse me I just push my way through. I don’t say sorry, IT’S just your fault. I take the bus, dolla van, taxi and train everywhere, not because I don't have a car, but because I aint payin all that $$ for no damn gas or a parking lot.
I am a well-rounded person. I posses the culture of all our museums, Broadway, art galleries and such. My neighbors are anywhere from Italian, German, West Indian, Latino, Indian, in short from every corner of the earth. If you are really from NY, no matter who you are or what your culture is, you’re playing hip hop, salsa, bachata, raggae and raggaeton at your parties.
I’m from NY so I'LL JUDGE YOU BY who you are and what your WEARING AND TALK ABOUT YOU IN FRONT OF YA FACE, cuz that’s just the way we are, we don’t hide how we feel. In NY we still rock polo northfaces, snorkles, timbs (and timbs with shorts). Ladies sport anything fitted to show off and even to their shoe collections, ladies and gentlemen alike which must consist of stilettos-(ladies) uptowns, air max, jordans and some timberland constructs when we wanna keep it gangsta. At the same time we wear Prada, CK, Armani, and all the latest couture with the same bravado, confidence and razor sharp fashion sense we are known for. CUZ YOU KNOW WE KEEP IT FRESH. If I think something is wrong, I'll just let you know… and we love the corner stores A.K.A “Bodegas”. NO LIE. I’m from New York ....so don’t doubt it.
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I was born and raised in Manhattan, so let me add a few
You have mastered the subway system before you are out of elementary school.
Even with that, you have WALKED from one end of the island to the other.
People from the "other" boroughs talk funny and dress in out of date styles.
Staten Island is where the Ferry goes to and you turn around and go back home.
Long Island is the end of the earth.
You wear white 3 times in your life: at your Christening, your Communion, and your Wedding. If somebody is wearing white, they are either from Long Island or Florida.
When you walk down the street, you look straight ahead or down. Only TOURISTS look UP.
You don't look AT people on the street. You look THROUGH them.
Your best friends growing up are from Puerto Rico, Greece, or someplace other than NY.
You listen to people talking on streets and try to figure out what language they are speaking.
When you say YO, SON, KID, WORD, FALL BACK, AIGHT, TRUE STORY, MADD, WHATEVA, PA, PAPI, MA, MAMI, YEA YEA YEA, , HOP OFF, BALLIN, AND VARIATIONS OF THE SORT, on a regular basis. I walk and talk fast so keep up, KID. I got the New Yawk accent which means I say tawk, cawfee, dawg, BUT'N, WATAH etc. I don't say excuse me I just push my way through. I don’t say sorry, IT’S just your fault. I take the bus, dolla van, taxi and train everywhere, not because I don't have a car, but because I aint payin all that $$ for no damn gas or a parking lot.
I am a well-rounded person. I posses the culture of all our museums, Broadway, art galleries and such. My neighbors are anywhere from Italian, German, West Indian, Latino, Indian, in short from every corner of the earth. If you are really from NY, no matter who you are or what your culture is, you’re playing hip hop, salsa, bachata, raggae and raggaeton at your parties.
I’m from NY so I'LL JUDGE YOU BY who you are and what your WEARING AND TALK ABOUT YOU IN FRONT OF YA FACE, cuz that’s just the way we are, we don’t hide how we feel. In NY we still rock polo northfaces, snorkles, timbs (and timbs with shorts). Ladies sport anything fitted to show off and even to their shoe collections, ladies and gentlemen alike which must consist of stilettos-(ladies) uptowns, air max, jordans and some timberland constructs when we wanna keep it gangsta. At the same time we wear Prada, CK, Armani, and all the latest couture with the same bravado, confidence and razor sharp fashion sense we are known for. CUZ YOU KNOW WE KEEP IT FRESH. If I think something is wrong, I'll just let you know… and we love the corner stores A.K.A “Bodegas”. NO LIE. I’m from New York ....so don’t doubt it.
always used to say, "You can take the boy out of NYC, but you will NEVER take NYC out of the boy". He was born and lived in NYC until the day he died. What he said is very, very true. You can quote my Dad to anyone who ever gives you grief about living elsewhere.
As for me, I SHALL RETURN; as someone else has said.
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I'll add some more for NYC
You know you were a kid in NYC if...
1. You remember seeing bums all over the streets, even in the nice neighborhoods.
2. If your family had a car (mine did), and when you drove out of state you drove on the highways in the Bronx and saw the burned buildings but never dared to get off the highway.
3. Backyard with grass, what's that? You played on concrete behind the buildings or houses, that most houses/buildings on the block share.
4. The park was always close by.
5. You mostly took the subway everywhere (and remember the trains being way dirtier).
6. You developed a NY accent by the time you were 3 years old.
7. You loved to feed the pigeons on the way back from eating out.
8. Your parents took you to Queens mall often.
9. Your parents took you to the top of the World trade center at some point.
10. You were told that some celebrities lived close by, but had no idea who they were and didn't care then.
-only poor people (NO OFFENSE WHATSOEVER!) use public transportation
-[You know you're in Texas when] there is barely any public transportation
-you consider the hills in the Hill County "mountains"
-you think Texas is better than everywhere else
-you drive on the highway for a day and you're still in Texas
-you say "y'all"
-you LOVE hunting and fishing
-you judge someone based on which football team they root for
-80% humidity and 95 degrees in the summer is normal
-you've worn shorts on Christmas
-you know that everything south of Corpus Christi is practically Mexico
-vacation is going to Port Aransas, TX (a popular beach in TX) -you know what H-E-B is
You know you're from the DFW metro when HEB means Hurst-Euless-Bedford, not a grocery store.
You know you're from the DFW metro when HEB means Hurst-Euless-Bedford, not a grocery store.
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-you judge someone based on which football team they root for
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Absolutely. Death to all Shorthorn fans!....LOL, easy now....just ribbin' a little bit.
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My Dad, who was born in 1919,
You played on concrete behind the buildings or houses, that most houses/buildings on the block share.
