Things I Have Learned From Living In Kentucky (Lexington, Ashland: house, shop)

[missymomof3]

I thought this was cute:


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


There are 5,000 types of snakes on earth and 4,998 live in Kentucky .


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


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


Onced and Twiced are words.


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


People actually grow and eat okra.


"Fixinto" is one word.


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


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


Backards and forwards means "I know everything about you."


DJeet? 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.


You don't PUSH buttons, you MASH them.


You measure distance in minutes.


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


"Fix" is a verb. Example: "I'm fixing to go to the store."


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


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


You know what a "DAWG" is.


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


There are only own four spices: salt, pepper, Tabasco and ketchup


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


The first day of deer season is a national holiday.


100 degrees Fahrenheit "a little warm."
We have four seasons: Almost Summer, Summer, still Summer and Christmas.


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


A cool snap (below 70 degrees) is good pinto-bean 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?"
Fried catfish is the other white meat.


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

[censusdata]

You forgot that Poke is a food product, not a weed. In Harlan County they have the Poke Salad (locally sallet) festival every year

[missymomof3]

Originally Posted by censusdata

You forgot that Poke is a food product, not a weed. In Harlan County they have the Poke Salad (locally sallet) festival every year

I didn't write it hun, it was an e-mail. I have heard of poke sallet but don't think I have had it. Thanks!

[The Village Idiot]

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?"

Whoever wrote this email isn't from Ashland...around here everyone says pop. My wife is originally from the east coast and found this very amusing.

[Miss Blue]

Thanks for the laugh Missy..My fil always informed me that a "poke" is a grocery bag and a "grip" is a suitcase and of course we all know that a "parasol" is a carpenters tool for cutting..

[missymomof3]

Originally Posted by The Village Idiot

Whoever wrote this email isn't from Ashland...around here everyone says pop. My wife is originally from the east coast and found this very amusing.

Growing up and still now I have ALWAYS called soft drinks "cokes"

[Floridahater]

I LOVE IT!
The only difference is that in FL the insects bite year round since there is essentially no winter. It's almost always hot, humid and generally disgusting. Insects and snakes are plentiful in this perpetual swamp.

[The Village Idiot]

Growing up and still now I have ALWAYS called soft drinks "cokes"

Yeah, it must be a regional thing. I've known other people who call all soft drinks coke. Maybe "pop" is more of an Appalachian term.

[teebird1012]

Everyone in Lexington I'm around calls a soda a "coke" also.

[slove1106]

My ex-husband's from Palestine, TX and he calls them pop...