Things I Learned in North Carolina

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1) A possum is a flat animal that sleeps in the middle of the road.

2) There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 of them live in NC.

3) There are 10,000 types of spiders, and all 10,000 of them live in NC.

4) If it grows, it'll stick ya. If it crawls, it'll bite cha.

5) "Onced" and "Twiced" are words.

6) It is not a shopping cart, it's a buggy.

7) "Jaw-P?" means, "Did y'all go to the bathroom?"

8) People actually grow and eat okra.

9) "Fixinto" is one word. 10) There is no such thing as lunch. There is only dinner and then there is supper...

11) 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.


12) Backwards and forwards means, "I know everythin' about you."

13) The word "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 em.

16) You measure distance in minutes.

17) You switch from heat to A/C in the same day.


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

19) You know what a "Dawg" is.

20) You carry jumper cables in your car - for your own car.

21) You only own five spices: salt, pepper, Texas Pete, Tabasco and ketchup.

22) The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require 6
pages for local gossip and high school football.

23) You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.
24) You find 100 degrees "a bit warm."

25) You know all four seasons: Almost summer, summer, still summer, and Christmas.
26) Going to Walmart is a favorite past time known as "goin' Walmartin" or
"off to Wally World."

27) You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good hog killin' weather.

28) Fried catfish is the other white meat.

29) We don't need no dang Driver's Ed... If our mama says we can drive, we can drive,
dag-nabbit.

30) You understand these jokes and forward them to your NC friends and those who just wish they were from North Carolina!!!!
 
Let me add to this list from when I lived in Jacksonville/Richlands/Topsail areas...

You can get out of a night in jail if you get in a drunken brawl with some Marines and clear out at the Waffle House at 3am if you live on certain roads... "Oh you live on .......road?! Just go home and I'll take care of this for you."

Ebonics and Hillbilly have more in common than the users would like to admit...

Ebonics... Fo Shizal = For Sure

Hillbilly... Yunta = Do you want to?

If you run over a big mean looking red snake in the road, turn around and run it over again a few times just to make sure it is dead and wont track you down from your license plate number.

That big dead bloated raccoon in the road...do whatever you can to NOT run it over! That smell will stay on the underside of your truck forever no matter how many times you wash it!

If swimming at Topsail island, it gets real dark real fast and everyone says get out of the water then they evacuate the whole island... get out of the water and off the island because it has been known to sink during storms.
 
I have the feeling it's going to be pretty much the same when I move to Alabama. lol I've already learnt a new word, "hose pipe" that's the thing that sticks out of the wall on the outside of your house to hook a water hose to.
 
All the above are so very true. I have discovered this living here going on 3 yrs now. The other thing is that they do not call it Wal Mart, They call it Wall Marts. Go figure.........:dontknow:
 
I have the feeling it's going to be pretty much the same when I move to Alabama. lol I've already learnt a new word, "hose pipe" that's the thing that sticks out of the wall on the outside of your house to hook a water hose to.

Actually, a hose pipe is not the pipe part......it the hose. LOL That one caused all sorts of confusion at my house!!
oh, and BBQ is a noun, not a verb:dontknow:

Welcome to the south!!!
 
I agree on the hose pipe, barbecue, and a few others, though I live in TN. I might at that you usually don't just say "jeet". Normally we'd say "jeet yet"

Oh, and I had okra this afternoon.
 
Wore bouts in Alabama ya movin to? I live in Hoover, pert near in Birmin'ham.

I have the feeling it's going to be pretty much the same when I move to Alabama. lol I've already learnt a new word, "hose pipe" that's the thing that sticks out of the wall on the outside of your house to hook a water hose to.
 
My son lives in Matthews NC when I went to see him first time I thought I was on a different planet !!!!! I am English by the way , and have worked in lots of places in the world but NC is a little strange
 
My son lives in Matthews NC when I went to see him first time I thought I was on a different planet !!!!! I am English by the way , and have worked in lots of places in the world but NC is a little strange

Then why do Ya'll Yankee's keep moven heer?
 
Wore bouts in Alabama ya movin to? I live in Hoover, pert near in Birmin'ham.


My girlfriend lives in Sylacauga but the job I have is in Birmingham. She has mentioned Hoover as a possible place for us to live.

I'll be up there next week, all week looking around.
 
My sister works for U A B in Birmingham, her husband works for Al live, he does some type of internet sports thing. They live in Gardendale. I ve only been up there once,seems to be a nice area




My girlfriend lives in Sylacauga but the job I have is in Birmingham. She has mentioned Hoover as a possible place for us to live.

I'll be up there next week, all week looking around.
 
I read the entire post and understood every word with the exception of the question not answered...why do the yankees keep moving here??
(in case anyones wondering we have plenty no more required)
 
You can put up a big fence with razor wire on the top and a few no trespassing signs, that might keep everyone in.....I mean out.:-D
 
dont tempt me... actually if they would just keep quite it would be ok. But when you have to here how great it is up north and how you should do it here, you just want to tell them to go back
 
No offence but your safe from me coming back to NC because I Fing hated it there. Just a little too much country music and number 3 stickers everywhere...oh and the looks/comments when you walk into a public bar (not one of the back woods private ones) with someone that is darker than a farmers tan.

I would be happy to start a "fence in NC" fund :-D

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my complaint is people moving in because of how much they love it here then start changing it to suit them. Before long its what they left in the first place.

i dont watch nascar and could care less about what color you are as long as you work hard and mind your own business. thats how the people from here are.
 
my complaint is people moving in because of how much they love it here then start changing it to suit them. Before long its what they left in the first place.

i dont watch nascar and could care less about what color you are as long as you work hard and mind your own business. thats how the people from here are.

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i'm a white country boy with a half Pakistani wife. nobody cares. as long as your a good person, I like ya. Just don't tell me what I'm doing wrong and how dumb and slow we are. Thats why we don't like the Yankees moving in.
 
my complaint is people moving in because of how much they love it here then start changing it to suit them. Before long its what they left in the first place.

i dont watch nascar and could care less about what color you are as long as you work hard and mind your own business. thats how the people from here are.

I couldn't have said it better!!!
I'm one of the yank imports, moved here from Baltimore 2 years ago, and I love it here just the way it is........well, except for the taxes. :-k
Anyway, the people I've met in NC are some of the best!! They'll give you the shirt off their back, or in my case, the car outa their yard or the tools outa their garage.... :snakeman:
 
I didnt mean to start any pissin contest but I guess its a sore spot. I have met good people from all over. You cant tell some arent from here except for their accent. (Yes i know how i talk but im from here) And i definitely agree on TAXES, NC is a money hungry state but its home. Again sorry if i ruffles any feathers.
 
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