NT - You Know You're From the South When...

[kcjenkins]

1. You think people who complain about the heat in their states are sissies.

2. A tornado warning siren is your signal to go out in the yard and look for a funnel.

3. You know that the true value of a parking space is not determined by the distance to the door, but by the availability of shade.

4. Stores don't have bags or shopping carts, they have sacks and buggies.

5. You've seen people wear bib overalls at weddings and funerals.

6. You think everyone from a Yankee-state has an accent.

7. You measure distance in minutes.

8. You listen to the weather forecast before picking out an outfit.

9. You know cow pies are not made of beef.

10. Someone you know has used a football schedule to plan their wedding date.

11. You know someone who has a belt buckle bigger than your fist.

13. Almost everyone you know is either Baptist or Methodist.

14. A Mercedes Benz isn't a status symbol. A Chevy Silverado Extended Bed Crew Cab is.

15. You know everything goes better with Ranch dressing.

[RitaB]

Also, if you have a pair of clients, like mine today, who lost $23,000 running their partnership (a hunting lodge), made $4300 "on the side" doing odd jobs, and they are mad at you cause they didn't get "that there unearned income credit."

[BulldogTom]

16. Your tax preparer is named Betty Sue, is a hairdresser the rest of the year, and has a husband who is reeeeeaaaal smart.

[JohnH]

17: You know the grammatically correct use of "Fixin to" and "momenymns"

i.e. "We just left church and we're fixin' to go to momenyms for dinner"

18: You're certain that dinner is the noon meal and supper is the evening meal.

[Jack from Ohio]

19: Everyone knows what taters, maters, and backee are.

[SCL]

20) you might wonder what b kammen would think about the queen bee with dust on her atx pom poms :dunno:

[jmallard]

21. When you know the plural of "ya'll" is "all ya'll"

22. When you know the name of General Lee's Horse = Traveler

I'm originally from Alabama

[Jack from Ohio]

23. When the word yankee is always the second syllable of a word that starts with D, and the first syllable sounds like that thing that impedes water flow on a river.

(By the way, I was born in Tennessee)

[lbbwest]

23. When the word yankee is always the second syllable of a word that starts with D, and the first syllable sounds like that thing that impedes water flow on a river.

(By the way, I was born in Tennessee)

When you know what "Isn't that nice." really means. lbb (from Chicago, but spent summers in Oaklahoma on my grandmother's peanut farm."

[DonnaA]

In the South .......

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

25. "Jaw-P?" means "Did ya'll go to the bathroom?"

26. Backwards and forwards means "I know everything about you."

27. You don't push buttons, you mash them.

28. You carry jumper cables in your trunk for your own car.

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

30. Fried catfish is "the other white meat."

31. You don't need no dang driver's ed. If your mama says you can drive, you can drive, dag-nabbit.

[jainen]

>>In the South .......<<

Never understood this gray and blue stuff. Seems to me you are all just back East.

[JohnH]

>>> When you know the plural of "ya'll" is "all ya'll" <<<<

But you also need to know that the plural possessive of "ya'll" is "yor'all's"

[joanmcq]

Hey, in CA (or maybe just all out west) we measure distance in minutes too! Wait, actually, we measure distance in hours, as in 'its about 3 hours to Reno. And (since I'm from back east, but not the south) I don't understand what I thought was the CA fixation with ranch dressing...

[taxxcpa]

UT is awesome software -- but they will nickel & dime you to death to get everything you need. I like that ATX offers me ALL forms in one package (and that includes the 941, 940, W2's and 1099s).

That's the one thing about Drake that I'm a little hestitant on. I don't need a client write up program as all my clients use QB. I don't like doing things and two and three times to get the job done. Do it once, move on to the next client.

An alternative plural form of you is 'you-uns.' This has the same meaning as 'yous' in Noo Yawk City.

[joanmcq]

Or 'yins' if you from Pittsburgh.

[kcjenkins]

In the South .......

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

25. "Jaw-P?" means "Did ya'll go to the bathroom?"

26. Backwards and forwards means "I know everything about you."

27. You don't push buttons, you mash them.

28. You carry jumper cables in your trunk for your own car.

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

30. Fried catfish is "the other white meat."

31. You don't need no dang driver's ed. If your mama says you can drive, you can drive, dag-nabbit.

Nope, I can not agree with #29. Southern cooks are some of the world's best, and we use lots of spices, including a few that the rest of the country knows nothing about, like File [pronounced FEE lay ]