Arkansas truths...

• 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 Arkansas.
• There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in Arkansas 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.
• 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.
• 'Backards and forwards' means 'I know everything about you.'
• Jeet? 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.
• It is not uncommon 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 fruit, vegetable, grain, insect or animal.
• It makes perfect sense to install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
• It is not uncommon to 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 holiday and most schools will be dismissed for at least one day...some for as long as a week.
• 100 degrees Fahrenheit is '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.