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April 24, 2003
Important Tourist Info
Everything you need to know about Arkansas, but were afraid to ask.
- Possums are born dead along the highways and sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air.
- There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in Arkansas, plus a couple no one's seen before.
- Squirrels will eat anything.
- Unknown critters love to dig holes under tomato plants.
- Raccoons will test your crop of melons and let you know when they are ripe.
- If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls; it bites.
- A tractor is NOT an all-terrain vehicle. They do get stuck.
- "Onced" and "Twiced" are words.
- It is not a shopping cart, it is a buggy.
- People actually grow and eat okra.
- Fixin ta is one word.
- There ain't no such thing as "lunch". There's breakfast, dinner and then there's supper.
- Tea is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it when you're 2.
- 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.
Posted by Rita at April 24, 2003 10:25 AM