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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

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