Things I've learned while cam;ing in the South

[campingcop]

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> >Subject: Things I've Learned while camping in the South
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> >1. A Possum is a flat animal that sleeps in the middle of the road.
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> >2.'Onced' and 'Twiced' and 'Dreckly' are words.
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> >3. It is not a shopping cart, it is a buggy.
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> >4. 'Jaw-P' means 'Did ya'll go to the bathroom?'
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> >5. People actually grow AND eat okra.
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> >6. 'Fixinto' is one word.
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> >7. There is no such thing as 'lunch'. There is only dinner and then there
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> >supper.
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> >8. 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!
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> >9. Backards and forards means 'I know everything about you.'
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> >10. The word 'Jeet' is actually a phrase meaning 'Did you eat?'
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> >11. 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.
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> >12. You don't PUSH buttons, you MASH them.

[McCampers]

We don't use garden hoses either, we use hosepipes.

We drink sodas, and a pop is what you'll get if you talk ugly to us.

When it rains and we're driving, we always burn our head lamps, and if you forget to cut 'em on you'll get a ticket.

We ask someone to carry you, if you want a ride somewhere.

When you ask to see something it means you want to hold it in your hands.

And when we ask someone "Hey, let me hold a dollar"  We are asking for a long term loan, usually for life.

We don't throw things away, we chunk 'em out.

This exact conversation is heard often around dinner time on most fishing piers in the south. "Djeetyet?" "Nope."  "Djauntoo?"  "Rekonso."  

Yankee translation "Did you eat dinner yet?"  "No I have not."  "Would you like to eat dinner?"  " Yes, I think I would like that."

[A2SuperCrew]

.........and I thought this was a serious thread....LOL!

We actually learned A LOT when we camped in North Carolina last year.  The best thing was to hang a huge tarp up in the trees in front of our pup.  Waaay up in the trees so a camp fire won't bother it.  That way when it rains, and it will rain, everyone can still enjoy lots of dry space outside.

[McCampers]

If you like rain, we usually got it.  If you like humidity we have even more.  If you like mosquitoes that can carry you away......well let's just say we call them the state bird.  Bug screen, bug juice, and sun screen better be on your packing list for North Carolina.  A clothes pin for your nose better be on your list for South Carolina.

How to judge good bug juice:  Once you put it on, if it makes yer lips go numb and makes yer chilren talk funny.  It might be good bug juice! :tent:

[Twolarsons]

A clothes pin for your nose better be on your list for South Carolina.

I think that needs some 'splainin (an explaination)
The only 'smell' that I can think of is down here in the low country when you're near the marsh at low tide. It's called pluff mud and it smells like sewage to those who aren't use to it. Once you've been here for a spell, it  smells like sweet chocolate!

I know SC is not the best place in the country but we are number one in many areas. For instance, we're
#1 in teen pregnancy
#1 in sexual transmitted disease
#1 in highway fatalities
#1 in high school drop-outs
#1 in spending per student
Not that that last one helps at all. We have some of the worst schools and worst test scores in the country. Thank God for Mississippi. We'd be 50th if it weren't for them  
Then there's our education system's shining star, Miss Teen SC 2007
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WALIARHHLII

[A2SuperCrew]

Here in Michigan we shine in the areas of unemployment, foreclosures, and drunk drivers.  Go figure............

[dcampbell1969]

Don't forget, when in Georgia,
there are no pop machines or soda machines, there are only Coke machines.  You may purchase other forms of colas or other beverages, but the general term is Coke.  

And there are 30 streets in every town with the word Peach in it.  

And if you were born in the the midwest, we don't care, you are still a Yankee to us.  

Our state flag changes every so often, just to confuse the masses and hush the whiners.

And Stop signs mean stop only if Johnny Law is looking.

[McCampers]

I think that needs some 'splainin (an explaination)
The only 'smell' that I can think of is down here in the low country when you're near the marsh at low tide. It's called pluff mud and it smells like sewage to those who aren't use to it. Once you've been here for a spell, it  smells like sweet chocolate!

I know SC is not the best place in the country but we are number one in many areas. For instance, we're
#1 in teen pregnancy
#1 in sexual transmitted disease
#1 in highway fatalities
#1 in high school drop-outs
#1 in spending per student
Not that that last one helps at all. We have some of the worst schools and worst test scores in the country. Thank God for Mississippi. We'd be 50th if it weren't for them  
Then there's our education system's shining star, Miss Teen SC 2007
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WALIARHHLII

That girl can't be from SC she doesn't have enough twang in her voice.  What a bimbo.  I had never seen that before.  As for the smell in SC I'm not sure what it is, but it's pretty much everywhere I've been.  Most states aren't as proud as SC, and most other states have more to be proud of?  Things that make you go huh?

[McCampers]

Here in Michigan we shine in the areas of unemployment, foreclosures, and drunk drivers.  Go figure............

More to the point.  You shine in the area of Labor Unions.  I can hear it now, "we'll show those businesses!"  "them and their unfair profits!"  "it's not fair that those guys sitting in the offices doing nothing make all that money!"  "they have plenty of money, I want my share!"

[aw738]

Posted by McCampers - Yesterday at 04:10 AM
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Originally Posted by A2SuperCrew
Here in Michigan we shine in the areas of unemployment, foreclosures, and drunk drivers. Go figure............
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More to the point. You shine in the area of Labor Unions. I can hear it now, "we'll show those businesses!" "them and their unfair profits!" "it's not fair that those guys sitting in the offices doing nothing make all that money!" "they have plenty of money, I want my share!"

This could get ugly.  :yikes:

[McCampers]

This could get ugly.  :yikes:

It never gets ugly.  No one wants to play.  The truth is like fire, it burns us all when we play with it.  Me included.  That's why I have lots of fire extinguishers at my house!!! :U  :usflag:

[lucyinthesky111l]

Are ya'll funnin' me?  It's because I'm from the south ain't it?

[A2SuperCrew]

  It doesn't matter where one lives, because it's always better somewhere else.  

It was 31 degrees here this morning.  (MAY 19th!)

I want to go live in North Carolina!  I've got kin down there anyway.

To quote my uncle, "You may have been born a Yankee, but your blood runs deep in the South!"

Amen!

Happy Trials!

[butterflyfish]

  It doesn't matter where one lives, because it's always better somewhere else.  

It was 31 degrees here this morning.  (MAY 19th!)

I want to go live in North Carolina!  I've got kin down there anyway.

To quote my uncle, "You may have been born a Yankee, but your blood runs deep in the South!"

Amen!

Happy Trials!

Nope, we love it here and don't want to be anywhere else... of course we are transplants... but it is definitely beter here in SC!!!  

[McCampers]

Nope, we love it here and don't want to be anywhere else... of course we are transplants... but it is definitely beter here in SC!!!  

Now I can't imagine wanting to be in SC.  It's smelly.