Since I have been a devout Kentuckian all of my life, I am allowed to list the following about my home state:

Possums sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air.

There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 live in Kentucky.

There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in Kentucky, plus a couple no one's seen before.

If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls, it bites.

Onced and Twiced are words. (This one is true!!!!)

It is not a shopping cart, it is a buggy. (This one is true too)

People actually grow and eat okra. (and like it!)

Mamanem means the whole family. ("Are mamanem comin?")

There ain't no such thing as "lunch or dinner'". There's only breakfast and then there's supper.

Backards and foreards means I know everything about you.

Jeet? is actually a phrase meaning "Did you eat yet?"

You know you're from Kentucky if:

1. You measure distance in minutes.

2. You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.

3. Stores don't have bags; they have sacks.

4. You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one in it, no matter what time of the year.

5. You use "fix" as a verb. Example: I am fixing to go to the store.

6. All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect or animal.

7. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.

8. You carry jumper cables in your car ... for your OWN car.

9. You know what "cow tipping" is.

10. You only own four spices: salt, pepper, chili powder, and catsup. No genuine Kentuckian ever called it "Catsup". Down here it's "Ketchup" and let's not forget pepper sauce for the turnip greens!

11. The local papers cover national and international news on one page but require 6 pages..for sports.

12. You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.

13. You find 90 degrees Fahrenheit "a little warm."

14. You know all four seasons: Almost summer, summer, still summer, and Christmas.

15. You know whether another Kentuckian is from east, west, or middle Kentucky as soon as they open their mouth.

16. Visiting Wal-Mart is a favorite pastime known as "going to wal-marts."

17. You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good chili weather.

18. A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda, cola, or Coke... it's a Pop, regardless of brand or flavor. Example "What kinna pop you want?"

19. Fried Catfish is the other white meat.

 

Im not from KY but I gotta say thats gotta be the funniest thing I have seen all week. I have something similar to that but its a "You Know Your Italian If" type of list. I also used to have a "You know your from Brooklyn(NY)if". Gotta love being an Italian in NY...theres sooo many of us

 

I love it! I grew up visiting my relatives in Harlan county (still have a lot of family living up in the hollers of Eastern Kentucky). I still get down to Middlesboro on a regular basis. Only in Kentucky does a boy get a gun before he gets a bike!

 

14. You know all four seasons: Almost summer, summer, still summer, and Christmas.

lol thats my fav

 

Since I grew up in the midwest(kansas) and moved to the deep south(South Carolina). Kentucky really sounds like a weird hybrid of the two. Sacks and pops are very midwest....The weather, bugs, snakes, jeet, and walamrts are very southern things.

 

hmmmm i gotta get use to this southern stuff

 

Thanks Jason. Glad to see someone else from KY knows whats going on.

 

These are so true. I've lived in Louisville and Bowling Green.
For those of you in Louisville, is phonix hill still around? That place so rocked when I was there.

 

the south is a scary place... I miss NYC...been to Kentucky no place is scarier then Ashland...

 

Still around and growing bigger.

 

this is awesome...it is so true...its sad that i can say that im from Owensboro and the BBQ festival is this weekend. So it is true that all festivals are named after a fruit or food. I hate to say it but i can say that i can relate to almost everything listed...

 

This is great, I can relate to every single thing I believe, lol

 

I agree. I used to live in Ashland...i barely got out.

 

I moved to Ky from jersey, HAAHAA some funny ____ on that list. When I moved here the first thing I saw was that big ___ water tower that says Florence YALL, and said to myself Holy ____ what did I do.
-- I was on line at kroger's and an old lady asked me to move my buggy( i didnt have a clue what a buggy was) so I thought that was her polite way to tell me to get my ___ out of the way.
--The looks people give when I tell them I don't follow football is insane, I'd get the same look if I pulled Santa off his chair and kicked him in the ********* in front of the children.
-- As far as spiders, seriously are they super breed down here, I've seen some ____ here that blows my mind. There was a brown spider in my driveway that could have ate small farm animals for all I know. I refuse to keep sneakers in my garage for that reason.
--But I really like it here and theres great BBQ, BBQ+Guinness=happiness........
----I miss pizza, taylor ham and bagels oh and hotdogs

 

I went to school there...UK UK UK UK UK UK!!!....love the irish pub there....at least there are some real paddy in there..not some fakey!

Mccarty's .....highly recommended Upper St..corner of Main St...near the dance club and not to forget cheap good nice place to eat....Tolly-ho!!! www.tolly-ho.com

 

general george washington:we had cowards who quit durring the revolutionary war too, we called them kentuckians!
lol