You Know You're From Arkansas If:

Thanks to Andrew for passing this little gem on to me. I got quite a snicker out of these.

• You’ve never met any celebrities.
• Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waitin’ to pass a tractor on the highway.
• “Vacation” means goin’ through Harrison on the way to Branson.
• You’ve seen all the biggest bands…ten years after their last hit.
• You measure distance in minutes.
• Down South, to you, means Louisiana.
• You know a bunch of people who have hit a deer.
• You know a few that have also hit a coyote.
• You have no problem spelling or pronouncin’ Ouachita or Possum Grape.
• You know what Toad Suck and Booger Holler are.
• Your school classes were canceled because of cold, heat, a tornado, hunting, or a livestock show.
• You’ve ridden the school bus for an hour…each way.
• You’ve ever had to switch from “Heat” to “A/C” in the same day.
• You think ethanol makes your truck run a lot better.
• Stores don’t have bags or carts…they have sacks and buggies.
• You see people wearing bib overalls at funerals.
• You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one in it no matter what time of the year.
• You end your sentences with a preposition, for example, “Where’s my coat at?”…. “What’s that made out of?”
• All the festivals around the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, bricks, or lumber.
• Priming was your first job…and you know what it means.
• Your idea of a really great tenderloin is when the meat is twice as big as the bun and comes with cole slaw on top.
• You say catty-wampus and tumped over.
• You know the difference between a deer dog, a duck dog and a coon dog by the way they bark.
• You put security lights on your house and your garage and leave both of them unlocked.
• You think the four major food groups are beef, pork, chicken, beer, beans, and Jello salad with marshmallows.
• When asked how your trip to any foreign, exotic place was you say,”It was different.”
• Pulaski County is considered a foreign or exotic place.
• You consider being a “Beef Queen” an honor.
• You carry jumper cables in your car.
• You faithfully drink Pepsi, Mt. Dew, or Dr. Pepper everyday of your life.
• You know what a “cow drop” is.
• You have your own secret bbq sauce.
• You know how to snipe hunt.
• You or your neighbors have more hunting dogs than you have family members.
• You visit the Arkansas State Fair mainly to see your neighbor’s prize chicken.
• You’ve been invited to or had a bunkin’ party.
• You send this email on to some Arkansas friends, ‘cuz ya know it’s all true, darlin’.

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