You know you're from Tennessee when...
- Added by youknowster, September 6, 2008 at 3:51pm.
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Top 10 Reasons You know you're from Tennessee:
- If you have a "Fair Day" where you can go to the county fair instead of school...and its excused.14 up, 3 down
- You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.8 up, 3 down
- There is a Dairy Queen in every town with a population of 1000 or more.8 up, 3 down
- Snow days are unheard of. RAIN days, on the other hand, are quite frequent in middle tn8 up, 3 down
- Your pickup truck makes a monster truck look like a toy.10 up, 5 down
- Fred Smith is currently putting you through college...not your parents.10 up, 5 down
- You've never met any celebrities....other than Fred Thompson.9 up, 5 down
- You know all 4 seasons: Almost Summer, Summer, Still Summer and Christmas.9 up, 5 down
- All there is to do on the weekend is go to a movie and then cruise around sonic or go to walmart, because they're the only two places open that late.7 up, 3 down
- You and your friends throw parties at each others' houses every saturday during the fall to watch the game.8 up, 4 down
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Tennessee is a state located in the Southern United States. In 1796, it became the sixteenth state to join the Union. The capital city is Nashville, and the largest city is Memphis.[+] Post a Comment
More reasons You know you're from Tennessee
- You know who cooter brown is....or if you've even been drunker than cooter brown!7 up, 3 down
- You know that taking Poplar Ave. will get you anywhere you need to go in the city of Memphis7 up, 3 down
- You know you're from tennessee when you say "lay in the floor" in stead of "lay on the floor."7 up, 3 down
- You laugh when people from anywhere north of TN tries to say or spell "y'all"8 up, 5 down
- A tabogan is a hat, not a sled.8 up, 5 down
- Pigeon Forge is not pronounced with a French accent.7 up, 4 down
- Sales tax is 9.75%.5 up, 2 down
- You know when Elvis Presley Day is.7 up, 4 down
- You're in a Carhartt jacket one day, shorts the next, and no one thinks anything about it.7 up, 4 down
- You carry jumper cables in your car...for your OWN car.8 up, 5 down
- The local papers cover national and international news on one page but require 6 pages for local gossip and sports.7 up, 4 down
- You graduated high school in the same building where cows are auctioned.6 up, 3 down
- The majority of the people you know don't talk on a cell phone while driving down the road. instead they use cb radios.7 up, 4 down
- You have more fun at the local go kart track for 5 minutes than you do at Dollywood for the whole day.7 up, 4 down
- You learned the electric slide and how to square dance in your elementary school gym class.8 up, 5 down
- 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.6 up, 3 down
- If you know that you can go 70 on Pellissippi when the speed limit is really only 55...the only people who go 55 are from out of state.6 up, 3 down
- If pinto beans and corn bread are included in EVERY meal.9 up, 6 down
- If grillin with charcoal is the only way...gas grills are for yankee idiots who cant wait.7 up, 4 down
- "Vacation" means going to the family reunion.6 up, 4 down
- Gatlinburg does have an "L" in it and it should be pronounced.6 up, 4 down
- You measure distance in minutes, not miles.6 up, 4 down
- Sweet tea is THE DRINK...no questions, no exceptions. Most people from Tennessee begin drinking sweet tea even before they can drink out of sippy cups.6 up, 4 down
- All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect or animal.6 up, 4 down
- Only TN would have a pizza place called "Possum's Pizza".... in Joelton. which has 3 syllables.6 up, 4 down
- You like the Vols, but hate Vol fans!!!6 up, 4 down
- You remember Opryland and riding your first roller coaster!6 up, 4 down
- You eat turnip greens for money and black eyed peas for good luck in the new year on Jan 1st of every year.7 up, 5 down
- Your town has a barbecue festival.8 up, 6 down
- If there are 20 or more people at every holiday, and they're all immediate family.6 up, 4 down
- You have 4 lawn mowers and you never know which one is gonna work.7 up, 5 down
- There's no need to throw the food out, give it to the dogs.5 up, 3 down
- You order Greens and Grits with everything.5 up, 3 down
- You got your first shotgun on your seventh birthday.6 up, 4 down
- It's "Mar-vull" not "Mary-ville"8 up, 7 down
- You shop at Walmart for groceries, not at a grocery store.7 up, 6 down
- You eat "dinner" at noon and "supper" in the evening.6 up, 5 down
- Boomsday in Knoxville is equal to New Year's Eve at Tiimes Square6 up, 5 down
- You only own four spices: salt, pepper, Tabasco and ketchup.6 up, 5 down
- You wear shorts and a pullover in 40 degree weather.6 up, 5 down
- Your high school schedule has or had ag (ffa) classes on almost every period except for lunch, and you skipped that to go to the ag cookouts.5 up, 4 down
- You live to go to the Redneck Riviera.5 up, 4 down
- Nothing will ever compare to a Saturday in Neyland Stadium.5 up, 4 down
- You have to convince your out-of-Tennessee friends that they REALLY DID have a World's Fair in Knoxville.5 up, 4 down
- Your family considersfried chicken and mashed potatoes a huge deal, and they actually look forward to it.5 up, 4 down
- Your police force is in federal penitentiary, half of the citizens got indicted on charges of cock fightin, and most of your friends and family are still makin good ol' shine.6 up, 5 down
- You butter your hot biscuit by cutting it open, putting a slab of butter inside and closing it back up again.4 up, 4 down
- Every town in East Tennesse has a "strip" and they're not particularly safe to be in at night.5 up, 5 down
- Even after all these years, you're still in love with Steve McNair.4 up, 4 down
- You barely get snow days because there's hardly ever any snow. Better yet, you get snow days if your local weather stations predict even the slightest bit of snow!4 up, 4 down
- You drive through a rich neighborhood and see the wannabe redneck kids with their brand new fords and their designer holy jeans and cowboy hats.6 up, 6 down
- Knoxville becomes the 3rd largest city on every Saturday in the fall.5 up, 5 down
- You use "fixinto" like it's a real word. Example: "I'm fixinto go to the store"5 up, 5 down
- You have ever been snipe hunting or even if you know what snipe hunting is.5 up, 5 down
- You know that what the rest of the world calls the Rebel Flag, is actually the Battle Flag of the Tennessee Confederate Army.5 up, 5 down
- You know that the University of Memphis has a football team.4 up, 4 down
- You've watched a baby possum eat out of the dog's food bowl, then woke up the entire family to show them.5 up, 5 down
- It takes an act of God to get into your family's, boyfriend's, or best friend's truck. That's why God made cinderblocks!6 up, 6 down
- If you're late for school because you get stuck behind a tractor pulling hay or tobacco....and its excused everytime.5 up, 5 down
- You bleed VOL ORANGE!5 up, 5 down
- It's "Knox-vull" not "Knox-ville"6 up, 7 down
- You or your friends chew.6 up, 7 down
- You avoid going anywhere near Bristol Motor Speedway on race weekend!4 up, 5 down
- You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.5 up, 6 down
- You find 100 degrees Fahrenheit "a little warm".6 up, 7 down
- Fried catfish is "the other white meat"5 up, 6 down
- All you think about is partyin at the creek..and yes its crEEk not crick...4 up, 5 down
- You have a mayor named Willie.4 up, 5 down
- You think it's perfectly normal to see trailers parked next to the Bristol Motor Speedway two weeks before the big race.4 up, 5 down
- You can't tell your scars from your bug bites.4 up, 5 down
- Your favorite shirt is orange cause you can wear it to the game on Saturday, huntin' on Sunday, & to work for the highway dept. on Monday and you never have to change!5 up, 6 down
- You order your meat BURNT, not well done.5 up, 6 down
- You can't remember the last time you saw snow.3 up, 5 down
- You think it's worth it driving to Alabama just to save 1.25% on the sales tax!5 up, 7 down
- You use "commode" in conversations and absolutely no one knows what you're talking about.3 up, 5 down
- You and everyone you know go to one vacation spot-Panama City!4 up, 6 down
- You know there was no Civil War, but the War of Northern Aggresion.4 up, 6 down
- Your English teacher doesn't use proper grammar.4 up, 6 down
- You know what ragweed is, and if you ate wild onions when you were a kid.4 up, 6 down
- You can play 9 holes at the country club in a wife beater, work boots, carhart shorts, piss drunk and no one thinks anything is wrong with it.4 up, 6 down
- You'll be damned if you will buy bar-b-q sauce made in Kansas City.4 up, 6 down
- You can drive down the road and wave at every single vehicle that you pass and at least 95% will wave back. 90% of the people you pass you know. Half of the ones that don?t wave back will flip you off.4 up, 6 down
- You go fishin all the time and don't complain about the smell.3 up, 5 down
- You actually know what a tater gun is and how to build and shoot one.3 up, 5 down
- There are more cars in your front yard overgrown with grass then in a small dealership.3 up, 5 down
- You consider a "cool down" below 95 degrees.4 up, 6 down
- At family reunions half the family brings Fried Chicken, half the family brings Biscuits and Tater Salad, and the other half brings Sweet Tea.5 up, 7 down
- At family reunions one part of the family brings Fried Chicken, another part brings the Biscuits and Tater Salad, and the other part brings Sweet Tea.3 up, 5 down
- You don't drive in Knoxville on game-day. EVER.3 up, 6 down
- You have a "piss on" sticker on your car window.3 up, 6 down
- You know how to do the watermelon crawl.3 up, 6 down
- Everything is COKE, and if you don't like it, tough.4 up, 7 down
- You know what a "DAWG" is.4 up, 7 down
- You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good pinto-bean weather.4 up, 7 down
- You're convinced you don't need driver's ed-your father and uncles' pickup trucks in hay fields were training enough.3 up, 6 down
- You know that the difference between a fiddle and a violin is that the violin has "strings" and a fiddle has "strangs."5 up, 8 down
- If you even know what Pellissippi is.3 up, 6 down
- You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.2 up, 6 down
- You know that it's fork-a-deer river, not forked deer river.4 up, 8 down
- Your high school thinks "hunting" is a valid excuse for missing school.4 up, 8 down
- You know three people related to Justin Timberlake.2 up, 6 down
- You get out of school for NASCAR events, but not for Martin Luther King Jr. day.3 up, 7 down
- You say granma and granpa, without the "d."3 up, 7 down
- You consider a visit to the Jack Daniel's Distillery to be a cultural experience (as opposed to say a museum). And, it's mandatory for every Tennessean to go at least once in his/her lifetime.3 up, 7 down
- You know all of the words to "Rocky Top."3 up, 8 down
- Everyone you know owns a truck, and at least one of those trucks are just painted with primer, or more colors than the damn rainbow.2 up, 7 down
- You can hold an hour-long conversation about the merits of the Hiwassee River versus the Ocoee River... including the traffic around each in the summer.2 up, 7 down
- Your Wal-Mart has specific parking spots for horse and buggies.3 up, 9 down
