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Below is a humorous list that has made the
rounds of the Internet without attribution. It imitates the jokes
by Jeff Foxworthy that begin or end with “you might be a redneck.”
After running this list in Carolina Country
magazine in February 2004, we received lots of reader comments on
just how to know if someone is from North Carolina. Catch those
comments here in Round 2 (March) and
Round 3 (May).
If you can think of anything to add to this
list, send it to us:
E-mail: Carolina.country@ncemcs.com
Mail: P.O. Box 27306, Raleigh, NC 27611.
Phone: (919) 875-3062.
- You know Pepsi originated in New Bern, Cheerwine
in Salisbury, and that Mountain Dew was invented in Lumberton.
- You know Coke tastes better in the little bottles
and that peanuts make Coke taste even better.
- You have an opinion about UNC. You went there
and loved it, or you hate everyone who did.
- Your folks have taken trips to the mountains
to look at leaves.
- Your school took a field trip to the State Fair
in Raleigh.
- You would elect Richard Petty or Ric Flair for
governor if either ever ran.
- You watched as Dale Earnhardt was the only man
who ever lived who could go 200 mph, spin somebody out, call them
a you-know-what, and win the race, all in the last lap.
- You skipped school or work to go to Dale Earnhardt’s
memorial service.
- A tobaggon to you means a knit cap, not a sled.
- You sold Krispy Kreme doughnuts for a school
or church fundraiser
before those glazed doughnuts went global.
- When you're traveling out of state, people ask
if you're from Mayberry.
- You remember watching the ACC Tournament on
television at school.
- The local newspaper covers state, national and
international news
in one page, but sports requires six pages.
- Most men in town consider the first day of deer
season a national holiday.
- Fifty degrees Fahrenheit is “a little
chilly.”
- You have no problem spelling or pronouncing
“Conetoe” or “Topsail.”
- Your school classes were canceled because of
cold.
- Your school classes were canceled because of
heat.
- Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waitin’
to pass a tractor on the highway.
- Your school classes were canceled because of
a hurricane.
- Your school classes were canceled because of
hunting season.
Your school classes were canceled because of a livestock show.
- You’ve ridden the school bus for an hour...each
way.
- You know more about ACC basketball than professional
basketball.
- You know the Carolina League is the greatest
baseball league in the country.
- You think South Carolina was dead weight well
shed.
- You know tea is served sweet unless you specifically
ask for unsweetened.
- 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...they have sacks
and are called Piggly Wigglys.
- 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.
- Most of the festivals around the state are named
after a fruit, vegetable or tobacco.
- 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, yunto, ill-ass and ah-ite.
- You know the difference between a deer dog,
a bear 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.
- Your four seasons are almost summer, summer,
still summer, and highway construction.
- You can tell if another North Carolinian is
from Eastern or Western North Carolina as soon as he opens his
mouth.
- You can spell words such as Ocracoke, Fuquay-Varina
and Chocowinity.
- When asked how your trip to any foreign, exotic
place was you say, “It was different.”
- Hyde County is considered a foreign or exotic
place.
- In the Piedmont, you see all the grown-ups go
out and play in the snow.
- Schools and churches hold barbecue fundraisers
with banana puddin’ as the dessert.
- Your folks would rather eat at Bojangles’s
than McDonald’s.
- You have actually uttered the phrase, “It’s
too hot to go to the pool.”
- You consider being a “Pork Queen”
an honor.
- You carry jumper cables in your car.
- You faithfully drink Pepsi or Mt. Dew every
day of your life.
- You know what “cow tipping” is.
- You have your own secret BBQ sauce.
- You or your neighbors have more hunting dogs
than you have family members.
- “You show this to
some NC friends ‘cuz ya know it’s true, darlin.’.
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