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Here is “Round 32” of your insights into how to know if someone is from North Carolina. You may also want to check out

• Round One (February 2004)
• Round Two (March 2004)
• Round Three (May 2004)
• Round Four (July 2004)
• Round Five (August 2004)
• Round Six (September 2004)
• Round Seven (November 2004)
• Round Eight (January 2005)
• Round Nine (February 2005)
• Round Ten (March 2005)
• Round Eleven (April 2005)
• Round Twelve (May 2005)
• Round Thirteen (June 2005)
• Round Fourteen (August 2005)
• Round Fifteen (September 2005)
• Round Sixteen (October 2005)
• Round Seventeen (November 2005)
• Round Eighteen (December 2005)
• Round Nineteen (January 2006)
• Round Twenty (February 2006)
• Round Twenty-one (March 2006)
• Round Twenty-two (April 2006)
• Round Twenty-three (May 2006)
• Round Twenty-four (June 2006)
• Round Twenty-five (July 2006)
• Round Twenty-six (August 2006)
• Round Twenty-seven (September 2006)
• Round Twenty-eight (October 2006)
• Round Twenty-nine (November 2006)
• Round Thirty (December 2006)
• Round Thirty-one (January 2007)

If you can think of anything to add to this list, send it to us:

E-mail: Carolina.country@ncemcs.com
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Phone: (919) 875-3062.

From Rebecca Liles, Elizabethtown

• Your mama threatens to “knock you slam out.”
• When introducing a family member to a friend you say, “This here is my cousin.”
• You came across Bib Mama’s fried-meat-grease can under the kitchen sink.
• Someone says your child had a “pure-T fit” at the store.
• Your granddaddy smokes cigarettes while he’s on an oxygen tank.

From T.J. Nelon, Mill Spring

• You have a coffee can of bent nails in the basement to be straightened out one day.
• Your daughter carries her pet chickens for a ride on the handlebars of her bike.
• You sit on the front porch in the evening watching those “two lights” appear on the mountain.
• Your dog is so old he didn’t notice that a strange dog came on the porch and laid down beside him during a rainstorm.
• A stretched possum hide is part of your home decor.

From Bill Taylor, formerly of Chocowinity

• You know that a Bill’s Hot Dog can be found only in little Washington.

From Tommy & Kay Rice

• You know it is serious if they “carry ’em to Dukes.”
• You apply for a loan to purchase a mobile home and have no job, down payment or credit.
• You know what a fifth middle is.
• Your grandfather laid his hair down with lard from a stand.
• You know what “riding on his truck” means.
• You have been in a dirt clog fight.
  
• You have been pikin’.
• You have been burned and had the fire talked out.
• Someone blows smoke in your ears to get the gnats out.
• You take scraps out.
• You burn snakes to see if their legs come out.
• You had a B/C Powder and Coke at the station for breakfast.
• You know what a crazy check is.
• You believe that Billy Graham is the only TV preacher you can trust.

From Phyllis Fennell, Murfreesboro

• The ambulance is known as the meat wagon.
• You drink merk instead of milk.
• You use an old tire for a flower pot and a swing.
• Your best shoes are your goodims.

From the Phillips family, Zebulon

• On your first date you go to a turkey shoot.
• You can’t wait to go to Grandma’s to eat chicken and dumplin’s and blackberry cobbler.
• You ask for sweet milk in a restaurant.

From David Harrell, Eure

• You have to crawl under the house to catch a headless chicken because it’s lunch.
• You can’t go on vacation until the peanut patch is chopped.
• You use an AM radio to relax the cows to get them to give more milk.
• You’re expected to keep A’s in school even though you missed so many days during planting and harvest.
• When someone asks your dad why all four boys were born in January, he says, “April was planting time.”

From Alice Carter, Lexington

• You eat mayonnaise on just about everything.
• You see a lady driving a tractor or combine.
• When you visit someone, you gather in the kitchen around the table to talk.
• When outside you get red bugs on you.
• Going “out of state” on vacation means going to Myrtle Beach.

From Teresa Erby, Rockingham

• You use sewing thread for dental floss.
• You use broom straw for toothpicks.
• You have taken a bath in the
  Pee Dee River.
• You have at least one hooptee
  car or truck.
• You shop for Christmas gifts at the flea market on Highway 220.

From Joel Jessup, Siler City

• You add a room onto the house because you run out of walls to hang deer horns.
• You park your old M Farmall on the hill so you can roll it off and crank it, because it has a magneto and you don’t want to buy a battery for it.
• You eat the top tier of your wedding cake before your first anniversary because you need freezer space for more deer meat.
• You give all your young’ns a “tick finder” hair cut with horse clippers in the summer time.
• You take your own bottle of Texas Pete hot sauce to a restaurant in your pocket because they have only Tabasco.
• You have a solar shower on top of your horse trailer made from a beer keg.

From Scot Caldwell, Dallas

• You make a kite out of newspaper and two pine tree sticks.
• You skip church on Sunday because you are getting the ox out of the ditch.
• You see cows and horses along both sides of I-40 and Highway 321.
• Your idea of eating out is sitting down by the creek and listening to the dogs run at night.
• You know where Shady Rest and Cat Square are.
• You will vote for Dean or Roy for President in 2008. (Go Heels.)
  From Bobbie Jo Allen, Lexington
• Your children live over the hill and through the woods to Grandma’s house.
• Your family, both sets of grandparents and great-granny all live on the same big hunk of land which PaPaw swears you better never sell because “ya ain’t never gonna find another piece a land like it.”
• On summer days you wait for Grandma to get done runnin’ the summer school bus route so we can all come over and eat watermelon (fresh from Papaw’s garden) and homemade ice cream.
• You can count on at least one phone call during the winter saying, “Don’t turn your water on for a couple hours ‘cause PaPaw’s workin’ on the well in the pump house.”
• When you go to PaPaw Bob’s for breakfast your kids have to pick all his ripe strawberries before they go in and climb on the John Deere.
• You’re driving to town and you’re behind a tractor or a pick-up that has a bumper sticker that reads: “Tobacco bought this truck.”

From Sheila Elliott, Bunnlevel

• Your Grandma Alean Elliott when praying would say, “Lord ham mercy.”

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