rubberpet
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Joined: 4/6/2006 From: The Land of Voodoo Status: offline
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I live in the south, Louisiana to be specific, and we are a culture like no other. Usually, shotguns outnumber people 6 to 1, directions to someone's house include turn off the paved road, dead armadillos in the middle of the road are considered possums on the half-shell, it's not a pothole unless you can lose a Volkswagon in it, and them skeeters are big enough to carry you into the woods to eat you later. Being from Louisiana, if it walks, crawls, slithers, flies, or swims, it has it's own festival. Any combination of festival creatures will typically end up in a gumbo or jumbalaya. There is nothing like Southern philosophy. My grandma once told me as I climbed her pecan tree and I quote, "If you fall out that tree and break your leg, don't come running to me!!!" A Louisiana barometer is a simple tool: it is simply a rope on a piece of wood. If it's wet, it's raining. If it's dry, it's sunny. If it's stiff, it's frozen. If it moving, it's windy. If it's gone, it's a hurricane! And the easiest way to tell if someone is from Louisiana is when they look at a rice field and they can tell you how much gravy it will take to cover it!
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