Sunday, December 21, 2003

   I have a couple of reasons to live in Alabama.
1. We're the reason God created Football.

2. Humidity eliminates need for expensive home sauna.

3. You can put a license tag on anything, drive it down the road, and no one will stop you.

4. Unlike less-fun Yankee states, it only takes one snowfrlake to create a state-wide holiday.

5. Supermarkets have cute names like Piggly Wiggly and Winn-Dixie.

6. New York and California not taken seriously.

7. The Aurburn-Alabama game. (GO CRIMSON TIDE)

8. Front porches.

9. Back porches.

10. Corn on the cob.

11. We have our own way of tawkin'.

12. We have our own music.

13. Plenty of elbow room.

14. Unlike hum-drum Yankee supper tables, there's no skimping on side dishes.

15. Vintage automobiles are given the respect they deserve.

16. More books and songs written about Alabama than any other state.

17. Corn bread.

18. Farmer's markets.

19. Flea markets.

20. Neighbors rarely come over empty-handed.

21. If you break down on the side of the road, someone will always stop to help.

22. Soda pop brands have more colorful names, like Nehi and Grapico.

23. No part of a pig ever goes to waste.

24. Church suppers on the ground.

25. Citizens generally know the difference between right and wrong.

26. Tent revevals.

27. River Rats.

28. People don't generally pass through, they come to stay.

29. Small-talk skill level highest in nation.

30. Handshakes still effective in business dealings.

31. 365-day golfing season.

32. Palm trees, dogwoods, sycamores, live oaks, fig trees, sweet gums, and magnolias,

33. Traffic laws subject to individual interpretation.

34. Central air.

35. Dirt-track racing.

36. Family recipes.

37. Homemade ice cream.

38. Heat waves on Thanksgiving. (Christmas too)

39. No legal limit on quantity of exterior Christmas lights per household. (ain't that the truth)

40. There are still people who talk without cussing.

41. For those who must cuss, wide array of original expletives available.

42. Volunteer fire departments.

43. Mayors who conveniently also sell insurance and used cars.

44. Camellias blooming in February.

45. 'Nanner puddin'.

46. Going barefoot in March.

47. Certain homemade beverages.

48. Choice cockroach specimens guaranteed to scare the wits out of unsuspecting Yankees. (sounds like some kind of comercial)

49. High ratio of morning radio shows with host named Bubba.

50. Strangers say hello on the street and, instead of running the opposite direction, you say hello back.

51. Home to one of the seven wonders of the world: the infield at Talladega on race day.

52. Misguided national news coverage of state keeps obnoxiously heavy, environmentally damaging tourist traffic to a minimun.

53. Children grow up bilingual, speaking both English and Southern.

54. State leads the way in culinary presentation of the peanut.

55. Women named Velma.

56. Men nammed J.B., J.R., J.D., J.P., J.C., J.T., or J.W.

57. You can leave Alabama, but you'll always come back home.

All these were from a little book I read.
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