Funny. My brother sent me this:
THANGS I LARNED WILE LIVIN IN LUSIANA
1. Possums sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air

2. There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 live in LOUISIANA .

3. There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in LOUISIANA plus a couple no one’s seen before.5. It is not a shopping cart; it is a buggy.

4. Fire ants consider your flesh as a picnic

YOU KNOW YOU’RE FROM LOUISIANA IF:

1. You measure distance in minutes.

2. You’ve ever had to switch from ‘heat’ to ‘A/C’ in the same day.

3. You use ‘fix’ as a verb. Example: ‘I’m fixing to go to the store ‘

4. All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect or animal.

5. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.

6. You only own five spices: Tony Chachere’s cajun spice, salt, pepper, Tabasco and ketchup.

7. You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.

8. You find 100 degrees Fahrenheit ‘a little warm’.

9. You know all four seasons: Deer Season, Duck Season, Crawfish Season, Summer.

10. You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good gumbo weather.? YEP!

11. A carbonated soft drink isn’t a soda, cola or pop…it’s a Coke, regardless of brand or flavor. Example: ‘What kinda coke you want?’

12. Fried catfish is the other white meat.