KNOW YOUR STATE MOTTO

ALABAMA

State Motto: Audemus jura nostra defendere (We dare defend our rights)

Or rather as we think it should be changed to:

Alabama: Hell Yes, We Have Electricity

Things I've learned about Alabama:

• Armadillos sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air.
• Armadillos love to dig holes under tomato plants.
• There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 live in Alabama.
• There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in Alabama, plus a couple no one's seen before.
• Possums will eat anything.
• Raccoons will test your crop of melons and let you know when they are ripe.
• If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls, it bites.
• A tractor is NOT an all-terrain vehicle. They do get stuck.
• Onced and Twiced are words.
• It is not a shopping cart, it is a buggy.
• Fire ants consider your flesh as a picnic.
• Coldbeer is one word.
• People actually grow and eat okra.
• Fixinto is one word.
• A tank is a dirt hole in the ground that holds water for irrigation, watterin' the cows, swimming, or a weekly bath.
• There ain't no such thing as "lunch". There's only dinner and then there's supper. Tea is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it when you're 2.
• Backards and forwards means I know everything about you.
• 'Jeet? is actually a phrase meaning "Did you eat?"
• You don't have to wear a watch because it doesn't matter what time it is. You work until you're done or it's too dark to see.
• Darn near everyone knows 5 or more cloud types (guess they got to be look'n out for them there ternayders-(translation: tornados).

You know you're from Alabama if:

• You measure distance in minutes.
• You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
• Stores don't have bags; they have sacks.
• You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one in it, no matter what time of the year.
• You use "fix" as a verb. Example: I am fixing to go to the store.
• All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect or animal.
• You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
• You carry jumper cables in your car ... for your OWN car.
• You know what "cow tipping" is.
• You only own four spices: salt, pepper, ketchup, and Tabasco.
• The local papers cover national and international news on one page but requires 6 pages for local gossip and sports.
• You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.
• You find 100 degrees F "a little warm."
• You know all four seasons: Almost summer, summer, still summer, and Christmas.
• You know whether another Alabamian is from east, west, north or south Alabama as soon as they open their mouth.
• Going to Wal-Mart is a favorite past-time known as "goin wal-martin" or off to "Wally World."
• You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good chili weather.
• A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda, cola, or pop ... it's a Coke, regardless of brand or flavor. Example "What kinna coke you want?"

Alabama is a state rich in history and tradition. However, there's another side to Alabama you may not know about, a side so strange, so odd, that it can only be described as "Wacky!" From the Coon Dog Cemetery to the World's Largest Chair, you'll find them all along the "The Wacky Alabama Trail!"

MP3 1. The Doors - "Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)"

Click on the picture above to view band's website.

ALASKA

State Motto: North to the Future

Or rather as we think it should be changed to:

Alaska: 11,623 Eskimos Can't Be Wrong!

You Know You're In Alaska When....

• . .you know which leaves make good toilet paper
• . . . .the mayor greets you on the street by your first name
• . . . .there is only one shopping plaza in town
• . . . .the municipality buys a Zamboni before a bus
• . . . .the major parish fundraiser isn't bingo - its sausage making
• . . . .you find -60c a might chilly
• . . . .the trunk of your car doubles as a deep freeze
• . . . .you attended a formal event in your best clothes, your finest jewels and your Sorrels
• . . . .you can play road hockey on ice skates
• . . . .shoveling the driveway constitutes a great upper body workout
• . . . .you know the 4 seasons: Winter, Still Winter, Almost Winter, and Construction.

Check out the odd tourist attractions and hilarious stops in Alaska - Roadside America's favorite places and strange sights suggested by visitors like you!

MP3 2. Chandelle - "Alaska" Click on the picture to view band's website.

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