I had to chuckle at your comment about taking a gool 'ol earthquake over a tornado.  We aren't fond of the nasty 'ol twisters, either.  But I guess every part of the country has its natural disasters.  Whether it's twisters or quakes, hurricanes or wildfires - everybody has something to deal with.  We actually made it through this tornado season with only 3 or 4 nights under cover. 

 I do enjoy hearing all the different accents from around the country.  My husband got tickled at me a few weeks ago.  We were driving and using a GPS.  It was calling out instructions and I said I couldn't use it if I was driving because the voice talked too fast.  I told him I needed a GPS with a drawl - "Now, right up here a ways yer gonna turn left..."

Hey Janet and Deb,

Tornadoes or Earthquakes...........Tornadoes or Earthquakes..........Yikes, I don't like either........but then again.....There's no place like home.....there's no place like home......

Maybe Frozen Oakie will take a job as a GPS operator.........then you will feel right at home......lol........If you get in a car with ole granny here......Deb......she'll send you home in a taxi so she can shop till she drops.  Have you checked out the orphanage thread.....Janet......Deb just loves shopping for those kiddies in the orphanage.......I told her that if I was with her, she would exhaust me.....that's when she told me, no problem......she would just shove me in the taxi with the pkgs. and have more room for her next haul back home.......you gotta love ole granny here........ya just have to watch out for all the "questions" she'll throw out at you.......imagine if she were a GPS operator.......Lordy...........and Tony, Frozen Oakie, just decided he like'd the badgering that Deb throws out......he's even getting his daughter's friends involved.......oh momma, he doesn't know what he's in for......I am sure Mike Rush will fill him in.......if you see an e-mail from that lil ole lady from Pasadena......keep on going.....go granny, go granny, go granny go

I trust you have recovered from the slumber party????????

Mimi

I thought I'd bump this up for anyone looking for people from Olkahoma and Texas and it's a "fun" thread.

I had to sit and read this whole thread ...it was too funny, reminded me of so many things ... The story of Tony's truck taking a swim .. reminded me when my son did the same thing with the Nissan Pick-up I gave him .... He swore up and down that truck was as big as the rest of those mud stompers ... And for a while it kept up fairly well .. till the day it went for a swim in the Sabine River .... I remembered some of the stunts we pulled as kids so I let him walk for a while ... which I thought might cure his fascination with the mud but I was wrong there ... he just joined the Army and became a transportation specialist .... so now he gets to play with their mud buggies

Most of my life I have lived in Texas but I also lived in Florida and Louisiana when I was younger. And most of my Dad's side of the family was from Oklahoma ... So I have a real mix of quirky phrases.

I try very hard to watch my grammar, but it is a lost cause.  I am forever catching myself saying stuff like "I seen it over there" instead of "I saw" and I don't dare tell anyone what I am doing if I happen to be sealing something (such as windows or tub) with caulk.... It comes out "I'm cocking the windows" ... anymore if I can't find it in the hardware store on my own ... I just ask where the goop is used to seal windows (even though I know what it's called).... at all cost, that is a word I avoid saying ... and if I have to say it.. I think real hard about pronouncing it correctly. And say it slowly!  Words like pipes and lights have very very long I's but I pronounce quarter and yesterday like someone from south Louisiana. which is qwarter and yestaday

Gravy to me is cream (white) and goes on bisquits, mash potatoes, chicken strips and chicken fried steak.

mayonnaise is Miracle Whip Salad Dressing ... which is very good on pinto beans .. except this I acquired from my grandfather who was from West Virginia and Tennessee

and for Thanksgiving Dinner ... the turkey is Cajun Fried... which means it gets injected with spices and dropped whole into a big Turkey Fryer

And Bar-B-Q is beef brisket ...sometimes chicken ...but never pork 

But unlike a lot of southners I eat lemon on my seafood ... not tartar sauce

Thanks for the bump!

I used to always use lemon juice on my fish.  Now I switch back and forth between lemon and tartar sauce.  Isn't is funny how many different tastes there are!