Wacky Alabama

29/10/2024

I’m from A..La..Bama! Hahaha!

24/10/2024

THINGS YOU NEED TO TEACH YOUR NORTHERN FRIENDS WHEN THEY MOVE TO THE SOUTH!

1. A possum is a flat animal that sleeps in the middle of the road.
2. There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 of them live in the South.
3. There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 of them live in the South, plus a couple no one’s seen before.
4. If it grows, it’ll stick ya. If it crawls, it’ll bite cha.
5. Onced and Twiced are words.
6. It is not a shopping cart, it is a buggy!
7. Jawl-P? means: Did you all go to the bathroom?
8. People actually grow, eat, and like okra.
9. Fixinto is one word. It means I’m going to do something soon…. Maybe.
10. There is no such thing as lunch. There’s dinner and then there’s supper.
11. Iced tea is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it when you’re two. We do like a little tea with our sugar. It is referred to as the Wine of the South.
12. Backwards and forwards means I know everything about you.
13. The word jeet is actually a question meaning, ‘Did you eat?’
14. You don’t have to wear a watch, because it don’t matter what time it is, you work ‘til you’re done or it’s too dark to see.
15. You don’t PUSH buttons, you MASH em.
16. Y’all is singular. All Y’all is plural.
17. All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect, or animal.
18. You carry jumper cables in your car for your OWN car.
19. You only own five spices: salt, pepper, Cajun seasoning, Tabasco, mustard, and ketchup.
20. The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require 6 pages for local high school sports, motorsports, and gossip.
21. Everyone you meet is a Honey, Sugar, Miss (first name), or Mr (first name)
22. You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.
23. You know what a hissy fit is..
24. Fried catfish is the other white meat.
25. We don’t need no dang Driver's Ed. If our mama says we can drive, we can drive!!!
26. While driving, everyone lifts a finger off the steering wheel in a sort of mini wave when meeting another vehicle. And if it’s someone you know, you stop to ask “how’s the weather?”
AND one more:
27. Why did the chicken cross the road? To show that stupid possum that it CAN be done!’

24/09/2024

This was originally posted by the Michael Berry Show. I’m not so sure about depending on Florida Contractors and Florida Man to defend the Great State of Florida. Your thoughts?

08/07/2024

Found this working pay phone at a convenience store 99 miles outside of Charlottesville, VA — the last one of these I personally saw was in Brooksville, FL a few years ago.

01/04/2024

Tomorrow is April 1st, April Fools— here are the most revered April Fool’s jokes ever played… https://www.wackyexplorer.com/historys-biggest-april-fools-pranks-ever/

02/01/2024

No. I’m not an Alabama fan. But found this interesting as I was watching Alabama and Michigan tonight. Did you know? In 1926 Alabama played the University of Washington Huskies in yes….. the Rose Bowl!! The Star of the game was a kid from Dothan, Alabama named Johnny Mack Brown, an All-American running back for the University of Alabama who was lauded for his efforts in a stunning upset of the heavily favored Huskies. However, Johnny Mack Brown never returned home. A Hollywood director, King Vidor, recruited Brown to take a screen test and Brown went on to a successful career as an actor in film and television.

01/01/2024

John Tyler, America’s 10th President, was born in 1790 just after the American Revolution. He has a living grandson. Yep, we said grandson.

John Tyler's son Lyon Gardiner Tyler Sr. was born in August 1853, when the former president was 63 years old. Then His son Harrison Ruffin Tyler was born in November 1928, when his father was 75 years young. Harrison is now 95 and living in a nursing home. He is also a descendant of Pocahontas! Wild isn’t it?

19/12/2023

This was originally posted in a travel trailer group. Why would you do this?

14/12/2023

Seen in the Panhandle of Florida.

12/12/2023

A friend shared this new Florida map today. Thought I’d share it with you. Lol - so true so true.

27/12/2022

Here’s a memory a kid will never forget — and a Florida tradition. My friend Chris let the folks at Gatorland put his son Nathan on a live gator a couple weeks ago. Fun fun fun….

24/11/2022

The first car in Brooksville, Florida. In the car are J.C. and Sallie Burwell. Lucy and Grace Burwell are on the porch of their home located at 24 Olive Street.

24/11/2022

President Roosevelt signing the 1902 Thanksgiving Proclamation!

24/11/2022

These cousins, Don Hoover & Joe Sistrunk, from Starke, Florida during the 1918 Spanish Flu. The photo was taken by Don's father, Frank Hoover as they were headed out to sell the weekly paper, "Grit," and then on to school. A year later, Don's younger brother died from the flu.

24/11/2022

My signed print of the “Creature from the Black Lagoon” cult classic starring Ricoh Browning as the creature and Julia Adams as the beautiful ichthyologist (scientist studying fish) Kay Lawrence. In 2003, both were together again at a “Creature” reunion in Tallahassee, Florida.

10/11/2022

On 11-11 at exactly 11:11 am, every Veterans Day, the sun aligns perfectly with the Anthem Veteran’s Memorial in Arizona to shine through the ellipses of the five marble pillars representing each branch of the Armed Forces, illuminating The Great Seal of the United States!

09/11/2022

Oh, so true!

19/04/2022

Amazing!

I pass by this old mailbox every day. The old rusty box is nailed to an oak that has to be 100 years old. After years of passing it by, I decided to open the box to see if anything was inside.
After all, there isn’t even a house nearby to which it could serve anyway. Any home it serviced long ago is torn down, I’m sure.
I noticed an old letter inside the box, as you can see in the second picture. I looked at the postmark date, which to my surprised astonishment was actually readable, and it said July 7, 1958.
Ever so carefully I opened up the aged, crackly envelope and gently pulled out the folded piece of paper - almost tingling with excitement and anticipation. Here is what the letter inside said. “We have been trying to reach you concerning your vehicle’s extended warranty.”