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Proper use of "Y'all"

"Y'all take care now, y'heah?"
Correct form for saying good bye, or showing concern for someone's welfare.

"Y'all need to sell some of them junk cars in the yard."
Shows your deep concern for both the person's financial and aesthetic situation.

"We be over to y'all's place 'long 'round supper time."
Demonstrates the plural, possessive usage of "y'all," while complimenting the wife's cooking.

"Y'all be careful so's not to fall into that hole in the floor."
Shows concern for a houseguest's safety.

"The revenooers is headin' up to y'all's place shortly."
Shut up and run!

"Y'all want grits wif that plate of snouts and greens?"
You're in the wrong restaurant

"Y'all have a seat while I run and fetch the doctor up from his nap."
Maybe you're not as sick as you first imagined.

"Y'all're in a heap of trouble, now, boy!"
Next time watch those traffic signs. 

When NOT to say "Y'all."

When you're visiting into Yankee Country.
They'll know that y'all're from down south.

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(By Sparky)

We got to Gulfport, Mississippi the next day, and drove along the beach fer quite a while and it was reel cool.  We stopped at the place where great big boats come in from long ocean voyages, and pretty soon we saw where there was a great big boat full of containers of bananas.  Each boat holds 3,000 or more containers of freight...bananas in this case.

Giant cranes remove several rows of containers down to the bottom of the ship and each full container is loaded onto a special  trailer frame and fastened down for a trip to a nearby warehouse.  As soon as they reach the bottom of the ship, trucks begin bringing empty banana containers to go back into the ship, and the truck parade continues until all the full containers have been replaced with empty ones, then the ship is ready to sail off for another load of containers full of bananas.

As soon as orders are filled, the containers full of bananas are transferred onto the special trailers that will take them all over the country to grocery stores and warehouses.

I never knew there were that many bananas eaten even in the whole world.  For some interesting information, click on the link below:

Banana Museum 

After a few more security guards checked us out fer driving all around the port we got out of there and drove along the beach.

Gulfport and Biloxi are right next to each other, in fact, they share a reel nice sign with a bunch of flags flying over it, "Welcome to Gulfport" appears on one side and "Welcome to Biloxi" on the other side.

The Gulfport/Biloxi area has a reel neat divided road that goes for miles right along the beach.  Between the eastbound and westbound roads is a pretty wide area that is full of palm trees and other plantings, turn lanes, etc.  The businesses are about 50 feet up an a little hill, so it makes for a reel pretty drive along the beach where you can actually see the beach without having to try to look between T-shirt shops, souvenir stands, condos, motels and fast food joints, but that stuff is still close by.

The pitcher at right shows how white the sand is, and also the nice boardwalk and divided road.

Alabama

Bellingrath Gardens, April 23, 2003

We went to Bellingrath Gardens, near Theodore, Alabama, cuz they had a boat ride, and everybuddy knows that next to a train ride, trolley car ride, motorcycle ride, New York Subway ride, San Francisco trolley bus ride, bike ride, and afternoon nap, us guys jest love a boat ride.

We was all tired and decided to take a nap instead of that boat ride, but Sniffy decided he would go anyway, cuz he can take a nap in a boat as well as anywhere.

Sniffy said that the gardens was reely pretty cuz they had some reel pretty orchids in a greenhouse.  He said they keep them in there cuz orchids are so delicate that if they get too cold or too hot or the wind blows on them, or somebuddy looks at them wrong they curl up and turn brown.  Kinda like a vampire that gets burned up if even a single ray of sunlight hits him.

They also had a lot of tough flowers that was also reel pretty.  They took a lot of pitchers, but you ken jest go to their website cuz they have a lot of reely good pitchers there, too.

Bellingrath Gardens

The boat ride was great cuz a lot of seagulls kept coming around and begging for food, but nobuddy din't have none, so I guess them birds jest had to go off and starve somewhere.

After the boat ride everybuddy plopped down on a swinging bench fer a rest, and they took a pitcher of themselves by putting the camera on the little 3-legged tripod and using the magical timer to take the pitcher without nobuddy being near the camera.

Sniffy said that swing chair was reel scary cuz it creaked and groaned whenever somebuddy tried to swing in it, so they didn't stay there very long.

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Most common question:
"Whatever happened to Mister Sippi?"

Admitted to Union:
December 10, 1817

State Capital:
Jackson

Population:
2,844,000

Area:
47,700 Square Miles

State Bird:
Mockingbird

State Flower and Tree:
Magnolia

State Beverage:
Milk

State Water Mammal:
Bottlenosed Dolphin

State Waterfowl:
Wood Duck

Click below for more information:

Mississippi Tourist Information 

Admitted to Union:
December 14, 1819

Population:
4,448,000

Area:
51,720 square miles

Sparky's favorite sign:
"Leaving Alabama, Welcome to Florida."

"Banana Day" is June 5.

Bananas were introduced to Americans at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, in 1876, and have become one of the most popular fruits.

There are literally hundreds of varieties of bananas, many that don't even look edible, being red, brown or black.  Americans overwhelmingly prefer the familiar yellow variety.

A "Bunch" of bananas is actually the amount that grows on the long stem on the tree.  The small group of 4-6 is called a "Hand."

They can be kept fresher longer by keeping them in a sealed plastic bag to keep the air from helping them to ripen and turn brown.