How to Tell If You Are a True Mississippian: Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway. "Vacation" means going to a family reunion. You've seen all the biggest bands ten years after they were popular. You measure distance in minutes. You know several people who have hit a deer. Your school classes were canceled because the weather was too cold. Your school classes were  canecled because the weather was too hot. You've even had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" the same day. Stores don't have bags' they have sacks. Stores don't have carts; they have buggies. Yuo know if another Mississippian is from the South, Middle or North Mississippi as soon as they open their mouth. You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one in it. You use "fix" as a verb.   You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both doors unlocked. You carry jumper cables in your car...for you own car. You know what snipe hunting is. You only know four spices:  salt, pepper, ketchup and Tabasco. A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda or cola.  It is "COKE," regardless of what flavor it is. Going to Wal-Mart is a favorite past-time known as "goin' walmartin" or "goin" da' wally world." The local paper covers national news on one page and requires six pages for sports. You think deer season is a national holiday. You think turkey hunting is a national holiday. You find 90 degrees Fahrenheit " a little warm." You know all four seasons:  Almost Summer, Summer, Still Summer and Christmas. You actrually understand these jokes.