Thanks,Wendy. At least half of those fit my town near the MO ARK line. As for the mosquitos, a carnival worker once told me he thought the LA mosquitos were the worst--until he came here.
I loved all the other references too, we go down south every year and I'm missing it just reading this......
You haven't seen nothing till you've seen an armadillo laying on it's back on the road with a long neck budweiser bottle in it's front claws. Apparently that's the height of funny for these arkies.