Rabbits sleep in the middle of the road with all four feet in the air. There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 live in New Mexico. There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in New Mexico, plus a few no one has ever seen before. If it grows, it will stick you. If it crawls, it will bite you. There are valid reasons some people put razor wire around their house The wind blows at 90 mph from Oct 2 till June 25; then it stops totally until October 2. Onced and twiced are words. Coldbeer is one word. Green grass DOES burn. You measure distance in minutes. You can switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day. Stores don't have bags, they have sacks. You see a car with the engine running in the Wal-mart parking lot with no one in it, no mater what time of the year. The four seasons are: Almost summer, summer, still summer and Christmas. All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, a vegetable, or balloons You carry jumper cables for your own car. You only have four spices in your kitchen: Salt, Pepper, Chile, and Tabasco. Sexy underwear: tee shirt and boxer shorts. The local papers cover national and international news on one page but requires six pages to cover Friday night high school football. You find 100 degrees a "tad" warm. Going to Wal-mart is a favorite past-time known as "goin Wal-Martin" or "off to Wally-world." You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good chili weather. A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda, cola, or pop....It's a coke regardless of brand or flavor. Cuss, curse... who gives a ___ what you call it? We say words you won't even understand! 505 is the area code for our entire state, who else can represent their whole state with one number? We have green CHILE, and we're the ONLY state that does. Snow days? We get days off for gang shootings, DUI accidents, high school hit lists, meth lab busts, bomb threats, homicides, drug deals.... and for the occasional "winter storm" too. Beat that. If you say "city" you are not referring to anywhere in New Mexico. The legal drinking age is 21, but everyone starts at 14. Our governor wanted to legalize marijuana, so don't even say yours is cooler. I get looked at funny when I'm on vacation because most fools from the US don't even realize that New Mexico is in the USA... All the moviestars might film in Cali, but they come HERE to live. Val Kilmer, Gene Hackman, Freddie Prince Jr., Julia Roberts, Randy Travis... and list goes on, all livin' in New Mexico. Albuquerque celebrated its Tri-Centennial...we're older than the US of A. Atomic bomb...enough said! Invented here, tested here, and ready to send to Iraq! We got stealth fighters, so you better watch your back or they might be coming for you next.