CAJUN HUMOR

Cultures of Acadiana
a look at the French, Cajun, Creole, and Native American cultures of south Louisiana
(a project of Carencro High School - 721 West Butcher Switch Road, Lafayette, LA  70507)

Cajun Jokes

You might be a Cajun if ...

from assorted sources


You might be a Cajun if ...

  • Your lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand!
  • You have to pack your lunch to go check the mail.
  • You think the "royal family" lives in Jennings with the Boudin King.
  • You remove your false teeth before you dance to a certain Camey Doucet song.
  • You call your white rubber boots "Holly Beach Reeboks".
  • During your school years, the opening of squirrel hunting season meant no school!
  • You have ever stopped your tractor while water leveling, so you could catch a snapping turtle.
  • You ever bought a beer at a drive-thru window, while on horseback.
  • You have ever been to a bar called "Poo-Yie's".
  • You have ever flipped a crawfish boat, while crossing a levee.
  • You've ever worn spurs on rubber boots.
  • You think the movie "Southern Comfort" should have won an Oscar.
  • You've ever won the "Hog Calling Contest" at the Swine Festival in Basile.
  • You've ever played a game called "colored eggs" as a child.
  • You've ever caught a flight out of the Estherwood Airport.
  • You think an "Island Cruise" is an airboat ride to Pecan Island.
  • You know at least two people called T-Boy.
  • You think that the landing on the moon was fake, and that they filmed it on the same stage as "Passe Partout".
  • You've ever been put in jail in Mamou.
  • You've ever pulled up an overflow in a rice field, and had to kill a cottonmouth with your shovel.
  • "Chank-a-Chank" is the sound made by your favorite music and your car.
  • You have a bumper sticker on your car from Fred's Lounge in Mamou.
  • You know a way to get your car over Bayou Nezipique, somewhere between I-10 and Hwy 190.
  • You've ever been to every bar at Holly Beach in one night.
  • You refer to Hwy 13 as "Up on the black top".
  • You've ever shot rabbits from the back of a pickup truck on a Saturday night.
  • You have more bars in your hometown than people.
  • You can remember the last heated race for mayor in Church Point, between Boudreaux and Thibodeaux.
  • You had money pinned to your clothes at your wedding reception.
  • You consider yourself a "man of means" because you own three trailers: a boat trailer, a horse trailer, and a trailer house.