Fun Friday: You Might Be from ____ If…
To close out this last week of 2010 with another “You might be…” list, I thought it would be fun to poke a little fun at where we live. I’ve put together a list for the different places I’ve lived in my life, and then it’s your turn, to post three to five “You might be from _____ if…” jokes in the comments section, poking a little fun at where you’re from. Ready?
You might be from LOUISIANA if…
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…you refer to a geographical location “way up North” and you are referring to places like Shreveport, Little Rock, or Memphis, “where it gets real cold.”
…the four seasons in your year are crawfish, shrimp, crab, and King Cake.
…your last name isn’t pronounced the way it’s spelled.
…you know the difference between “K&B Purple” and “LSU Purple.”
…you were in college before you ever heard the word “county” or learned what it meant.
You might be from NEW MEXICO if…
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…you can correctly spell and pronounce Albuquerque, Tesuque, Cerrillos, Mesilla, and Pojoaque.
…you have been told by an out-of-state vendor that they’re going to charge you international shipping.
…you’ve been asked by youth from other states at Glorieta Youth Week if your parents are foreign missionaries when you tell them you live in New Mexico.
…your shopping list for Christmas decorations include a few dozen pounds of sand and 200 brown paper lunch bags.
…you know the answer to the question, “Red or green?”
You might be from WASHINGTON DC if…
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…you say you’re from DC because it’s easier than explaining to people that you actually live in Virginia or Maryland but it’s all basically the same place.
…you know there’s a huge difference between Northern Virginia and the rest of the state.
…you say you’re going to the mall but you don’t mean you’re going shopping.
…Washington National is and will always be “WASHINGTON NATIONAL” not “Reagan National.”
…friends who live “in your area” are actually about an hour and a half away.
…the four seasons in your year are almost winter, winter, still winter, and tourist.
You might be from NASHVILLE if…
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…you can spot tourists because only they would be rude enough to approach a celebrity out in public and ask for an autograph.
…your city flooded and you immediately ordered the T-shirt.
…you get sick of people assuming you work in the music business when you tell them where you’re from—and especially assuming it’s the country music business.
…you’re used to seeing a church and/or a Walgreens on every corner.
…you’re proud to have an iconic building in downtown named after a superhero.
…you know it truly is the best place in the world to live and miss it terribly when you have to be away for an extended period of time. 🙂
Now it’s your turn! (And, yes, you can cheat by Googling it if you want to.)
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KayeDacus.com 
Am enjoying these so much, Kaye! 🙂 And since I haven’t had much coffee this morning, my brain isn’t awake yet, but I’ll toss in a few.
You might be from GEORGIA if: – You know that “Ya’ll” is really a word.
– You know that a REAL New Year’s Day dinner has to consist of black-eyed peas, hog jowl, turnip greens, and cornbread. (*added note* this is my FAVORITE meal of the year!) 😉
– The words “bless your heart” come naturally and easy for you to speak, and most of the time you’re sincere when you say them. 🙂
– One of your favorite foods is grits, and you’re amazed when you encounter someone from “up north” who has never tasted them OR doesn’t care for them!
Happy New Year! Patti Jo
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Yep—always have to have pork, greens, and black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day!
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I’m a pretty new Seattlite, but a local insurance company has a hilarious ad campaign called “Northwest Profiles,” and each billboard or radio ad features a cliche (but often true) of someone you might find around Seattle. Favorites include:
“Skis in the Rain Guy”
“50 Degrees and Shirt’s Off Guy” (WAY too true)
“Obsessive Compulsive Recycler” (we have turned into this!)
“Recumbant Bike Commuter”
“Roadside Chainsaw Woodcarver”
“Ponytailed Software Geek” (minus the ponytail, I have one of those and know many more!)
Oh, local flavor:)
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The local weekly entertainment-focused newspaper runs a special edition every year called “You’re So Nashville If…” I found this year’s quite entertaining, but they’re so specific to the little details of what’s happened in Nashville this year (politics, local business, etc.) that no one outside of the city would understand them. But I remember reading that list the first year I lived in town and starting to get a better feel for what living in Nashville really meant . . . and how little it actually had to do with music/country music.
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Since I’m from DC (southern MD) I have no more to add, except to disagree with the seasonal one. For me it was ” …the four seasons in your year are getting humid, humid, still humid, and October.” 🙂
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I moved to NoVA from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, so I had to laugh when people complained about the humidity up there. But “tourist” and “humid, humid, and still humid” are pretty much the same season.
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I’ve heard one for Indiana in that same train of thought–“almost winter, winter, still winter, road construction.”
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Having lived in Louisiana my entire life I also laugh at people up north who complain about humidity. You don’t know what real humidity is until you’ve spent August in Louisiana, and had a hurricane blow through that knocks out the power for five days and mold starts growing in every surface in your house.
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You might be from Michigan if you use your hand as a map for the LP. That’s Lower Peninsula for you non-M-ganders. ;-D
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My hubby is from Michigan. And we lived there three years. Many is the time I’ve held up my hand and treated it like a map. 🙂
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I live just beyond the Woodrow Wilson Bridge on the Maryland side and you nailed DC perfectly. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve tried to explain where I live.
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You might be from OHIO if…
You don’t think of Florida first when someone mentions Miami.
You know all the 4 seasons: Winter, Still Winter, Almost Winter, and Construction.
You live less than 30 miles from some college or university.
You know what a buckeye really is, and have a recipe for candy ones.
You think Pro football teams are supposed to wear orange!
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Hot Springs
You might be from Hot Springs if your seasons are horse racing, fishing, summer-only residents clogging the lakes and restaurants, and “McClards is closed.”
You might be from Hot Springs if the highlights of the year include The Bathtub Races and The World’s Shortest St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
You might be from Hot Springs if “taking a bath” means sitting in hot spring water in a clawfoot tub that is a “whirlpool” because there is a motor attached to the side of the tub that runs a small propeller in the water.
You might be from Hot Springs if you have to add “No, NOT from the Village” every time someone asks where you are from.
You might be from Hot Springs if you save gallon milk jugs and go to the fountain in the center of town every weekend to collect water to take home.
You might be from Hot Springs if you think food or drink tastes funny if made with any water OTHER than spring water from the fountain.
Anchorage, AK
You might be from Anchorage (Ft. Richardson) if you grab the broom and head out to the icy parking lot to play broom ball with the other guys.
You might be from Anchorage if you worry about the ground under your house ever thawing and destabilizing your foundation.
You might be from Anchorage if you’ve ever gripped the plastic steering wheel or gear-shift knob in your car and had it shatter in your gloved hand.
You might be from Anchorage if your seasons are first snow, below 0, break-up, and mosquitos.
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You might be from Eastern North Carolina if:
1. The sky is Tarheel Blue… Or is that Duke Blue? Or at sunset maybe it’s State Red?
2. Additionally, you didn’t realize Duke and Carolina have football teams. You thought it was all about basketball.
3. The four seasons are Summer, Indian Summer, Christmas, and NASCAR.
4. There’s only one kind of real BBQ in the world… and it’s made with PORK and VINEGAR, preferably cooked inside of a “pig cooker.”
5. You buy Mount Olive Pickles on principle, because the come from “home.”
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On the Louisiana list:
Anyone who never tops 45 mph has lived in New Orleans too long.
People who go 80 on I-10 have spent too long commuting between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. And if you don’t keep up you will get run over!
You laughed yourself silly during Princess and the Frog when Ray said “Ya’ll from Shreveport?” in response to “we live a long way from here”.
You know the difference between Cajun and Creole and can explain it in minute detail.
Most of your bridges are named after only three governors, and The Huey P. needs no further explanation.
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