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Flintstone
9 Jun 2003, 1:41am
You Live in California when...
1. You make over $250,000 and you still can't afford to buy a house.
2. The high school quarterback calls a time-out to answer his cell phone.
3. The fastest part of your commute is going down your driveway.
4. You know how to eat an artichoke.
5. You drive your rented Mercedes to your neighborhood block party.
6. When someone asks you how far something is, you tell them how long it will take to get there rather than how many miles away it is.

You Live in New York City when...
1. You say "the city" and expect everyone to know you mean Manhattan.
2. You have never been to the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building.
3. You can get into a four-hour argument about how to get from Columbus Circle to Battery Park, but can't find Wisconsin on a map.
4. You think Central Park is "nature,"
5. You believe that being able to swear at people in their own language makes you multi-lingual.
6. You've worn out a car horn.
7. You think eye contact is an act of aggression.

You Live in Maine when...
1. You only have four spices: salt, pepper, ketchup, and Tabasco.
2. Halloween costumes fit over parkas.
3. You have more than one recipe for moose.
4. Sexy lingerie is anything flannel with less than eight buttons.
5. The four seasons are: winter, still winter, almost winter, and construction.

You Live in the Deep South when...
1. You can rent a movie and buy bait in the same store.
2."ya'll" is singular and "all ya'll" is plural.
3. After five years you still hear, "You ain't from 'round here, are Ya?"
4. "He needed killin' " is a valid defense.
5. Everyone has 2 first names: Billy Bob, Jimmy Bob, Mary Sue, Betty Jean, etc.

You live in Colorado when....
1. You carry your $3,000 mountain bike atop your $500 car.
2. You tell your husband to pick up Granola on his way home and he stops at the day care center.
3. A pass does not involve a football or dating.
4. The top of your head is bald, but you still have a pony tail.

You live in the Midwest when...
1. You've never met any celebrities, but the mayor knows your name!
2. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor.
3. You have had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" on the same day and vise versa.
4. You end sentences with a preposition: "Where's my coat at?"
5. When asked how your trip was to any exotic place, you say, "It was different!"

You live in Florida when....
1. You eat dinner at 3:15 in the afternoon.
2. All purchases include a coupon of some kind -- even houses and cars.
3. Everyone can recommend an excellent dermatologist.
4. Road construction never ends anywhere in the state.
5. Cars in front of you are often driven by headless people.

Flint, in Florida!!!

:cool:

Cyclonite
9 Jun 2003, 1:56am
Haha! Florida all the way! So true, so true...:rolleyes:

karatekid
9 Jun 2003, 1:58am
Originally posted by Flintstone

You live in the Midwest when...
1. You've never met any celebrities, but the mayor knows your name!
2. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor.
3. You have had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" on the same day and vise versa.
4. You end sentences with a preposition: "Where's my coat at?"
5. When asked how your trip was to any exotic place, you say, "It was different!"

Thats pretty close to living in upstate New York, except we don't end sentences in prepositions, but we do get the Canadian influence and end about half of them in ah.

Originally posted by Flintstone
The four seasons are: winter, still winter, almost winter, and construction.
That also descirbes things pretty well up here. :rolleyes:

Rot Katze
9 Jun 2003, 3:03am
I live in Northwest Florida...none of those problems except 4 and 5 *sighs*

I live in the part of Florida where the hillbillies are, not the old folks

hitokiri
9 Jun 2003, 3:08am
You Live in New York City when...
1. You say "the city" and expect everyone to know you mean Manhattan.
2. You have never been to the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building.
3. You can get into a four-hour argument about how to get from Columbus Circle to Battery Park, but can't find Wisconsin on a map.
4. You think Central Park is "nature,"
5. You believe that being able to swear at people in their own language makes you multi-lingual.
6. You've worn out a car horn.
7. You think eye contact is an act of aggression.


Hahah! Thats so true! Nice find.

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Well...err....I've been to the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building...but its true for so many people over here lol

hpr
9 Jun 2003, 3:21am
hehehe, midwesterner here, and that is amazingly true :\

Cool Canuck
9 Jun 2003, 4:15am
Originally posted by karatekid
Thats pretty close to living in upstate New York, except we don't end sentences in prepositions, but we do get the Canadian influence and end about half of them in ah.
That's eh! ......... Damn Yankees :)

danball1976
9 Jun 2003, 4:17am
Originally posted by Flintstone
You live in the Midwest when...
1. You've never met any celebrities, but the mayor knows your name!
2. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor.
3. You have had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" on the same day and vise versa.
4. You end sentences with a preposition: "Where's my coat at?"
5. When asked how your trip was to any exotic place, you say, "It was different!"
:cool:

That is so true

Godwynn
9 Jun 2003, 4:51am
That midwest is completely true, I hate living in the most unpopulated part of America

karatekid
9 Jun 2003, 12:21pm
Originally posted by Cool Canuck
That's eh! ......... Damn Yankees :)

You don't know what your talking aboot. Strange though, for being just across the river from Canada, we never go there, and they never come here. We are so seperated for being just a mile away.

McBain
9 Jun 2003, 9:39pm
Originally posted by danball1976
That is so true

Uh huh.....I guess you've never been to Meeechigan(Brent Musberger Spelling). Esp, the construction portion.

danball1976
10 Jun 2003, 3:31am
I've never been futher north than Colorado Springs, CO

aZnWanksta
10 Jun 2003, 6:51pm
uh... where else would colorado springs be?
Anyways, your descriptions for the deep south are true for very small portions. Oh well, gotta call em as you see em.

aW

Paul
17 Jun 2003, 10:26pm
Originally posted by Flintstone

You live in the Midwest when...
1. You've never met any celebrities, but the mayor knows your name!
2. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor.
3. You have had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" on the same day and vise versa.
4. You end sentences with a preposition: "Where's my coat at?"
5. When asked how your trip was to any exotic place, you say, "It was different!"


All true for me except #5 :D