This is pretty cool. but I dont' think many people will get it.

[duroc5088]

You know you're from Oklahoma if:

1. You can properly pronounce Eufaula, Gotebo, Okemah, and Chickasha.

2. You think that people who complain about the wind in their states are sissies.

3. A tornado warning siren is your signal to go out in the yard and look for a funnel.

4. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on
the highway.

5. You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.

6. You know that the true value of a parking space is not determined by the distance to the door, but by the availability of shade.

7. Stores don't have bags, they have sacks.

8. You see people wear bib overalls at funerals.

9. You think everyone from a bigger city has an accent.

10. You measure distance in minutes.

11. You refer to the capital of Oklahoma as "The City."

12. It doesn't bother you to use an airport named for a man who died in an airplane crash

13. Little smokies are something you serve only for special occasions.

14. You go to the lake because you think it is like going to the ocean.

15. You listen to the weather forecast before picking out an outfit.

16. You know cow pies are not made of beef.

17. Someone you know has used a football schedule to plan their wedding date.

18. You have known someone who has had one belt buckle bigger than your fist.

19. A bad traffic jam involves two cars staring each other down at a four-way stop, each determined to be the most polite and let the other go first.

20. You know in which state Miam-uh is and in which state Miam-ee is.

21. You aren't surprised to find movie rental, ammunition, and bait all in the same store.

22. Your "place at the lake" has wheels under it.

23. A Mercedes Benz is not a status symbol. A Ford F350 4x4 is a GT.

24. You know everything goes better with Ranch.

25. You learned how to shoot a gun before you learned how to multiply.

26. You actually get these jokes and are "fixin" to send them to your friends.

Finally, you are 100% Oklahoman if you have ever heard this
conversation:

"You wanna coke?" "Yeah." "What kind?" "Dr. Pepper."

 

[Soilwork]

Yup.

don't get it.

But I know what you mean.... remote, rural areas (like the one I grew up in) only seem to make sense to the people who live there.

Oh, and I love the last line.

 

[NedNickerson]

"You wanna coke?" "Yeah." "What kind?" "Dr. Pepper."

We do that in Tennessee, also...

 

[ronboy]

[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]You Know You're From Rochester, NY When...[/FONT][FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]
The only thing at the annual May Lilac Festival is snow.

The worst four-letter word you could say is "Fuji".

You can't swim at the beach.

You thought that you had figured out that alternate-parking thing, but wind up with a ticket anyway.

Toronto is about 70 miles away, but it takes four hours to get there.

The name "Greater Rochester International Airport" is bigger than the airport itself.

There's an 800 number to report a pothole in the road.

You know that a "Can of Worms" is not something that you take fishing.

Your baby's first word is "Wegmans".

You ask lifetime residents where the George Eastman House is, but they don't know either.

In a city where it snows at least 90 inches a year, they build a new sports stadium with no roof on it.

It can be 70 degrees one day, below freezing the next, and you think nothing of it.

Your mother is buying outfits to wear to Wegmans.

Your low-fat diet is never low enough to exclude an Abbott's custard.

You order a white hot and a pop, and the counterman knows what you're talking about.

You can travel from Egypt to Greece in about a half-hour by car.

D&C is a newspaper, not a medical procedure.

There are no hamburgers, only ground steak.

You can go to any mall on a Saturday and see at least 5 people you either work with, went to school with or dated.

A musical comes to town 10 years after its Broadway premier and the entire town goes nuts!

You awaken from a deep sleep, look at the clock and see that it's 6:00, but you have no idea whether it's AM or PM.

When 18+ inches of snow falls overnight, but you never thought of NOT going to work.

You are perplexed when friends from other cities come to visit and want to "see the sights".

In winter if the temperature hits 45 degrees and the sun comes out, people walk around downtown wearing shades and no jackets.

There are places at the poles that seem to get more sunlight during the winter months than we do.

Wegmans is somewhere to go on a Friday night, for entertainment.

You know who Vinnie and Angelo are.

You define summer as three months of bad sledding.

You think that people from Pennsylvania have an accent.

Halloween is snowed out with great regularity.

You have experienced frostbite and sunburn in the same week.

Half the change in your pocket is Canadian, eh.

Your idea of a seven-course meal is a six pack of Genny and a bucket of Buffalo wings.

You believe that "down south" means Maryland.

Your snowmobile, lawn mower and fishing boat all have big block Chevy engines.

You can compare Nick Tahoe's garbage plate to at least 3 other knock-offs in competing restaurants.

You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Rochester, NY.
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[Croynan]

Hi Dirk,

What a wonderful and enjoyable thread. How nice that we are able to laugh at ourselves - regardless of which state we live in.

Hello to a friend of yours.

Thanks for the laughs.

eM.

 

[justsimon]

Some of those are applicable to places I've lived, but I've never been to OK.

 

[JakeBequette]

You know you're from Oklahoma if:

3. A tornado warning siren is your signal to go out in the yard and look for a funnel.

4. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on
the highway.

5. You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.

6. You know that the true value of a parking space is not determined by the distance to the door, but by the availability of shade.


10. You measure distance in minutes.

16. You know cow pies are not made of beef.

18. You have known someone who has had one belt buckle bigger than your fist.

19. A bad traffic jam involves two cars staring each other down at a four-way stop, each determined to be the most polite and let the other go first.

21. You aren't surprised to find movie rental, ammunition, and bait all in the same store.

I'm not from Oklahoma, but mmmmmhm lol​

 

[okstatecowboy]

The tornado siren one is SOO true! It isually means there might just be 5 minutes without wind after it passes by (at least in some parts of the state)!

mikey

 

[doctorsun]

5. You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.

That also applies if you live in Ohio. I've done that.

 

[slobone]

You know you're from Oklahoma if:

5. You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.[/quote]



7. Stores don't have bags, they have sacks.



10. You measure distance in minutes.

(Doesn't everybody do that)?

12. It doesn't bother you to use an airport named for a man who died in an airplane crash

Allentown PA -- Wiley Post!

15. You listen to the weather forecast before picking out an outfit.

Always!


19. A bad traffic jam involves two cars staring each other down at a four-way stop, each determined to be the most polite and let the other go first.

Also Iowa

Half of these apply to anyplace between the Alleghenies and the Sierra Nevada....

 

[slobone]

[got posted twice for some peculiar reason]

 

[slobone]

[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]You Know You're From Rochester, NY When...[/FONT][FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]

You are perplexed when friends from other cities come to visit and want to "see the sights".
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Hey, I saw the waterfall in the middle of town, the doll museum (mind-boggling), had a white hot in Chili (I think that's where I was -- they kept pronouncing it Chai-lai), AND -- I actually went to the Eastman house. I think I went to Nick Tahoe's, but I'm not sure.

 

[doctorsun]

You know you're from Ohio (northeast, especially) if:

You're surprised if your local and state politicians aren't wildly unpopular and involved scandals involving coins.

You can correctly pronouce "Mantua".

You have an irrational hatred of Pittsburgh.

You know that even people from Cincinnati think that Cincinnati is a shithole.

You were saddened when they changed the "Go...Go...Goodyear" sign to say "On The Wings Of Goodyear".

You can spend all winter driving in 3 feet of Lake Effect snow, but completely freak out the first time there's a dusting of snow on the road the following season.

You would never dream of celebrating New Year's Eve without sauerkraut balls.

You wouldn't know what to do with yourself if the Browns actually had a winning season.

 

[ahotjock71]

Very true Dirk! That's Okie-la-homo to a "T." You're making me want to visit my friends in Tulsa again. And make a quick trip over to "The City."

 

[Kurn]

How do you know you're from BA KURZ FEELD?
You understand Duroc perfectly.
[Buck Owens' and Merle Haggard's hometown, for those that don't know]

 

[slobone]

Just a wee short Scottish one

How to tell if you're Scottish

If you're Scottish...

You're familiar with Ewen MacGregor, Mel Gibson, Jim White, Oor Wullie, Dougie Donnelly, Billy Connolly, Archie McPherson, Grandpa Broon, Gavin Hastings, Robbie Coltraine, Rab C. Nesbitt, High Road, Bill Paterson, The Krankies, Robert Carlyle, and (if you're younger) Skoosh.

You know at least the basics of football (it's never called "soccer"), and probably rugby too. If you're male, you probably know the rules of football in great detail and can name the eleven players who should make up the national team; additionally, you can probably come up with convincing arguments why none of them should be (depending on your religion) Tims or Huns. You prefer not to remember Costa Rica in 1990, or Peru or Iran in 1978, although you reminisce fondly about Archie Gemmill's goal against Holland.

American football is still something of a novelty which you can see at strange times of the day, and cricket is for Sassenachs (except in Freuchie). Shinty, by contrast, is a genuine Scottish sport popular in the Highlands, and you may have played it at school.

You are probably allowed four or five weeks of holiday a year, and your boss is equally probably allowed to ask you not to take it all.

You consider a few hours of sunshine to be an event worthy of note or even celebration. You cheerfully put up with cold and wet weather which would frighten most people from warmer climes.

It snows every winter, yet nobody in positions of authority ever seems to expect it, and there is consequently some disruption to essential services.

Mel Gibson is Scotch?

 

[Rand]

very true - thanks, I enjoyed the laugh

I enjoy T-town more than the city

 

[NedNickerson]

You know you're from Tennessee if:

You measure distance in hours.

You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.

You know all four seasons: Almost Summer, Summer, Still Summer, and Christmas.

You find 90 degrees F "a little warm."

You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as "good chili weather."

You buy your groceries from Walmart, not a grocery store.

"Ya'll" is a word.

You laugh when people from anywhere north of TN tries to say or spell "y'all"

You use "fix" as a verb. (Example: I'm fixin' to go to the store.) or you've said "fixin' to," "might could," or "usetacould" during the last week.

It's "Knox-vull" not "Knox-ville."

Sales tax is 9.5%.

You butter your hot biscuit by cutting it open, putting a slab of butter inside and closing it back up again.

You don't drive in Knoxville on game-day. EVER.

You have a party or a barbeque whenever Tennessee plays Florida in football.

Someone you know has used a football schedule to plan their wedding date.

You've missed a wedding or a funeral to go to a football game.

A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda, cola, or pop ... it's a coke, regardless of brand or flavor.

All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, or animal.

The local paper covers national and international news on one page but requires 6 pages for sports.

Stores don't have shopping carts; they have buggies.

Asian food is always "CHINESE" regardless of the fact that it may actually be Korean or Japanese or Thai

Fried chicken is a major part of your diet, and your family has it once a week.

Your English teacher says things like, "Y'all" and "Ain't Got None."

You only know five spices--salt, pepper, ketchup, barbeque sauce and hot sauce.

You think sexy lingerie is a tee shirt and boxer shorts.

"Backwards and forwards" means, "I know everything about you."

It's not actually tailgating unless your bumper is touching the car in front of you.

You know yellow light means at least 5 more cars can get through. A red light means 2 more can.

There is a Baptist church on practically every street corner.

And a Walgreens on every other corner.

An inch of snow means everyone forgets how to drive and county schools are out for a week.

You can go more then 5 miles on any road with out getting caught behind an old farmer in a pick-up doing 20 mph.

You can go more then 5 miles on any road with out getting caught behind a car with a Florida license plate in the summer.

When you give directions they include "over yonder," "down the road a piece," and "right near."

When you know exactly how long "dreckly" is, ... as in: "Going to town, be back dreckly."

When you go into a restaurant and ask for "sweet tea" or "sweet milk." Sweet tea indicates the need for sugar and lots of it -- we do not like our tea unsweetened. "Sweet milk" means you don't want buttermilk.

When as children we were asked to "Gimme some sugar," it was not a request for the white, granular sweet substance that sits in a pretty little bowl in the middle of the table.