You Know You're From New York City When ...

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You say "the city" and expect everyone to know that this means Manhattan.

You have never been to the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building.

You can get into a four-hour argument about how to get from Columbus Circle to Battery Park at 3:30 on the Friday before a long weekend, but can't find Wisconsin on a map.

Hookers and the homeless are invisible.

The subway makes sense.

You believe that being able to swear at people in their own language makes you multi-lingual.

You've considered stabbing someone just for saying "The Big Apple".

The most frequently used part of your car is the horn.

You call an 8' x 10' plot of patchy grass a yard.

You consider Westchester "upstate".

You think Central Park is "nature."

You see nothing odd about the speed of an auctioneer's speaking.

You're paying $1,200 for a studio the size of a walk-in closet and you think it's a "steal."

You've been to New Jersey twice and got hopelessly lost both times.

You pay more each month to park your car than most people in the U.S. pay in rent.

You haven't seen more than twelve stars in the night sky since you went away to camp as a kid.

You go to dinner at 9 and head out to the clubs when most Americans are heading to bed.

Your closet is filled with black clothes.

You haven't heard the sound of true absolute silence since the 80s, and when you did, it terrified you.

You pay $5 without blinking for a beer that cost the bar 28 cents.

You take fashion seriously.

Being truly alone makes you nervous.

You have 27 different menus next to your telephone.

Going to Brooklyn is considered a "road trip."

America west of the Hudson is still theoretical to you.

You've gotten jaywalking down to an art form.

You take a taxi to get to your health club to exercise.

Your idea of personal space is no one actually standing on your toes.

$50 worth of groceries fit in one paper bag.

You have a minimum of five "worst cab ride ever" stories.

You don't notice sirens anymore.

You live in a building with a larger population than most American towns.

Your doorman is Russian, your grocer is Korean your deli man is Israeli, your building super is Italian, your laundry guy is Chinese, your favorite bartender is Irish, your favorite diner owner is Greek, the watchseller on your corner is Senegalese, your last cabbie was Pakistani, your newsstand guy is Indian and your favorite falafel guy is Egyptian.

You're suspicious of strangers who are actually nice to you.

You secretly envy cabbies for their driving skills.

You think $7.00 to cross a bridge is a fair price.

Your door has more than three locks.

Your favorite movie has DeNiro in it.

You consider eye contact an act of overt aggression.

You run when you see a flashing "Do Not Walk" sign at the intersection.

You're 35 years old and don't have a driver's license.

You ride in a subway car with no air conditioning just because there are seats available.

You're willing to take in strange people as roommates simply to help pay the rent.

There is no North and South. It's uptown or downtown.

When you're away from home, you miss "real" pizza and "real" bagels.

You know the differences between all the different Ray's Pizzas.

You're not in the least bit interested in going to Times Square on New Year's Eve.

Your internal clock is permanently set to know when Alternate Side of the Street parking regulations are in effect.

You know what a bodega is.

You know how to fold the New York Times in half, vertically, so that you can read it on the subway or bus without knocking off other passenger's hats.

Someone bumps into you, and you check for your wallet.....

You cringe at hearing people pronounce Houston St. like the city in Texas

Film crews on your block annoy you, not excite you.

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Other lists can be found @ .. blogthings .. sorry there are no Euro cities in the list

Payback for contests not open to Americans .. I guess

LOL Jenn, my sister-in-law to be Myhuyen LOVES Peet's

Well Peets really IS the only coffee!!!

you know you live in scotland when

1. you've been shouted at of chased by a gang of "neds"
2. you've been asked to buy beer or fags for someone who has just been flung out of the place
3. most people you know hate the english (some of them anyway) and love the irish
4. you support one of two mainstream football teams eg. rangers or celtic
5. doing something illegal is a way of life
6. that a fun thing to do on a friday of saturday night for most young teens is getting wasted and not going home for the rest of the night
7. you've been challenged into a fight with the words "aye, cum on then, ya mad bam!! I'll tan yae!, i'll gae yae a square go!!"

....apart from all of this, Scotland to me is a really good country to live in.... well to me anyway, apart from all the idiots who ruin the place...

Damn... just read the New york one... damn... cant even comment because I would only be lying to refute most of it, the rest applies to people I know..

I like #7 on the scotland list .. I've been saying it to everybody I meet

so far everybody runs away ... I dunno why

I can see where " aye, cum on then, ya mad bam!! I'll tan yae!, "I'll gae yae a square go!!" might possibly be a problem for you in California

Though, on closer thought, it could be something else

I'll have to think about it more

Tell ya what, I'll get back to you when I figure it out

wow... the Scotland one was surprizing. I'm also surprized that no one had a comment for Maryland.. oh well. ;)

Maybe cause no one else is from Maryland :)

Whew ... that was close ... just some cartilage rearranging itself ... nothing serious.

Time for some flag waving ... You Know You're From Canada When ...

You have more Canadian Tire money than legal tender in your wallet

You're not offended by the term "Homo Milk".

You dismiss all beers under 6% as "for children and the elderly."

You wonder why there isn't a 5 dollar coin yet.

Unlike any international assassin/terrorist/spy in the world, you don't possess a Canadian Passport.

You use a red pen on your non-Canadian textbooks and fill in the missing 'u's from labor, honor, color, etc.

You get excited whenever an American television show mentions Canada.

You make a mental note to talk about it at work the next day.

You know Toronto is NOT a province.

Back bacon and Kraft Dinner are two of your favourite food groups.

You design your Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.

You have twins named Wayne and Gretzky (alternately Gordie and Howe).

You have daydreams that film-maker Don McKellar and Hugh Dillon from The Headstones skinned and ate Regis & Kelly.

The mosquitoes have landing lights.

You've taken your kids trick-or-treating in a blizzard.

Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled in with snow.

You think sexy lingerie is tube-socks and a flannel nightie with only 8 buttons.

You owe more money on your snowmobile than your car.

The most effective mosquito repellent is a shotgun.

Your snowblower gets stuck on the roof.

You know which leaves make good toilet paper.

You find -40C a little chilly.

The trunk of your car doubles as a portable deep freeze.

You know four seasons: Winter, Still Winter, Almost Winter and Road Repair.

I ... am ... Canadian ... eh?

Ok.. i see its mostly USA here.. how about other countries joining in ..

You know your from Aussieland when................

1. You have to get a slang dictionary to understand the language

2. Anything under 25 celcius (77farenheit) is cool to cold..

3. When the temps hit 40C/104F its Summer

4. When a Magpie (bird) hits you in the back of the head its Spring

5. Swimming with Brown Eyed Mullets is scarier than being a Shark Biscuit

6. Crikey!!! We have the most poisonous and dangerous animals on the planet.
Snakes, Spiders, Box Jelly Fish, Mozzies that carry you away, John Howard, Steve Irwin, Drop Bears, Boxing Kangaroos, Drunk Koalas..

7. Population made up of ..
Dags, Dills, Galahs, Bastards, Drongo's, Cobbers, Shielas,
Bruces, Mates, Banana Benders, Cane Toads, Cockroaches, Larrakins, Wogs, Rat Bags, and Whackas

8. Entertainment is......
BBQ's with flies & ants, Bruces in one group, Shielas in another
Drinking Tallies, Tinnies, Piss, Pints, Pots and Stubbies then get off their faces and have a liquid laugh or a chunder.. lol

9. You know someone is happy/excited when they use words such as...
Crikey!!, Stoked, Spiffy, Fairdinkum, Ridgy-didge, Rapt, Rip snorter, Holy dooley, Gobsmaked, Dinky-di, Fair suck of the sav !, Bonza, Beaudy, Bottler, Dead Set...



HOO ROO!!!!!!!

Bonza !

Forgot a couple more...

10. TV control is the property of males only..

11. Only channel on TV is footy or cricket anything else is Sissy stuff

12. "Get me a beer!" is the standard form of affection to "sheilas"

13. Main food is pie, tomato sauce and chips (fries), Quiche is for sheilas

In honor of Larry's ribs .. and ... of course, Ann, who is made from a rib (allegedly)

You Know You're From Michigan When...

You define summer as three months of bad sledding.

You think Alkaline batteries were named for a Tiger outfielder.

You can identify an Ohio accent.

Your idea of a seven-course meal is a six pack and a bucket of smelt.

Owning a Japanese car is a hanging offense in your hometown.

You know how to play (and pronounce) Euchre.

The Big Mac is something that you drive across.

You believe that "down south" means Toledo.

You bake with soda and drink pop.

You drive 75 on the highway and you pass on the right.

Your Little League baseball game was snowed out.

You learned how to drive a boat before you learned how to ride a bike.

You know how to pronounce "Mackinac".

The word "thumb" has a geographical rather than an anatomical significance.

You have experienced frostbite and sunburn in the same week.

You expect Vernor's when you order ginger ale.

You know that Kalamazoo not only exists, but that it isn't far from Hell.

Your favorite holidays are Christmas, Thanksgiving, the opening of deer season and Devil's Night.

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

At least one person in your family disowns you for the week of the Michigan/Michigan State football game.

You know what a millage is.

Traveling coast to coast means driving from Port Huron to Muskegon.

Half the change in your pocket is Canadian, eh.

You show people where you grew up by pointing to a spot on your left hand.

You know what a "Yooper" is.

Your car rusts out before you need the brakes done

Half the people you know say they are from Detroit... yet you don't personally know anyone who actually lives in Detroit

"Up North" means north of Clare.

You know what a pastie is.

You occasionally cheer "Go Lions- and take the Tigers with you."

Snow tires come standard on all your cars.

At least 25% of your relatives work for the auto industry.

You don't understand what the big deal about Chicago is.

Octopus and hockey go together as naturally as hot dogs and baseball.

You know more about chill factors and lake effect than you'd EVER like to know!

Your snowblower has more miles on it than your car.

Shoveling the driveway constitutes a great upper body workout.

When giving directions, you refer to "A Michigan Left."

You know when it has rained because of the smell of worms.

You never watch the Weather Channel - you can just assume they're wrong.

The snowmen you make in your front yard actually freeze. Solid.

The snow freezes so hard that you can actually walk across it and not break it or leave any marks.

All your shoes are called "tennis shoes", even though no one here plays tennis anyway.

Your major school field trip includes camping and cross-country skiing.

Half your friends have a perfect sledding hill right in their own backyard.

You know you're from FRESNO (in the summer) when:

english is not the primary language spoken

you choose your parking places in the summer based on available shade rather than walking distance to the store

you know what a tri-tip is

people driving in cars with their windows rolled down have the right of way, and are excused from speeding tickets

90 degrees in the summer is freezing (and bring on that cold front baby!!!)

you don't notice the city smells (cow, smog, crops, etc)

Steering your car while wearing oven mits is not only acceptable, but recommended

the only showers you take are cold ones

your oven gets webs from lack of use

you take stock in charcoal, lighter fluid, and pappy's seasoning

you change your work schedule to the nightshift, and sleep in the day

you have a swamp cooler on, window a/c's, and a minimum of 10 fans all working at once

you know what a swamp cooler is

you pay to see a movie, even a bad one, to have 2 hours of air conditioning

ice cream becomes all 4 food groups and all 3 meals (and snacks too)

you have no problem elbow dropping that jerk who stole the one parking spot next to a tree that you waited 45 minutes to get

Good thing I lived in California for so long. I'd forgotten half of those..

You know you're from HAWAII when:

you eat rice with every meal

you have at least 50 different recipies all using SPAM

you instinctively know what da kine means

you go to work so you can talk story

cockroaches have the right of way

you refuse to go to the beach for anything less than minimum 5 foot waves

you know who the manapua man is

you avoid Waikiki like the plague

you have 13 cars, and only 1 sort of works

you can open a beer can with your teeth

driving on H3 is kapu

Haleiewa has the best shave ice

you know the difference between 1, 2, or 3 finger poi

the bus is really called "the BUS"

you avoid the Kahuku's unless you one big kine moke

you go every year to the C&K concert at the shell

driving 55 is speeding

formal wear is a Hawaiian shirt, jeans, and close toe shoes

casual fridays is your faded KPOI 98 Rock t-shirt, shorts, and slippa's

you know that Mahalo DOES NOT mean garbage recepticle

you ask for kama'aina discounts

you know what direction Mauka (mountain) and Makai (sea) is

Dole is a summer job, and you can cut a pineapple in 3 seconds flat

VW Bugs can actually hold six people weighing 300 pounds each

strapping your board to your High School prom limo is perfectly acceptable

you tell your haole friends visiting that they really need to check out Hotel Street (then giggle like a little girl when they do)

Dave makes the best ice cream

Plate Lunch comes in 2 sizes, haole and local kine

you can make Pottagee, Japanee, Pillipino jokes without etting your ass kicked

you ethnic background is Pottagee, Japanee, Pillipino and more

Likelike Highway is NOT pronounced LIKE LIKE

You refuse to take pork on the Pali

You automatically take off your shoes in people's homes

You eat rice every single day

It's "shave ice" not"snow cones"

You know what ukus are and have had them at least once before when you was one little keiki

It's SHOYU, not soy sauce

You went to Aloha Stadium parking lot to learn how to drive

You don't understand why anyone would buy less than a 20 lb bag of rice...

You know what a "Huli Huli Chicken" is

You know the difference between being hapa and being hapai (hapai mean pregnant folks)

The surf report is on your speed dial...

Rainbow Drive-Inn is a special date

You know pineapples don't grow in trees

When you hear the words "fund raiser", you know it means Zippy's Chili

You never understood why adding pineapple and ham to a pizza made it Hawaiian to the rest of the world

You have a separate circuit breaker for your rice cooker

You measure the water for the rice by the knuckle of your index finger

A balanced meal has three starches: rice, macaroni and bread


You call everyone older than you "Aunty" or "Uncle" even though they aren't related to you

Your philosophy is "Bumbai"

You are barefoot in most of you elementary school pictures

The best cooks all use lots of mayonnaise

An approaching hurricane means only one thing ... surf's up, brah!

"You like beef" has nothing to do with what's for dinner

Somewhere over the rainbow a big H flies

The second most important thing to know about a person is the year they wen’ grad

Las Vegas is Mecca

The possibility of a longshoreman strike makes you panic so you buy TP in bulk

You know what (and where) "Morgan's Corner" is (and it still scares you!)

You give Kahi Mohala's numba out to one guy/girl you no like

You call it "saimin" not "Top Ramen"

You know da difference between sushi and sashimi

You know your hemajang pickup truck going pass da safety inspection cause you know da auntie of da cousin of da uncle of the uddah cousin of da uncle who's your "auntie" (he one mahu) and deyget one bruddah-in-law who work fo da service station







CAN YOU TELL WHERE I WAS RAISED????

LOL @ Keith...in Ohio we bake with soda & drink pop too, though I loathe Vernor's....my Grandmother used to force feed us kids warm Vernors for an upset stomach, blechhh

Cooool.

An in for safety's ... cause I don't see a problem with the black smoke billowing out of my exhaust, not to mention a few messed up U-joints ... so, can you hook the membership up?

Coz, really, I kind of know you, sort of and ... and we are on the same continent ... like neighbours, that's it, and then there's your solid connections with the brass at the service station ... soo, get back to me Jenn :) .

Wow.. lots of cultural differences. It's funny how most of these are true.. I know that the Merlind one is.. lol! ;-P

Well Les...in Hawaii standards, just about EVERYONE is family somehow...so just say that: you know the cousin of the da auntie of da cousin of da uncle of the uddah cousin of da uncle who's your "auntie" (he one mahu) and dey get one bruddah-in-law who work fo da service station

Your car should pass no probs!!! :-)

Well, that should help out Les big time

unless they want to be paid in chocolate ....then all bets are off

Ok, I'm not from Maryland....but living here for about eight years has stuck to me unfortunately.


You know your from Maryland when.....

You talk to other people about where you live and they usually ask, "Wheres Maryland?"

You've memorized all of the words to "Redneck Woman" or "Mayberry"

You drive like a maniac to compete with the other maniacs out there.

On that note...

You cuss like a navy seal and aren't afraid to stick that middle finger up to that guy that cut you off.

You despise those d*mn D.C. whimps that turned your state into a living heck with their drugs because their scared they'll get bombed again.

You know what a S.M.I.B is *grins evily* Ooops...actually, thats if your not from Maryland :)

You say your bored or complain at least twice a day about you life and how you really want to change your ways but never do.

You are at least 40% pessamistic.

You have more then one pet.

You smoke cigarettes/used to or have tried one.

You get p!ssed when you found out that movie you really wanted to see is only in IMAX theaters.


Oh...what do I know. :P

You forgot the nutsy one way streets in Baltimore so you can never get to where you want to be ....Tho the Inner Harbor is cool

'K, cough it up Maria ... what is "S.M.I.B.?"

Please, please ... with chocolate on top and for a new tune?? Please?

*considers upping the ante to two songs*

Oh yeah, forgot that one Lauren :)

Two songs you say Les? Ah....I might have to take you up on that offer but...I don't want to offend anyone here, it's a terrible name that would stay safer in my mind :)

yea Ria, youve basicly got it covered. Im a full blooded Marylander, been here all my life, but you forgot one thing

You eat your french fries and popcorn with Old Bay on them!

You know all kidding aside, we lived in Northern Virginia for several years, & the best crabs I ever ate in my life came off some old guys truck ....He'd fished / crabbed that day & was selling his catch out of his pick-up truck on the side of the road .....Rushed home & made those crabs, delicious !

Me and my dad go crabing during the summer. They just taste better when you've gotten them yourself, IMO any way...

Old bay sounds like a whiskey ... I am SO there

LOL ....Actually, it sounds like men's cologne

'K, good enuff Maria. Your discretion is appreciated, I am sure.

Uh ... can I ask one more question about the matter though? Is the word or term in question worse than what may be heard on the soundtrack to "Croyt's Rage?" (*LOLOLOL to himself as he recalls ...*)

Hey .. there's alcohol in men's cologne ... I am SO there

in the movie .. "Pulp Fiction" .. they make fun of people in europe (amsterdam, I think) .. eating their french fries with mayonaise .. I've been doing that for YEARS, ever since my first visit to a Fish and Chips place ... back when they used to back the truck up and dump tartar sauce on you .. no questions asked

now .. it's just those packages .. and you gotta wrestle 'em to get more than one

Blechhhh !!! *gags* Yuck !! Mayo on fries ??!! What's wrong with salt ? Mayo's gross ....

Well, if you've been eating fries with mayo for YEARS, alot of questions have just been answered .....

So, that's not pancake make-up on the man with the nose.

Mystery solved, call the people from C.I.S. . They're gonna need some time for the re-writes.

Speaking of Fries.... fries and chicken gravy... mmmmm

Once after a night of sloth and debauchery carousing the pubs, my friends and me quite inebriated at the time, decided it was that time. Time for food. The one friend was a Reader Digest's "Word Power" fanatic. (The word for that day, 'plethora.' )

And as we went through the fast food drive-thru and arrived at the checkout, he repeatedly ... repeatedly asked, ad nauseum (oh, yes, that came later for him) for a 'plethora' of ketchup. Still have some remnant packets from that day.

The way I figure it, if ketchup is found to be some sort of panacea or ascends in value on the commodity market ... well ... then I will be sitting on a 'plethora' of greenbacks ;) .

OK...and so some pimply kid working at the fast food joint KNEW what a plethora of ketchup was????????

Ahh, that was part of, sort of, the problem.

We made sure to explain it and that our friend meant no harm, he was just overly enthusiastic when it came to condiments. To shut us all up, I believe, the checkout girl just starting throwing in gobs of the stuff. Continuing, ... ok, this time with the 'roots' showing ...

You Know You're From ... Ireland ... When ...

The condensation on your pint of Guinness takes the shape of shamrocks

You believe that to forgive is divine, but you don't excercise it yourself.

You won't eat meat on Friday, but you'll drink a pint for breakfast.

You consider any Irishman who has become successful a traitor.

You have great respect for the truth, and you only use it in emergencies.

The further you get from Ireland, the more Irish you get.

You eat homefried taters for brakfast, potato bread for lunch, and potato stew for dinner.

You cry at sad movies, but you cheer in battle.

You will never play professional basketball.

You swear very well.

You think you sing very well.

There isn't a huge difference between losing your temper and killing someone.

You're strangely poetic after a few beers.

Many of your sisters are Catherine, Elizabeth or Mary and one is Mary Catherine Elizabeth.

You can't wait for the other guy to stop talking so you can start talking.

Much of your food is boiled.

You are, or know someone, named "Murph." If you don't know Murph, then you know Mac. If you don't know Murph or Mac, then you know Sully, and you'll probably also know Sully McMurphy.

Your parents were on a first name basis with everyone at the local emergency room.

There wasn't a huge difference between your last wake and your last keg party.

(*cleverly disguised BUMP!*)

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