You know you're from....
 

You know you're from ___ when....

http://www.blogthings.com/wherefrom.html

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You Know You're From West Virginia When...

>>>You know what commodity cheese is.

Hey! Don't knock it til ya tried it. Good stuff.

>>>You cook green beans for hours.

That's the only way to cook from fresh snapped beans. Used to snap those things on grandma's porch for hours too.

>>>Your parents have threatened to have you sent to Pruntytown.

Doesn't everyone's?

>>>You know at least one couple who went to Virginia or Maryland to get married.

Including myself?


Now I should look at OH, NH, NC and VA, as I've lived in all of them. LOL

ROFL! How very true! Just hitting my latest two states.

You Know You're From Virginia When...
Speed limits are just suggestions

You know yellow light means at least 5 more cars can get through. (Yeah, man...at least. Probably also happens everywhere else.) A red light means 2 more can.

You are amazed when you go out of town and the people at McDonalds speak English

An inch of snow and you miss 3 days of school

For the cost of your house, you could own a small town in Iowa

If you stay on the same road long enough, it will eventually have three new names.

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You Know You're From New Hampshire When...
You say "wicked" instead of "really."

Motorcycle Weekend is the highlight of your summer

When you take your yearly trip into Boston, you "pak ya cah in Havad Yad"

You go out of state and don't understand what "tax" means on your receipt

You can visit Berlin, New London, Bethlehem, Lisbon, Lebanon and Dublin all in one afternoon.

You can actually pronounce Kancamagus. (That's Kank-a-mang-us for all you'se southerners...or simply known as "The Kank")

You can recognize someone from Massachusetts from their driving.

I'm from Michigan, and grew up in Traverse City, (northern MI:)) but now live in Jackson.

You know you're from Northern MI when...

sooo true. LOL I can pick 'em out :)

You know you're from Michigan when...
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so true... and you point out where you live to people by using the back of your left hand :)
Well in my family, if you aren't rooting for U of M... well, then you better not be around during that game :lol:


- thats so true! Especially growing up in TC!

They could've written the Canadian coins one for NH as well. In fact, NH vending machines are specially designed to NOT take those suckers. I pawned them all off on VA machines when we moved down here. LOL!

It's a plural people!!!
ARGGHH, sad but true

Doesn't everybody wear a tabogan when it's cold (i.e. less than 50F)?

I worked at a restaurant in Kville a couple of blocks from the stadium. On game days we would have a 5-6 HOUR wait and no one minded because they'd just be sitting in traffic if they tried to go somewhere else anyway.

This is a lot of fun -- but I just realized the most fascinating thing isn't looking at and chuckling about the ones from your own state(s) but seeing how absolutely foreign sounding some of the things from other states sound!! Amazing how diverse we still are in this country -- I love it!

I really must know -- what is a Michigan Left?

Kiwi

I'm not good at explaining it, so lol I did a google search, and here is something that explains it with pictures :)

http://www.michiganhighways.org/inde...igan_left.html

Yeah the vending machines here don't take Canadian coins either, I usually try to get rid of them right away.

~Liz

The Michigan left hand turn is the craziest thing I have ever seen (I just chekced out your link), but I was brought up in Mass - a "Rotary" is our claim to driving fame!"

"When you approach a rotary (traffic circle), you must yield the right-of-way to any vehicles already in the rotary. If traffic is heavy in the circle, stop at the edge of the rotary and wait until you can safely enter. Only a few states in the U.S. have traffic rotaries, and as a result, many drivers are not familiar with the right-of-way rules. Be especially careful and generous when extending the right-of-way to other drivers." In practice, older cars in worse condition than yours, and other drivers who fail to make eye contact, always have the right of way in a rotary." I kid you not - that quote is from the website!!
Others from Massachusetts...............

You say bubbler instead of water fountain.

You live on a "private road" that is unpaved and more rutted than roads in rural Dominan Republic. Oh yeah - the town/city doesn't plow them either!

You think of $280,000 as cheap for a house.

You know what a Fisher Cat is.

Your school classes were canceled because of frozen and burst pipes.

You know how to say Shrewsbury (shoes-bree), Worcester (Wusta), Marlborough (Marl-Bro), Leicester (lester), Leomenster (lemon-ster).

The mention of Bill Buckner makes you cry.

You think nothing of commuting two hours each way to work.

You think 70 degrees is hot and a perfectly fine time to go to the beach or pool.

Stuff that is open until ten is "late" and staying out until eleven is a "late night out."

Wow, that rotary thing sounds confusing! :) lol There are a few traffic circles here and there, but I always avoid them!

I hadn't actually used a Michigan left until I moved to Grand Rapids 2 years ago. So they were kind of confusing at first, but once I was used to them, I loved them! Where I live now, they don't have any either. It makes turning left so much easier, and not having to wait for a green arrow.


~Liz

Hey Liz I Love Your Postings!!!!!!!! Do You Remember Country Club Pop???
Reading Your Post Reminds Me How Much I Love Living In Michigan, I Was Born In Florida!!!!!!!

You know, I dont remember that one!

Where at in MI do you live?

~Liz

I'm From Detroit!!! Ha, Ha, Ha!!! But, Really I Live In Taylor, Grew Up In Westland!!!

:) I live in Jackson. I grew up in Traverse City though, and lived in GR last year. I miss GR! :)

~Liz

The MI left looks similar to VA Beach, but here, they do have a left turn lane at the lights. Problem is, there aren't enough lights to cover everything and it's all divided highways. So they have left turn lanes interspersed throughout the roads and you have to make a U-turn to get to where you want to go on the other side of the road.

I had a very hard time trying to keep from laughing out loud one time with my boss. She and I were headed to D.C. and she got "stuck" in a traffic circle. She couldn't figure out how to get to the outside lane to take her turnoff because she was afraid of the other cars in that lane. We went around that sucker half a dozen times!