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Subject: You know you're from Rochester.....
> If The only thing at the annual May Lilac Festival is snow.
> If 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 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.
> 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.
> 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.
> You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from
Rochester, NY.
Aaaaaaa Rochester, I salute you!
