Stole from Sanity
Born and raised in AR for the first 20 some odd years.
You Know You're From Arkansas When...
"Vacation" means goin' through Harrison on the way to Branson. YES!
Down South, to you, means Louisiana. YES!
You have no problem spelling or pronouncin' Ouachita or Possum Grape.
You know what Toad Suck and Booger Holler are. YES!
Your idea of a really great tenderloin is when the meat is twice as big as the bun and comes with cole slaw on top.
You say catty-wampus and tumped over. YES!
You know the difference between a deer dog, a duck dog and a coon dog by the way they bark.
Pulaski County is considered a foreign or exotic place. YES!
You consider being a "Beef Queen" an honor.
You faithfully drink Pepsi, Mt. Dew, or Dr. Pepper everyday of your life. Hell Ya! Dr. Pepper is the only one to drink!!!
You know what a "cow drop" is. YES!
You have your own secret bbq sauce.
You know how to snipe hunt. Hell Ya!
You or your neighbors have more hunting dogs than you have family members.
You visit the Arkansas State Fair mainly to see your neighbor's prize chicken.
"Been there done that!"
You've been invited to or had a bunkin' party. YES!
You abhor homosexuality, but love "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy."
You'd rather be No. 1 in football than No. 1 in education. "Well we love our football, but think times are achangin'"
You think that recycling means riding your bike down the same old path.
You think orange barrels are really part of the interstate system.
When the forecast calls for an inch of snow, you run out with all the other crazies to stand in line for three hours to buy a month's worth of groceries.
"YES! because they never tell you about the 3" of ice under or on top of the snow. "
You drink sweet iced tea out of a sports bottle.
Your traditional Thanksgiving dinner is a deep-fried turkey.
You call a shopping cart a buggy. YES!
You see "No Hunting" signs are riddled with bullet holes. Heheh YES!
You think "Animal House" is the training film for incoming athletes at the University of Arkansas YES!
The three food groups are Velveeta, pork rinds and a six-pack. YES!
Everyone you think of as a "liberal" is either Methodist or Catholic.
You think that Bill Clinton is a lyin', cheatin' sumbitch, but you'd still vote for him again in a heartbeat because he's OUR lyin' cheatin' sumbitch.
YES!
You've "offered" someone an "ass-whoopin'. " ( Hell Ya!
When you give directions they include "over yonder," "down the road a piece," and "right near." LOL Hell Ya!
You're not commitment-phobic: you love God, guns and football. Hell Ya!
You'd rather have a Budweiser beer museum than a presidential library.
You think pinto beans are nekkid without hamhocks, cornbread and buttermilk.
Sweet milk and torn up biscuits in a glass is your favorite dessert. Yes!
You think bagels are nothing but a cruel doughnut joke invented by some Yankee! LOL
You eat at Senor Tequila's for atmosphere and Lolita's Tex-Mex for salsa.
You say, "I voted for Clinton to get him out of the state." "Heard many say this"
You own three cars and one license plate.
You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Arkansas.
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Then moved to VA met Ray and lived for 15& half years, so I feel that some of this just doesn't fit me but maybe Ray? LOL
You Know You're From Virginia When...
Speed limits are just suggestions "How true"
You have at least two friends who have no idea what their relatives do...because its "top secret" government work
Most of your senior class wend to Mason, JMU, Tech, VCU or UVA "True for Ray"
When people ask where you're from, you tell them DC because its easier to explain "nope tell AR family I lived in Va. Beach easier than Norfolk"
You've never told someone you're from Virginia without putting "northern," "central," or "southern" in front of it (See above.)
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. (Yeah, man...at least. Probably also happens everywhere else.) A red light means 2 more can. Yes!!
You actually know what the black boxes at stoplights are for.
Despite the fact that Virginia fought for the south in the Civil War, you are not, under any circumstances, a "southerner" "Hell all the Viginian's I met think they are southerns *shaking head no*"
You are amused by visiting relatives who are actually excited to see Washington, DC
You took a field trip to Williamsburg as a kid "Ray and Britt"
You are amazed when you go out of town and the people at McDonalds speak English
You or someone in your family has a Smart Tag
An inch of snow and you miss 3 days of school "boy how true!!"
All the potholes just add a little excitement to your driving experience Yes!
Crown Victoria = undercover cop Yes!
Subway is a fast food place. The transportation system is known as Metro, and only Metro.
They just tore down the old farm house across the street and put 12 new McMansions in its place
For the cost of your house, you could own a small town in Iowa "Felt like it"
If you stay on the same road long enough, it will eventually have three new names. Yes!!
You have to dial the area code to call your neighbor--"not in the 757 area"
"Vacation" means spending a day at King's Dominion or Busch Gardens. "Yup! done this before"
"Going to the River" means any stream with water.
You have never been served tea without the waitress asking "sweet or unsweetened?" "Yes, thank goodness, I hate sweet tea"
Your favorite past time is telling West Virginia jokes. "Ray is AR jokes"
Anyone who can't trace his or her ancestry back to at least four generations in Virginia is an outsider. "How true"
"Going to the beach" means anywhere from Ocean City to Virginia Beach to Myrtle Beach. Yes!
You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Virginia.
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Ok now living in MD and only been there since Sept. I'm scared very scared after reading these.....
You Know You're From Maryland When...
You know more than 10 people who own boats and they all park them at the same marina in Annapolis
You can pronounce and spell "Pocomoke," "Mattaponi," "Accokeek," and "Havre de Grace"
You prononce "Bowie" BOO-ie not BOW-ie or BAUW-ie
1 hour is an easy commute to work
You have more than three recipies for crabcakes
French fries just don't taste right without Old Bay
There are more than two crab places in your town
Even your high school cafeteria made good crabcakes
You got your first lacrosse stick before you were six years old
You call all turtles "terrapins"
You refer to your state as "Merlind"
Your mother shops at Hecht's
You still call Six Flags America "Adventure World", or even "Wild World"
You still remember the Wild World commercial (Wild World's the cure for the summertime blues!)
You can tell the difference between the smells of septic and marsh.
You not only know how to eat hard crabs but you also know how to catch them, cook them and tell the males from the females. "I can do this but learned in VA"
You don't think that Assawoman Bay is a strange name for a body of water.
You know perfectly well why Rehoboth is called "Little San Francisco"
M R Ducks makes perfect sense. "I know and understand"
So does C M Wangs.
You think Salisbury is a big city. "I think it's just right considering this is where I live now"
You think of dumplings as wet slippery squares of boiled dough. "Even VA think so...eeeewwwww...I learned to call them noodles as a kid:
You and your boss take off of work when the fish are running or the ducks are flying in.
You've eaten muskrat at a church dinner but think it's better the way you fix it.
You think of "Dairy Queen" as a pageant title and not a place to get an ice cream.
"Formal wear" is a ball cap, a flannel shirt and Timberlands.
You still root for the Orioles even when they suck
You'll never understand why tourists come to DC.
When in Florida, you can only laugh when you see signs saying "Real Maryland Blue Crab Cakes!"
You color with "Crowns", take a "Share" with "Wooter" and think the president lives in "Warshenton."
You know the difference between Glen Burnie ghetto and Catonsville ghetto.
Your whole family lives within a 200 mile radius of your town.
Dale Earnhardt's accident was a close personal loss to your father
At least one man in your family is a waterman
You plan for "The Festival" a year in advance.
During the summer, you spend more time in Ocean City than at home.
Margret Heater, Hedspace, Jepetto, Outside Joke and Mary Prankster are people you think are "Famous"
Your radio dial is stuck on 99.1
You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Maryland.
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