Tuesday, July 24, 2007

You Know You Are From Indiana When

I "borrowed" this from a facebook group. It's hysterical and unfortunatly, true. My comments are in light blue.

1.You drive for three hours and the scenery outside doesn't change. Haha, so true.
2.There's three feet of snow on the ground and school is still in session. And you complain the whole day since "the rival school closed)
3.You only go to the mall once a year 'cause it takes too long to get there. Or people consider Ft. Wayne's Mall HUGE.
4.While driving all you see is corn. Just wait, all of us Indiana folks are thinking it.
5.People still have Christmas decorations up at Easter. My mother in law
6.You start saying to yourself "More than corn in Indiana my butt."
7.Anyone with a cell phone looks out of place. Not true now
8.Walking through Wal-Mart with two carts full of kids is normal.
9.Anyone with a tan is rich.
10.The hip hang-out place is McDonald's. Curb Turding in a parking lot
11.There really is more than corn in Indiana. There’s soybeans, too. We all thought it, and they finally wrote it.
12.When you plan an orgy and a Euchre game breaks out. Not sure about this one.
13.A restaurant has an invisible wall in the non-smoking section and you believe it works. Slowly changing.
14.Speeding consists of 2 miles over the speed limit.
15.You think you don't have to use a turn signal on your car because you don't use it on your tractor.
16.You build your dream house on a cornfield, and you considered it posh.
17.You warsh your clothes and you think George Warshington was the first president. This one bugs me.
18.You're proud to be called a Hoosier, even if you don't know what one is.
19.You have no problem spelling or pronouncing "Terre Haute"
20.Detassling was your first job. Bailing hay, your second.
21.You can stack hay, swim in the pond to clean off, and then have the strength to play a couple of games of hoops all in the same day.
22.You say things like "catty-wumpus" and "kitty-corner". I say katty-corner.
23.You own a dirtbike or a ATV.
24.You live in a city ... and there's a cornfield in your backyard.
25.High school basketball game draws a bigger crowd on the weekend nights than movie theaters.
26.You can see at least 2 basketball hoops from your yard.
27.You can name every one of Bob Knight's "exploits" over the last few years. the chair, the chair.
28.You shop at Marsh. Do they have those up here?
29.Damon Bailey was your childhood hero. And you send your kids to his basketball camp just so you can see him when you pick them up.
30.The biggest question of your youth was "IU or Purdue?" Little bit of both for me.
31.Indianapolis is the "big city".
32."Getting caught by a train" is a legitimate excuse for being late to school. I tried this once. It didn't work. Mr. Flemming realized I was late coming from the cafeteria and he knew I lived in town.
33.People at your high school chewed tobacco.
34.Everyone knows who the town cop is, where he lives, and whether he is at home or on duty. 35.You actually know what the CART vs IRL debate is about and have taken a side. ???
36.To you, a raccoon is simply a "coon".
37.The vehicle of choice in your area is not a car, but a pickup.
38.Someone you know is BIG John Mellencamp fan.
39.You've been to the Covered Bridge Festival. Or been dumb enough to walk to it from the fire department.
40.To you, a tenderloin is not an expensive cut of beef, but a big, salty, breaded piece of pork served on a bun with pickles. Most of the time you can't even see the bottom bun.
41.You call a green bell pepper a "mango". Huh?
42.Sometimes, you call the toilet the "commode" or the "stool".
43.In the fall, one of your favorite pranks was corning cars.
44.You know what FFA and 4H stand for.
45.You know what chip-and-seal is, and your high school was located on just such a road.
46.You go the county fair every night of it's week-long duration.
47.You can say "French Lick" without laughing out loud.
48.There's actually a college near you named "Ball State."
49.The last "g" is silent in any word ending in "ing."
50.You think the state Bird is Larry.
51. If your high school had a hard core marching band and was proud of it. "Tonights marching band show will be preceeded by the rest of the football game"
52. You milk the cow in the barn when playing Euchre and you know what that means.
53. when farting contests are just something to laugh at or just something to do.
54. when driving down a back road road kill is ALL OVER the road, and it doesn't phase you.
55. when You use the same utensil for as much as you can, and it doesn't matter if your food touches, it's all going to the same place. Not sure about this one.
56. when your neighbors are amish, and it's not big deal.
57. If your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead. Or at his sock line.
58. Vacation means going north or south on I 65 for the weekend.
59. You often switch from heat to AC in the same day and back again.
60. You know several people who have hit a deer more than once
61. You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching
62. You see people wearing camoflage at social events (including weddings)
63. You find 0 degrees "a little chilly."
64. You measure distance in minutes.
65. You see a car running the parking lot at the store with no one in it no matter what time of year.
66. You drink "pop".
67. You know what "cow tipping" is. What about snipe hunting?
68. Your school classes were canceled because of cold.
9. You see people wearing bib overalls to funerals.
70. All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, or grain.
71. You know exactly where to go when the party is at "the lake or in the field."
72. You consider strangers people who use your front door.
73. You deny the Colts were ever in Baltimore.
74. When you hang out on a 3ft. hill in the center of town
75. When a girl breaks her leg and everyone still talks about it a year later
76. you see "lost cow" signs I've never seen this, but maybe it's because I live in the city.
77. you consider jeans and a nice shirt formal attire.
78. If you have ever been to the Twelve Mile 500 or raced in it for that matter.... (aka racing a lawn mower)
79. you understand this saying " a lep is a ball" I'm lost? Someone explain.
80. Someone brings Green Bean Casserole to every social function.
81. People ask you "PU" or "IU" and you know what they are refering to.
82. you hear somebody says Santa Claus and you say, I've been there
83. your local 4th of July parade consists of 1 marching band, 1 float, 20 horses, 50 firetrucks and 200 tractors!
84 your a sophisticated hillbilly.....

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