You know your from (insert state) when..

[Vex]

You know you're from Southern California if:

1. You live in Anaheim and have never been to Disneyland.
2. Someone's area code determines if you think they're "cool" or not.
4. You drive around Skid Row to look at the bums.
5. You call Interstates "freeways" and refer to them by their numbers: "Take the 10 West to the 605 South..."

[Ov3rmind]

You know you're from Utah when...

1. You haven't met all of your neighbors wives yet.
2. Your three kids make up a small family.
3. You ask where the nearest steak house is and are directed to a church.
4. A Western movie was filmed in your backyard.
5. You know "holy war" refers to BYU and UofU, and not genocide in the Middle East.
6. Green jello is a delicacy.
7. You can pronounce Tooele.
8. The largest liquor store is the state government.
9. You are not surprised to hear words like "Darn, Fetch, Flip", "Oh, My Heck" and "Shoot".
10. You can go skiing and play golf on the same day.
11. You were an aunt or uncle before you were three..
12. Your spouse's mother was pregnant at your wedding.
13. You're next door neighbor and his family all have biblical names.
14. Your family considers a trip to McDonald'd a night out.
15. You believe that you must be 18 or older to order coffee at a restaurant.
16. Your father-in-law thinks Ronald Reagan was a liberal.
17. Cars in the slow lane are traveling the fastest; cars in the fast lane are traveling the slowest; cars in the middle lanes are always trying to exit.
18. You have to ask for the uncensored version of "Titanic."
19. Hotel rooms all have the Book of Mormon.
20. Democrats always come in third place, unless a zoo animal is running. Then they come in fourth.
21. Schools stay open, even if two feet of snow falls overnight, but close for the opening of hunting season.
22. People wear shorts and T-shirts if the temperature rises above 32 degrees.
23. People drive to Idaho (or Arizona) to pick up a gallon of milk so they can play the lottery.
24. Every driveway has a minivan and a pickup truck.
25. You buy a new vehicle, cigarette lighters are optional equipment but gun and ski racks are standard.
26. Every time a new family moves into your neighborhood, the local elementary school has to hire a new teacher.
27. You make a toast with red punch at your wedding reception.
28. Your idea of a wild party is a six pack of Pepsi and a PG-13 movie.

[ScatterPlot]

1. You've never met any celebrities.

Heh, here in Nashville that's the opposite.

You know you're from TN (Nashville) if...

1. You see all kinds of celebrities (well we say contry music singers are celebrities, lol) in grocery stores, at normal restaraunts, kid's gymnastics classes, etc.

2. You've never been to the Grand Ole Opry (The actual Opry, not Opryland)

3. You've been to Opryland

4. You know what an Opry is

5. You get mad when people say "soda" or "pop"

[WicKeD_WaYz]

You know you're from Southern California if:
5. You call Interstates "freeways" and refer to them by their numbers: "Take the 10 West to the 605 South..."

wait....what does everyone else call them?

[Will Wood]

... Yea..... That one makes no sense.
Their names ARE the numbers.. haha..
I call them highways though.

[tropical_fishy]

You know you're from Southern California if:

1. You live in Anaheim and have never been to Disneyland.
2. Someone's area code determines if you think they're "cool" or not.
4. You drive around Skid Row to look at the bums.
5. You call Interstates "freeways" and refer to them by their numbers: "Take the 10 West to the 605 South..."

-it's perfectly legal and expected for people to be driving in the fast lane, decide they have to get off at the next exit, SLAM on their breaks and cut across four lanes of traffic.
-when someone does the above, no one uses their horns.
-merging is a 15-minute process because everyone INSISTS on letting everyone else in, except during rush-hour when everyone goes neurotic and cuts everyone else off.
-if it's drizzling, expect a traffic jam, regardless of time of day.
-you can finish all your makeup/lunch/read 20 pages of a book at a traffic light.

[CKY_Alliance]

You know your from South Carolina when...

Having all your teeth is an accomplishment.


You know your from Florida if

you've ever seen or been to a rent to own rim and tire store...

[Linkwarner]

I KNOW WHAT SNIPE HUNTING IS!!! HOOORAY!!! *hickism showing*

[WickeDKlowN]

You know your from Florida if

you've ever seen or been to a rent to own rim and tire store...

Those crack me up. The whole fact that you would have to rent tires/rims is sad.

You know you're from Florida when you live 15 minutes away from the "World's Most Famous Beach" but havn't been on it in over 2 years.

When you hear the words "Hunker Down" and want to choke someone.

When you'd rather go near the beach during a hurricane than BCR.

[psychoreaper_666]

Jeff Foxworthy on Pennsylvania:

If you consider it a sport to gather your food by
drilling through 18 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that
the food will swim by,
you might live in Pennsylvania.

If you're proud that your region makes the national
news 96 nights each year because Bradford is the coldest spot in the
nation,
you might live in Pennsylvania.

If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November
through March,
you might live in Pennsylvania.

If you instinctively walk like a penguin for five
months out of the year,
you might live in Pennsylvania.

If someone in a store offers you assistance, and they
don't work there,
you might live in Pennsylvania.

If your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around
the middle of his
forehead,
you might live in Pennsylvania.

If you have worn shorts and a parka at the same time,
you might live in Pennsylvania.

If your town has an equal number of bars and churches,
you might live in Pennsylvania. <this is so true!>

If you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with
someone who dialed a wrong number,
you might live in Pennsylvania.

YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRUE Pennsylvanian WHEN:

"Vacation" means going up north past I-80 for the weekend.

You measure distance in hours.

ou know several people who have hit a deer more than once.

You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back again.

You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard,
without flinching.

You see people wearing camouflage at social events
(including weddings).

You install security lights on your house and garage and leave all the
doors unlocked.

You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend knows how to use
them

You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.

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

You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter
and road construction.

You can identify a southern or eastern accent.

Your idea of creative landscaping is a concrete
statue of a deer next to your blue spruce.

You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.

Down South to you means Philadelphia.

A critter is something you eat.

Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new pole shed.

You go out to a fish fry every Friday. (only in summer)

Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.

You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.

You find 0 degrees "a little chilly."

You actually understand these jokes, and you
forward them to all your Pennsylvania friends.

[CKY_Alliance]

Those crack me up. The whole fact that you would have to rent tires/rims is sad.

You know you're from Florida when you live 15 minutes away from the "World's Most Famous Beach" but havn't been on it in over 2 years.

When you hear the words "Hunker Down" and want to choke someone.

When you'd rather go near the beach during a hurricane than BCR.

Yea my dad said while he was down there for a week he saw one..and everytime he passed by it was packed.....someday i hope i get to see such a magnificent speculoum





so i can point and laugh

[Alley]

Well, Seeing as Pittsburgh is different from the rest of the State....we have our own!

You Know You're From Pittsburgh When...
"Hey Yuz Guyz" is your traditional greeting.

You know the time and location of every Wing Night in a 10 mile radius.

You know the location of the following towns, know someone from them and have spent time there: Monongahela, Altoona, Bethlehem, Ligonier, Harmony, and Wilmerding.

You've memorized lines from the movie "Flashdance".

If you're a guy, your biggest fear is seeing your best friend drive into the "fruit loop". You're second biggest fear is seeing him drive out with Kordel Stewart.

If you're a girl, you're biggest fear is getting hit on by a hairy-chested man, heavily weighted in gold chains, who refers to his friends as "junior" at Chauncey's.

Your latest cultural experience: On your way to partying at Slippery Rock University, having to stop your car to let the Amish buggy cross the street.

As your out-of-town friends brag about their latest trips to Europe, you think to yourself, "Polish Hill will suffice."

You eat out at least once a week at a mafia-owned Italian pizza parlor.

Your father has worked for the same company for over 20 years.

You don't see what all the hype is about Disney World when Kennywood is just around the corner.

You're having a hard time on where to take your date out for dinner and a night on the town: - "meat on a stick" in the south side and the guzzling IC Light at Jack's... Or splitting an order of "O fries" and guzzling IC Light at Peter's Pub.

" N at' " is eloquently added to the end of every sentence.

You've taken deliberate field trips to the Andy Warhol museum.

You water ski on the Youghiogheny River Lake.

You feel the only good bands out there are Donny Iris, Joe Grushecky, The Blue Oyster Cult, and of course.... Rusted Root.

You're more worried about Jerome Bettis's health than your own.

You own more than one original Terrible Towel.

You don't understand what all the hype is about for Rolling Rock beer. You've been drinking it for years, although Penn Pilsner is better.

You consider a great vacation a trip to Conneaut Lake or Lake Erie. For something a little more exotic, a trip to the Jersey shore.

You're 35 years old, have never been outside of Allegheny County, and don't see the need to leave.

You only own four spices: salt, pepper, Heinz ketchup, and the bottle of Trappey's Red Devil you swiped from Primanti's.

For the life of you, you can't understand why your all your out-of-town friends don't get the "fries and cole slaw" thing...

You have 101 favorite recipes for kolbasi and sauerkraut.

Words like: hoagie; chipped ham; pop; and gumband actually mean something to you.

You can use the phrase "Firehall Wedding" and not even bat an eye.

You walk carefully when it is "slippy" outside.

You often go down to the "crick".

You have to "red up", before company comes over.

You've ever gotten hurt by falling into a "jaggerbush".

You know that Ahia is a river, a boulevard, and a state.

You've ever "warshed" or "wershed" the laundry.

You know you can't drive too fast on back roads,cause-udda-deer.

You've drank an "Arn" .

You've told someone to "quit jaggin around".

You know that Clinton, Monaca, and Beaver, are actually names of towns.

You've called someone a 'jaggoff'.

You hear "you guyses", or "yins" and don't think twice.

You hate Cleveland, although you've never been there.

You drink "pop", eat "hoagies", pierogies, and gyros(jy-rows).

You know what a still mill is.

You can find Zillionopal on a map.

You go 'food shoppin' at 'Jine Iggle'.

You believe that "Ize" is the abbreviaton for "I was.

You know someone from 'Sliberty, E-sliberty, or Wesliberty.

You know the Pittsburgh Zoo is in 'Hilinpark' and have been there for school field trips.

You know what is meant by "The Point".

Chipped ham was always in your refrigerator when you were growing up.

You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Pittsburgh.

[tropical_fishy]

You don't see what all the hype is about Disney World when Kennywood is just around the corner.

Can I just say that Kennywood is one of the BEST amusment parks ever, next to Cedar Park and Six Flags (east coast...west coast isn't that great)?

[ben-afficial]

you know your from (insert State) when thats what it sais on your license plate

[skife]

Michigan

1. there are 3 seasons, summer, winter, and road construction.
2. if you've ever played "string the can" or "the polycart dash"
3. If you've been dumpster diving.
4. you think people from ohio have a southern accent.
5. you can't find an older chevy truck without rust.
6. it can go from 80* to having an inch of snow on the ground in the same week (no BS it happened this week)
7. someone asks you where your from and you point to your hand.