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post #1 of 42
7/31/10 at 2:40pm
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For starters:

Oklahoma,

Know that the towns of Cement, Cyril, and Miami are pronounced SEE-MINT, Suh-RIHL, and My-AM-uh.

(somebody's hot, tired, and kind of bored)
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post #2 of 42
7/31/10 at 7:11pm
You know you've lived in Visalia for a while when you know everyone in town but you, goes to In and Out Burger daily.
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post #3 of 42
7/31/10 at 7:27pm
according to some of my ex-pat friends and colleagues
You know you've lived in Istanbul for a while when you know scheduling meetings are meaningless. Everyone will come when they feel like it.
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post #4 of 42
7/31/10 at 8:42pm
You know you have lived in Austin for a while when you know the local colorful-and-high-profile schizophrenics by their alterna-culture nicknames; e.g., "Thong guy' (the man who only wears a flesh-toned thong) and 'Newspaper Man' (the man who goes to every coffee shop and puts all the newspapers in page order and neat stacks),and 'God' (the older man with the white beard who strolls slowly with his head up and a peaceful grin) .
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post #5 of 42
8/1/10 at 3:03am
You know you have lived in Vienna, when you are certain that you are not going to last for more than a few days without high-end coffee, spending most of your time in museums, at the Opera or in some fashionable cafe and you just feel a craving for the mandatory visit at the upscale boutiques around the Graben (most likely, the Knize flagship store)
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post #6 of 42
8/1/10 at 12:11pm
You know you've lived in Los Angeles for a while when you can ask a cop who pulls you over, a waitress serving your meal, a doctor who is examining you, or a cabdriver taking you home from the airport: " So, how's the screenplay going? " And they tell you.
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post #7 of 42
8/1/10 at 1:18pm
You know you've lived in the African bush for a while when anyone who arrives is immediately asked, "When are you leaving?" It sounds unfriendly, but no one wants to miss a chance to get mail out.

Mind you, this was before the Internet.
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post #8 of 42
8/1/10 at 5:58pm
You know when you have been living in Odense, Denmark for a while when the farmers drive their tractors into town to do their weekly grocery shop.
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post #9 of 42
8/1/10 at 7:02pm
You know you've lived in Connecticut for a while, when you consider yourself a New Yorker.

And similarly, you know you've lived in Connecticut for a while, when you tell others your from New York.
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post #10 of 42
8/1/10 at 7:44pm
You know you've been living in Victoria for a while when snow feels like a personal affront, you know the "Tweed Curtain" is the border between Victoria and Oak Bay, and your plumber, cable repair man, and pizza delivery boy all have their PhDs.
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post #11 of 42
8/1/10 at 8:06pm
You know you've lived in California too long when "Moonbeam" and "The Governator" start sounding like ordinary names for a governor.
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post #12 of 42
8/1/10 at 9:42pm
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Originally Posted by Sorcery of Scent View Post

You know when you have been living in Odense, Denmark for a while when the farmers drive their tractors into town to do their weekly grocery shop.

AAAhahahahaha! Gotta love rural Denmark!

You know you've lived in Copenhagen too long, when everything you own is white.

... or when you gladly pay 45 kroner, that's $8, for a plain cup of coffee at a street cafe.
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post #13 of 42
8/1/10 at 10:15pm
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Originally Posted by Hillaire View Post

You know you have lived in Austin for a while when you know the local colorful-and-high-profile schizophrenics by their alterna-culture nicknames; e.g., "Thong guy' (the man who only wears a flesh-toned thong) and 'Newspaper Man' (the man who goes to every coffee shop and puts all the newspapers in page order and neat stacks),and 'God' (the older man with the white beard who strolls slowly with his head up and a peaceful grin) .

Wait Austin as in
Austin
Texas?

You know you've lived in Midland Texas when:
When giving someone directions, you always start with "Get on the loop"
The entire town stops when someone sees a snowflake
Brightly painted buffalos are considered works of art
Your idea of a traffic jam is when you have to wait twice for the light to turn green
If you want to see that slightly controversial movie, you have to go to Odessa
You brag that you know people in "Friday Night Lights"
The mall carnival outshines the St. Anne's fair
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post #14 of 42
8/1/10 at 10:16pm
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Originally Posted by haunani View Post

you know you've lived in california too long when "moonbeam" and "the governator" start sounding like ordinary names for a governor.

*lol* *lol*
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post #15 of 42
8/2/10 at 7:37am
See, no matter where you live, you all think it's shitty.
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post #16 of 42
8/2/10 at 11:19am
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Originally Posted by Hillaire View Post

You know you have lived in Austin for a while when you know the local colorful-and-high-profile schizophrenics by their alterna-culture nicknames; e.g., "Thong guy' (the man who only wears a flesh-toned thong) and 'Newspaper Man' (the man who goes to every coffee shop and puts all the newspapers in page order and neat stacks),and 'God' (the older man with the white beard who strolls slowly with his head up and a peaceful grin) .

Does Austin still have the Bikini Guy ("Lindsey"?)? I seem to remember him hanging out on various street corners from my younger years in Austin.

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Originally Posted by lightgreen22 View Post

Wait Austin as in
Austin
Texas?

lol, have you been to Austin? This isn't the least of the wonderful weirdness available for public viewing in that city.
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post #17 of 42
8/2/10 at 11:31am
You've lived in Denver too long when you become disoriented when traveling anywhere without mountains always visible to the west.
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post #18 of 42
8/2/10 at 11:55am
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Originally Posted by LiveJazz View Post

You've lived in Denver too long when you become disoriented when traveling anywhere without mountains always visible to the west.

Having lived in BC most of my life ( mountains just about everywhere ), I tend to find flat places unnerving. How you find your way around? And hey - what's holding the sky up?
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post #19 of 42
8/2/10 at 11:55am
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Originally Posted by mtgprox05 View Post

See, no matter where you live, you all think it's shitty.

Actually, that's not true. I love Northern California with a passion. The politics, and especially the taxes, I can do without!
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post #20 of 42
8/2/10 at 12:37pm
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Originally Posted by mtgprox05 View Post

See, no matter where you live, you all think it's shitty.

Seconding Haunani on place happiness. I love Victoria! Best place in Canada, and I'm happy to live here.
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post #21 of 42
8/3/10 at 10:28am
You know you've lived in _New Mexico_ for a while when you _ go to a New Mexican restaurant and they ask you whether you want red or green and you say Christmas.
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post #22 of 42
8/3/10 at 11:07pm
You know you've lived in Berlin for while when you're standing in front of the subway schedule exclaiming: "What? Five minutes??"
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post #23 of 42
8/19/10 at 4:37pm
You know you've lived in Hackney (East London) for a while when you don't hear the gunfire

Seriously it wasn't that bad, you just knew where not to go.

You know you've lived in The Lake District (England) for a while when you don't notice the Lakes

It is oh so quiet in comparison

Ho-hum
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post #24 of 42
8/19/10 at 5:01pm
You know you've lived in So Cal for a while when you are uncannily accurate at telling the approximate location and Richter scale rating of earthquakes while they are occurring.
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post #25 of 42
8/19/10 at 5:05pm
You know you've lived in Kansas for a while when you go outside to see the action whenever tornado sirens are going off and newscasters are on TV saying, "Seek shelter immediately!"

It's true. This is the only time I see most of my neighbors. We're all out there on our back porches holding cocktails and saying, "What?!? I don't see anything."

[yes, and for our own good, thank God we haven't seen anything up close and personal. . .]
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post #26 of 42
8/19/10 at 6:57pm
Thread Starter 
Ah, mrcologneguy... that's also true in OK. Last storm I was outside watching the kids on the roof down the street and finally spotted a funnel cloud before deciding it was going East of here and going back inside, break it up, nothing happening here now.

LiveJazz and Suga - I also relate to the mountains as a horizon-defining feature, having lived in Denver, other mountainous parts of Colorado, and Seattle!
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post #27 of 42
8/20/10 at 1:35pm
You know you've lived in Houston for awhile when you...
...hunker down inside -- for the summer.
...don't know what zoning is.
...don't worry if you don't have time for a vacation -- there's always the next hurrication.
...love to hate Dallas.
...know what the Orange Show is.
...think of New Orleans as a suburb. And pronounce it N'awlins.
...are astounded to see a pedestrian.
...know that the plural of "ya'll" is "all y'all."
...aren't surprised if a little pearl-handled pistol falls out of a woman's purse.
...meet your friends at an ice house.
...wouldn't be caught dead without flood insurance.
...don't even blink if a car drives by that's got plastic dinosaurs, or whatever, glued all over it.
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post #28 of 42
8/20/10 at 1:51pm
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I love this thread! (oh yeah, I started it.)

"Geoeccentricities" always amuse me.

C Rose - I saw the first Star Wars film in Houston at the Galleria...

...was it "House of Pies" that was a popular place to get eggs benedict there?
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post #29 of 42
8/22/10 at 7:30am
Let's see here.......I knew I lived in Kensington, North Philadelphia too long after I stopped noticing the $3 prostitutes with H.I.V., crack vials and heroin bags littering the streets, houses being sold for $1....yes....$one dollar fixer-uppers, an occasional dead pit bull thrown out with the trash ala curbside, stray round holes in the sides of buildings, chickens squawking in the tiny backyards of rowhomes, potholes literally large enough to swallow a Toyota Corolla whole, shoplifting sales in the hood being the 2nd biggest source of income behind narcotics and of course never leaving your apartment without being fully armed.

I actually took notice of all this in retrospect after moving to Montana 10 years ago. I now reside in what I consider Utopia.
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post #30 of 42
8/22/10 at 7:38am
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You know you've lived in hot and humid Southeast Florida for a while when your sweat needs its own sweat to cool it down.
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post #31 of 42
8/22/10 at 7:59am
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Originally Posted by actiasluna View Post

I love this thread! (oh yeah, I started it.)

"Geoeccentricities" always amuse me.
C Rose - I saw the first Star Wars film in Houston at the Galleria...
...was it "House of Pies" that was a popular place to get eggs benedict there?

Hi actiasluna! (love your thread) -- House of Pies is still here! (Though locally it's known as "House of Guys." Presumably due to being a gay hang out in the 80s... ) Still going strong, one of the few 24hr places around -- I used to love the patty-melts, but I'm too old for such calorie-laden dishes now! :-)
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post #32 of 42
8/22/10 at 8:23am
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Originally Posted by AromiErotici View Post

I actually took notice of all this in retrospect after moving to Montana 10 years ago. I now reside in what I consider Utopia.

How's the Dental Floss ranch coming along?

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post #33 of 42
8/22/10 at 11:37am
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How's the Dental Floss ranch coming along?


Ahhhhhh.......I have failed miserably at the dental floss tycoon thing......but I do occasionally listen to Zappa whilst I blog. ( smile)
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post #34 of 42
8/22/10 at 12:11pm
I've lived in Kunkletown so long, I know more about trees than I do pop music.
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post #35 of 42
8/22/10 at 4:52pm
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Originally Posted by CanwllCorfe View Post

I've lived in Kunkletown so long, I know more about trees than I do pop music.

Yep.....but Pennsylvania sure does have beautiful trees.......and it's awesome in the fall.
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post #36 of 42
8/22/10 at 6:56pm
You know you've lived in Santa Fe, NM for a while when people refer to Govenor Richardson as 'Don Diego' the patron saint of illegal immigrants.
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post #37 of 42
8/22/10 at 7:04pm
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Originally Posted by AromiErotici View Post

Yep.....but Pennsylvania sure does have beautiful trees.......and it's awesome in the fall.

Ohh yes. For that very reason I can't wait for Fall!

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post #38 of 42
8/24/10 at 4:21am
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You know you've lived in So Cal for a while when you are uncannily accurate at telling the approximate location and Richter scale rating of earthquakes while they are occurring.

Oooo, that's definitely true.

You know you've lived in Los Angeles for a while when ...
(1) you're not surprised that while driving on the 405 you can see people riding bikes on side streets going faster than you,
(2) 20% of your disposable income goes to either a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, a therapist, or a fortune teller,
(3) you forget what clouds look like,
(4) you think it's normal for the city to put a sign on a streetlight explaining that it won't be fixed because you were too damned cheap to vote for a bond issue,
(5) if a woman approaches you in a bar, you immediately wonder if she's really female,
(6) you aren't surprised when the person reporting foreign affairs on the local news is named "Bubbles," and she spends twice as much time covering a poodle's birthday party in Bel Air,
(7) you're surprised whenever you see a white pickup truck which isn't carrying a lawn mower in the back,
(8) half the people you know are "actors,"
(9) you're not surprised to see the President drive past the Starbucks you go to, and even less surprised to see that it doesn't make the traffic much worse than normal
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post #39 of 42
8/25/10 at 8:56am
You know you've lived in the US when the bread and vegetables you forgot in the fridge more than a month ago still look good enough to eat.
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post #40 of 42
8/25/10 at 10:04am
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You know you've lived in Santa Fe, NM for a while when people refer to Govenor Richardson as 'Don Diego' the patron saint of illegal immigrants.

You're in SFe? I work in SFe, but live north.
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post #41 of 42
9/5/10 at 2:45am
You know you're from Pittsburgh PA when you say Yens meaning you all, "Where are yunz going shopping"
We don't wash clothes, we wush them, "I gotta wush today"
Downtown " Are yunz going denton" not pronounced like Den Ton
We say pop instead of soda (I think other states say this too)
We rush our words together, when I lived out of state most people didn't know what in the hell I was talking about LOL
A faucet is called a spigot
A rubber band is a gum band
Sometimes small malls are referred to a Shoppincenter, I asked a gal at a red light in Florida where the shoppincenter was, she laughed and said "You are from Pittsburgh aren't you"
I found when I said the words "Do you know what I mean" people thought I thought they did not understand or they were dumb or something like that. They would say yes....I know what you mean

Ex: I am so tired of waiting in line at this store, ya know what I mean.

Up the street or out the road, can mean the mall or grocery store, I'm goin out to Macy's

When the Steelers play football the whole state is quiet, no traffic in most towns, good day to go to the mall or any stores.

Here are some more
Redd up - very light cleaning
Nebby - overly nosey
Kennywood's Open! - Your fly is unzipped
Slippy - slippery
Worsh Rag - wash rag
Yaint - you are not
Yunz - you ones / all of you
Jumbo is bologna
Yinz rilly need to red up this trunk.

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post #42 of 42
9/5/10 at 2:50am
Why did my thread post the word going twice when I only entered it once, I edited it and only saw one going, edited again removed going and re-entered, it still printed that twice. Doesn't matter thought I'd mention it.
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