post your "you know you're from such and such when..." lists here

they left out "if your Mary Kay consultant is a man in drag and he's prettier than you."

 

you know you're from new mexico when:

you find an excellent list and ONCE AGAIN can't copy and paste it. fuckers.

 

Here you go, KC:

1. You can correctly pronounce words like Tesuque, Cerrillos, Acoma, Buena, Ocotillo, Cochiti, Pojoaque,Socorro and Isleta (and you actually know what or where they are!).
2. You have been told by at least one out-of-state vendor that they are going to charge you extra for international shipping.
3. You expect to pay more if your house is made of adobe.
4. You can order your Big Mac with green chile.
5. You buy salsa by the half-gallon.
6. You know what it means when they say it's from Hatch.
7. Your Christmas decorations include "red chiles, a half-ton of sand and 200 paper bags."
8. Most restaurants you go to begin with "El" or "Los."
9. You price shop for tortillas.
10. You have an extra freezer just for green chile.
11. You consider Billy the Kid a state hero. (?)
12. You think six tons of crushed rock makes a beautiful front lawn.
13. You think the biggest perk to running for state legislature is that you could speed legally.
14. You pass on the left because that is the fast-lane.
15. You think Sonic is "America's Favorite Drive-in."
16. Your swamp cooler got knocked off your roof by a dust devil.
17. You either have been or know someone who has been abducted by aliens.
18. You can actually hear the Taos hum.
19. All your out-of-state friends and relatives ask if they can drink the water when they come to visit.
20. When someone says "Las Vegas" you think of a small New Mexico town in the northeastern part of the state.
21. You iron your jeans to "dress up."
22. You don't see anything wrong with drive-up window liquor sales.
23. Your other vehicle is also a pick-up truck.
24. Two of your cousins are in Santa Fe, one in the legislature, the other in the state penitentiary.
25. You know what it means when a waitress asks you whether you want "red or green."
26. You're relieved when the pavement ends because the dirt road has fewer potholes.
27. You see nothing odd when, in the conversations of the people in line around you at the grocery store, every other word of each sentence alternates between Spanish and English.
28. You've seen the bat flight at Carlsbad Caverns and have a t-shirt that says "Bats need friends, too!"
29. You know you are "special" because you're from the Land of Enchantment!
30. You've had forts out in the desert or forest, which is also your back yard, so to speak.
31. You know what the night sky looks like full of stars and not pollution.
32. You've swam in an arroyo or an acequia..as a child or an ADULT!! LOL!
33. You've cooked an egg on the sidewalk.
34. You know what a horny toad is.
35. You can identify a quail, peacock, coyote, roadrunner, cricket, etc...by the sound they make.
36. You actually stop in the road when quail are crossing to wait for the whole "family" to get across.
37. Your Walmart sells snow sleds in the summer for the White Sands...but you can hardly find them in the winter.
38. You've slept outside either on the trampoline, the back of a truck, or just in the yard with friends.
39. When going to the store; you ask everyone in the vehicle if they’re going to “get down” with you.
40. You love the smell of rain in the desert.
41. You've caught tadpoles every summer as a kid.
42. One of your favorite past times is rock hunting.
43. Your high school biology teacher taught you how to identify all of the desert plants that you could get high off of, and how to do it.
44. You've been to Mexico just to party.
45. You know that Christmas and weddings would not be the same without biscochitos.
46. You know what bartering is, and how to do it in at least two different languages.
47. You could totally win on Survivor, because you've been doing all that hunting, fishing, and hiking survival technique stuff since you were five out in your own back yard.
48. Your city cousins from out of state come and visit you and don't get it when "going to do something" to you means to go hunting, fishing, hiking and theirs is hanging out at the mall.
49. You spent your four years of high school saying you were leaving this hell hole and never coming back; and when you left, you realized that there's no place like New Mexico, and will probably decide to retire back home.

 

Here's one for me:

Edit: These are all dead-on.


1. You know several people who have hit a deer.

2. You've never met any celebrities.
3. You've seen all the biggest bands ten years after they were popular.
4. Down south to you means Kentucky.
5. You have no problem spelling or pronouncing "Terre Haute."
6. Your school classes were canceled because of cold.
7. Your school classes were canceled because of heat.
8. You know what the phrase "Knee-high by the Fourth of July" means.
9. You've heard of Euchre, you know how to play Euchre, and you are the master of Euchre.
10. You've seen a running car, with nobody in it, in the parking lot of the grocery store no matter what time of year it is.
11. You end your sentences with an unnecessary preposition. Example: "Where's my coat at? or "If you go to the mall I wanna go with."
12. Detassling was your! first job. Bailing hay, your second. Or you could 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.
13. You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day OR "Stoke the fire" and "fling open the windows" for the older version.
14. You say things like "catty-wumpus" and "kitty-corner".
15. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
16. You carry jumper cables in your car regularly.
17. You drink "pop".
18. You know what "cow tipping" is.
19. You know that Bailin' wire was the predecessor to duct tape.
20. You know that strangers are the only ones that come to your "front" door.
21. Kids and dogs ride in the passenger seats of cars and the backs of pickups.
22. You think nothing of it in spring and fall to be stuck behind a farm implement driving on the roads.
23. High school basketball game draws a bigger crowd on the weekend nights than movie theaters.
24. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
25. The local paper covers national and international headlines on 1 page, but requires 6 for local sports.
26. Can repeat the scores of the last 8 IU games, but unless the MVP is a Hoosier, you are not sure who he is. (not IU, but Purdue)
27. There is a basketball hoop at every house.
28. You can name every one of Bob Knight's "exploits" over the last few years.
29. You shop at Marsh.
30. Damon Bailey was your childhood hero.
31. The biggest question of your youth was "IU or "Purdue".
32. Indianapolis is the "big city".
33. "Getting caught by a train" is a legitimate excuse for being late to school.
34. The Wabash River is the "biggest body of water" near your house.
35. You know several different definitions as to what a Hoosier really is.
36. People at your high school chewed tobacco.
37. Everyone knows who the town cop is, where he lives, whether he is at home or on duty.
38. To get to school you had to drive on a gravel road, a road with several right-angle turns in it, or if you were really lucky, over a covered bridge.
39. People in your neighborhood, really, REALLY like Nascar.
40. You actually know what the CART vs IRL debate is about and have taken a side.
41. To you, a raccoon is simply a "coon".
42. The vehicle of choice in your area is not a car, but a pickup.
43. You are a BIG John Mellencamp fan.
44. You've been to the Covered Bridge Festival.
45. You took backroads to get there - why sit in traffic?
46. 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.
47. You call a green bell pepper a "mango".
48. Sometimes, you call the toilet the "commode" or the "stool".
49. In the fall, one of your favorite pranks was corning cars.
50. You know what corning is.
51. Wal-mart (K-Mart!) is the most exciting place in your hometown.
52. Technically, you don't even live in a town.
53. You know what FFA and 4H stand for and how to spell them.
54. A typical party at your high school consisted of a bunch of people driving trucks into the woods or an empty field, lighting a bonfire, and staring at it while drinking a few beers.
55. It is a 30 minute drive from your house to the grocery store.
56. You have all the same teachers in high school that your parents had.
57. You know what chip-and-seal is, and your high school was located on just such a road.
58. You think that Notre Dame is a college in South Bend, and not a cathedral in France.
59. You know people who own belt buckles with their initials on them. These buckles are the size of a dinner plate. 60. You go to the county fair every night of it's week-long duration.

 

I'd post one for Texas...but it's pretty much got the same stuff everybody else's lists do, lol.

 

ahhhhh. thank you.:cheers2:

 

Dead on man. dead on!! I had an employee ask me once if he needed any special paperwork or shots before joining us on a project in N.M.

 

YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM ILLINOIS IF:

1. You've never met any celebrities.
2. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway.
3. "Vacation" means going to Six Flags.
4. You've seen all the biggest bands ten years after they were popular.
5. You measure distance in minutes.
6. You know several people who have hit a deer.
7. Your school classes were canceled because of cold.
8. Your school classes were canceled because of heat.
9. You've ridden the school bus for an hour each way.
10. You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
11. You think ethanol makes your truck "run a lot better."
12. You know what's knee-high by the Fourth of July.
13. Stores don't have bags; they have sacks.
14. You see people wear bib overalls at funerals.
15. You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one in it no matter what time of the year.
16. You end your sentences with an unnecessary preposition.
Example: "Where's my coat at?" or "If you go to town I wanna go with."
17. All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, or animal.
18. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
19. You think of the major four food groups as beef, pork, beer, and Jell-O
salad with marshmallows.
20. You carry jumper cables in your car.
21. You know what "cow tipping" and "snipe hunting" is.
22. You only own 3 spices: salt, pepper, and ketchup.
23. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
24. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
25. You think everyone from a bigger city has an accent.
26. You think sexy lingerie is tube socks and a flannel nightie.
27. The local paper covers national and international headlines on one
page but requires 6 pages for sports.
28. You think that deer season is a national holiday.
29. You know which leaves make good toilet paper.
30. You find -20 degrees F "a little chilly."
31. You know all 4 seasons: Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter, and Construction.
32. You know if another Illinoisan is from southern, middle or northern Illinois as soon as they open their mouth.
33. There is a Dairy Queen in every town with a population of 1000 of more.
34. You actually get these jokes and forward them to all your friends from Illinois.