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You know you're from Oregon when...

  • You throw an aluminum can in the trash and feel guilty.
  • You only honk your horn if collision is imminent and never for anything else.
  • You find a wallet with $500 and give it back to the owner.
  • If someone ran your car off the highway, you might drown.
  • Every day is casual Friday.
  • You return from a California (Idaho for me) vacation depressed because "all the grass was dead."
  • You own more than 10 articles of clothing that have the names of microbreweries/brewpubs printed on them. (Love this one!)
  • You think downtown is "scary" because you were panhandled there, once.
  • You are not fazed by "Today's forecast: showers followed by rain," and "Tomorrow's forecast: rain followed by showers."

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CA is too big for generalities! So I've specified...

You know you're from Central Coast, California when

  • you grab a sweater when it's 55 degrees and exclaim about the harsh winter this year
  • you fan yourself when it's 85 degrees and complain about the too-hot summer
  • great wines flow at every dinner, made twenty miles away
  • you can get ~any~ produce and not feel bad about shipping and fossil fuel use as they're grown in the fields just outside your town
  • your lemon trees are taking over the back yard
  • you travel inland and desperately miss the clean ocean breeze
  • you know it's dinner time when the fog rolls in
  • you know it's breakfast time when the fog rolls out
  • the wind carries your dog away
  • there's a white guy with the last name Rodriguez, there's a Japanese guy with the last name Washington, and your new pharmacist is straight off the boat from Egypt -- all the races are blending here peacefully. It's beautiful.
  • ....you just bought an acre of land for 5 million

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You know your from Kauai when (have to do island, because each island has it's own unique stuff.) That is the face book one.

But this is a pretty good Hawaii list below. It's so true that it made me misty eyed reading it.

You Know You're from Hawaii if....

-You have a separate circuit breaker for you rice cooker.

-Only NOW you know that cilantro is the same as Chinese parsley.

-You measure the water for the rice by the knuckle of your index finger.

-You know which market sells poi on which days.

-You know that Char Sung Hut is closed on Tuesday.

-You can handle shoyu with green mango, li hing gummy bears, raw eel on hot rice and pearl tea (Carnation milk in hot water with sugar) with creme crackers.

-Your refrigerator has half-empty jar of mango chutney from the '95 Punahou Carnival.

-The condiments at the table are Shoyu, ketchup, chili peppeh watah and kimchee. Also,takuwan, Hawaiian salt, slice onion and picked onion.

-You go to Maui and your luggage home includes potato chips, manju, cream puffs and guri guri for omigaye.

-You think the four food groups are starch, Spam, fried food, and fruit punch.

-A balanced meal has three starches: rice, macaroni and bread.

-You know 101 ways to fix your rubber slippers..50 using tape, 50 using glue and one using a stick to poke the strap back in.

-You sometimes use your open car door for a dressing room.

-You wear two different color slippers together and you no mind.

-Nice clothes means a T-shirt without puka.

-You are barefoot in most of your elementary school pictures.

-You have a slipper tan.

-Your only suit is a bathing suit.

-You drive barefoot.

-You have at least five Hawaiian bracelets.

-You never, ever, under any circumstances wear socks with slippers, or an aloha shirt that matches your wife's muumuu.

-You still call the Blaisdell Center the HIC and it's Sandy's not Sandy Beach.

-You say "I going for lawnmower da grass" when you mean "I'm going to mow the lawn."

-You can understand every word Bu Lai'a says and you know what his name means.

-You have a sister, cousin, auntie or mom named "Honey Girl" or someone in the family named "Boy", "Tita", Bruddah", "Sonny", "Bachan", "Taitai", "Popo", or "Vovo".

-You still chant "Hanakokolele" when a friend or co-worker goofs up.

-You say, "Shtraight", "Shtreet", and "Shtress".

-You say "Da kine" and the other person says,"Da kine" and you both know what is "Da kine".

-The "Shaka" and the "Eye Flash" are worth 1,000 words.

-You're shopping at Epcot Center at Disneyworld and you may say something to your sister and a complete stranger says, "You"re from Hawai'i, aren't you?"

-You feel guilty leaving a get-together without helping clean up.

-The idea of taking something from a heiau is unthinkable.

-You call everyone older than you, "Auntie" ,"Uncle" and you kiss everyone in greeting and farewell.

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You know your from Central PA when...

1. You refer to Pennsylvania as "PA."

2. "You guys" is a perfectly acceptable reference to a group of men & women.

3. You've never referred to Philadelphia as anything but "Philly."

4. At least 5 people on your block have electric "candles" in all or most of their windows all year long.

5. You own only three condiments "A-1, Heinz 57 and Heinz ketchup".

6. You live within 20mins of at least 3 different malls.

7. You can go 2 weeks in winter without sunshine and think this is normal.

8. Your turkey has "filling," not "stuffing," and most certainly, NOT "dressing."

9. You go to Sheetz or Turkey Hill...Not Wawa (or you've never even heard of Wawa) For you Ashin!

10. Know that Yuengling is pronounced "Ying-ling," and believe that it really is a premium beer.

11. You're a Steelers fan even if you don't watch football.

12. You know 10 different ways to cook deer.

13. You have an uncontrollable urge to buy bread and milk when you hear the word "snow."

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

15. You owe more money on your snowmobile or John Deere than your car.

16. The first day of "Buck Season" and "Doe Season" is a school holiday.

17. The only Jewish people that you've ever met have been from New York or New Jersey.

18. You love the Pirates (unless they stink) in which case you love the Phillies (unless they stink) in which case you solemnly swear that you've never even liked the Phillies or the Orioles, but have always been a Penn State fan.

19. You have under 50 students in your graduating class.

20. You call places "ghetto" even though to most people in other parts of the country it would be considered middle class.

21. They just tore down the old farm house across the street and put 12 new houses in its place.

22. While you're driving and stop at a red light, the people on all sides of you have the bass turned up so high on their radios that your windows start to shake.

23. For the cost of your house, you could own a small town in Iowa.

24. The local paper covers National and International headlines on 1/4 page but requires six pages for sports (especially during high school football season).

25. School closings due to snow take the radio stations a half an hour to finish, because just about every town has its own school district.

26. When someone says 1972, you think "Agnes," and when someone says 1979, you think "TMI."

27. Airplanes flying above your neighborhood is a normal occurrence.

28. You call sloppy joes "barbecue."

29. You think the start of deer hunting is a National Holiday.

30. At least 10 persons in your family hunts, loves Nascar, or watches wrestling.

31. Freshman year at ACC is basically 13th grade.

32. If you stay on the same road long enough, it will eventually have 3 new names.

33. You only buy your beer and soda by the case.

34. You

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You know you're from Wisconsin when...

You can taste a difference in cheese made somewhere else

You own at least one tie or peice of jewelry with a Green Bay Packer theme

You can find and pronounce : Eau Claire, Oconomowoc, Menomonee Falls, Waukesha, and La Crosse, Fond du Lac.

You can correctly spell Milwaukee.

You know what "bubbler" means.

A holstein cow outside of Wisconsin makes you miss home.

When talking about the Green Bay Packers you refer to them as "we". I do this one all the time, and get made fun of for it...

When the weather hits 0 degrees you decide that maybe it's time to get out a jacket instead of a sweatshirt.

You know what a brat is, and they're at every outdoor event that your family has ever had.

You can tell the difference between the smell of cow manure and pig manure.

You have watched Fargo and not noticed an accent.

You can identify a Michigan accent.

You can make sense out of the words "upnort" and "Trivers".

You have to go to Florida to get a tan in August.

You can visit Luxemburg, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Berlin, New London & Poland all in one afternoon.

You can recognize someone from Illinois from their driving.

You know what to do with a Blatz.

You don't have a coughing fit from one sip of Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Bucky the Badger hangs on your Christmas tree even if you didn't go to University of Wisconsinm Madison.

You can use the word "ya der hey" easily in a sentence

You own a cheesehead

You have cow pharaphenilia around your house, including your pajama pants

You think of the major four food groups as cheese, beer, brats and Jell-O salad with marshmallows.

You have ever partied at Summerfest, Festa Italiana, German Fest, Irish Fest, Oktoberfest, or all of the above.

You can't be friends with Bears or Vikings fans Yevren's an exception to this rule...

Your idea of diversity is having black, white, and brown cows.

You don't know what 'smog' looks like

You don't laugh when you hear Dickeyville because you realized at a young age that it's actually a place.

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