You know you're from...
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urocyonRather amusing meme via codeman38 and others.
1.) Go to google and type in "You know you're from [your area] when..."
2.) Cut and paste the list
3.) Bold or italicize items that apply to you.
I spent my first six years in Southern West Virginia, and the next 20+ in an adjoining part of Southwest Virginia.
Most of the generic Virginia lists I ran across were very skewed toward Northern VA or around Richmond, which prompts a couple of my own items: "Other regions of the state would prefer to forget you exist. Your taxes, however...", and "People sitting in other parts of the state will honestly argue with you that (a) your county does not exist, and (b) nobody at all lives south of Roanoke." (True, from someone at Blue Cross HQ in Richmond.)
So, I found a more suitable list: THINGS I LEARNED IN Southwest Virginia:
1) A possum is a flat animal that sleeps in the middle of the road.
2) There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 of them live in VA . -- Which, contrary to common delusions, does include water moccasins in the mountains. I can tell the difference between a swimming copperhead (or a nonvenomous water snake, or...) and a water moccasin. I still keep an eye out for snakes, living in Greater London. It's probably a bad habit to get out of. And, as soon as I could walk, I learned to stay away from outcroppings like this one:
In which Steve Irwin almost gets bitten right in the crotch while standing in the middle of a nest of timber rattlers in SWVA. Source.
3) There are 10,000 types of spiders , and all 10,000 of them live in VA . -- This would also be a downside of great biodiversity.
4) If it grows, it'll stick ya. If it crawls, it'll bite cha.
5) "Onced" and "Twiced" are words.
6) It is not a shopping cart, it's a buggy.
7) "Jaw-P?" means, "Did y'all go to the bathroom?"
8) People actually grow and eat okra. -- Yum.
9) "Afixinto" is one word.
10) There is no such thing as lunch. There is only dinner and then there is supper. -- Lunch is the inedible stuff schools serve.
11) Iced tea is appropriate for all meals, and you start drinking it when you're two. We do like a little tea with our sugar.
12) Backwards and forwards means, "I know everythin ' about you."
13) The word "jeet" is actually a phrase meaning, "Did you eat ?" -- Though, at least in the New River Valley, it has multiple syllables, more like "ju'EET". Which sounds like a rather odd bird call.
14) You don't have to wear a watch, because it doesn't matter what time it is. You work until you're done, or it's too dark to see.
15) You don't PUSH buttons, you MASH 'em.
16) You measure distance in minutes.
17) You switch from heat to A/C in the same day. -- This has been known to happen. See also, "dressing in many layers".
18) All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect or animal.
19) You know what a "Dawg" is. -- How about a feist or a cur?
20) You carry jumper cables in your car - for your own car. -- At various times, I have also carried a screwdriver to start it with, an ice scraper and squeegee for the inside of the windshield, jugs of water for the radiator, a case of oil, and rocks to chock the wheels after parking.
Keith Secola's "Indian Car"; my own decrepit Jetta was brown. ;) Source. Lyrics ("Please Mr. Officer, let me explain...").
21) You only own five spices: salt, pepper, Texas Pete, Tabasco, and ketchup.
22) The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require 6 pages for local gossip, and high school football.
23) You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday. -- Not me personally, but...
24) You find 100 degrees "a bit warm."
25) You know all four seasons : Almost summer, summer, still summer, and Christmas . -- Combine that with the "Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter, and Road Construction." variation from the list below, and you've got a good idea of climate. See also "You switch from heat to A/C in the same day." ;)
26) Going to Walmart is a favorite past time known as "goin' Walmartin" or "off to Wally World." -- If I weren't boycotting them, hey...
27) You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees), as good hog killin' weather. -- Again, not me personally... ;)
28) Fried catfish is the other white meat. -- Keep the nasty bottom feeders, and give me some bass. Please?!
29) We don't need no dang Driver's Ed.. If our mama says we can drive, we can drive, dang-nabbit...
AND.......Last but not least -- NEVER slap a man in the face if he is chewing tobacco !!!!!
And, from here, a lot of overlap! *snicker*:
YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM WEST VIRGINIA IF:
1) You've never met any celebrities. --Not in WV, to be sure. Well, I did get piggyback rides from Lou Ferrigno at the 1980 Bluefield Coal Show. Still not sure what the Incredible Hulk was doing there, but...
2) Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway.
3) “Vacation" means driving through Wyatt on the way to Morgantown.
4) You've seen all the biggest bands ten years after they were popular.
5) You measure distance in minutes.
6) Down south to you means Kentucky.
7) You know several people who have hit a deer. -- Haven't hit one myself, but have been riding in two cars that have
8) Your school classes were canceled because of cold.
9) You've ridden the school bus for an hour each way.
10) You know what's knee-high by the Fourth of July.
11) Stores don't have bags; they have pokes.
12) They don't have shoppingcarts; they have buggies.
13) You've seen people wear bib overalls at funerals. -- Did see one guy in sweatpants at a wedding...
14) You've seen a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one in it no matter what time of the year. -- With the crime rates ("West Virginia has achieved the lowest crime rate in the U. S. for more than forty years only in 2000 did West Virginia fall to #2"), why not?!
15) You end your sentences with an unnecessary preposition. Example: "Where's my coat at?" or "Where are you going to?" -- Been known to happen.
16) All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit,vegetable,or grain.
17) You think of the major four food groups as beef, pork, beer, and Jell-O salad with marshmallows.
18) You know what "cow! tipping" or "Possum Kicking" is. -- Possum kicking? Oh my.
19) You only own 3 spices: salt, pepper, and ketchup.
20) Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with ice & snow.
21) You think everyone from a bigger city has an accent.
22) You cook green beans for hours.
23) You think sexy lingerie is tube socks and a flannel nightie.
24) You don't ever park your car without setting the emergency brake. -- Except when the brake's broken. Then you can carry rocks in the trunk to chock the wheels--and still choose parking spots carefully so the car doesn't roll off! Yep, BTDT.
25) The local paper covers national and international headlines on one page, but requires 6 pages for sports.
26) You think that deer season is a national holiday. (you mean it isn't???)
27) You know which leaves make good toilet paper -- and which ones don't -- poison ivy, anyone??
28) You find 5 degrees F "a little chilly".
29) You know all 4 seasons: Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter, and Road Construction.
30) You know what a real tomato is, and have a recipe for candy ones. -- Do tomato preserves count? Yech.
31) You know if another Hillbilly is from southern, central, or northern WVas soon as they open their mouth. -- Works better for areas of VA, and further subdivisions within Southern WV and SWVA.
32) Your parents have threatened to have you sent to Pruntytown.
33) You can watch someone order a hotdog and know in what part of the state they live. - Chili AND slaw, anyone?
34) You can spell words like Allegheny, Monongalia, Monongahela, Kanawha and Hawks Nest. -- And, on the VA side of things, you don't immediately crack up upon hearing words like Pamunkey and Chickahominy.
35) You know how to pronounce Canaan and Gilmer.
36) You know that Serpent Mound was not made by snakes. -- Double points if you're descended from the folks who did build it.
37) You know at least one couple who went to Virginia or Maryland to get married.
codeman38 and others.1.) Go to google and type in "You know you're from [your area] when..."
2.) Cut and paste the list
3.) Bold or italicize items that apply to you.
I spent my first six years in Southern West Virginia, and the next 20+ in an adjoining part of Southwest Virginia.
Most of the generic Virginia lists I ran across were very skewed toward Northern VA or around Richmond, which prompts a couple of my own items: "Other regions of the state would prefer to forget you exist. Your taxes, however...", and "People sitting in other parts of the state will honestly argue with you that (a) your county does not exist, and (b) nobody at all lives south of Roanoke." (True, from someone at Blue Cross HQ in Richmond.)
So, I found a more suitable list: THINGS I LEARNED IN Southwest Virginia:
1) A possum is a flat animal that sleeps in the middle of the road.
2) There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 of them live in VA . -- Which, contrary to common delusions, does include water moccasins in the mountains. I can tell the difference between a swimming copperhead (or a nonvenomous water snake, or...) and a water moccasin. I still keep an eye out for snakes, living in Greater London. It's probably a bad habit to get out of. And, as soon as I could walk, I learned to stay away from outcroppings like this one:
In which Steve Irwin almost gets bitten right in the crotch while standing in the middle of a nest of timber rattlers in SWVA. Source.
3) There are 10,000 types of spiders , and all 10,000 of them live in VA . -- This would also be a downside of great biodiversity.
4) If it grows, it'll stick ya. If it crawls, it'll bite cha.
5) "Onced" and "Twiced" are words.
6) It is not a shopping cart, it's a buggy.
7) "Jaw-P?" means, "Did y'all go to the bathroom?"
8) People actually grow and eat okra. -- Yum.
9) "Afixinto" is one word.
10) There is no such thing as lunch. There is only dinner and then there is supper. -- Lunch is the inedible stuff schools serve.
11) Iced tea is appropriate for all meals, and you start drinking it when you're two. We do like a little tea with our sugar.
12) Backwards and forwards means, "I know everythin ' about you."
13) The word "jeet" is actually a phrase meaning, "Did you eat ?" -- Though, at least in the New River Valley, it has multiple syllables, more like "ju'EET". Which sounds like a rather odd bird call.
14) You don't have to wear a watch, because it doesn't matter what time it is. You work until you're done, or it's too dark to see.
15) You don't PUSH buttons, you MASH 'em.
16) You measure distance in minutes.
17) You switch from heat to A/C in the same day. -- This has been known to happen. See also, "dressing in many layers".
18) All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect or animal.
19) You know what a "Dawg" is. -- How about a feist or a cur?
20) You carry jumper cables in your car - for your own car. -- At various times, I have also carried a screwdriver to start it with, an ice scraper and squeegee for the inside of the windshield, jugs of water for the radiator, a case of oil, and rocks to chock the wheels after parking.
Keith Secola's "Indian Car"; my own decrepit Jetta was brown. ;) Source. Lyrics ("Please Mr. Officer, let me explain...").
21) You only own five spices: salt, pepper, Texas Pete, Tabasco, and ketchup.
22) The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require 6 pages for local gossip, and high school football.
23) You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday. -- Not me personally, but...
24) You find 100 degrees "a bit warm."
25) You know all four seasons : Almost summer, summer, still summer, and Christmas . -- Combine that with the "Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter, and Road Construction." variation from the list below, and you've got a good idea of climate. See also "You switch from heat to A/C in the same day." ;)
26) Going to Walmart is a favorite past time known as "goin' Walmartin" or "off to Wally World." -- If I weren't boycotting them, hey...
27) You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees), as good hog killin' weather. -- Again, not me personally... ;)
28) Fried catfish is the other white meat. -- Keep the nasty bottom feeders, and give me some bass. Please?!
29) We don't need no dang Driver's Ed.. If our mama says we can drive, we can drive, dang-nabbit...
AND.......Last but not least -- NEVER slap a man in the face if he is chewing tobacco !!!!!
And, from here, a lot of overlap! *snicker*:
YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM WEST VIRGINIA 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 driving through Wyatt on the way to Morgantown.
4) You've seen all the biggest bands ten years after they were popular.
5) You measure distance in minutes.
6) Down south to you means Kentucky.
7) You know several people who have hit a deer. -- Haven't hit one myself, but have been riding in two cars that have
8) Your school classes were canceled because of cold.
9) You've ridden the school bus for an hour each way.
10) You know what's knee-high by the Fourth of July.
11) Stores don't have bags; they have pokes.
12) They don't have shoppingcarts; they have buggies.
13) You've seen people wear bib overalls at funerals. -- Did see one guy in sweatpants at a wedding...
14) You've seen a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one in it no matter what time of the year. -- With the crime rates ("West Virginia has achieved the lowest crime rate in the U. S. for more than forty years only in 2000 did West Virginia fall to #2"), why not?!
15) You end your sentences with an unnecessary preposition. Example: "Where's my coat at?" or "Where are you going to?" -- Been known to happen.
16) All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit,vegetable,or grain.
17) You think of the major four food groups as beef, pork, beer, and Jell-O salad with marshmallows.
18) You know what "cow! tipping" or "Possum Kicking" is. -- Possum kicking? Oh my.
19) You only own 3 spices: salt, pepper, and ketchup.
20) Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with ice & snow.
21) You think everyone from a bigger city has an accent.
22) You cook green beans for hours.
23) You think sexy lingerie is tube socks and a flannel nightie.
24) You don't ever park your car without setting the emergency brake. -- Except when the brake's broken. Then you can carry rocks in the trunk to chock the wheels--and still choose parking spots carefully so the car doesn't roll off! Yep, BTDT.
25) The local paper covers national and international headlines on one page, but requires 6 pages for sports.
26) You think that deer season is a national holiday. (you mean it isn't???)
27) You know which leaves make good toilet paper -- and which ones don't -- poison ivy, anyone??
28) You find 5 degrees F "a little chilly".
29) You know all 4 seasons: Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter, and Road Construction.
30) You know what a real tomato is, and have a recipe for candy ones. -- Do tomato preserves count? Yech.
31) You know if another Hillbilly is from southern, central, or northern WVas soon as they open their mouth. -- Works better for areas of VA, and further subdivisions within Southern WV and SWVA.
32) Your parents have threatened to have you sent to Pruntytown.
33) You can watch someone order a hotdog and know in what part of the state they live. - Chili AND slaw, anyone?
34) You can spell words like Allegheny, Monongalia, Monongahela, Kanawha and Hawks Nest. -- And, on the VA side of things, you don't immediately crack up upon hearing words like Pamunkey and Chickahominy.
35) You know how to pronounce Canaan and Gilmer.
36) You know that Serpent Mound was not made by snakes. -- Double points if you're descended from the folks who did build it.
37) You know at least one couple who went to Virginia or Maryland to get married.
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Date: 2010-07-30 04:56 pm (UTC)And I'm surprised that cow tipping was on
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Date: 2010-07-30 05:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-30 07:56 pm (UTC)35 on the West Virginia list cracked me up. I vacation annually in Canaan. :D