You know you're a Coloradoan if....

[tfox]

Originally Posted by jazzlover

Oh yeah, and when somebody calls you a Coloradoan, you say it's COLORADAN--the "Coloradoan" is just a newspaper in Fort Collins that doesn't know how to spell! After all, we don't call people from Mexico "Mexicoans," now do we?

I noticed that in Fort Collins, most people do say "Coloradoan" as a result. I guess that FC has it's own mini-dialect.

[rebagirl]

Oh yeah, and when somebody calls you a Coloradoan, you say it's COLORADAN--the "Coloradoan" is just a newspaper in Fort Collins that doesn't know how to spell! After all, we don't call people from Mexico "Mexicoans," now do we?[/quote]

So we drop the "O" in Colorado. What then do we call someone from either Ohio or Idaho? Just wondering.

[jazzlover]

Last time I checked Idaho and Ohio weren't Spanish names.

[FromBroomfield]

I think I've heard Ohian beore, but not Idahan (lol).

[Mike from back east]

Being from Baltimore....I'm a Baltimoron....

[CO mom in paradise]

you are so funny Mike! lol...

much love and aloha from the Hawaiian (but always a Coloradan through and through

[CinamonStyxx]

Originally Posted by jazzlover

. . . you are "moving in" on a pretty (blonde) female tourist at the bar, and--reading the appetizer menu on the wall--she asks you what body of water the Rocky Mountain Oysters come from. You proceed to spill your beer all over her Chic jeans and fall off of the bar stool onto the floor--smashing your Copenhagen tin in your back pocket of your Wranglers--because you are laughing so hard. She doesn't think it's a funny question . . .

Oh yeah, and when somebody calls you a Coloradoan, you say it's COLORADAN--the "Coloradoan" is just a newspaper in Fort Collins that doesn't know how to spell! After all, we don't call people from Mexico "Mexicoans," now do we?

Jazzlover, do I know you? Thank you for letting me know there are others of us out there. I appreciate your opinions and the information you are willing to share with those who are so recently Coloradans. I lost my home town < Boulder > during the early '60s when I left to follow my new husband on his military obligation. When we returned from an even smaller N. Michigan village in 3 1/2 years, my home was unrecognizable, and all the " local rules" and expectations were changed. The new people actually had the hubris to HONK if you didnt turn through the oncoming traffic, and other big-city irrationalities. Things like no longer waiting at the corner to cross, having been taught that cars were bigger than we were, and it was only smart to let them go past first. I remember being extrememly upset < being polite > as I noticed our state and local governments seemed to be bleeding to death and more and more liberals were appearing in those formerly respected positions. And no, pot is not legal, fool. When did the overwhelming motto for Colorado become...SELL COLORADO ! I still have times when I feel yes, Colorado is being sold...sold right down the river, and our Agriculture and Western lifestyle with it. I prefer to be on a positive note, but sometimes ...neutral is the best I can manage; I miss my home state.