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1. You never actually say "Ohio", you say "O-hi-ya".
2. You pronounce "New York" like "Nee Yerk".
3. You think everything west of Columbus is a giant cornfield.
4. You think West Virginia is nothing but hillbillies even though you pass it everytime you go to Virginia Beach, Nags Head, Myrtle Beach, Florida, etc. (usual vacation spots for Ohioans)
5. Seasons don't exist, the weather is completely random. You shovel snow and wear shorts and flip flops on the same week.
6. You think only 1 inch of snow is "not enough to do anything"
7. You hate on Michigan even though you go to the Mackinac Island for vacation.
8. You know what a sweeper is.
9. You never say "You're welcome" after somebody tells you "Thank you"
10. You sometimes receive change in Canadian currency.
11. You know what the game "Corn hole" is and played it before.
12. You know the "Wright Brothers" were actually raised in Ohio.
13. 50 degrees is shorts weather
14. Girls wear skirts with boots in the winter
15. The Liberal hippies and Republican football players actually get along well.
1. You never actually say "Ohio", you say "O-hi-ya".
2. You pronounce "New York" like "Nee Yerk".
3. You think everything west of Columbus is a giant cornfield.
4. You think West Virginia is nothing but hillbillies even though you pass it everytime you go to Virginia Beach, Nags Head, Myrtle Beach, Florida, etc. (usual vacation spots for Ohioans)
5. Seasons don't exist, the weather is completely random. You shovel snow and wear shorts and flip flops on the same week.
6. You think only 1 inch of snow is "not enough to do anything"
7. You hate on Michigan even though you go to the Mackinac Island for vacation.
8. You know what a sweeper is.
9. You never say "You're welcome" after somebody tells you "Thank you"
10. You sometimes receive change in Canadian currency.
11. You know what the game "Corn hole" is and played it before.
12. You know the "Wright Brothers" were actually raised in Ohio.
13. 50 degrees is shorts weather
14. Girls wear skirts with boots in the winter
15. The Liberal hippies and Republican football players actually get along well.
Really, you don't do number 9?
And number 11 sounds icky
1. You have hiked up a golf course, or mountain at least once to get to a keg party.
2. You never went to a bar in high school - your parents had one!
3. The fact that the Merritt and the Hutch were the same highway but named differently just because they are in two different states makes perfect sense to you.
4. You thought no one could buy beer after 8 PM.
5. You think New Jersey is a toxic waste dump.
6. You party on the beach of Long Island Sound.
7. You drive to New York...just to buy beer.
8. You have deer in your backyard on a daily basis
9. Your family owns more than one house, and twice as many cars as drivers.
10. At least one parent works in New York City. They take the train.
11. You know the crucial difference between SoNo and SoHo.
12. Your high school has Crew, and competes internationally.
13. You have taken riding lessons at the towns Riding Club.
14. In high school you drank outside, regularly.
15. You laugh when people here consider themselves middle class but make $150k/yr.
16. The diner is the only place open after midnight.
17. You have at least 10 friends who drive Jeeps so they can go skiing for free in Vermont.
18. You root for all the New York sports teams.
19. Anybody asks, you're from just outside of New York.
20. You've never looked at a public bus schedule. You would also never get on one.
21. You know girls and guys that have the same names.
22. You think Bridgeport is the worst ghetto you've ever seen.
23. You spend the summer on Cape Cod, Nantucket, Marthas Vineyard or Rhode Island.
24. When you go to a real city, you sincerely feel bad for the poor/homeless people and throw them a 20.
25. The cars in your high school's parking lot were worth more than the teacher's cars.
26. You were pissed that your sixteenth birthday car was a new sedan instead of an SUV.
27. You never really went on a "real date" in high school.
28. You know what Okemo is (and you or a friend owns a house there).
29. You grew up wondering where the old cars in the parking lot at the grocery store came from. Then you realized "SOMEONE has to work there!"
30. You found it easy to drink college seniors under the table within the first week of college.
31. You don't have an accent.
32. No really, you don't have an accent.
33. You know how to play Beruit, and how it differs from Beer Pong.
34. You have more than one country club in your town.
35. Youre a Russo sister, sun or moon
36. Your high school sent more than 10 kids to Boston College.
37. You get pissed at anyone that doesn't know how to drive in the snow.
38. You think religious people are funny.
39. Republicans are evil, and Democrats are wimps. You're in between.
40. You know what the Meadows are.
41. Eastern Connecticut is hick to you, even though it's more densely populated than 95% of the country.
42. The recent "plaid fad" began in your hometown 15 years ago.
43. You don't think you're a yuppie but the rest of the country does.
44. You have an iMac.
45. "The South" begins at the Delaware Memorial Bridge - no questions asked.
46. You've been to NYC four million times, but Boston five.
47. You drive 75 in a 55 with your hybrid.
48. Two words: Asian Invasion.
49. You tailgate just so nobody can get in front of you.
50. The only way you'll go in the waters of Long Island Sound is if there's a boat under you.
Oh, that quote was from the Virginia post,lol...I was wondering for a second because I knew I never said something like that...I thought I had a blackout while posting
You know you're from Kentucky when:
No matter how much you think you talk normally, when you head up North they all think you talk like a redneck
Your English teacher says things like "Y'all" and "Ain't Got None"
The best restaurant in town is the Cracker Barrel
No matter how bad UK's basketball team is, you still belive they'll pull it off and make it to the Final 4
You still believe the South should be it's own nation
You believe the Civil War was not a far fight
It's not an uncommon site to see a fat man in overalls and a cowboy hat drivin' down the road in a beat up Chevy with a confederate flag hangin' off the back with music from Johhny Rebel blastin' out of his radio
Biscuits, gravy, and grits is your favorite breakfast
Wakin' up with coons and squirrels on your back porch is not an uncommon thing
To you, huntin' aint killin', its sorta like grocery shoppin'
You own at least 10 country or southern rock cd's
You only own a pair of church shoes and winter shoes
In the summer you don't wear shoes
Even your grandmother chews tobacco
You consider the northern part of the country "The Union"
A rebel flag doesn't symbolize racism to you
Your church parking lot is filled with pickups
The first words out of your mouth every time you see friends are "Howdy!", "HEY!" or "How Y'all Doin'?"
You actually know who Toby Keith, Brooks& Dunn, Keith Urban, Montgomery Gentry, Tim McGraw, Kenny Chesney, Garth Brooks, and George Straight are.
A carbonated soft drink is a COKE, regardless of brand or flavor.
You refer to Louisville as "The Ville."
You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Kentucky.
Some of these are true. I'll let y'all figure out which ones
Your international airport has only one passenger flight that actually leaves the 48 contiguous states
The in-state sports rivalry is paid more attention to than the national championship
You live in an area that occasionally gets considerable snowfalls, floods, and tornadoes… but have no capacity to deal with any of the above
You pronounce the name of your city different than anyone else you’ve heard
You think the rest of the people in Kentucky sound like hicks
When you think “Kentucky” you don’t automatically think horse racing or fried chicken
You ask your doctor for an allergy cure and he tells you to move
You’ve shoveled 10+ inches of snow and worn shorts in the same week
When people ask what school you went to, they don’t mean Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, or Harvard; they mean St. X, Trinity, Male, Sacred Heart or Assumption
You know what the “Bambi Walk” is
You’ll always call Fourth Street Live the Galleria
Your last ten vacations were to Destin with at least five other families from Louisville who you already see on a weekly basis
You make an emergency run to Kroger for bread and milk at the first sighting of a snowflake
You’ve lived here for years, yet somehow you get hopelessly lost each time you attempt a shortcut through Cherokee Park
You’re convinced turn signals are useless options on a vehicle
You hold up traffic to let a motorist you don’t know into your lane
You give directions based on landmarks that no longer exist or street names that have changed, but your directions never confuse any of the other Louisvillians;
You have never been to the Derby, but wouldn’t miss the Oaks
You call in sick to attend the Oaks and spot your boss&em;who also called in sick&em;at the next betting window;
You introduced your friends to mint juleps in college only until you found yourself the only one not passed out at the party
You think all the “REAL HICKS” live in New Albany
You think the only thing southern Indiana is good for is buying pumpkins
When introduced to another life long Louisvillian, you spend the first part of the conversation finding out how you are connected. it’s never as many as six degrees of separation-usually three will do
You think a pervert is someone who would rather have sex than watch basketball;
You’ve built a shrine to Rick Pitino in your basement
You can read about Rick Pitino in at least three different sections of your newspaper
You think the rest of the world knows what “Benedictine Spread” is
You think the rest of the world knows what a “Hot Brown” is
You have never eaten fish that wasn’t fried
You think the whole world puts spaghetti in chili (I don't and it better be SPICY or it isn't chili, it's soup)
You want another bridge built over the Ohio River, just so long as it doesn’t cut through your neighborhood
You’ve experienced a salt storm after a two inch snowfall
Your English teacher says things like "Y'all" and "Ain't Got None"
I'm from South Carolina and my English teacher says "y'all" and possibly "ain't". "Y'all" is proper English though. I've heard plenty of different kinds of people use that word, from high class to low class to in speeches. "Ain't" may be another story, though.
I'm from South Carolina and my English teacher says "y'all" and possibly "ain't". "Y'all" is proper English though. I've heard plenty of different kinds of people use that word, from high class to low class to in speeches. "Ain't" may be another story, though.
I'm from South Carolina and my English teacher says "y'all" and possibly "ain't". "Y'all" is proper English though. I've heard plenty of different kinds of people use that word, from high class to low class to in speeches. "Ain't" may be another story, though.
I think y'all is a perfect word. I grew up saying "you guys" but really that dosn't fit in every situation and seems silly now that I'm older...other words are just too long. Y'all is a perfect fit
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