[_redbird_]

Originally Posted by cindycat

Sallisaw Henryetta Wagoner Catoosa.

Duh. I didn't even "get" this one until just now. Boy, am I dense this morning. Need caffeine.

[cindycat]

Originally Posted by _redbird_

Duh. I didn't even "get" this one until just now. Boy, am I dense this morning. Need caffeine.

Yes, "Sallisaw Henryetta Wagoner Catoosa" works better if you say it out loud.

And for Lady Robyn: It's older than somebody's hills because my mother taught it to me - - and I'm 64 years old! There's another one along that same line but I can't drag it out of my febble ole brain right now.

[okpondlady]

Originally Posted by okpondlady

1. You can properly pronounce Eufaula, Gotebo, Okemah, and Chickasha.
2. You think that people who complain about the wind in their states are sissies.
3. A tornado warning siren is your signal to go out in the yard and look for a funnel.
4. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway.
5. You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
6. You know that the true value of a parking space is not determined by the distance to the door, but by the availability of shade.
7. Stores don't have bags, they have sacks.
8. You see people wear bib overalls at funerals.
9. You think everyone from a bigger city has an accent.
10. You measure distance in minutes.
11. You refer to the capital of Oklahoma as "The City."
12. It doesn't bother you to use an airport named for a man who died in an airplane crash.
13. Little smokies are something you serve only for special occasions.
14. You go to the lake because you think it is like going to the ocean.
15. You listen to the weather forecast before picking out an outfit.
16. You know cowpies are not made of beef.
17. Someone you know has used a football schedule to plan their wedding date.
18. You have known someone who has had one belt buckle bigger than your fist.
19. A bad traffic jam involves two cars staring each other down at a four-way stop, each determined to be the most polite and let the other go first.
20. You know in which state Mi-am-uh is and in which state Mi-am-ee is.
21. You aren't surprised to find movie rental, ammunition, and bait all in the same store.
22. Your "place at the lake" has wheels under it.
23. A Mercedes Benz is not a status symbol. A Ford F350 4x4 is.
24. You know everything goes better with Ranch.
25. You learned how to shoot a gun before you learned how to multiply.

I have to say... Although I am an Okie....Borne and Bred... Grew up on Texanna Road in McIntosh County, I have always prided myself on not being a "HICK". I grew up there but soon split for horizons that looked alot brighter at 18. Lived in Tahlequah, Tulsa, Tampa, OKC.. Then back in Tulsa again for almost 15 years. Then I moved back to Checotah. It was one of those "Sigh... I'm Home.." Relief kinda feelings.

I read this and realized.... OMG I AM ONE OF THEM... And it ain't that much of a bad thing.

[_redbird_]

Let's not forget the "ka" towns! Wewoka, Wetumka, Weleetka, Sasakwa. DOH! The last one doesn't quite fit. I sowwy.

Wewoka=barking water I don't know what the others mean. Does anyone else?

[BornToFly]

I know how to pronounce a lot of the towns that most out-of-staters might get wrong, but I bet some of them are still gonna get me. A little 'pronouce this town' quiz is one of the first things my Okie friend entertained himself with when we first started talking a while back. He got a good laugh out of my pronounciations of Chickasha and a few others I've forgotten now. What are some others people get wrong (besides My-am-uh)?

[colleeng47]

Originally Posted by J double R

oh dear.. I think i'm a real live okie now!

Me too!

[colleeng47]

Originally Posted by cindycat

Yes, "Sallisaw Henryetta Wagoner Catoosa" works better if you say it out loud.

And for Lady Robyn: It's older than somebody's hills because my mother taught it to me - - and I'm 64 years old! There's another one along that same line but I can't drag it out of my febble ole brain right now.

Okay, y'all I don't drink caffeine, so it took me a LOT longer to "get" this one. Cute.

[BornToFly]

Originally Posted by cindycat

Yes, "Sallisaw Henryetta Wagoner Catoosa" works better if you say it out loud.

I said it out loud several times, but I must be saying it wrong, cuz I don't think I get it. Is it supposed to be funny?

[LadyRobyn]

Originally Posted by BornToFly

I said it out loud several times, but I must be saying it wrong, cuz I don't think I get it. Is it supposed to be funny?

I don't think it works with a Maine "accent"

Sally saw Henryetta "waggin'" her Catoosa.

[BornToFly]

Oh.. yeah, that's what I got, but it wasn't that funny...