[Buzz123]

You must be from Las Vegas if:

1. You ever ran into Siegfried in the drug store buying something to put on Roy’s tiger claw scratches…and HE recognized YOU!
2. You ignore that tall, thin, frumpy looking lady with three kids in line ahead of you at the supermarket, until you realize that last night, on stage at the Tropicana, she was the most elegant, and beautiful, showgirl you thought you’d ever seen.
3. You're always lamenting about how much you miss the good old days when the mob ran everything.
4. You claim to have known at least fifteen or so dead entertainers that no one but you can remember.
5. You tell all your friends that you never go down on the strip unless you have visitors from out of town, but you've already seen seventeen shows this year.
6. You've ever been in the same room, at the same time, with an entertainer, a local politician, and a Mafia capo…and the conversation was about the good old days when the mob ran everything.
7. You actually know a “Blue Man”.
8. Standing on a corner, in any part of town, a friend ever asked if you’d like to go to Starbuck's, and you ask, “The one next door, or the one across the street?”
9. You've ever actually fried an egg on the sidewalk…and you had scrubbed the cement down first so the egg wouldn't go to waste.
10. You claim that you don’t like buffets, but your refrigerator is pasted with two-fers for every buffet in town.
11. You remember when “buffets” were known locally as “chuck wagons”, and real cowboys ate there along with the tourists. That was in the good old days when the mob ran everything.
12. You miss hanging out at five or six hotels that have been imploded…this week! You remember when the mob only imploded cars.
13. You ever paid $50.00 for a permanently attached, retractable sunshade for your car’s windshield from Avi at Fantastic Flea Market, and you have at least six of the free, fold-up, cardboard kind in the trunk.
14. Your windows are tinted so dark that you can’t see out during the day, let alone at night, but the temp in your car still reaches 180 degrees in July.
15. Your idea of Sunday with the family is touring several dozen of the 300 or so model homes currently available. Number and location changes daily. (Written prior to the RE meltdown)16. You hate California drivers, especially when they are out touring the same model homes as you.
17. You've ever been snow skiing at Mt. Charleston and water skiing at Lake Mead … in the same day.
18. You tell all your friends that you miss cold weather – but when the temperature drops below 70°, you put on every sweater you own.
19. You have had to assure your friends back East that NO, we don’t all live in hotel rooms on the Strip, there is actually a very large city here with normal type houses.
20. You've ever stood waist deep in your pool with dust in your eyes during a sandstorm.
21. You now deny that the mob ever ran anything...but you miss them anyway.

[bledsoe3]

You welcome the rain.

[hockeygirl4]

1. You open your box of Christmas candles only to find they melted over the summer and are now sideways with no wick to be found.

2. You encounter vicious road rage on a Sunday by parishoners either heading into mass, or coming from mass. When they leave, apparently they're all blessed and can cut anyone off in traffic again.

3. As a resident, you avoid the Strip like the plague and your visitors can not believe it's not THE hangout for locals.

4. You see every costumed super hero posing for pictures on Fremont and The Strip with visitors...for a fee of course.

5. Every time you take visitors to Hoover Dam, you notice the water levels dropping more and more each time.

[tony soprano]

Originally Posted by Juxtaposition109

Please post your contributions if you have them!

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[DKJJ]

You know you're in Vegas when.....

- You're decorating your palm tree for Xmas
- When it's pitch dark at 8pm in July
- When you see more roaches walking around at night, then you see dogs walking around during the day

[DKJJ]

You know you're in Vegas when....

- One moment you're in NY, the next one you're in Paris and minutes later you're in Rome


Maybe one of the mods can put the other thread into this one btw

[DavieJ89]

You dont have tolls to pay on the 215

Your house is less then 10 years old

Your house looks exactly like 19 others on your block

You think driving 10 miles is far

One lane one the freeway is moving at 50 mph, the other at 85 mph

You may be the only english speaker in line at Kmart

You spend most of your time stuck in traffic

Every road is down to one lane on each side due to road construction

You have a membership at Las Vegas Athletic Club

You've been to the strip 3 times since 2000

Nevada license plates are in the minority on the road

You're the only Floridian in town

You get your gas at Terrible's Funny's or Grumpy's

You never travel on Lake Mead east of Rancho because its too scary

You love looking at the mountains around the city

[Juxtaposition109]

So true about never going to the strip. I was a casino dealer in Henderson and every time my sister would come into town she would want to go to the strip and play blackjack. She would get so pissed when I would roll my eyes and say, "You want to go to the strip, really?" OMG I hate going to the strip and I especially hate driving anywhere near it.

Another one is that you know you live in Las Vegas when you officially want to stab the next person that you hear say, "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas!" Because they think that is just so bloody clever.

[DKJJ]

Originally Posted by Juxtaposition109

So true about never going to the strip. I was a casino dealer in Henderson and every time my sister would come into town she would want to go to the strip and play blackjack. She would get so pissed when I would roll my eyes and say, "You want to go to the strip, really?" OMG I hate going to the strip and I especially hate driving anywhere near it.

Another one is that you know you live in Las Vegas when you officially want to stab the next person that you hear say, "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas!" Because they think that is just so bloody clever.

LOL, I always like to embarress my gf by sayin: ''Thank you, thank you very much'' at a restaurant or whatever
Of course I do it with my ''Elvis voice'' lol

[tijlover]

When you travel to the mosquito belts of this country for a vacation, you start itching and scratching like crazy, and you head to a pharmacy to buy some lotion for removing lice. And you're puzzled, rattled, as you haven't picked up a prostitute in 10 years!