Oct 27, 2005 21:35
You Know You're From Maryland When...
-You know more than 10 people who own boats and they all park them at the same marina in Annapolis
-You can pronounce and spell "Pocomoke," "Mattaponi," "Accokeek," and "Havre de Grace"
-You prononce "Bowie" BOO-ie not BOW-ie or BAUW-ie
-1 hour is an easy commute to work
-You have more than three recipies for crabcakes
-French fries just don't taste right without Old Bay
-There are more than two crab places in your town
-Even your high school cafeteria made good crabcakes
-You got your first lacrosse stick before you were six years old
-You call all turtles "terrapins"
-You refer to your state as "Merlind"
-Your mother shops at Hecht's
-You still call Six Flags America "Adventure World", or even "Wild World"
-You still remember the Wild World commercial (Wild World's the cure for the summertime blues!)
-You can tell the difference between the smells of septic and marsh.
-You not only know how to eat hard crabs but you also know how to catch them, cook them and tell the males from the females.
-You don't think that Assawoman Bay is a strange name for a body of water.
-You know perfectly well why Rehoboth is called "Little San Francisco"
-M R Ducks makes perfect sense.
-So does C M Wangs.
-You think Salisbury is a big city.
-You think of dumplings as wet slippery squares of boiled dough.
-You and your boss take off of work when the fish are running or the ducks are flying in..
-You've eaten muskrat at a church dinner but think it's better the way you fix it.
-You think of "Dairy Queen" as a pageant title and not a place to get an ice cream.
-"Formal wear" is a ball cap, a flannel shirt and Timberlands.
-You still root for the Orioles even when they suck
-You'll never understand why tourists come to DC.
-When in Florida, you can only laugh when you see signs saying "Real Maryland Blue Crab Cakes!"
-You color with "Crowns", take a "Share" with "Wooter" and think the president lives in "Warshenton."
-You know the difference between Glen Burnie ghetto and Catonsville ghetto.
-Your whole family lives within a 200 mile radius of your town.
-Dale Earnhardt's accident was a close personal loss to your father
-At least one man in your family is a waterman
-You plan for "The Festival" a year in advance.
-During the summer, you spend more time in Ocean City than at home.
-Margret Heater, Hedspace, Jepetto, Outside Joke and Mary Prankster are people you think are "Famous"
-Your radio dial is stuck on 97.9 (since 99.1 is Spanish now)
-You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Maryland.
-Your radio dial is stuck on 97.9 (since 99.1 is Spanish now) haaaaaa hahahaha sarah!!!! omg lol