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1. Go to Google and type, "You know you're from (your city or state) when...." (hit "I'm feeling lucky")
2. Cut and paste the list.
3. Bold the items that apply to you.
* You’ve had arguments over the comparative quality of Fried Dough. (Well I haven't, because I hate fried dough, but the rest of my family does~)
* You call four inches of snow “a dusting.”
* You don’t understand why there aren’t fried clam shacks elsewhere in the country.
* You know what an Irving is and the location of 15 of them. (What? Who doesn't know what an Irving is?)
* You knew all the flavors at Perry’s Nut House.
* Your car is covered in yellow-green dust in May.
* You can drive the Augusta traffic circle without slowing down. (My parents can..)
* You’ve hung out at a gravel pit. (They're fun places!)
* You think a mosquito could be a species of bird.
* You once skipped school and went to Bar Harbor, Old Orchard Beach or Reid State Park. (We went to OOB on beach day at school :D)
* Even your school cafeteria made good chowder.
* You’ve almost fallen asleep driving between Houlton and Presque Isle.
* You know how to pronounce Calais.
* You’ve gone to a Grange bean supper.
* In high school, you (or a friend) packed Deering Ice Cream cones.
* At least once in your life, a seagull pooped on your head.
* At least once in your life you’ve said, “It smells like the mill in here.”
* There’s a fruit and vegetable stand within 10 minutes of your house. (An organic fruits and vegetable stand too.)
* You crave Italian sandwiches at least weekly. (lol, most of these apply to my family but not me because I'm weird. Usually after work my mom picks up Italians for everyone.)
* Your house converts to a B&B every July and August for people from away that you happen to know.
* All year long you’re tracking sand in the house-from the beach in the summer and the roads and sidewalks in the winter.
* You have to have the sand cleaned out of your brake system every spring.
* You do the majority of your shopping out of Uncle Henry’s. (What? It's fun looking through all the ads!)
* You’ve ditched the car on the side of the road somewhere because you thought you saw some good fiddleheads!
* You know a lobster pot is a trap, not a kettle.
* You know not to plant tender crops until the last full moon in May.
* You go to the dump and bring back more than you brought. (It's called a swap shop, of course we're gonna grab as much free crap as we can!)
* You’ve watched “Murder she Wrote” and snickered at the stupid fake accents.
* You know how to find the rope swing at the quarry.
* You take the New Hampshire toll personally. (Cmon, we're like 15 minutes from you guys! Why the hell should we have to pay!?)
* You always wave when you see a Maine license plate in another state. ( |D )
* When you’re supposed to dress up, you wear flannel with a tie.
* There’s too much “stuff” in your 2 “cah” garage to get either of your cars into it. (We have a lot of bikes, okay? And only those hicks in northern Maine actually pronounce it like that.)
* You know what a frappe is. (What? Who doesn't?)
* L.L. Bean’s not just a store, it’s a way of life. (...I hate LL Bean jokes. Juuuust because we live in Maine doesn't mean we only wear hiking boots and flannel.)
* “The City” means exclusively Portland.
* You’ve made a meal out of a Jordan’s red dye hot-dog, a bag of Humpty Dumpty potato chips and a can of soda.
* “Salt damage” is a viable insurance claim.
* All of the traffic lights blink yellow at 10 o’clock at night.
* It’s not a storm - it’s a Nor’eastah. (Nuh uh. Noreasters are only the reeeeeeally big storms.)
* “Open 24/7″ might as well be Greek.
* More stores have “Bienvenue” flags than “Welcome” flags.
* You eat ice cream with flavors like ‘Moose Tracks” and “Maine Black Bear”. (You mean.. they don't have Moose Tracks outside of Maine?? *childhood ruined*)
* You know that a chocolate doughnut is not a white doughnut with chocolate frosting. (Pfft, who thinks it's a regular donut with chocolate frosting? Thaaat's just stupid.)
* You wouldn’t eat beans in tomato sauce or Manhattan clam chowder if you were starving! (I don't get it.. but I wouldn't..)
* As a child, you played outside in a snow storm without hat, mittens, scarf and with your jacket open because it was just a little cool. (*nodnod*)
* The area around your back door is referred to as “the dooryard”.
* You eat potato chips with flavors such as “clam dip”, “ketchup” and “dill pickle”.
* You call the basement “downcellah.”
* There is only one shopping plaza in town.
* You use “wicked” as a multipurpose part of speech. (Where the fuck did this come from? The only people I hear saying wicked are those damn hicks up north!)
* Your pickup has more mud on it then the ground around it for a 15 foot radius.
* More than 1/2 the meat in your freezer is moose.
* You enjoy a hot chocolate more than a margarita. (*is a minor*)
* If your “luxury vehicle” is a twelve-year-old rustbucket on wheels.
* If your dog eats better than you do, and more often too.
* If you never say what you paid for an item but how much you “give” for it.
* You know that “stove up” has nothing to do with cooking.
* You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Maine. (Yeah, I'll give them to my NORTHERN MAINE friends! Which I don't have because they're all losers up there!)
Aha... er, yes, I am racist against people in the northern half of the state. They're the ones who are always going moose hunting and saying things like 'wicked'.
2. Cut and paste the list.
3. Bold the items that apply to you.
* You’ve had arguments over the comparative quality of Fried Dough. (Well I haven't, because I hate fried dough, but the rest of my family does~)
* You call four inches of snow “a dusting.”
* You don’t understand why there aren’t fried clam shacks elsewhere in the country.
* You know what an Irving is and the location of 15 of them. (What? Who doesn't know what an Irving is?)
* You knew all the flavors at Perry’s Nut House.
* Your car is covered in yellow-green dust in May.
* You can drive the Augusta traffic circle without slowing down. (My parents can..)
* You’ve hung out at a gravel pit. (They're fun places!)
* You think a mosquito could be a species of bird.
* You once skipped school and went to Bar Harbor, Old Orchard Beach or Reid State Park. (We went to OOB on beach day at school :D)
* Even your school cafeteria made good chowder.
* You’ve almost fallen asleep driving between Houlton and Presque Isle.
* You know how to pronounce Calais.
* You’ve gone to a Grange bean supper.
* In high school, you (or a friend) packed Deering Ice Cream cones.
* At least once in your life, a seagull pooped on your head.
* At least once in your life you’ve said, “It smells like the mill in here.”
* There’s a fruit and vegetable stand within 10 minutes of your house. (An organic fruits and vegetable stand too.)
* You crave Italian sandwiches at least weekly. (lol, most of these apply to my family but not me because I'm weird. Usually after work my mom picks up Italians for everyone.)
* Your house converts to a B&B every July and August for people from away that you happen to know.
* All year long you’re tracking sand in the house-from the beach in the summer and the roads and sidewalks in the winter.
* You have to have the sand cleaned out of your brake system every spring.
* You do the majority of your shopping out of Uncle Henry’s. (What? It's fun looking through all the ads!)
* You’ve ditched the car on the side of the road somewhere because you thought you saw some good fiddleheads!
* You know a lobster pot is a trap, not a kettle.
* You know not to plant tender crops until the last full moon in May.
* You go to the dump and bring back more than you brought. (It's called a swap shop, of course we're gonna grab as much free crap as we can!)
* You’ve watched “Murder she Wrote” and snickered at the stupid fake accents.
* You know how to find the rope swing at the quarry.
* You take the New Hampshire toll personally. (Cmon, we're like 15 minutes from you guys! Why the hell should we have to pay!?)
* You always wave when you see a Maine license plate in another state. ( |D )
* When you’re supposed to dress up, you wear flannel with a tie.
* There’s too much “stuff” in your 2 “cah” garage to get either of your cars into it. (We have a lot of bikes, okay? And only those hicks in northern Maine actually pronounce it like that.)
* You know what a frappe is. (What? Who doesn't?)
* L.L. Bean’s not just a store, it’s a way of life. (...I hate LL Bean jokes. Juuuust because we live in Maine doesn't mean we only wear hiking boots and flannel.)
* “The City” means exclusively Portland.
* You’ve made a meal out of a Jordan’s red dye hot-dog, a bag of Humpty Dumpty potato chips and a can of soda.
* “Salt damage” is a viable insurance claim.
* All of the traffic lights blink yellow at 10 o’clock at night.
* It’s not a storm - it’s a Nor’eastah. (Nuh uh. Noreasters are only the reeeeeeally big storms.)
* “Open 24/7″ might as well be Greek.
* More stores have “Bienvenue” flags than “Welcome” flags.
* You eat ice cream with flavors like ‘Moose Tracks” and “Maine Black Bear”. (You mean.. they don't have Moose Tracks outside of Maine?? *childhood ruined*)
* You know that a chocolate doughnut is not a white doughnut with chocolate frosting. (Pfft, who thinks it's a regular donut with chocolate frosting? Thaaat's just stupid.)
* You wouldn’t eat beans in tomato sauce or Manhattan clam chowder if you were starving! (I don't get it.. but I wouldn't..)
* As a child, you played outside in a snow storm without hat, mittens, scarf and with your jacket open because it was just a little cool. (*nodnod*)
* The area around your back door is referred to as “the dooryard”.
* You eat potato chips with flavors such as “clam dip”, “ketchup” and “dill pickle”.
* You call the basement “downcellah.”
* There is only one shopping plaza in town.
* You use “wicked” as a multipurpose part of speech. (Where the fuck did this come from? The only people I hear saying wicked are those damn hicks up north!)
* Your pickup has more mud on it then the ground around it for a 15 foot radius.
* More than 1/2 the meat in your freezer is moose.
* You enjoy a hot chocolate more than a margarita. (*is a minor*)
* If your “luxury vehicle” is a twelve-year-old rustbucket on wheels.
* If your dog eats better than you do, and more often too.
* If you never say what you paid for an item but how much you “give” for it.
* You know that “stove up” has nothing to do with cooking.
* You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Maine. (Yeah, I'll give them to my NORTHERN MAINE friends! Which I don't have because they're all losers up there!)
Aha... er, yes, I am racist against people in the northern half of the state. They're the ones who are always going moose hunting and saying things like 'wicked'.