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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.
I'm doing a Baltimore one and then a neighborhood specific one. :)
1. You could pick crabs before you could walk.
2. From snow to hurricanes to heat waves, you've seen every kind of weather imaginable.
3. 695 gets you everywhere.
4. You stress the "Oh" in the U.S. National Anthem.
5. It's "DC", not "Washington"; "Hopkins", not "Johns Hopkins", and "goin' downa' ocean" means you're off to Ocean City, Bethany, or Rehoboth.
6. You've had relatives imprisoned at Ft. McHenry.
7. Half your high school graduating class went to College Park.
8. The opening of a Wegman's was the greatest thing to happen to your city in ten years.
9. You put Old Bay on everything.
10. You hate the Yankees, the Steelers, and especially the Colts.
11. The murder rate is higher than the graduation rate.
12. You can go 1 inch beyond the city line and know that you're out of the city.
13. You don't wash your clothes, you "warsh" them.
14. You can pronounce "Havre de Grace." (Not the French way, the Baltimore way.)
15. You've gotten lost and ended up in the projects.
16. You know that The Power Plant is not for the production of electricity.
17. You're pissed off that we have to share our only airport with DC (I mean, don't they already have 2?)
18. You remember when the Orioles were good.
19. You say "wuder", not "water".
20. On September 11, when you heard terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, you thought they meant the tower by the Harbor.
21. You know where to get the best crabs, crab cakes, and crab soup.
22. You eat snowballs, not throw them.
23. Cal Ripken was your childhood hero.
24. You're considered a Southerner when visiting New England, and you're a Yankee when visiting the South.
25. Distance is measured in minutes.
26. You know when to avoid the Bay Bridge.
27. Every one of your parents' childhood memories revolves around a Colts game.
28. A Berger is not something you grill.
29. Your Senator's website features a recipe for crabcakes.
30. You can spot a Baltimore accent immediately.
31. You watch a John Waters or Barry Levinson movie and recognize someone.
32. Artscape is the event of the season.
33. Five homicides is a good day for your town.
34. Lacrosse ain't no city in Wisconsin.
35. School is out when there's an inch of snow, but when you can't get out of your driveway you somehow have to go.
36. You know what Natty Boh is.
37. The idea of crabs without Old Bay makes you sick.
38. You think living 45 minutes from the nation's capital, 1.5 hours from Philadelphia, and 3.5 hours from New York City is the greatest thing in the world.
39. You think HBO's "The Wire" isn't violent enough.
40. Your car has a bumper sticker that says "BLIEVE HON"
41. The Washington Monument in your city is not a white obelisk.
42. You go to The Fudgery at The Harborplace just to hear singing.
43. You didn't realize that horses race at Preakness.
44. You leave the U.S. and people ask you where you're from, you reply "near Washington" to avoid confusion.
1. The Rec was where you first started playing sports.
2. You either went to Roland Park or Robert Poole for middle school. If your parents had money you went to St. Thomas
3. St. Thomas had the same kinds in the same class every year from pre-k to 8th grade.
4. You know that kid Clint used to stand behind the fence at St. Thomas and want to play kickball with us cool kids
5. You werent allowed past 41st street without permission until you were at least 13.
6. You got pissed when they took out Roy Rodgers food place and replaced it with a McDonalds.
7. Roland Parks Lax team didnt lose a game for 3 seasons before Mr. Cushman left.
8. Hanging out at the park in Medfield sitting on the steps or playground for 5 hours was the cool thing to do.
9. You played in the Hampden/Medfield football rivalry every season. You switched between the portables and medfield's huge field each weekend.
10. If you lived in Medfield you knew you would lose all the time because Gary stacked his team.
11. You could date a girl for a month, break up, and within 20 minutes be friends and act like nothing happened.
12. Most of your friends from middle school are now teen parents.
13. You drive down Falls road 9 times out of 10 you see a shirtless Joey Keener yelling at someone.
14. Theres a good chance you see your friends' sisters walking around Hampden/Medfield dressed like sluts.
15. Menace......enough said
16. You know who headjob helen was and know she was pretty before the drugs kicked in
17. You can walk into the liquor store next to Subway on Falls road and get served....even if your 15.
18. The 41st street Royal Farms workers are all lazy as hell.
19. Theres now 3 7-11s in a 3 mile radius between Medfield and Remington.
20. If you are at a red light in Hampden, a junkie will walk to your window for change.
21. Falls Road Carry Out gives you food poisoning almost immediately.
22. You remember Hansons before it became New System Bakery.
23. Walking through Wyman Park was fun
24. Everyone and their mother know Wilbur/"Under Armour"Will...either by friendship,sports, or bar hopping.
25. Whip is Hampden's version of Chuck Liddell
26. All of your friends and their parents have smoked weed at one point or still do.
27. The cops in Hampden pick up hookers for pleasure not enforcement.
28. You probably have smoked weed with Baltimore Citys finest cops or firefighters at some point in your life.
29. Dimitris is the cool place for old men to start drinking at 8 in the morning.
30. One of your friends are always in jail.
31. Hampden small fry baseball was cool until we got our asses kicked yearly at the Hamilton Tournament.
32. Up until 3 years ago, Hampdens travel teams were non-existent
33. Chucks was the place to go after playing baseball at Robert Poole.
34. Chucks always had rubber balls in stock for fast pitch on the back lot next to Berry Street.
35. Mike Ohmans house was considered a grand slam for the length you hit the ball.
36. You had boxing gloves and boxed in someones basement for fun.
37. You remember wearing those stupid brady anderson jerseys to the hamiltion tournament. Literally everyone had Anderson on the back of their jerseys with the number 9
38. You played indoor soccer and basketball for Richard Wheatley
39. You played softball on that crappy field behind the church across the street from the Rec.
40. Summer Camp at the Rec was awesome. Brown box lunches and swimming in the Big Pool.
41. The field trips to places like the zoo and aquarium with the camp.
42. You despise the annual Mayors Christmas Parade each year because of crappy traffic but you love the parade itself.
43. Getting drunk on your front porch when it gets dark is perfectly acceptable
44. In Medfield, if you werent sitting around writing stuff about other people on the playground slide or playing sports, you were playing catchers around the blue and red buildings.
45. You remember when that stupid skate park at the Rec used to be a basketball court.
46. You went/go to Tunnies on a regular basis(had to add this)
47. You thought it was cool to sneak through Wymans park to hop the fence and play at Hopkins field when it got cold and snowy.
48. You go/went to Independence High School
49. You meet at Poly or the Rec on Sundays to play pick up football
50. you go to the same bars as your parents.
pwnmastersaurus
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.
I'm doing a Baltimore one and then a neighborhood specific one. :)
1. You could pick crabs before you could walk.
2. From snow to hurricanes to heat waves, you've seen every kind of weather imaginable.
3. 695 gets you everywhere.
4. You stress the "Oh" in the U.S. National Anthem.
5. It's "DC", not "Washington"; "Hopkins", not "Johns Hopkins", and "goin' downa' ocean" means you're off to Ocean City, Bethany, or Rehoboth.
6. You've had relatives imprisoned at Ft. McHenry.
7. Half your high school graduating class went to College Park.
8. The opening of a Wegman's was the greatest thing to happen to your city in ten years.
9. You put Old Bay on everything.
10. You hate the Yankees, the Steelers, and especially the Colts.
11. The murder rate is higher than the graduation rate.
12. You can go 1 inch beyond the city line and know that you're out of the city.
13. You don't wash your clothes, you "warsh" them.
14. You can pronounce "Havre de Grace." (Not the French way, the Baltimore way.)
15. You've gotten lost and ended up in the projects.
16. You know that The Power Plant is not for the production of electricity.
17. You're pissed off that we have to share our only airport with DC (I mean, don't they already have 2?)
18. You remember when the Orioles were good.
19. You say "wuder", not "water".
20. On September 11, when you heard terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, you thought they meant the tower by the Harbor.
21. You know where to get the best crabs, crab cakes, and crab soup.
22. You eat snowballs, not throw them.
23. Cal Ripken was your childhood hero.
24. You're considered a Southerner when visiting New England, and you're a Yankee when visiting the South.
25. Distance is measured in minutes.
26. You know when to avoid the Bay Bridge.
27. Every one of your parents' childhood memories revolves around a Colts game.
28. A Berger is not something you grill.
29. Your Senator's website features a recipe for crabcakes.
30. You can spot a Baltimore accent immediately.
31. You watch a John Waters or Barry Levinson movie and recognize someone.
32. Artscape is the event of the season.
33. Five homicides is a good day for your town.
34. Lacrosse ain't no city in Wisconsin.
35. School is out when there's an inch of snow, but when you can't get out of your driveway you somehow have to go.
36. You know what Natty Boh is.
37. The idea of crabs without Old Bay makes you sick.
38. You think living 45 minutes from the nation's capital, 1.5 hours from Philadelphia, and 3.5 hours from New York City is the greatest thing in the world.
39. You think HBO's "The Wire" isn't violent enough.
40. Your car has a bumper sticker that says "BLIEVE HON"
41. The Washington Monument in your city is not a white obelisk.
42. You go to The Fudgery at The Harborplace just to hear singing.
43. You didn't realize that horses race at Preakness.
44. You leave the U.S. and people ask you where you're from, you reply "near Washington" to avoid confusion.
1. The Rec was where you first started playing sports.
2. You either went to Roland Park or Robert Poole for middle school. If your parents had money you went to St. Thomas
3. St. Thomas had the same kinds in the same class every year from pre-k to 8th grade.
4. You know that kid Clint used to stand behind the fence at St. Thomas and want to play kickball with us cool kids
5. You werent allowed past 41st street without permission until you were at least 13.
6. You got pissed when they took out Roy Rodgers food place and replaced it with a McDonalds.
7. Roland Parks Lax team didnt lose a game for 3 seasons before Mr. Cushman left.
8. Hanging out at the park in Medfield sitting on the steps or playground for 5 hours was the cool thing to do.
9. You played in the Hampden/Medfield football rivalry every season. You switched between the portables and medfield's huge field each weekend.
10. If you lived in Medfield you knew you would lose all the time because Gary stacked his team.
11. You could date a girl for a month, break up, and within 20 minutes be friends and act like nothing happened.
12. Most of your friends from middle school are now teen parents.
13. You drive down Falls road 9 times out of 10 you see a shirtless Joey Keener yelling at someone.
14. Theres a good chance you see your friends' sisters walking around Hampden/Medfield dressed like sluts.
15. Menace......enough said
16. You know who headjob helen was and know she was pretty before the drugs kicked in
17. You can walk into the liquor store next to Subway on Falls road and get served....even if your 15.
18. The 41st street Royal Farms workers are all lazy as hell.
19. Theres now 3 7-11s in a 3 mile radius between Medfield and Remington.
20. If you are at a red light in Hampden, a junkie will walk to your window for change.
21. Falls Road Carry Out gives you food poisoning almost immediately.
22. You remember Hansons before it became New System Bakery.
23. Walking through Wyman Park was fun
24. Everyone and their mother know Wilbur/"Under Armour"Will...either by friendship,sports, or bar hopping.
25. Whip is Hampden's version of Chuck Liddell
26. All of your friends and their parents have smoked weed at one point or still do.
27. The cops in Hampden pick up hookers for pleasure not enforcement.
28. You probably have smoked weed with Baltimore Citys finest cops or firefighters at some point in your life.
29. Dimitris is the cool place for old men to start drinking at 8 in the morning.
30. One of your friends are always in jail.
31. Hampden small fry baseball was cool until we got our asses kicked yearly at the Hamilton Tournament.
32. Up until 3 years ago, Hampdens travel teams were non-existent
33. Chucks was the place to go after playing baseball at Robert Poole.
34. Chucks always had rubber balls in stock for fast pitch on the back lot next to Berry Street.
35. Mike Ohmans house was considered a grand slam for the length you hit the ball.
36. You had boxing gloves and boxed in someones basement for fun.
37. You remember wearing those stupid brady anderson jerseys to the hamiltion tournament. Literally everyone had Anderson on the back of their jerseys with the number 9
38. You played indoor soccer and basketball for Richard Wheatley
39. You played softball on that crappy field behind the church across the street from the Rec.
40. Summer Camp at the Rec was awesome. Brown box lunches and swimming in the Big Pool.
41. The field trips to places like the zoo and aquarium with the camp.
42. You despise the annual Mayors Christmas Parade each year because of crappy traffic but you love the parade itself.
43. Getting drunk on your front porch when it gets dark is perfectly acceptable
44. In Medfield, if you werent sitting around writing stuff about other people on the playground slide or playing sports, you were playing catchers around the blue and red buildings.
45. You remember when that stupid skate park at the Rec used to be a basketball court.
46. You went/go to Tunnies on a regular basis(had to add this)
47. You thought it was cool to sneak through Wymans park to hop the fence and play at Hopkins field when it got cold and snowy.
48. You go/went to Independence High School
49. You meet at Poly or the Rec on Sundays to play pick up football
50. you go to the same bars as your parents.