Where Do You Live?

You know you are from Kansas City when...

1. You have experienced at least half of the things on the above lists.
2. You experience all four seasons on your drive to work.
3. You prounounce Missouri "Mizoree" and not "Mizzorah"
4. People from the Northern Midwest think you sound southern, and people from the Southern Midwest think you sound northern.
5. You are in cow country after driving for 30 minutes.
6. You see old trucks with Confederate flags plastered on the the rear window.
7.Your town mayor lives in the same neighborhood as you.
8. You get angry when people from the coasts think that you actually live on a farm.
9. You have learned to bbq before you have passed grade school
10. You get angry when you are tailgating at a sporting event and the people next to you pop out a gas grill.
11. You are more interested in a newspaper than a Royals game

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Top ten signs you're from Philadelphia....

10.You don't think Wawa sounds funny
9. You snub a cheese steak that isn't on an Amoroso roll.
8.Your parents, brother, sisters, aunts, and uncles all live on the same block.
7. You know who Jim O'Brien is, and how he died.
6. You can't imagine breakfast without scrapple.
5. You're still not sure about Jerry Penacolli.
4. A vacation at the Jersey shore (pronounced "the shoore") is better than going to an island. (There's more stuff to do, plus you know everybody.)
3. You know where to find the Rocky statue.
2. You know only tourists go to Geno's, Pat's, and Jim's for authentic cheese steaks. You only go if you're drunk and it is 3:00 AM.
1. You buy a soft pretzel at a traffic light, without wondering where the guy goes to wash his hands. And you don't really care.

I find the majority of these to be very true, especially the ones about Wawa, the shore, and scrapple. Gotta love scrapple!!!
 
Good call with the Wawa and Scrapple, applies just south of you in DE as well.

Mom and fiance couldn't get by without Wawa coffee in the morning, and I can't get by a full breakfast w/o scrapple.
 
We already did all these in another thread, although great job with the Philly Wawa
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Could also go for Atlantic City.
 
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I think people in Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana are the only ones that know how to play it, or for that matter have even heard of it.

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Nope. They played it a lot when I was at U of I. It was a late night post bar game. However, I was one of the guys who went to bed after the bars if all I had to do to entertain myself was play cards.
 
I'll gladly admit that I haven't run down a deer while lusting for opening day, but most of the others apply to me in spades!
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Yes, likrkt, I'm a Michigander through and through. I grew up in Flint (actually had a gun pulled on me for driving a Honda while at a stoplight), spent a lot of time in AA (Ann Arbor, not Alcoholics Anonymous), love Blue and Maize (NOT YELLOW!), was an extra in "Escanaba in da moonlight" (Drove to Escanaba from Marquette just to sit in that darn stadium and not be seen on camera . . . ), have a Petosky stone in my flight bag, played Euchre almost every day during lunch in high school, have a T-shirt that says "I ran through Hell and survived" from a 5k road race, miss Mackniac Island Fudge ice cream dearly (nobody carries it in California), went 'up north' to my parents cabin on Lake Huron for years, lived among the yoopers from '96 to '03, and sold our house and left great jobs just so that we could move back to Marquette and live a life of fishing, hiking, biking, and kayaking.

Huge bonuses to anyone who has been to Angelo's or the Gandy Dancer, knows what ACMIF is, remembers the double decker billboard on I-75 before it became a stupid astronaut insurance ad, and can name the Mackinac ferry lines . . .
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Angelo's is John and my FAVORITE breakfast place!!!!!!!!!!! Haven't been to Gandy Dancer yet (too expensive) but one of my excoworkers was interviewed there and her chair had chocolate icing on it...when she got up to use the bathroom, it looked rather um...bad
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The double decker billboard is still there - drive past it every time we go to john's home in the thumb
 
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Oh, my. I bet there's lots of cute girls out there that could go for such a clumsy yet amazingly witty guy.
 
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The double decker billboard is still there - drive past it every time we go to john's home in the thumb

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Yes, but do you remember what it was BEFORE it became the stupid astronaut? It's been about 5 years, but it was once a Buick City icon.
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Boy, did you hit the nail on the head. Gawd do I miss Michigan. If you haven’t ridden on the Arnold line or Sheppler’s you haven’t lived.
 
that michigan stuff is right on. i laughed my ass off. i'm guilty of everyone of those things on the list. i think michigan is also th only place where you'll hear entire sections of the state referred to as the "lakeshore". i've never heard that term used anywhere else. is that even a word?
 
hey so with all these michiganders here, would any of you want to get together and do lunch some time? perhaps in Lansing so both east and west coasters can show up?
 
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hey so with all these michiganders here, would any of you want to get together and do lunch some time? perhaps in Lansing so both east and west coasters can show up?

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Or you could come to Fresno so that we could hang out and make me feel like I'm 'home' for the first time since September!
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And, for the record, the old billboard said "Welcome to Buick City" (aka Flint) and DTA hit two of the three ferry lines. The third is the Star line. The hydro ferries are fun, but the old Arnold ferries are the best!

I'll head back that way as soon as I get enough hours under my belt to get a descent job in that neck o' the woods. Probably be a few years, but I'll make it back.
 
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Or you could come to Fresno so that we could hang out and make me feel like I'm 'home' for the first time since September!



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Don't let him fool you. He won't feel at home no matter who visits until well past October. Not now that it's hitting 100 degrees. I'm surprised he's even able to walk in full uniform, rather than curl up in a sweatball on the floor. Damn northerners!
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