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camper4lyfe1. Go to Google (or Yahoo) and type, "You know you're from (your state) when . . . "
2. Cut and paste the list
3. Bold the items that apply to you.
You define summer as three months of bad sledding.
You think that people from Pennsylvania have an accent.
Your idea of a seven-course meal is a six pack of Genny and a bucket of Buffalo wings.
You believe that "down south" means Maryland.
You bake with soda and drink pop.
You define candy on a stick as sucker and a hapless, hopeless individual as a moron.
Halloween is snowed out with great regularity.
You have experienced frostbite and sunburn in the same week.
You know that Buffalo not only exists, but that it isn't far from Hell.
Your favorite holidays are Christmas, Thanksgiving, and the opening of huntin' season.
Your snowmobile, lawn mower and fishing boat all have big block Chevy engines.
Your year has two seasons: Winter and Construction.
Half the change in your pocket is Canadian, eh.
Half the television channels you get are Canadian, eh.
It's a disgrace to buy Fuji products.
From May to October there is a festival every weekend celebrating a different fruit, vegetable, or agricultural product, but absolutely nothing happening the remainder of the year.
Every vehicle you own has a ski rack or a gun rack.
You can accurately judge people as to their social status by determining which Wegmans store they shop at.
You can go to any mall on Saturday and see at least 5 people you either work with, went to school with or dated.
The new line of spring fashions to hit the stores is actually comprised of leftovers from the 1991 line in NYC.
A musical comes to town 10 years after its Broadway premiere and the entire town goes nuts! (ex. Miss Saigon)
You wake up from a deep sleep, look at the clock and see that it's 6:00 but you have no idea whether it's am or pm.
18+ inches of snow falls overnight, but you never thought of NOT going to work.
You are perplexed when friends from other cities come to visit and want to "see the sights."
A flagpole strung with white lights seems like an acceptable alternative to a municipal Christmas tree.
You can compare Nick Tahoe's garbage plate to at least 3 other knock-offs in competing restaurants.
You can't swim at the beach.
Toronto is about 70 miles away, but it takes about three hours to get there.
The name "Greater Rochester International Airport" is bigger than the airport itself.
You know that a "Can of Worms" is not something you take fishing.
In a city where it snows at least 90 inches a year, they build a new sports stadium with no roof on it.
Buildings with statues of guys with wings on the tops of them is not unusual to you.
It can be 70 degrees one day, below freezing the next, and you think nothing of it.
You order a white hot and a pop, and the counterman knows what you're talking about.
You can travel from Egypt to Greece in about a half hour by car.
A snow storm advisory means you must go shop at Wegmans!
Any new construction project downtown that comprises over ten stories is worthy of a detailed front-page account in the newspaper.
The temperature hits 45 degrees and the sun comes out in any month between November and April, people walk around downtown wearing shades and no jackets.
You and the cat are peacefully napping in front of the TV set, with the volume at a comfortable level, and a Gabriele Ford commercial comes on at twice the decibel level, causing you to bolt upright and the cat to leave gouge marks in your lap.
Wegmans is a somewhere to go on a Friday night, for entertainment.
We know who Vinnie and Angelo are.
2. Cut and paste the list
3. Bold the items that apply to you.
You define summer as three months of bad sledding.
You think that people from Pennsylvania have an accent.
Your idea of a seven-course meal is a six pack of Genny and a bucket of Buffalo wings.
You believe that "down south" means Maryland.
You bake with soda and drink pop.
You define candy on a stick as sucker and a hapless, hopeless individual as a moron.
Halloween is snowed out with great regularity.
You have experienced frostbite and sunburn in the same week.
You know that Buffalo not only exists, but that it isn't far from Hell.
Your favorite holidays are Christmas, Thanksgiving, and the opening of huntin' season.
Your snowmobile, lawn mower and fishing boat all have big block Chevy engines.
Your year has two seasons: Winter and Construction.
Half the change in your pocket is Canadian, eh.
Half the television channels you get are Canadian, eh.
It's a disgrace to buy Fuji products.
From May to October there is a festival every weekend celebrating a different fruit, vegetable, or agricultural product, but absolutely nothing happening the remainder of the year.
Every vehicle you own has a ski rack or a gun rack.
You can accurately judge people as to their social status by determining which Wegmans store they shop at.
You can go to any mall on Saturday and see at least 5 people you either work with, went to school with or dated.
The new line of spring fashions to hit the stores is actually comprised of leftovers from the 1991 line in NYC.
A musical comes to town 10 years after its Broadway premiere and the entire town goes nuts! (ex. Miss Saigon)
You wake up from a deep sleep, look at the clock and see that it's 6:00 but you have no idea whether it's am or pm.
18+ inches of snow falls overnight, but you never thought of NOT going to work.
You are perplexed when friends from other cities come to visit and want to "see the sights."
A flagpole strung with white lights seems like an acceptable alternative to a municipal Christmas tree.
You can compare Nick Tahoe's garbage plate to at least 3 other knock-offs in competing restaurants.
You can't swim at the beach.
Toronto is about 70 miles away, but it takes about three hours to get there.
The name "Greater Rochester International Airport" is bigger than the airport itself.
You know that a "Can of Worms" is not something you take fishing.
In a city where it snows at least 90 inches a year, they build a new sports stadium with no roof on it.
Buildings with statues of guys with wings on the tops of them is not unusual to you.
It can be 70 degrees one day, below freezing the next, and you think nothing of it.
You order a white hot and a pop, and the counterman knows what you're talking about.
You can travel from Egypt to Greece in about a half hour by car.
A snow storm advisory means you must go shop at Wegmans!
Any new construction project downtown that comprises over ten stories is worthy of a detailed front-page account in the newspaper.
The temperature hits 45 degrees and the sun comes out in any month between November and April, people walk around downtown wearing shades and no jackets.
You and the cat are peacefully napping in front of the TV set, with the volume at a comfortable level, and a Gabriele Ford commercial comes on at twice the decibel level, causing you to bolt upright and the cat to leave gouge marks in your lap.
Wegmans is a somewhere to go on a Friday night, for entertainment.
We know who Vinnie and Angelo are.
