For our Okies...
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LOL I'm only a tiny bit >.< but I've only lived here 2 years :P and some of that stuff overlaps from AL and TN.
1. I admit to not knowing any of them except Chickasha lol
2. LOL I do now!
3. guilty?
4. heh, but thats been in all the places I've lived.
5. I dont have an AC :shock: but I have been known to go from a shearling coat right down to a tank top
6. well, duh....I'm from FL LOL
10. meh, thats the whole south too...
11. we only HAVE two cities and Tulsa barely counts LOL
15. every day!!!!!!
17. I dont, but I'd believe it...
20.. This one drives my mom crazy, she's from "Miam-ee" :lol:
21. that's nothing, in alabama it included tanning and liquor. :laugh1
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How many have to apply (says the girl who has never even been to Oklahoma...)?? There's a number of them that fit...
I have to laugh, as we do watch FoxNews in the AM, and hubby has heard them say "Mizzuree", while I always say "Mizzurah"...had him wondering if we had two states that were very close in name. He still gives me a "look" when I talk about the Dakotas or the Carolinas... :laugh1
Diane
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Oh, so many of those fit...especially the ranch dressing and sweet tea (is there any other kind?)...
Diane - :laugh1 are you trying to confuse the poor man?
It is like how, both New Englanders and Carolinians refer to the coastal area as Down East. I was talking to an aquaintence yesterday, who happened to be from Maine, about a friend of ours who was heading Down East on vacation. I told her I suggested to my friend that she get a stronger SPF tanning lotion as the sun would be boiling this past week (temps in the mid-90s)...poor woman from Maine thought I was daft. :laugh1
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>>3 . A tornado warning
> siren is your signal to go
> out in the yard and
> look for a funnel. [b]TX[/b]
5. You've
> ever had to switch from
> "heat" to "A/C" and back
> again in The same day. [b]TX[/b]
>
> 6. You know that the
> true value of a
> parking space is not
> determined by the distance
> to the door, but by the
> availability of
> shade. [b]TX[/b]
10. You
> measure distance in
> minutes. ("I'm about 5
> minutes away.") [b]TX: "a little ways" (prepare to go far) [/b]
> 15. You listen
> to the weather forecast
> before picking out an
> outfit. [b]TX[/b]
>
> 16. You know
> cowpies are not made of
> beef. [b]TX[/b]
>
>
> 17. Someone
> you know has used a
> football schedule to plan
> their wedding
> date. [b]TX[/b]
>
> 18. You have
> known someone who has had
> more than one belt
> buckle bigger than your
> fist. [b]TX[/b]
>
>
> 19. A bad
> traffic jam involves two
> cars staring each other
> down at a four-way stop,
> each determined to be the
> most polite and let
> the other go first. [b]NOT[/b] TX
>
> 21. You aren't
> surprised to find movie
> rental, ammunition, a
> cappuccino machine and
> live bait all in the same
> store. [b]Yup. But that one is not restricted to the south. A new England store where my husband lived for a while, had a sign: "If we don't have it, you don't need it" :roll: He said it was pretty much true. [/b]
>
> 22. Your
> "place at the lake" has
> wheels under it. [b]Yup[/b]
>
> 23.
> A Mercedes Benz is not a
> status symbol. A Ford
> F350 4x4 is. [b]So TX [/b]
>
> 24. You
> know everything goes better
> with Ranch dressing and sweet
> tea. [b]General south? [/b]
>
> 25. You
> learned how to shoot a gun
> before you learned how to
> multiply. [b]That assumes they learned to how multiply. Uh. Numbers on paper. In real life most seem to manage the other kind of multiplying quite admirably.[/b] :oops:
>
> 26. You
> actually get these jokes
> and are "fixin" to send
> them to your friends. [b]You bet![/b] :lol:
>
>
> 27. Finally, you are
> 100% Oklahoman if
> you have ever heard this
> conversation:
> "You wanna Coke?"
> "Yeah."
> "What kind?"
> "Dr Pepper." [b]Yes, very TX.[/b] :mrgreen: [b]Plus try having a convenience store in TX that does not sell Dr Peppers. You won't last long........ [/b]
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[quote="Sara"]One of my students used to ride for the Miami Equestrian Team. I was so confused at first...[/quote]
Uh, which I know is not in Oklahoma at all (Ohio, actually) but that's just where my brain went when I read this. I don't always finish my own thoughts. :oops:
Why do we have to reuse so many city names anyway? Just this morning I got a response to a horse ad from someone in Cleveland... Alabama??
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That is great, I love it. Almost all of them apply to us. They left a town off the list of correct pronunciations: Honobia. Ho nubby. Oh, and in the community we live in (Hontubby, not to be confused with Honobia) we conisder it a traffic jam when more than one car has to stop because they're waiting on the people on horses to get across the bridge. We also ride our 4 wheelers to friends' houses if they live within 5 minutes or so. We take our handheld navigation up the mountain to map our trails horseback.