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El Supremo

(20,365 posts)
Thu Oct 11, 2012, 01:08 PM Oct 2012

YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM OKLAHOMA IF...

- You know the difference between the city of Durant and the city of Doo-rant.

- It doesn't seem odd to see the term "chicken fried chicken" on a menu.

- You have used the phrase "fixin' to" during the last 12 months.

- Someone you know has used a football schedule to plan their wedding date.

- A tornado warning siren is your signal to go out in the yard and look for a funnel.

- It doesn't seem peculiar if your spouse says "I'm going in to town for something" even though you live in town.

- You can properly pronounce Eufaula, Gotebo, and Okemah.

- You can remember the last 12 times a state legislator seriously introduced a bill involving castration, and he didn't mean farm animals.

- You don't turn on the news until 20 minutes past the hour, because sports is the only thing you care about anyway.

- You know exactly what calf fries are, and eat them anyway.

- When someone refers to the current season, you have no idea if they mean spring, summer, fall, winter or football.

- "Howdy" seems to be a normal way of greeting another adult, with no irony intended.

- You think that people who complain about the wind in other states are sissies.

- It bothers you not one iota to use an airport named for a man who died in an airplane crash.

- 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.

- You know in which state Miam-uh is and in which state Miam-ee is.

And - You save all your life for your dream vacation, and use it to go to the OU/Texas game.


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YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM OKLAHOMA IF... (Original Post) El Supremo Oct 2012 OP
These are amusing... a la izquierda Oct 2012 #1

a la izquierda

(11,795 posts)
1. These are amusing...
Fri Oct 12, 2012, 09:12 AM
Oct 2012

I say fixin' to (I even say it in Spanish). I was mortified about the name of the airport when I moved to OKC from California. Everyone in the west eats "oysters" except the vegetarians (I'm of the veggie persuasion). I know the different pronunciations of Durant and Miami. And there's no wind like Oklahoma's. Except maybe in the Great Lakes areas.

I was born in NJ, and got called a Yankee the 8 years I lived in Oklahoma. God I miss that state.

Oh, and when the sirens go off, it's time to grab a beer and head for the driveway. I did that once in Ohio and my neighbors thought I was insane.

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