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