Jeff Boyes
jpboyes at earthlink.net
Fri Feb 14 10:33:00 CST 2003
Ditto for us Coloradoans. Jeff -------Original Message------- From: "Klos, Susan" <Susan.Klos at fldoe.org> Sent: 02/14/03 09:25 AM To: "'accessd at databaseadvisors.com'" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT Humor: You Might be from Kansas If... > > These are great, Seth! I am from Oklahoma (no! not OU the other school. Do most people know there is another one?) and understood all of them. Many apply to Oklahomans (some with slight changes). -----Original Message----- From: Seth Galitzer [mailto:sgsax at ksu.edu] Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 11:10 AM To: accessd Subject: [AccessD] OT Humor: You Might be from Kansas If... OK, being the resident Kansan here (or at least one of the few), I think I am qualified to post this. Some are just plain stereotypes, but others are very true... Happy Friday! Seth ------------------------------------- You Might be from Kansas If... 1. You no longer associate bridges or rivers with water. 2. You have never met any celebrities. (Bob Dole isn't a celebrity; he's your neighbor.) 3. You know the meaning of Rock Chalk Jayhawk. 4. Your closest neighbor is more than a mile away and you can still see him from your front porch. 5. You can properly pronounce Salina, Basehor, Cimmeron, Schoenchen, Kechi and Osawatomie. 6. Going on vacation means going to Hutch to the fair or to Abilene to Ike's museum 7. A 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. 8. A Mercedes Benz is not a status symbol. A Ford F10 4x4 is.(Except in Johnson County) 9. You discover that in July it takes only 2 fingers to drive your car. 10. The terms Sooners and Huskers cause hairs on the back of your neck to stand up straight and your blood pressure to rise. 11. You have owned at least one belt buckle bigger than your fist. 12. You think people who complain about the wind and weather in their states are SISSIES! 13. You are not surprised to find movie rentals, ammunition and bait all in the same store. 14. 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. 15. You have been asked, "Where is Toto" more than once. 16. You had at least one summer job that was bucking bales or custom cutting. 17. More than once you've made a beer run to another state. 18. You learned how to shoot a gun before you learned to multiply. 19. Your school classes have been canceled because of the cold. 20. You know in your heart that K-State can beat Oklahoma in football. 21. Traffic congestion is ten cars waiting to pass a combine on the hig hway. 22. You have had to switch from heat to A/C in the same day. 23. You know everything goes better with Ranch. 24. Your school classes have been canceled because of the heat. 25. You have ridden the school bus for more than an hour each way. 26. In August, you break a sweat the instant you step outside at 7:00a.m. 27. You instantly know someone is from Johnson County when they call everything west of Topeka... "Western" Kansas. 28. A tornado warning siren is your signal to go out in the yard and look for a funnel. 29. You know the real way to pronounce the name of Clinton's state and the river... arKANSAS. 30. You think the opening day of pheasant season is a national holiday. 31. "Vacation" means going to Kansas City or Wichita for the weekend. 32. You measure distance in hours. 33. You know several people who have hit more than one deer. 34. You see people wearing hunting clothes at social events. 35. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked. 36. You think of the major food groups as beer, beef and beans. 37. You carry jumper cables in your car and make sure your better half knows how to use them. 38. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit. 39. You know the 4 seasons as: summer, road construction, still summer, winter. 40. It takes you 3 hours to go to the store for one item even when you're in a rush because you have to stop and talk to everyone in town. 41. You lock the doors to your truck but leave the windows rolled down. 42. You call sodas just plain ol' "Pop"!! 43. FINALLY..... you are 100% Kansan if........... You actually understand these jokes and forward them to all your friends from Kansas. -- Seth Galitzer sgsax at ksu.edu Computing Specialist http://puma.agron.ksu.edu/~sgsax Dept. of Plant Pathology Kansas State University _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >