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If by Pat Lafontaine you mean DOMINIC HASEK then I have to agree :D :D

I remember watching Brett Hull kick that freaking puck in. Grrrrrrrrr

I am from Ohio.
* No, I did not go cow tipping as a kid
* I have never lived on a farm
* Going to the dairy to feed the goats is a perfectly respectible passtime
* I voted blue and I am proud of it
* I would claim all of my golf entertainment and dinners, given the chance to be governor
* Columbus is neither part of the rust belt nor part of the rubber belt, but I have friends that work in both industries
* Life does revolve around Buckeye football, and that's the way it should be.

I live in Berkeley, CA:
- I have never gone to (or pretended to be) a psychic
- I do not smoke weed
- I only occasionally eat tofu
- I am not in love with the Grateful Dead
- I am not gay, nor am I a Wiccan (although I have friends of each group)
- Go Bears!
- I shop at the grocery store, ond only occasionally at the Farmers Market
- I believe there are much better places to drink and dine than Telegraph
- I do not drive a VW Beetle
- I do recycle

I guess I fail at all stereotypes...yes, I was born & raised in Music City USA, & while I am a musician, I despise country music, & my musician friends are all of the same mindset...downtown Nashville does NOT look like the set of HeeHaw, we do NOT all wear overalls, & if you wanna see a real farm, it's about a 45 minute drive from here...

...on the other hand, I do know that a request for a coke may really be a Sprite or Dr Pepper, & if I need to water the garden, I'll say, "Bring me the hosepipe"

Dunno if i'm a stereotype or not...nor do i care if ppl think i am

I'm an Aussie...and proud of it

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Originally Posted by Cheyanne

You've never met any celebrities
Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway
"Vacation" means driving through the Amanas or going to Adventureland
You've seen all the biggest bands ten years after they were popular
You measure distance in minutes
Down south to you means Missouri
You know several people who have hit a deer
You have no problem spelling or pronouncing "Des Moines"
You know the answer to the question "Is this Heaven?"
Your school classes were cancelled because of cold
Your school classes were cancelled because of heat
You know where all the Yoders live
*You know what "Hawks" and "Clones" are
*You've ridden the school bus for an hour each way
*You've had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day
*You think ethanol makes your truck "run a lot better"
*You know what's knee-high by the Fourth of July
*Stores don't have bags, they have sacks
*You see people wear bib overalls at funerals
*You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one in it no matter what time of the year
*You end your sentences with an unnecessary exposition. Example: "Where's my coat at?"
*All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit or vegetable
*You can locate Iowa on the United States map
*Detassling was your first job
*You've been on a "Geode Hunt"
*Your idea of a really great tenderloin is when the meat is
twice as big as the bun and accompanied only by ketchup and a dill pickle slice

*You learn your pickup will run without a muffler
*You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked
*When asked how your trip was to any foreign, exotic place, you say "It was different"
*Being a bit younger, you remember Terry Branstad as the governor the whole time you were growing up
*You consider being called a "Pork Queen" an honor
*People from other states love to hear you say "Iowa" and other words with "Os" in them
*You carry jumper cables in your car
*You drink "pop"
*You know what the numbers I-80, 280 and 380 mean
*You know what "cow chips" are

:D

OMG Chey! ALL of those apply to me, especially when i came back from the UK and asked how my trip was. I actually said that it was different, but also added that i had an excellent time!
And the Yoders live down the road from my parents, and my dad used to drive van for hire for the Amish, and it was nicknamed the "Yoder Toter" ROFLMAO!!!

The Rine in Spine faws minely on the Pline

*Australian" is pronounced with one syllable.
*You'd respect someone who speaks Japanese, Chinese or Indonesian-- but
you'd consider it their job to learn English, rather than vice versa. You are a
bit ambivalent about schools teaching Asian or Aboriginal languages-- kids
should learn good English first.
*You can't understand why overseas people who supposedly speak the same
language have great difficulty comprehending you.
*You'd be shocked by the idea of anyone wearing "thongs" on something
other than their feet.
*"Stubbies" are either short shorts or small beer bottles, a small car accident
is a "bingle", a "drongo" or a "mug" is an idiot, someone in trouble is
in "strife" and you're liable to burst out laughing whenever you hear of
Americans "rooting" for something. . .
*For some reason, -o is a popular ending for words: arvo, combo, garbo,
kero, lezzo, metho, milko, muso, rego, Salvos, servo, smoko, speedo, etc.
*Although you do say "g'day" and "mate", rarely would you ever say things
such as "sheila", "cobber" or "dry as a dead dingo's donger".

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stuyvo

here here
can i just add that sayings such as bugger me and the little buggers are just little inoccent sayings and not insults

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stuyvo

Let me guess...Queenslander? ;)

As a Victorian not far from Melbourne, I've rarely if ever heard the reference to Stubbie shorts by other Vics, thongs are strictly summer-only wear for practical reasons, and I can swear in Greek, Italian, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, Polish, Czech, Dutch and Mandarin.

I'm from Kansas and I am the anti-redneck. It actually pisses me off when I see a Kansan with a Confederate flag on their car, or person. Goddamnit we're the only state that had war over whether it was going to enter the Union as a Free or Slave state and the fucking Abolitionists won the war, the stars and bars are not our heritage. But an imaginary crimson, and blue bird is (Rock Chalk Jayhawk).

I know there is no R in wash the work creek contains no I, and I can say nuclear correctly.

I don't live on a farm, never have, and most likely never will.

I don't know Dorthy or Toto, but I have been to Liberal.

I loathe Fred Phelps and blame him for giving my state a bad name. I wish everyone everywhere would ignore him and maybe he and his whackjob family would go away.

Hell I'm not even sure what stereotypes people have about me and my state, besides the Toto, and farm thing. Someone please fill me in.

You might be from Illinois if…

You might be from Illinois if:

-people understand that, "smooth as an Illinois road," does not mean smooth
-becoming "cultured" means learning to Texas line dance
-natural planning means an annual rotation between planning corn, soybeans and letting the ground lay
-you can close your eyes in a car and feel when you cross the state line
-you think a national treasure was lost when US Route 66 became I-55 between Chicago and St Louis
-you know how to play ‘Pididle’
-you know that Illinois is basically Chicago with a giant farm attached to it (if you live near Chicago) or a giant farm with an abcess called Chicago if you live downstate (more than 50 miles from the city)
-you yell at people who pronounce the ‘S’
-you think that there are only two seasons and they often occur on the same day
-you and your friends take road trips to Sam's Club
-you know that you only get on the interstate if you are going to the city, the airports, or out of state
-night life dies when the grain elevators close
-landfills are how mountains are formed