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You might be a Yankee if…

December 28th, 2001
  1. You think barbecue is a verb meaning “to cook outside.”
  2. You think Heinz Ketchup is SPICY!
  3. You don’t have any problems pronouncing “Worcestershire sauce”
    correctly.
  4. You don’t know what a moon pie is.
  5. You’ve never had grain alcohol.
  6. You’ve never, ever, eaten Okra.
  7. You eat fried chicken with a knife and fork.
  8. You’ve never seen a live chicken, and the only cows you’ve seen
    are on
    road trips.
  9. You have no idea what a polecat is.
  10. You don’t see anything wrong with putting a sweater on a poodle.
  11. You don’t have bangs.
  12. You would rather vacation at Martha’s Vineyard than Six Flags.
  13. More than two generations of your family have been kicked out of
    the same
    prep school in Connecticut.
  14. You would rather have your son become a lawyer than grow up to get
    his own
    TV fishing show.
  15. Instead of referring to two or more people as “y’all,” you call
    them
    “you guys,” even if both of them are women.
  16. You don’t think Howard Stern has an accent.
  17. You think more money should go to important scientific research at
    your
    university than to pay the salary of the head football coach.
  18. You don’t have at least one can of WD-40 somewhere around the
    house.
  19. The last time you smiled was when you prevented someone from
    getting on an
    on-ramp on the highway.
  20. You don’t have any hats in your closet that advertise feed stores.
  21. The farthest south you’ve ever been is the perfume counter at
    Neiman Marcus.
  22. You call binoculars “opera glasses.”
  23. You can’t spit out the car window without pulling over to the side
    of the
    road and stopping.
  24. You would never wear pink or an applique sweatshirt.
  25. You don’t know what applique is.
  26. You don’t know anyone with two first names (i.e. Joe Bob, Billy
    Bob,
    Kay Bob, Bob Bob)
  27. You don’t have doilies, and you certainly don’t know how to make
    one.
  28. You’ve never been to a craft show.
  29. You get freaked out when people on the subway talk to you.
  30. You can’t do your laundry without quarters.

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