
You Know You're From Missouri If...
1. You've never met any celebrities.
2. Everyone in your family has been on a "Float trip."
3. "Vacation" means driving to Silver Dollar City, Worlds of Fun or Six Flags.
4. You've seen all the biggest bands ten years AFTER they were popular.
5. You measure distance in minutes rather than miles.
6. Down south to you means Arkansas. No, it means Texas/Florida in my house.
7. The phrase, "I'm going to the Lake this weekend," can mean only one thing. Lake o' the Ozarks. Nice place, if you ignore/shoot the tourist bastards.
8. You know what "Party Cove" is. (If you know where, you are a boating party animal)
9. You know several people who have hit a deer with their automobile. More than twenty.
10. You think Missouri is pronounced with an "ah" at the end.
11. Your school classes were canceled because of the cold.
12. Your school classes were canceled because of the heat.
13. You've ridden the school bus for an hour each way.
14. You've had to switch from "Heat" to "AC" in the same day. That was on fucked up fall day, man. I wanted to kill the weatherman. Fuck you, Gary Lezak, liar!
15. You think ethanol makes your truck "run a lot better."
16. You know what's knee-high by the Fourth of July. Refers to how deep the snow is after X-mas---before summer.
17. You see people wear bib overalls to funerals. Fucking scary.
18. You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one in it no matter what time of the year.
19. You know in your heart that Mizzou can beat Nebraska in football. More like "I know in my heart they ain't got a snowballs chance in hell." The team sucks.
20. You end your sentences with an unnecessary preposition. Example: "Where's my coat at?" Occassionally.
21. All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, or grain.
22. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked. My neighbor. I swear. He also has a soda vending machine in his yard.
23. You think the four major food groups are beef, pork, beer, and Jell-O salad with marshmallows.
24. You carry jumper cables in your car and know that everyone else should. *raises hand* Guilty as sin.
25. You went to skating parties as a kid.
26. You own only 3 spices: salt, pepper, and ketchup.
27. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
28. You think sexy lingerie is tube socks and a flannel nightie.
29. The local paper covers national and international headlines on one page but requires 6 pages for the sports. Oh yeah.
30. You think I-44 is spelled "foarty-foar." (St. Louis Only) Not exactly, but I know Junction F-U is called "Fuck You" where I live.
31. You'll pay for your kids to go to college unless they want to go to KU.
32. You think that deer season is a national holiday. Kids in school are absent because they go hunting. Off the top of my head, I can name seven.
33. You know that Concordia is halfway between Kansas City and Columbia, and Columbia is halfway between St. Louis and Kansas City, and Warrenton outlet mall is halfway between Columbia and St. Louis.
34. You can't think of anything better than sitting on the porch in the middle of the summer during a thunderstorm.
35. You know which leaves make good toilet paper.
36. You've ever said, "It's not the heat, it's the humidity." Countless times.
37. You know all 4 seasons: Almost Summer, Summer, Still Summer, and Construction.
38. You know if another Missourian is from the Boot-Hills, Ozarks, Eastern, Middle or Western Missouri as soon as they open their mouth.
Ozarks whine, Boot-hillers slur like they've had twenty bottles of Daniels, Easterners try to be Jersey, Middlers are farmers who worship Brooks and Dunn, and Westerners are a congealment of the rest.
I should get bonus points.
39. You know that Harry S. Truman, Walt Disney and Mark Twain are all from Missouri. First thing you learn in history class in 5th grade.
40. You failed world geography in school because you thought Cuba, Versailles, California, Nevada, Houston, Cabool, Louisiana, Springfield and Mexico were cities in Missouri. (And they are) That freaks me out too.
41. You think a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor. Fucking farmers.
42. You actually get these jokes and forward them to all your Missouri friends
This was scarily accurate. now to find the one for Florida...
~Lucia