Green Country Values

You know you’re from Oklahoma if…

Posted in GCV - Humor/Satire by Jenn on June 6, 2008

…from Unwind.com

  • 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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  1. [...] started at the Hammett House in Claremore, where I enjoyed some good ol’ Okiefied “chicken fried chicken.” From there, it was next door, to the Will Rogers Memorial Museum – a lovely place to spend [...]


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