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From my inbox to OT:

Californians

So as not to be outdone by all the redneck, hillbilly, and Texan jokes, somebody had to come up with this:

You know you're from California if...

1. Your co-worker has 8 body piercings and none are visible.

2. You make over $300,000 a year and still can't afford a house.

3. You take a bus and are shocked at two people carrying on a conversation in English.

4. Your child's 3rd-grade teacher has purple hair, a nose ring, and is named Flower.

5. You can't remember . . . is pot illegal?

6. You've been to a baby shower that has two mothers and a sperm donor.

7. You have a very strong opinion about where your coffee beans are grown, and you can taste the difference between Sumatran and Ethiopian.

8. You can't remember . . . is pot illegal?

9. A really great parking space can totally move you to tears.

10. Gas costs $1.00 per gallon more than anywhere else in the U.S.

11. The guy at 8:30 am at Starbucks wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses who looks like George Clooney, really IS George Clooney.

12. Your car insurance costs as much as your house payment.

13. You can't remember . . . is pot illegal?

14. It's barely sprinkling rain and there's a report on every news station: 'STORM WATCH.'

15. You pass an elementary school playground and the children are all busy with their cell phones or pagers.

16. It's barely sprinkling rain outside, so you leave for work an hour early to avoid all the weather-related accidents.

17. HEY!!!! Is pot illegal????

18. Both you AND your dog have therapists, psychics, personal trainers and cosmetic surgeons.

19. The Terminator is your governor.

20. If you drive illegally, they take your driver's license. If you're here illegally, they give you one.

Lordhat wrote:

20. If you drive illegally, they take your driver's license. If you're here illegally, they give you one.

Hilarious.

Speaking as a former Californian (and now an Oregonian for better or worse), that is mostly accurate. Except the one about pot being legal. Cause everyone knows it is in Cali, or course.

Cheers

Switch out #19 with "your governor's hair would not get mussed in a hurricane" and you have the city of Austin.

Texas sounds like a pretty cool place from what I have heard.

2. You make over $300,000 a year and still can't afford a house.

Absolutely hillus .

Yep. On the positive we don't have any mutating killer mixed breed snakes mucking about, unless you count politicians or lawyers.

Politicians and Lawyers are actually reptiles... and you thought the government was run by them .

Wait... Politicians... Government... oh noes...

Wait... Obama... Lawyer... o... m... f... g... the end is truly nigh .

Lordhat wrote:3. You take a bus and are shocked at two people carrying on a conversation in English.

Actually, I'm reaching the point where I'm more surprised when I see non-Latino teams doing stuff like cooking or construction, than I was when I first saw Latinos cooking Chinese food. Help me, I'm becoming Californian!

Lordhat wrote:20. If you drive illegally, they take your driver's license. If you're here illegally, they give you one.

QFT, sadly.

JohnHwangDD wrote:Actually, I'm reaching the point where I'm more surprised when I see non-Latino teams doing stuff like cooking or construction, than I was when I first saw Latinos cooking Chinese food. Help me, I'm becoming Californian!

So you have been to a Benihana's too?



Just don't look up, the cooks are false advertising... I often wonder how many people think the exact same thing, I.E. "Your not Asian... wth is this?"

I don't eat at Benihana.

If I want to watch a someone cook meat with a spatula, I'll have a cheesesteak at Great Steak & Potato or Steak Escape. Yum!