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You Know You're From Oklahoma (Okie Humor Alert!)

Posted on 06/02/2003 3:56:47 PM PDT by annyokie

You know you're from Oklahoma if:

1. You can properly pronounce Eufaula, Gotebo, Okemah, and Chickasha.

2. You think that people who complain about the wind in their states are sissies.

3. A tornado warning siren is your signal to go out in the yard and look for a funnel.

4 Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway.

5. You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.

6. You know that the true value of a parking space is not determined by the distance to the door, but by the availability of shade.

7. Stores don't have bags; they have sacks.

8. You see people wear bib overalls at funerals.

9. You think everyone from a bigger city has an accent.

10. You use "fix" as a verb. Example: I am fixing to go to the store.

11. You know all four seasons: Almost Summer, Summer, Still Summer,and Christmas.

12. You measure distance in minutes.

13. You refer to the capital of Oklahoma as "The City."

14. It doesn't bother you to use an airport named for a man who died in an airplane crash.

15. You actually get these jokes and tell them to your friends.

Finally, you are 100% Oklahoman if you have ever had this conversation: "You wanna coke?" "Yeah." "What kind?" "Dr. Pepper."


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: oklahoma; redneckhumor
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1 posted on 06/02/2003 3:56:47 PM PDT by annyokie
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To: 2Jedismom
funny bump
2 posted on 06/02/2003 3:58:45 PM PDT by annyokie (provacative yet educational reading alert)
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To: annyokie
Perhaps, but in all my travels, OK always stuck out in my memory as being full of nice friendly folks. No pretense, just nice...
3 posted on 06/02/2003 4:01:22 PM PDT by Aut Pax Aut Bellum (For sale: French military Rifle, rusty from lack of use...)
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To: annyokie
Ha! I get most of them. I'm from Texas, though...so that is to be expected. I just moved here in '97.
4 posted on 06/02/2003 4:02:41 PM PDT by 2Jedismom (HHD FMM)
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To: Aut Pax Aut Bellum
It's a great place full of nice folks. My granda was from Muskogee, my mom was born in Bartlesville and I live on Grand Lake.
5 posted on 06/02/2003 4:03:37 PM PDT by annyokie (provacative yet educational reading alert)
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To: 2Jedismom
You all drink coke in different flavors there too, though, don't you? My brother in Austin says it's the same where he's at.
6 posted on 06/02/2003 4:06:10 PM PDT by annyokie (provacative yet educational reading alert)
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To: annyokie
Yep...it's the same.
7 posted on 06/02/2003 4:06:57 PM PDT by 2Jedismom (HHD FMM)
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To: 2Jedismom
It was the same when we were growing up in California, but, then we were raised by Okies and Texans. How are the Jedis?

Little Bit is in VBS. Big Bit is griping about being bored (already). Biggest Bit is in the US Navy and going to Guam soon.
8 posted on 06/02/2003 4:10:21 PM PDT by annyokie (provacative yet educational reading alert)
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To: annyokie
Tee Hee! Got to forward this to my mom in Floriday. But the list didn't include: "You move to another state to get a job ..."

Xy
9 posted on 06/02/2003 4:12:14 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Visualize whirled peas ... no, kids, that's not another tornado!)
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To: annyokie
Both of them are doing fine! Went over to a fellow freeper's house that lives just south of me and watched her chickens hatch.

Read about it here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/807952/posts?page=40343#40343
10 posted on 06/02/2003 4:21:09 PM PDT by 2Jedismom (HHD FMM)
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To: 2Jedismom
How nice! We have been painting the house and I spent yesterday morning picking English peas, washing the pick-up and the kids peddle-boat.

Our chores are about done, so fishing for the rest of the summer. Big Bit goes to sleep-away church camp in two weeks and is stressing already.
11 posted on 06/02/2003 4:26:53 PM PDT by annyokie (provacative yet educational reading alert)
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To: annyokie; Squantos
I tell you what, Texas panhandlers can answer those, too.
12 posted on 06/02/2003 5:28:38 PM PDT by gcruse (Vice is nice, but virtue can hurt you. --Bill Bennett)
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To: gcruse
Nebraskans, too. Ask my Aunt Dar for a coke, would you?

"What kind, honey?"
13 posted on 06/02/2003 5:38:17 PM PDT by annyokie (provacative yet educational reading alert)
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To: annyokie
Growing up in the forties, every soft drink was a coke, every tissue a Kleenex, and every candy bar a hershey. Every car was danged near a Ford, come to think of it. And in my mind, Hitler and Satan were indistinguishable. I don't know when I learned the difference.
14 posted on 06/02/2003 5:43:26 PM PDT by gcruse (Vice is nice, but virtue can hurt you. --Bill Bennett)
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To: gcruse
My growing up years were in the 60's, but yup, all soft drinks were cokes, all tissues were kleenexes, all ice cream bars were popsicles. Unfortunaltely all cars were "Chivies" as in "Is that yer Chivy?"

"Motorsicle" was another 'un.
15 posted on 06/02/2003 5:51:41 PM PDT by annyokie (provacative yet educational reading alert)
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To: gcruse
I'm from DFW an I get almost all of them, but what airport in Oklahoma is named after a man who died in a plane crash?
16 posted on 06/02/2003 8:17:59 PM PDT by Better Dead Than Red
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To: Better Dead Than Red
Will Rogers
17 posted on 06/02/2003 8:28:10 PM PDT by gcruse (Publisher of Lazy Fair Times)
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To: annyokie
My dad helped with the construction of Grand Lake of the Cherokees. They hired him and his pair of mules, Kate and Barney. He always liked telling that story and saying he was born in Indian Territory (which he was).
18 posted on 06/02/2003 8:30:35 PM PDT by I. Ben Hurt
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To: gcruse
You gettin any of this rain in the Valley G....??? I had to swim home from the widget factory. Sure glad I put that snorkle on the yota last week !!

As to these Okie Jokes I;m getting too old to remember em all as there are just soooooooo many :o)

Ya'll Stay Safe , I'm gonna go have a Moon Pie and a RC !

19 posted on 06/02/2003 10:30:18 PM PDT by Squantos (Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt.)
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To: Squantos
A moon pie and an RC? Don't tell me you are a Brother Dave fan?

Yep, I getting lightning strikes right on my head here.
Some rain, not a lot. Lord, I missed weather....
20 posted on 06/02/2003 10:36:26 PM PDT by gcruse (Publisher of Lazy Fair Times)
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