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You know you're from California if...
Unknown | 12/15/04 | Unknown

Posted on 12/15/2004 8:57:01 AM PST by My2Cents

You know you're from California if:

1. Your coworker has 8 body piercings and none are visible.

2. You make over $100,000 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 pass an elementary school playground and the children are all busy with their cells or pagers.

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

15. Both you AND your dog have therapists.

16. The Terminator is your governor.

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


TOPICS: Political Humor/Cartoons; US: California
KEYWORDS: california
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To: KJacob
It's barely sprinkling rain outside, so you leave for work an hour early to avoid all the weather-related accidents

I thought that just happened in Memphis.

Nope. DC area also.

21 posted on 12/15/2004 9:54:25 AM PST by Steve0113 (Stay to the far right to get by.)
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To: My2Cents
7. You have a very strong opinion about where your coffee beans are grown, and you can taste the difference between Sumatran and Ethiopian.

HEY! I resemble that remark and I ain't from Kookiefornia.

22 posted on 12/15/2004 9:56:21 AM PST by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: Old Professer

Yes, what is it with all the mattress stores? I have been trying to figure that out. It is the same way in Las Vegas. There are almost as many mattress stores as convenience stores!


23 posted on 12/15/2004 10:01:32 AM PST by Nevadan
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To: My2Cents
17. If you drive illegally, they take your driver's license. If you're here illegally, they want to give you one.

That's about right. Good one.

...4mycountry
10 days 'til Christmas!

24 posted on 12/15/2004 10:02:09 AM PST by 4mycountry ("We don't have 'Happy Holidays' aroud here. We have MERRY DADBURN CHRISTMAS!" - Chris Kirk)
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To: Just another Joe

Applies to us in the Northwest, too. But I'm moving to Utah later this month, and rumor has it that you have to have a prescription to buy whole bean coffee...


25 posted on 12/15/2004 10:05:06 AM PST by hunter112 (Total victory, both in the USA and the Middle East!)
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To: Nevadan; Old Professer
Yes, what is it with all the mattress stores? I have been trying to figure that out. It is the same way in Las Vegas. There are almost as many mattress stores as convenience stores!

You mean that you guys don't realize that illegal immigrants don't care about much furniture. They just buy a bunch of mattresses and throw them on the floors.

26 posted on 12/15/2004 10:08:21 AM PST by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: 4mycountry

10 days 'til Christmas?

ARRRRRRGHHHHH


27 posted on 12/15/2004 10:11:56 AM PST by OSHA (Actual DUer - Bush is going to jail. and will not be inaugurated the 44th President of the USA)
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To: My2Cents

You know you're from California if...

18)Your male neighbor has a pink poodle and wears Metallic Chaps and Halter top to work at the Strip club and it doesn't faze you one bit.

19)Your neighbors give you a bunch of sh*t about your car parked on the street when the gay pride parade comes down your street.

20)You yell for your daddy or mommy and two people answer you.


28 posted on 12/15/2004 10:17:07 AM PST by TheForceOfOne
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To: My2Cents

Where Spanish is the official language.


29 posted on 12/15/2004 10:32:16 AM PST by stbdside
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To: OSHA
Yep! That's all! Pretty scary, eh? It's why we do our shopping in August. ;)

...4mycountry
10 days 'til Christmas!

30 posted on 12/15/2004 10:33:33 AM PST by 4mycountry ("We don't have 'Happy Holidays' aroud here. We have MERRY DADBURN CHRISTMAS!" - Chris Kirk)
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To: My2Cents

Funny....bttt


31 posted on 12/15/2004 10:35:23 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: My2Cents
You know you're from California if:

.... Your neighbor thinks that the leader of the free world is President Bartlett.

32 posted on 12/15/2004 10:39:50 AM PST by Jackknife (.......Land of the Free,because of the Brave.)
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To: hunter112
and rumor has it that you have to have a prescription to buy whole bean coffee...

LOL...That may be true in Utah.

33 posted on 12/15/2004 10:39:52 AM PST by My2Cents (To those inclined to receive it, "Merry Christmas!" To those NOT so inclined, "Bah Humbug!")
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To: Dashing Dasher

Speak for yourself. You must live on the coast because that is the only place in California where the weather is that constant. In the real california, over here in the Sierra foothills it hits 106 in the summer and sometimes below zero in the winter, depending on what altitude you are at and in California altitude makes the difference. Where I am,1200 ft, in a normal winter it is not uncommon for temps of 16 above in the mornings, and as I said 106 in the summer is common. Only a small strip of land on the coast has the stable weather and when those people come inland you can here them cry for miles about 1.) the heat if it is summer or 2.) the cold if it is winter.


34 posted on 12/15/2004 11:05:46 AM PST by calex59
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To: Centurion2000
Tell me again why people want to live there ?

Because many parts of California are wonderful. I was born in California and have lived my entire life here.

Trust me when I tell you that the city in which I live is as nice as I could want life to be.

I have to chuckle at all the California critics. Gee..........I wonder why our esteemed leader, Ronald Reagan, chose to live out his life here. Surely he could have chosen anywhere he wanted.

35 posted on 12/15/2004 11:15:45 AM PST by Southflanknorthpawsis (FR = A pajama party 24/7)
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To: My2Cents

When you are incapable of telling an anecdote without using the word "like" . . .

When being a conservative means you are a tough, battle-scarred soul because the "tolerant" liberals can't tolerate anyone who doesn't agree with them . . .

When people mistake vandalism, destruction of property, assault and shutting down whole segments of the economy with free speech . . .

When someone letting water run, even if you are visiting an area that has plenty, makes you crazy because you grew up with drought warnings . . .

When you can't stop laughing when on a visit to Seattle you see that they have turned off the fountains because of the "drought" (It hadn't rained for TWO weeks!) . . .

When the "river" being an empty concrete canal running through the city doesn't strike you as strange . . .

When you can claim the honor of having given Ronald Reagan to the country . . .


36 posted on 12/15/2004 11:31:13 AM PST by djreece
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To: Southflanknorthpawsis
Trust me when I tell you that the city in which I live is as nice as I could want life to be.

You're welcome to it; I think that California is too full of nuts and flakes. But if you like living on the inside of a mental ward, go for it :)

I'll be in Texas ... God's Country

37 posted on 12/15/2004 11:39:29 AM PST by Centurion2000 (Truth, Justice and the Texan Way)
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To: calex59

That's where I live!


38 posted on 12/15/2004 11:48:00 AM PST by Dashing Dasher (Because I fly, I envy no (wo)man on earth. - Anon)
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To: Centurion2000
Do you realize the childishness of your attitude?

I have never lived in Texas and would not presume to know anything beyond what someone else tells me. Thus I would not take it upon myself to tear it down or criticize those who choose to live there. Why should I care?

Likewise, you and others shouldn't be concerned about we Californians? Do you have to validate yourself with the my-dad's-stronger-than-your-dad nonsense?

BTW, I don't live in a mental ward and Carlsbad, California is a highly regarded tourist spot because it's setting on the ocean is beautiful, the weather is great and believe it or not, the people are normal here. Imagine that.

39 posted on 12/15/2004 11:48:37 AM PST by Southflanknorthpawsis (FR = A pajama party 24/7)
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To: Centurion2000
8 “Tell me again why people want to live there ?”

Good point, I can't think of a single reason.





--Boot Hill

40 posted on 12/15/2004 12:17:31 PM PST by Boot Hill (Candy-gram for Osama bin Mongo, candy-gram for Osama bin Mongo!!!)
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