Fwd: You know you're from Rochester, NY when...

[Lynne Murphy]

Since these kinds of things are often posted here, I'll post one too.
There are a couple of items of linguistic interest, although I don't
believe the 'hamburger' one.  And it's clear that I'm from outside
Rachacha, since I don't know who Vinnie and Angelo are either...

Lynne


>
>You know you're from Rochester, NY when...
>1. "Waking up with the Wease" doesn't mean you have a respiratory
>infection.
>
>2. The thought of eating a "garbage plate" makes your mouth water.
>3. The only thing at the annual May Lilac Festival is snow.
>4. The worst four-letter word you could say is "Fuji".
>5. You can't swim at the beach.
>6. You thought you figured out that alternate-parking thing, but wind up
>with
>a ticket anyway.
>7. Toronto is about 70 miles away, but it takes about four hours to get
>there.
>8. The name "Greater Rochester International Airport" is bigger than the
>airport itself.
>9. There's an 800 number to report a pothole in the road.
>11. You know that a "Can of Worms" is not something you take fishing.
>12. Your baby's first word is "Wegmans".
>13. You ask lifetime residents where the George Eastman House is, but they
>don't know either.
>14. In a city where it snows at least 90 inches a year, they build a new
>sports stadium with no roof on it.
>15. It can be 70 degrees one day, below freezing the next, and you think
>nothing of it.
>16. Your mother is buying outfits to wear to Wegmans.
>17. Your low-fat diet is never low enough to exclude an Abbot's custard.
>18. You order a white hot and a pop, and the counterman knows what you're
>talking about.
>19. You can travel from Egypt to Greece in about a half-hour by car.
>20. D&C is a newspaper, not a medical procedure.
>21. There are no hamburgers, only ground steak.
>22. You can go to any mall on Saturday and see at least 5 people you either
>work with, went to school with or dated.
>23. A musical comes to town 10 years after its Broadway premiere and the
>entire town goes nuts! (ex. Miss Saigon)
>24. You wake up from a deep sleep, look at the clock and see that it's 6:00
>but you have no idea whether it's am or PM.
>25. When 18+ inches of snow falls overnight, but you never thought of NOT
>going to work.
>26. You are perplexed when friends from other cities come to visit and want
>to "see the sights."
>27. A flagpole strung with white lights seems like an acceptable
>alternative
>
>to a municipal Christmas tree.
>28. In winter if the temperature hits 45 degrees and the sun comes out,
>people walk around downtown wearing shades and no jackets.
>29. There are places at the poles that seem to get more sunlight during the
>winter months than we do.
>30. Wegmans is somewhere to go on a Friday night, for entertainment.
>31. You know who Vinnie and Angelo are.
>32. You define summer as three months of bad sledding.
>33. You think that people from Pennsylvania have an accent.
>34. Halloween is snowed out with great regularity.
>35. You have experienced frostbite and sunburn in the same week.
>36. Your year has two seasons: Winter and Construction.
>37. Half the change in your pocket is Canadian, eh.

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M Lynne Murphy
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