You know you're from New Orleans when...
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The four seasons in your year are: crawfish, shrimp, crab and King Cake.
you assume everyone has mosquito swarms in their backyard
Your sunglasses fog up when you step outside.
You take Community coffee and Hot Sauce with you on vacation.
your last name isn't pronounced the way it's spelled. http://www.nonrev.net/infopop/emotic...on_biggrin.gif
"up north", refers to places like Shreveport or Little Rock, where it gets really really cold.
you didn't realize until high school what a county is.
you judge a po-boy by the number of napkins used.
you know what "dressed" means
you know the best doughnuts are square and have no holes.
when someone says magazine you think street instead of periodical.
you don't worry when you see ships riding higher than the top of your house.
every so often you have waterfront property.
you like you rice and your politics dirty.
you don't bat an eye when someone says, "make groceries, or "grind meat".
while watching a movie filmed in New Orleans you
say things like "there's no way you can run out of a cemetery onto Bourbon street" http://www.nonrev.net/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif
your directions use terms like "uptown", "downtown", "backatown" and "across the river".
you always ask for a little lagniappe. http://www.nonrev.net/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif
you don't keep newspaper for recycling, but for tablecloths at crawfish boils.
you think purple, gold and green look really good together.
out of state you ask for directions to the nearest drive-through daiquiri shop http://www.nonrev.net/infopop/emotic...on_biggrin.gif
and finally you know you're from New Orleans when you can pronouce Tchoupitoulas, Melpomene, Thibideaux and Dirgenois http://www.nonrev.net/infopop/emotic...n_rolleyes.gif[/list]
Keep'em flying
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[This message was edited by Migflanker on May 03, 2003 at 02:28 AM.]
