You know you're from Illinois when...

[Padraig18]

1. You've never met any celebrities.

2. Your school classes were canceled because of cold.

3. Your school classes were canceled because of heat.

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

5. You know what's "knee-high by the Fourth of July."

6. You end your sentences with an unnecessary preposition. Example: "Where's my coat at?"

7. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.

8. You carry jumper cables in your car.

9. You can name every state university's mascot.

10. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.

11. You know twelve different ways to prepare corn on the cob.

12. You use words like "sposta" and "wytcha." Example: I'm sposta
go to school wytcha today.

13. You measure distance in minutes, not miles.

14. You've pulled to the side of Interstate 94 to pick wild sunflowers
growing in pavement cracks.

15. You end your sentences with an unnecessary preposition. Example:
"Where's my coat at?" or "If you go shopping I wanna go with."

16. You've gone downhill skiing on a landfill.

17. You think of the major four food groups as beef, pork, beer,
and Jello salad with marshmallows.

18. You carry jumper cables in your car.

19. You know who Steve Dahl is and think he's hilarious.

20. You've done serious damage to your car by hitting a deer.

21. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.

22. All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit,
vegetable, grain, fish or animal.

23. You think people who pronounce our state "Ella noise" should
be hog-tied or horse-whipped.

24. You think sexy lingerie is tube socks and a hockey jersey.

25. The local paper covers national and international headlines on
one page, but requires 6 pages for sports.

26. You find -10 degrees F "a little chilly."

27. You've found more than three Native American arrowheads in a
farmer's field.

28. You know if another Illinoisan is from southern, central, northern Illinois or Chicago as soon as he or she speaks.

29. You go through a minimum of three gallons of windshield washer
fluid e very winter.

30. You actually get these jokes and forward them to all your
friends from Illinois.

31. You know all 4 seasons: Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter, and Construction.

32. You can distinguish corn, soybeans, wheat and milo at a glance.

[trof]

1. Please explain "and that".

So, we went to her mother's house, and that..."

[Padraig18]

2. "And that"

'...and that' = 'so on an so forth, etc.', i.e., other activity ensued. :)

[La_Serpiente]

3. I am laughing at every one of these

:-)

[Padraig18]

4. BTW, I LOVE your 'terror alert' pic.

:P

[La_Serpiente]

5. "it's terra boy, it's terra"

just playing :crazy:

[Padraig18]

16. LOL!

'K... ;)

[terrya]

6. Being born and raised in Decatur, Illinois, the former

"Soybean Capital of the World", I particularly appreciated #32. :-)

These are all great.

And....are Illinoisans the only ones who pronounce Washington as "Warshington"? I do...and that's been pointed out to me.

[ikojo]

7. Former Springfield, Ilinois

resident here...born and raised in the Land of Lincoln.

I used to say "warsh" for wash and "warshington" for Washington until my Chicago friends at school pointed it out to me. Now I no longer pronounce it like that, although all of my siblings do.

I think the "warsh" thing is a midwestern thing because there are people in St Louis who say it like that.

Also in Springfield we called a soda either by the generic word coke or sodi. Took me awhile to break that one as well.

[HereSince1628]

8. Actually thats field corn, seed corn, sweet corn or popcorn

at 55 mph

You know Lake Michigan as Da Lake

You know the difference between Upper and Lower Wacker Drive

You think 3 former presidents are native sons.

You know the significance of 588-2300

Your father has an autographed picture of Frazier Thomas and a goose.

[Nailzberg]

9. Hey! Not true! I know dozens of celebrities!

Of course, everything else is all too true.

And check the list, you put the unnessecary preposition example in twice.

[davsand]

10. Yeah--SO???

The REAL attuned ear can tell the difference between a Raaa-k-fud and Chi-caa-go accent.

And if you are really good you know what colors are on a John Deere -v- an IH.

Locally it is PFCold or in extreme cases RFCold. (Pretty freaking cold or REALLY freaking cold) RFC is not allowed till Jan 15 or after.

If you have ever seen herbicide commercials on TV you may be from Illinois.

You are certainly from Illinois if you think that orange and blue go together.

And finally, for the record, sexy is a BEARS, SOX or CUBS jersey and tube socks! Illini wear will do in a pinch.

Laura

On edit!!

You may also assume you are from Illinois if you have ever dated a guy who owned a Pioneer, Lester Phister or Dekalb hat. 10 bonus points if you know where the Hoblit family lived.

[Ellen Forradalom]

11. You know you're a Chicagoan if...

You can pronounce Paulina Street, Devon Avenue and Goethe Street correctly.

You can pronounce the suburbs Des Plaines and Lisle correctly.

You answer "Where are you from?" with North Side, West Side, or South Side.

You have at least one friend who's worked at Potbelly, Connie's or Pizzeria Uno or Due.

You know the difference between Pizzeria Uno and Due.

You would not deign to call the cardboard-and-tomato-sauce concoction New Yorkers favor "pizza."

You eat hot dogs with lettuce, tomato, onion sauerkraut, pickle relish, mustard, hot peppers and cucumber.

Only Vienna Beef is a real hot dog.

You drive on LSD.

You're familiar with the Hillside Strangler, Hubbard's Cave and the Mag Mile.

You stick three fingers out the driver's side window, then cut across three lanes.

You have a Chicago Bulls or B-96 sticker on your car.

You can put down a bowling ball in the front of the living room, and it rolls the length of the apartment to the back of the kitchen.

You don't know how to drive up a hill.

You listen to Mancow instead of Howard Stern.

You remember Ray Rayner, Frasier Thomas and Sven Ghoolie from your childhood.

You picked up a WXRT Featured Artist Card as a teen.

It's a 'sub', not a hero or a hoagie.

You know the difference between UIC and U of C.

You ride the L to work.

Any downtown area is the 'Loop.'

You go to the Sears Tower to work, not to visit the observatory.

Your first job was as a runner at the Board of Trade.

[Archae]

12. You know (or are related to) FIB's.

Hee hee!

[davsand]

14. Hey--Cheese head!

We don't need that! ;)

Keep it up and I'll cancel my reservations for Lake Geneva and Door!

Laura

[scarlet_owl]

13. Heh heh. We have the Sweetcorn Festival in Urbana.

And there's the Apple and Pork festival in some small town around here. And the Broomcorn festival. And some more that I can't think of right now. When I went to high school (rural area), we had classes cancelled a few times because of sewage seeping into the school. We also had "Drive Your Tractor to School Day". I kid you not.

[madrchsod]

15. corn fests-

dekalb,mendota

[Padraig18]

17. Dave Berry attends the Arcola Broom Corn Festival.

i've seen him perform as part of the Lawn Rangers! :)

[Beaker]

18. I gave up on steve dahl a long time ago-

when he was spouting off about how "middle class" means people making $200,000-$300,000/year.

he's a self-centered gasbag.

[alfredo]

19. You tail gate from the front.