Just for the record ..... these don't ALL apply to us!!! *You think the state Bird is Larry. *You can say "French Lick" without laughing out loud. *There's actually a college near you named "Ball State." *You know Batesville is the casket making capital of the world, and you're proud of it. *You could never figure out spring forward-fall back, so screw Daylight Savings Time! *Your feelings get hurt whenever someone points out the acronym for Purdue University is PU. *You know several people who have hit a deer. *Down south to you means Kentucky. *You have no problem spelling or pronouncing Terre Haute. *Your school classes were canceled because of cold. *Your school classes were canceled because of heat. *You know what the phrase "knee-high by the Fourth of July" means. *You've heard of Euchre, you know how to play Euchre, and you are the master of Euchre. *You've seen a running car, with nobody in it, in the parking lot of the grocery store, no matter what time of year it is. *Detassling was your first job. Bailing hay, your second. Or you could stack hay, swim in the pond to clean off and then have the strength to play a couple of games of hoops, all in the same barn lot on the same day. *You say things like catty-wampus and katty corner. *You install security lights on your house and garage ... then leave both of them unlocked. *You carry jumper cables in your car regularly. *You drink pop. *You know that baling wire was the predecessor to duct tape. *You know that strangers are the only ones who come to your front door. *Kids and dogs ride in the passenger seats of cars and the backs of pickups. *You think nothing of it in spring and fall to be stuck behind a farm implement driving on the roads. You just hope it's not a hog truck or a manure spreader. *High school basketball games draw bigger crowds on the weekend than movie theaters, IF you have a movie theater. *The local paper covers national and international headlines on one page but requires six for local sports. *You can repeat the scores of the last eight NBA games, but unless the MVP is a Hoosier, you are not sure who he is. *You can see at least two basketball hoops from your yard. *You can name every one of Bobby Knight's exploits. *The biggest question of your youth was IU or Purdue. *Indianapolis is the BIG CITY. *Every one knows what you mean when you say "The Race". *Getting stuck by a train is a legitimate excuse for being late to school. *The Wabash River is the biggest body of water near your house. *You know several different definitions as to what a Hoosier really is. *Everyone knows who the town cops are, where they live, and whether they're at home or on duty. *You've been to the Covered Bridge Festival. You took back roads to get there. Why sit in traffic? *To you, tenderloin is not an expensive cut of beef, but a big, salty, breaded piece of pork served on a bun with pickle.

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