{"id":503,"date":"2004-07-08T20:59:10","date_gmt":"2004-07-09T01:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2004\/07\/08\/\/"},"modified":"2005-10-19T19:49:10","modified_gmt":"2005-10-19T23:49:10","slug":"you-might-be-from-new-hampshire-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2004\/07\/08\/you-might-be-from-new-hampshire-if\/","title":{"rendered":"You might be from New Hampshire if…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I saw this meme a while ago, and thought it was amusing enough to do the google search. The problem is that the vast majority of the so-called lists that are out there are pretty generic — either not written by New Hampshirites, or applicable mostly to the North Country, in which I do not reside and never have (and neither does about 80% of NH’s population!) In point of fact, the lists would be more appropriately titled ‘You know you’ve never been to NH if you think these are true…’<\/p>\n

But a lot of people are still doing it, so here is the list I turned up with the content only slightly edited for relevance.<\/p>\n

o you design your Halloween costumes to fit over snow suits<\/b> [Well, not quite, but it was always important to make sure you could incorporate your winter jacket without spoiling the costume.]
o you have 10 favorite recipes for moose meat<\/i> [I include this one only because it’s so ridiculous. I’m sorry, but a moose in Nashua would be as big news as it was a few weeks ago when there was one in the town of Wellesley.]
o you think the start of moose season is a national holiday<\/i> [Same deal]
o driving is better in the winter because the potholes get filled with snow<\/b>
o know the names of the four seasons: Tourist, Foliage, Ski and Mud.<\/b>
o know the back roads, and drive them to avoid the toll booth<\/b>
o if your pick-up truck is 4-wheel drive, has a gun rack, a plow on the front and a dog in the back.<\/i>
o if there is a picket fence around the house, a garden in the back, a woodpile somewhere, some appliances on the front lawn, and a rusty pick-up pushed into the woods.<\/i>
o if you say “Ames-es”, and you do all your shopping there.<\/i> [Dated now — Ames’ all went out of business a few years ago.]
o if you read the Union Leader and believe it<\/i><\/p>\n

I was looking for ‘You know you’re from New England’, but couldn’t find anything.<\/p>\n

So here are some I made up myself — probably more applicable to Northern\/Central New England, but hey, if everyone thinks New Hampshire is full of moose, I should be granted a bit of leeway.<\/p>\n

You know you’re from New England if…
o the street you live on has a different name depending on which direction you’re travelling<\/i>
o you know that if you tried to pahk your cah in Hahvad yahd, it would be TOWED<\/i>
o it’s BER-lin, Char-LOTTE, and Wuh-stah<\/i>
o New Hampshire doesn’t end with an ‘r’, but Area does.<\/i>
o Bill Buckner jokes still make you laugh. And then you cry.<\/i>
o you know that New Hampshire has a seacoast<\/i>
o you accept the fact that the more important a road is, the less likely it is to be marked<\/i>
o there are no less than 4 Dunkin’ Donuts franchises within a mile of your home<\/i><\/p>\n

Most if the ideas I can come up with are vocabulary related. Any other ideas?<\/p>\n

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I saw this meme a while ago, and thought it was amusing enough to do the google search. The problem is that the vast majority of the so-called lists that are out there are pretty generic — either not written by New Hampshirites, or applicable mostly to the North Country, in which I do not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}