All of you "LONG guy-landers" this is a funny email that I received from a girlfriend of mine. I hope all of you enjoy like I did...
Thanks for all of your support, and keep writing to me with those questions!!!
Talk to you soon.


LONG ISLAND....

You live in the shadow of the greatest city in the
world, but you almost never go there.

When you're away from Long Island, you love it, and
when you're there, you don't.

You think if you're not from Long Island or NYC,
you're not really from New York.

You know the exact point at which Queens turns into
Nassau simply on intuition.

You don't go to Manhattan, you go to "The City."

You never realize you have an accent till you leave.

Everything north of the Bronx is "upstate."

New Jersey sucks.

At some point in your life you've gone clamming.

Either your parents or your grandparents lived in
Brooklyn.

You'd pay $11.50 for a movie.

You don't live in Long Island. You live ON Long
Island.

You know where the Commack Motor Inn is.

You can correctly pronounce places like Ronkonkoma,
Hauppauge, Wantagh, Mineola, Islandia, Massapequa.

You know the location of 6 malls and a dozen McDonalds
and 36 7-11's.

You never, ever want to "change at Jamaica..."

You've tried to find the Amityville Horror house.

You can't understand why a diner would ever close.

You've had a seagull crap on your car.

You have or someone you know has fallen asleep on the
LIRR and ended up in one of these three places;
Babylon, Port Washington or Hicksville.

You went to an elementary school that promoted dodge
ball as the number 1 game among children 7-13.

You want the Yankees to stay in the Bronx, but would
probably go to more games if they moved to Manhattan.

You think that somehow, the Jets and Giants still play
in New York.

You've missed that "Drunk Train", the 2:42 out of Penn
and had the dreaded wait until 5:30.

You or someone you know has owned an animal that came
from North Shore Animal League.

Quick! Who's your county Executive? Don't know do
you?!

You've never taken an MTA bus.

The Long Island Expressway isn't really as bad as
everybody thinks.

You don't associate Fire Island with gay men.

You know which parts of the Godfather were filmed on
Long Island.

You've paid a $10 cover charge to get into a bar, but
got nothing for it.

You miss wiffle ball and running through sprinklers.

You think Islip MacArthur airport is cute and you
enjoy watching it grow up.

Billy Joel said it best, "either you date a rich girl
from the North Shore, or a cool girl from the South
Shore".

You don't really see the big deal about the Hamptons,
unless you got smashed at the Bordy Barn.

When people ask "where are you from?" you answer Long
Guy Land and automatically assume everyone in the
world knows that answer means New York.

You've always liked Billy Joel and you own several of
his "records."

The Belt Parkway sucks!

You've been stuck in a traffic jam for more than 2
hours (without moving).

Your parents took you to All American, Nathans or
Carvel (on the way home from the beach).

Regular gas - $2.69 and you still pay it!!!

You hate paying tolls.

You remember Grumman.

You've gotten drunk on the bleachers of some high
school.

You know the color of the water at Jones Beach is not
BLUE!

You were upset when all the Roy Rogers turned into
Wendy's and Arby's closed for good.

You can spout off all the LIRR stops between Penn
Station and Ronkonkoma.

Paying $35 for a haircut doesn't sound so crazy.

You think the people from Brooklyn are "da wunz dat
tawk wit a accent."

You've partied on a beach or golf course in the middle
of the night.

You knew of Massapequa before the Amy Fisher-Joey
Buttafuoco nightmare.

The first time you heard the term "Long Island Iced
Tea" you were somewhere else and you laughed.

When you live somewhere else and are astounded to see
that people actually stop at yellow lights.

When you just sort of presume that wherever you live,
you'll be able to find good delis, good pizza, and
good bagels.

You can name at least three bands that came from Long
Island.

No word ends in an ER, just an AH.

You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other
friends from Long Island.
 

have the courage to question & challenge the status quo... refuse to accept "traditional" thinking and answers as fact....
~Kimlee