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01-07-2006, 08:57 AM #1
For the Long Islanders
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.
At some point in your life you've gone clamming.
Either your parents or your grandparents lived in the city.
You'd pay $8.50 for a movie.
You don't live in Long Island. You live ON Long Island
You know where the Commack Motor Inn is.
Your distant future might involve the state of Florida.
You can correctly pronounce places like Happauge, Commack, Islip,
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.
No, you don't want mustard on that burger!!
Each one of your diverse friends mercilessly makes fun of his own background.
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 know White Castle is terrible for you and the food sucks but you periodically "Get the Crave".
You want the Yankees to stay in the Bronx, but would probably go to more games if they moved to Manhattan.
You've missed that "Drunk Train", the 2:42 am out of Penn Station and had the dreaded wait until 5:30 am.
You or someone you know has owned an animal that came from North Shore Animal League.
Quick! Who's the Suffolk 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 where filmed on Long Island.
You've said stupid things like "Strong Island".
You curse. A lot.
You've paid a $10 cover charge to get into a bar, but got nothing for
it.
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 Bawdy Barn (sound familiar)?
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" is it just me or are all girls from Rockville Center bitches???
The Belt Parkway sucks!
You're used to driving down the street in December and seeing more lit-up menorahs than you can shake a Latka at. In fact, even your non-Jewish friends know what a Latka is.
Your parents took you to Nathans or Carvel (on the way home from the beach).
News 12 sucks.
You know where at least one strip club is.
Regular gas - $3.39 and you still pay it!!!
You hate paying tolls.
Block parties...
You don't have to go far to see your family.
You remember Grumman.
You've gotten drunk on the bleachers of some high school
You know the color of the water at Jones Beach was not BLUE!
You can pinpoint the day that you realized that Adventureland sucks.
You are nearing the day that you realize that Great Adventure sucks.
You have a friend who knows a guy who has a friend whose sister knows this woman whose daughter sat next to Amy Fisher in 10th grade Social Studies.
You were upset when all the Roy Rogers turned into Wendy's.
You can spout off all the LIRR stops between Penn Station and Ronkonkoma.
You think the people from Brooklyn are "da wunz dat tawk wit aaccent"
Sledding in the sumps
You knew of Massapequa before the Amy Fisher-Joey Buttafuoco
nightmare
You thought going to Queens was a hike
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.
When you walk in the city and you see two men holding hands...it becomes normal to you.
No word ends in an ER, just an AH.
You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Long Island.I resolve PC issues remotely. Need to get rid of all that pr0n you downloaded on your work laptop? Or did you just get a ton of viruses from searching for "geriatic midget sex"? Either way I can fix them. PM Me for maggot prices.
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01-07-2006, 09:02 AM #2who guards the guardians?
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ha ha! Pretty much on the money.
And Joey Buttafuoco's sister did your makeup at Bloomingdales.
(not kidding on that one)I'm just a simple girl trying to make my way in the universe...
I come up hard, baby but now I'm cool I didn't make it, sugar playin' by the rules
If you know your history, then you would know where you coming from, then you wouldn't have to ask me, who the heck do I think I am.
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01-07-2006, 09:11 AM #3Originally Posted by mrryde
And how the fuck can you make Turlet out of toilet???. . .
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01-07-2006, 10:00 AM #4features a sintered base
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Not from LI, but actually almost everything on that list sounds right to me. They need something about Jerry Seinfeld's old girlfriend, Shoshana whatever her name was.
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01-07-2006, 02:47 PM #5don't tell me no...
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hehe! thanks for the laughs and the memories
luckily, I only lived on LI until I was 9 or so - then my parents moved me to Maine (actually a really good thing!) so I consider myself from there -
but definitely a lot of these things ring a bell and bring back fond memories of growing up there.
Originally Posted by mrryde
You never realize you have an accent till you leave.
At some point in your life you've gone clamming.
You know where the Commack Motor Inn is.
You can correctly pronounce places like Happauge, Commack, Islip,
Islandia, Massapequa.
No, you don't want mustard on that burger!!
You know White Castle is terrible for you and the food sucks but you periodically "Get the Crave".
You don't associate Fire Island with gay men.
You curse. A lot.
You think Islip MacArthur airport is cute and you enjoy watching it grow up.
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're used to driving down the street in December and seeing more lit-up menorahs than you can shake a Latka at. In fact, even your non-Jewish friends know what a Latka is.
Your parents took you to Nathans or Carvel (on the way home from the beach).
You remember Grumman.
You know the color of the water at Jones Beach was not BLUE!
You can pinpoint the day that you realized that Adventureland sucks.
You are nearing the day that you realize that Great Adventure sucks.
You knew of Massapequa before the Amy Fisher-Joey Buttafuoco
nightmare
When you just sort of presume that wherever you live, you'll be able to find good delis, good pizza, and good bagels.Last edited by skiguide; 01-08-2006 at 02:58 PM.
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01-07-2006, 02:51 PM #6
No way- one of my friends from college grew up on Lauren Ave; I stayed there about three months ago.
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01-07-2006, 09:07 PM #7
Shit Ski Guide, We grew up in the same town. How old are you?
I stay up all night, I go to sleep watching dragnet
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01-07-2006, 09:20 PM #8Originally Posted by mrryde
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01-08-2006, 11:35 AM #9
Belmont Park, reprazent!
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01-08-2006, 01:09 PM #10don't tell me no...
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01-08-2006, 02:42 PM #11Originally Posted by skiguideI stay up all night, I go to sleep watching dragnet
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01-08-2006, 02:58 PM #12don't tell me no...
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Originally Posted by Pedro
so yea, we're really closer in age duh.
freds diner was my fave place to go with my granpa -they were pretty good family friends (my grandparents lived on Warner Ave in Huntington)...I think I also briefly went to a grade school there before we got into the lauren ave house in dix hills - which, my mistake earlier, was #21.Last edited by skiguide; 01-08-2006 at 03:37 PM.
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01-08-2006, 04:17 PM #13Originally Posted by skiguideI stay up all night, I go to sleep watching dragnet
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01-10-2006, 09:03 AM #14
Not from the Island, but spent enough time there. That entire list is so on the money.
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01-10-2006, 09:19 AM #15Originally Posted by Plakespear
OBI Used to have a big Billboard that they would tow around that read Move out of New York before its too late.I stay up all night, I go to sleep watching dragnet
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01-10-2006, 12:34 PM #16
only been to LI once, worked the LI ski show and did these 2 in one night:
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've missed that "Drunk Train", the 2:42 am out of Penn Station and had the dreaded wait until 5:30 am.
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01-10-2006, 12:41 PM #17
Two words:
Twisted Sister
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01-10-2006, 12:55 PM #18
Back in the day I worked at Ski Stop, Princeton and Mountain Aire ski shops
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01-11-2006, 04:21 PM #19
I believe one of the funniest things I ever seen at the Wobbly Barn was a guy from Long Island and a girl from Boston having one of those near last call conversations about people from the North Shore and people from the South Shore. I think they must have gone on for about 15 minutes totally agreeing on the differences between the two types before I informed them that one of them was talking about Long Island and the other was talking about Boston.
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01-11-2006, 04:33 PM #20Originally Posted by Plakespear
Skiguide, you don't know the CMI because you moved before you hit the relevant age.
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01-11-2006, 05:17 PM #21Originally Posted by Shen
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01-11-2006, 05:18 PM #22
The OBI what a sausage fest. Rollin in my 5.0.....
The only club that was worth a shit was caffiene/voodoo. That place was a tripI resolve PC issues remotely. Need to get rid of all that pr0n you downloaded on your work laptop? Or did you just get a ton of viruses from searching for "geriatic midget sex"? Either way I can fix them. PM Me for maggot prices.
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01-12-2006, 12:18 AM #23Originally Posted by skiguide
Dix Hills/South Huntington representin' here.Because rich has nothing to do with money.
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01-12-2006, 11:38 AM #24
I love these threads about long island...its so true!!
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01-12-2006, 11:59 AM #25don't tell me no...
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