Thursday, November 17, 2011
Friday, November 4, 2011
Friday, October 28, 2011
Monday, October 17, 2011
You know you're an Indy baby if
You know you're an Indy Baby if...
- You had at least one birthday party at Showbiz Pizza ("Where a kid can be a kid!").
- You took a field trip to Conner Prairie in the 4th Grade.
- One of your "special privilege" field trips in elementary school or junior high was to a Practice Day at the track.
- You can identify the "types" that go with each side of town.
- You dressed "cool" to hang out in Broad Ripple on Saturday afternoons.
- Your parents or grandparents worked at Allison Transmission.
- You still call it Deer Creek.
- You remember the Hoosier Millionaire TV show.
- You get the giggles during Peter Francis Geraci and Vaughn Wamsley commercials.
- You get the giggles, and are very disturbed, during Don's Guns commercials.
- You're willing to bet that the man in the pick-up truck waiting next to you at the red light is listening to Q95.
- You call IUPUI "ooey-pooey."
- In the wintertime, you memorize where all the really bad chuckholes are so you can avoid driving in those lanes.
- You call them "chuckholes."
- In elementary school, you collected stickers on your Book-It pin so you could get your free personal pan pizza at Pizza Hut.
- You know the story of Ryan White.
- You know that, even if you are in the city or suburbs, you can drive fifteen minutes to find yourself in a cornfield.
- You remember when Marsh didn't use to be so posh.
- You've driven more than an hour to attend a small town summer festival.
- You remember going to a drive-in when you were younger, but that drive-in's long been demolished.
- You remember when such-n-such shopping center used to be a field.
- You remember when such-n-such housing development used to be a field.
- Your school cafeteria served a massive pork tenderloin between two tiny buns.
- Your school cafeteria served "chicken fried steak."
- You remember when Union Station was a shopping mall with an awesome arcade upstairs.
- The first thing you look(ed) for when flying into the city was the "Hoosier Dome."
- You love Bob Gregory, and you love his son, Kevin Gregory.
- You always wondered why Diane Willis pronounced her name "Dee-ohn."
- Your Saturday Morning cartoons ended with "At the Zoo" - based out of the Indianapolis Zoo.
- You go to Shapiro's to get your corned beef sandwich fix.
- You're still trying to figure out when Zionsville became a suburb.
- The men in your family talk about the famous racing families like they're personal friends.
- You remember the Wholesale Club as the original bulk-shopping-experience.
- You know about the giant "rocket ship slides" at Broad Ripple Park.
- You've seen The Nutcracker at Clowes Hall during Christmas.
- You've ice skated at the Pepsi Coliseum.
- You know the back way into Castleton to avoid traffic on the weekends.
- On Friday and Saturday nights in high school, you hung out at a Steak N Shake.
- You took 4-H classes when you were a kid.
- You can identify the regional accents of everyone else in America, but you really don't think YOU have an accent.
- You went to Thunder Island in your youth.
- You went to Indiana Beach in your youth. When you hear that motto, "There's more than corn in Indiana," you laugh a silent laugh at the irony.
- You remember, and may even have met, Commander KC from Channel 4.
- You have participated at a fire safety event at your local McDonald's and shaken hands with an overgrown dalmatian.
- You remember McGruff the Crime Dog telling you to "Take a bite out of crime."
- You remember the name of your class's D.A.R.E. officer.
- You've hiked at Turkey Run.
- In a taste test, you'd know the difference between a birthday cake from Marsh and a birthday cake from Kroger.
- Someone in your family, maybe even YOU, makes a possessive out of store names: Kroger's, Meijer's, etc.
- Your first ear piercing experience was at Claire's in the mall.
- You've been around for the various stages of development at the Glendale shopping mall, and you've been wondering all these years why they don't just tear the whole thing down, already.
- In school, you always saw someone from your class on the airplane on the way to Florida, or at the beach in Florida.
- You know you can't buy alcohol in the store on Sundays.
- You can remember every time the USA skating rink painted their logo a different color on the side of their building.
- You know that Memorial Day can either be really sunny and warm and summery, or that it might snow instead.
- You know that Halloween can be either really sunny and warm and summery, or that it might snow instead.
- You know which neighborhoods to hit up during Christmastime to see all the best Christmas lights/decorations.
- You've gone fishing at Eagle Creek.
- The Old Oaken Bucket game is SERIOUS BUSINESS.
- You drank Faygo Redpop until your teeth stained pink.
- You've watched fireworks Downtown.
- You've been to the Christmas lights ceremony on the Circle.
- You remember a time BEFORE Circle Center Mall.
- You had at least one birthday party at Showbiz Pizza ("Where a kid can be a kid!").
- You took a field trip to Conner Prairie in the 4th Grade.
- One of your "special privilege" field trips in elementary school or junior high was to a Practice Day at the track.
- You can identify the "types" that go with each side of town.
- You dressed "cool" to hang out in Broad Ripple on Saturday afternoons.
- Your parents or grandparents worked at Allison Transmission.
- You still call it Deer Creek.
- You remember the Hoosier Millionaire TV show.
- You get the giggles during Peter Francis Geraci and Vaughn Wamsley commercials.
- You get the giggles, and are very disturbed, during Don's Guns commercials.
- You're willing to bet that the man in the pick-up truck waiting next to you at the red light is listening to Q95.
- You call IUPUI "ooey-pooey."
- In the wintertime, you memorize where all the really bad chuckholes are so you can avoid driving in those lanes.
- You call them "chuckholes."
- In elementary school, you collected stickers on your Book-It pin so you could get your free personal pan pizza at Pizza Hut.
- You know the story of Ryan White.
- You know that, even if you are in the city or suburbs, you can drive fifteen minutes to find yourself in a cornfield.
- You remember when Marsh didn't use to be so posh.
- You've driven more than an hour to attend a small town summer festival.
- You remember going to a drive-in when you were younger, but that drive-in's long been demolished.
- You remember when such-n-such shopping center used to be a field.
- You remember when such-n-such housing development used to be a field.
- Your school cafeteria served a massive pork tenderloin between two tiny buns.
- Your school cafeteria served "chicken fried steak."
- You remember when Union Station was a shopping mall with an awesome arcade upstairs.
- The first thing you look(ed) for when flying into the city was the "Hoosier Dome."
- You love Bob Gregory, and you love his son, Kevin Gregory.
- You always wondered why Diane Willis pronounced her name "Dee-ohn."
- Your Saturday Morning cartoons ended with "At the Zoo" - based out of the Indianapolis Zoo.
- You go to Shapiro's to get your corned beef sandwich fix.
- You're still trying to figure out when Zionsville became a suburb.
- The men in your family talk about the famous racing families like they're personal friends.
- You remember the Wholesale Club as the original bulk-shopping-experience.
- You know about the giant "rocket ship slides" at Broad Ripple Park.
- You've seen The Nutcracker at Clowes Hall during Christmas.
- You've ice skated at the Pepsi Coliseum.
- You know the back way into Castleton to avoid traffic on the weekends.
- On Friday and Saturday nights in high school, you hung out at a Steak N Shake.
- You took 4-H classes when you were a kid.
- You can identify the regional accents of everyone else in America, but you really don't think YOU have an accent.
- You went to Thunder Island in your youth.
- You went to Indiana Beach in your youth. When you hear that motto, "There's more than corn in Indiana," you laugh a silent laugh at the irony.
- You remember, and may even have met, Commander KC from Channel 4.
- You have participated at a fire safety event at your local McDonald's and shaken hands with an overgrown dalmatian.
- You remember McGruff the Crime Dog telling you to "Take a bite out of crime."
- You remember the name of your class's D.A.R.E. officer.
- You've hiked at Turkey Run.
- In a taste test, you'd know the difference between a birthday cake from Marsh and a birthday cake from Kroger.
- Someone in your family, maybe even YOU, makes a possessive out of store names: Kroger's, Meijer's, etc.
- Your first ear piercing experience was at Claire's in the mall.
- You've been around for the various stages of development at the Glendale shopping mall, and you've been wondering all these years why they don't just tear the whole thing down, already.
- In school, you always saw someone from your class on the airplane on the way to Florida, or at the beach in Florida.
- You know you can't buy alcohol in the store on Sundays.
- You can remember every time the USA skating rink painted their logo a different color on the side of their building.
- You know that Memorial Day can either be really sunny and warm and summery, or that it might snow instead.
- You know that Halloween can be either really sunny and warm and summery, or that it might snow instead.
- You know which neighborhoods to hit up during Christmastime to see all the best Christmas lights/decorations.
- You've gone fishing at Eagle Creek.
- The Old Oaken Bucket game is SERIOUS BUSINESS.
- You drank Faygo Redpop until your teeth stained pink.
- You've watched fireworks Downtown.
- You've been to the Christmas lights ceremony on the Circle.
- You remember a time BEFORE Circle Center Mall.
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011
Cincy weekend/ Bills bachelor party
Top Ten Things I learned in cincy over the weekend for bills bachelor party
1. the only way to get to covington is to travel through devil's backbone
2. Hofbrau house although awesome is not a good predrinking place
3. Midgets don't like to be petted or be called midgets for that matter
4. white shorts
5. If you lose someone make sure you divee out the room keys
6. cops think its funny when you frisbee a waffle acrossed a parking lot at 3am
7. Skyrosas fall fast
8. They serve daquiris at reds game and if you know someone that gets one make fun of them mercelessly
9. The underground railroad museum is surpirsingly a building above ground
10. Only cincinnati has a traffic jam of people that want to get out of the city
bonus: mr. yuck
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
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