You Know Your're From Memphis When...
Posted: Sat Feb 2, 2008 4:36 pm
You know you are from Memphis when...
-Beale street is what you look forward to when you turn 21.
-You've had to explain to an out of towner while driving down I-40 that Bellevue is not an airport.
-you know pau gasol looks like jesus
-DeAngelo for Heisman
- You understand what Makin Easy Money Pimpin Hoes In Style really stands for.
- Radio rap is not real rap.
-Three Six Mafia, Project Pat, Frayser Boy, Lil Wyte is real rap.
- Orange Mound to C'Ville you gotta represent.
-You know what real Barbecue is.
-You know what Smith 7 is.
-Noncannah means Autobahn
-Your scared of Germantown Cops
-Runnin from police at field party's is a way of life
-Your proud of the number one violent crime rate memphis holds. Because that means you survived living in Memphis.
-Rednecks or not, we still can kick your ass.
-Our tap water is like your evian.
-Our mayor does drugs, how hardcore is that?
-Goin muddin is a sport
-You drive like your gonna kill everyone else.
-The city sucks till you can drive. Then its amazing
- Getting drunk at weddings is pretty much required
- The weather doesnt go with the season
- We know how to party....the right way
- You just call the Mississippi "The River."
- You didn't know that the Old Bridge and the New Bridge had names.
-You've seen all the members of Saliva at Wal-Mart.
-All year long you look forward to May... because Musicfest is in May
-youve had to switch the thermostat from heat to air in the same day
- you can say "Take Poplar" and get anywhere from anywhere.
-you know you can make it anywhere in memphis in "about 15 minutes"
- 201 poplar is one place you dont want to visit
- you have met one of the members in Three Six Mafia on the street
- everyone hates the mayor, yet somehow, we are still under the reign of King Willy
- you only have to drive 20 minutes to see the set of "Hustle & Flow"
-everybody thinks they are from the hood
-You know what VooDoo Village is.. Double points if you've actually been to VooDoo Village.. Triple points if a bus rolled out in front of you.
-You've never been to Graceland.
-When you wait in line for 30 mins for Fast Food
-If you head to walmart after a party while you are drunk at 5am "to get some things"
- if you call Wolf Chase "the old mall" and The Avenue Crossing "the new mall".
- if you know that c'ville high is the biggest drug hub ever.
- Orange Mound and Nutbush aren't things to be laughing about.
- University of Memphis is known as Tiger High.
-People think Republican means "White" and Democrat means "Black"
-You think it's stylish to put spinners on an '81 Buick Skylark.
-You've drunk a diver by yourself.
-You spent every afternoon post school in high school at Audubon Park.
-You didn't get carded at the Buccaneer until after you turned 21.
- You get out of school for an inch of snow.
- Many people think they have to suck at driving when its starts to Rain.
- You associate downtown with Crakc heads, porstitutes and the River
- You know that there are so many corrupt cops, especially in Nutbush.
- Driving is a dangerous feat anytime.
- You Dont speed in Bartlett!
-Beale street is what you look forward to when you turn 21.
-You've had to explain to an out of towner while driving down I-40 that Bellevue is not an airport.
-you know pau gasol looks like jesus
-DeAngelo for Heisman
- You understand what Makin Easy Money Pimpin Hoes In Style really stands for.
- Radio rap is not real rap.
-Three Six Mafia, Project Pat, Frayser Boy, Lil Wyte is real rap.
- Orange Mound to C'Ville you gotta represent.
-You know what real Barbecue is.
-You know what Smith 7 is.
-Noncannah means Autobahn
-Your scared of Germantown Cops
-Runnin from police at field party's is a way of life
-Your proud of the number one violent crime rate memphis holds. Because that means you survived living in Memphis.
-Rednecks or not, we still can kick your ass.
-Our tap water is like your evian.
-Our mayor does drugs, how hardcore is that?
-Goin muddin is a sport
-You drive like your gonna kill everyone else.
-The city sucks till you can drive. Then its amazing
- Getting drunk at weddings is pretty much required
- The weather doesnt go with the season
- We know how to party....the right way
- You just call the Mississippi "The River."
- You didn't know that the Old Bridge and the New Bridge had names.
-You've seen all the members of Saliva at Wal-Mart.
-All year long you look forward to May... because Musicfest is in May
-youve had to switch the thermostat from heat to air in the same day
- you can say "Take Poplar" and get anywhere from anywhere.
-you know you can make it anywhere in memphis in "about 15 minutes"
- 201 poplar is one place you dont want to visit
- you have met one of the members in Three Six Mafia on the street
- everyone hates the mayor, yet somehow, we are still under the reign of King Willy
- you only have to drive 20 minutes to see the set of "Hustle & Flow"
-everybody thinks they are from the hood
-You know what VooDoo Village is.. Double points if you've actually been to VooDoo Village.. Triple points if a bus rolled out in front of you.
-You've never been to Graceland.
-When you wait in line for 30 mins for Fast Food
-If you head to walmart after a party while you are drunk at 5am "to get some things"
- if you call Wolf Chase "the old mall" and The Avenue Crossing "the new mall".
- if you know that c'ville high is the biggest drug hub ever.
- Orange Mound and Nutbush aren't things to be laughing about.
- University of Memphis is known as Tiger High.
-People think Republican means "White" and Democrat means "Black"
-You think it's stylish to put spinners on an '81 Buick Skylark.
-You've drunk a diver by yourself.
-You spent every afternoon post school in high school at Audubon Park.
-You didn't get carded at the Buccaneer until after you turned 21.
- You get out of school for an inch of snow.
- Many people think they have to suck at driving when its starts to Rain.
- You associate downtown with Crakc heads, porstitutes and the River
- You know that there are so many corrupt cops, especially in Nutbush.
- Driving is a dangerous feat anytime.
- You Dont speed in Bartlett!
