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You know you are in Kentucky when...
« on: May 21, 2022, 07:51:16 AM »
Complete strangers wave and/or say hello in public.

Fast, processed, fried and sugary are the main food groups.

The counter lady at Big-O calls you sweetie.

The pharmacist calls you buddy.

There is no recycling.

There is still a guy riding on the back of the garbage truck that empties your trash can.

You sweat before, during and after a shower.

It cools down very little or not at all in the evening.

You are familiar with the term swamp ass.

You know what a chigger is and how to treat the bites.

It is greener than you ever imagined.

People don't cower at thunder.

The bourbon is the best in the world.

A drive in the country still means something.

Rarely an hour goes by when you don't hear a lawn mower (except winter).

You don't see a single Tesla in the neighborhood (I haven't seen a Prius either).


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Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2022, 10:26:47 AM »
Tricia is now headed back from the national rowing meet which was held in Nashville Tennessee. Nashville isn't Kentucky, but looking east from California (or Oregon in her case), it looks a lot like it.

Other than the crappy service at the first night's motel (one bed for four team members!?) she commented most about how the people there used the word "fixin'."

Fixin' to go get dinner.

Fixin' to watch the competition.

Fixin' to go climbing and get some poison oak.



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Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2022, 10:30:55 AM »

If you reckon - then I'm a fixin'
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Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2022, 10:35:53 AM »

P.S. Kentucky sports fans and many just plain old Kentuckians would throttle you within an inch of your life - or maybe just end you for comparing anything about Kentucky to Tennessee.

And those Tennessee breeders are used to sleepin' 4 to a bed. Specially if they're cousins  :yesnod: :lol:
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Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
« Reply #4 on: May 21, 2022, 10:38:30 AM »

P.S. Kentucky sports fans and many just plain old Kentuckians would throttle you within an inch of your life - or maybe just end you for comparing anything about Kentucky to Tennessee.


I suspected that this would be true.

But in order to thrash me, they'd have to come to California. And since "they" are irrationally terrified of earthquakes, I'm very, very safe.

P.S. I'd rather be in an earthquake than a tornado any day.



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Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
« Reply #5 on: May 21, 2022, 10:41:58 AM »
Fixin' to go climbing and get some poison oak.

We ain't got no poison oak in Kentucky or Tennessee boy.

Poison Ivy is the evil creeper here.

Chiggers are pert near as good.
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Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
« Reply #6 on: May 21, 2022, 10:45:01 AM »
P.S. I'd rather be in an earthquake than a tornado any day.

There was tennis ball-size hail near here yesterday.
Missed us by "that much".
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Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
« Reply #7 on: May 21, 2022, 08:07:45 PM »

 Is “swamp ass” a noun, adjective or verb? Pronoun?
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Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
« Reply #8 on: May 21, 2022, 09:06:23 PM »
^^^

My guess is it is all of the above. And can probably be more than one at a time.

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Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
« Reply #9 on: May 22, 2022, 05:16:52 AM »
Is “swamp ass” a noun, adjective or verb? Pronoun?

If you have to assk or I have to explain it - it's no fun.

It has to be experienced to be appreciated.
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Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
« Reply #10 on: May 22, 2022, 06:33:41 AM »
An old friend of mine from Kentucky who has lived in Idaho the last 30 years (also a former guidebook author for the Red River Gorge) posted this and reminded me how much I miss watching Bill.

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Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
« Reply #11 on: May 22, 2022, 07:02:59 AM »

 All my many gender fluid feelings, the feelings especially stirred up when hanging around with my peers on this forum, went out the window at the mention of the “Dick Saw”.
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Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
« Reply #12 on: May 22, 2022, 11:35:20 AM »
^^^
I'm just sad that you probably won't live long enough to show up on that chart at the beginning.

Love the comparison between Ohio and LaLa Land.

Also love the comments on nut allergy, marriage and fluidity of children.

We need more cowboys, princesses and pirates  :yesnod: :thumbup: :lol: :ciappa:
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Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
« Reply #13 on: May 22, 2022, 12:59:37 PM »
Whiskey is better
What is wrong with sleeping 4 to a bed
That was a good clip and I hate that guy
It's still raining but the sun did come out
Here's to sweat in your eye

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Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
« Reply #14 on: May 22, 2022, 02:42:15 PM »
^^^
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Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
« Reply #15 on: May 22, 2022, 02:44:34 PM »

You can broil and get chilled in the same day.

We always used to say that if you didn't like the weather - wait 5 minutes.

Yesterday it was in the 90's and super humid - then in the afternoon it rained huge, cold drops and hailed a little bit.

Today it didn't even reach 70, was overcast and drizzling slightly all day - felt just like home!
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Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
« Reply #16 on: May 26, 2022, 09:13:03 AM »

When you say goodnight and the response is "Yep...see ya in the morning...God willing and the creek don't rise."
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Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
« Reply #17 on: May 27, 2022, 09:14:52 AM »
You work all week and the weather is nice - then the weekend comes and it turns to shit.

People at local "mom and pop" businesses treat you like family.

Smokers aren't ostracized.

People think Budweiser is good beer.

Fruity wines, Mountain Dew and sweet tea are drink staples.

You can make a decent living mowing lawns.
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Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
« Reply #18 on: May 27, 2022, 10:18:47 AM »
^^^

This mostly sounds like California 30 years ago.

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Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
« Reply #19 on: May 27, 2022, 10:30:41 AM »
^^^

Maybe where you live.

Not in L.A. 40 years ago when I was there and certainly not in Santa Cruz where I have been the last 22 years.

Too many micro cultures in California to make any general, state-wide statements.

Kentucky basically has four - western, central and eastern (and northern to a lesser degree) - all with some variations in flavor.

The one thing they all share is feeling like a time warp when stepping in from California.
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