You Know You're From Long Island When...
You know someone who went to Chaminade.

Jones Beach Theater is the best place in the world to see a concert. CASE CLOSED!

Is it just me, or is every girl from Rockville Centre a bitch?

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

What's the big deal about the Hamptons?

If you're not from Long Island or NYC, you're not really from New York.

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

You know the Belt Parkway sucks!

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

You never realize you have an accent until you leave.

You know where at least one strip club is.

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

You curse. A lot.

Is Huntington really that cool?

You've been to Utopia at least once.

The goddamn geese are everywhere!

If your parents didn't, your grandparents lived in the city.

At some point in your life you or someone you know has owned an animal that came from North Shore Animal League.

You actually remember when you felt safe swimming at Bar Beach and Hempstead Harbor.

Commack movie theatre scares you.

You walk around the mall aimlessly.

You drive around your town with your friends, and that's the most exciting part of your evening.

On the weekend, your evening consists of seeing a movie, going bowling, or playing pool.

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 feel like you know Howard Stern.

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

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

You know that the beach sucks during the day and is the most magical place in the world at night.

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

You're still waiting for a bridge to Connecticut.

You've tried to use your father's monthly ticket to ride the LIRR. It worked.

No matter what you do, you end up at the diner.

Your distant future might involve the state of Florida.

High school sports aren't that important.

You've never been to Times Square on New Year's Eve.

You've tried to find the Amityville Horror house.

Each one of your diverse friends mercilessly makes fun of his own background.

You love that salty smell of the ocean.

No, you don't want mustard on that burger!

The most exciting day of your summer is when all tickets to every Jones Beach show go on sale.

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 can order a pizza pie and a soda and people will understand.

You felt slighted when Snapple sold out.

You don't associate Fire Island with gay men.

You wanted Hooters to open simply to piss off "decency" groups.

You watched a game show and wondered, "why are these people so happy that they won a trip to New York?"

You like The Brothers McMullen.

When you hear Billy Joel's "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant" you try to figure out what places on Long Island he's talking about.

You know that parts of the Godfather were filmed on LI.

You always liked Billy Joel, but as soon as you leave, you love Billy Joel.

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

You've been to the Tanger Outlets and came home with nothing to show for it.

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 have been to Mulcahay's on Thanksgiving Eve, the largest ladies night event of every year.

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

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

Your parents took you to Nathans or Carvel.

You hate the radio commercials for the Dublin Pub.

Public beach? What's that?

You can correctly pronouce places like Happauge, Commack, Islip, Islandia, Connetquot, Massapequa.

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

You grew up thinking Chinese food was a basic food group.

You're used to driving down the street in December and seeing more light-up menorahs than you can shake a latka at. In fact, even your non-Jewish friends know what Matzoh is. And you've never driven more than 10 miles without seeing a temple.

Oh, your parents are from Brooklyn? So are mine!

Yes, admit it, you've cruised the Pike.

You can remember making up rules for “Shotgun” calls in high school.

Your elementary school promoted dodge ball as the top gym activity.

You were upset when all the Roy Rogers turned into Wendy’s.

You consider nachos and cheese at the Coliseum to be a suitable dinner date.

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

thats funny n some of this is tru lol RePrEsEnT LONG ISLAND WOOOOOO !!!!!!!!!

haha yeah i know, i was cracking up cause some of it is sooo true...they hit me like right on the head...lol.

How big is long Island ? Alot of people seem to live there. My teacher came from there , he has the accent too.

well...im not from Long Island or NY (cali girl here) but my friends still yell shotgun!

and i didnt even know there were different accents in NY. to me, it's just a NY accent...do you think cali people have an accent?

yea ppl from cali talk slower lol

hahah...slower!?

well i guess ppl from LI talk fast ... i kno i am always told to talk slower lol

but i remember in like 3rd grade we had this new kid transfer to my school and he was from Cali and he talked really slow and he would always ask my teacher to slow down cuz she talked 2 fast :lol:

yea like i kno me i tend to talk fast n i got a accent. I luv mah accent just think of the episode " dressed to kill" when the boys were at the brooklyn street fair you could tell how we talk . The grls were talkin wit accents


Like new york is pronounced - new yawk lol or thats how i say it
over here - ova hea


lol im givin like a mini lesson :P

haha!
i dunno if anyone here in fla talks different from most people.. it doesn't seem like it at least

well i was a backstreet boys fan...they didn't seem to have any accent...well minus kevin and brian cuz they were from kentucky.

lol even tho im not frum long island i go there during the
summer alot ..its funnie cuz some of those relate
to new yorkers haha yea i never say manhattan i say
im goin down to tha city lol ppl no wut ur talking about

half that stuff is true i loveee jones beach lol =)

LOL the long island express way in the summer
HOLY SHYT its packedd u gotta leave for the beach
so early cuz wen i go home from there its like
bumper to bumper traffic like this summer but

O M G i saw the 2 hottest guys wen we were stuck on there
they were like gotti boys they were sooo amazing lol

im from boston, and a hav a rly thick boston accent. we dont pronounce our r's, its like they arent even a real letter to us, like if sumone from sumwhere else says car, ppl from boston would say cah

holy crap when i go on vaca to south carolina
i feel sooooo weird cuz all the people are like HEY YALL
im like wuts up?? lmao and random people are just like
hello ..im like wtff??? its not like this in new york lol
i hatee how they say water and ball

i say bawl and wuter they say BAHLLL and WAHTER
and DAHG im like its dawg ..lmao thats how i say dog> DAWG lmao

wtff?? is DAHG lmao

where is that in LI?




lol thats cool! i go to LI alot cos all my realtives are up there...unfortunatly we are the only ones here in pa cos we had to fucking move from ny but neways lol thats funny! lol

The Tanger Outlets is in Riverhead Long Island. Its really close to Splish Splash ( there like neighbors) but it is a big shoppin outlet with like madd stores. They got 2 parts two it n like i think 3 food courts but im not sure i forget. lol


Heres the link if u wanna check it out
http://www.tangeroutlet.com/

new yorkers r like dat 2.when i had biology last yr my teacher Ms.G one time was telling my class "who do u think i am Supa lady".a girl in my class was like she is such a new yorker.she doesn't pronounce her r's.my teacher said dat caz sumtimes ppl handed in things late n she always had piles of papers 2 grade in short periods of time.mayb its like an east coast thing

fran ur taking me to long island one of these times..lol see ya january 4 th 9 more dys to go without me ..lol

ya maybe. when i go to florida to visit family, their friends can never understand me they are always like wat did u just say? so then i have to try and say stuff slow and pronounce all the letters

:lol:

derz not really a cali accent, everybody in cali makes up der own accent, its really funny!

im sure we cali ppl have an accent to other people...

u do..ya'll talk like..all laid back and shit...i can't explain it..haha..but not slow like southerners...just like...surfer-ish?? and i don't mean with all those "likes" and shit..you just have this kind of voice..yeah..my cousins live there lol

yea my friend lives in Cali n all he says is Narley , Dude , Cool , and all that but yea i hate when he speaks like that n he always calls me dude . Im like noo :angry: lol

I LIVE IN QUEENS N MOST OF THAT IS TRU FOR ME BUT I DUNNO BUT WHATEVER LOL

oh yeah,dats so true! Rep'n Long Island 2 da fullest!

narley is sooooo late 80's early 90's...like saved by the bell old/ california dreams old! i thought it was weird when i heard "narley" in laguna beach!

wut da hell is narley???? im from cali and ive never heard dat one

like awesome...cool...? surf language!

AHHAHA try being from new york and going to south carolina

LMAOOO me nd my cousin were talking to these kids nd theyw
were like how old r ya`ll nd we were like 15 [but im really 14 :wink: ]
and the kid looked at his friend nd was like confused like he didnt understand
me cuz they say FIFTAIN nd im lik fifteen .. so they were like all confused
LMAO i was like ONE FIVE hahahha i sware the whole nite they like
didnt understand us i was gunna shoot some1 lmaoo

i spent the day yesterday with a filipino-austrailian family. filipino family from austrailia. it was sooooooooooooo weird yet cool how they would speak filipino all fluently, then switch to english. austrailian english was sooooo funny! they tried talking in ny accents! i laughed my ass off!

hahahahha :lol: