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The fact that the German Village Oktoberfest is in September (and not in German Village...) seems perfectly normal.
You beam with pride that we're the hometown of Wendy's, White Castle, Rax Roast Beef, Bob Evans and & Donato's. But you wonder why we're the 8th fattest city in America.
You remember very vividly City Center & Northland.
You know how to pronounce Scioto and Olentangy.
You go to The Memorial Tournament at Muirfield just to see and be seen, and you've been rained on there at least once.
You see nothing unusual about a street being called East North Broadway.
You live in the suburbs but your backyard was actually a cornfield last year. That complex on the corner with the CVS, Blockbuster and Kroger? That was a cornfield last year, too!
As you lament the loss of all those cornfields, you see the infinite wisdom of Dublin City Council, who spent over $60,000 on a field of 10' concrete corn ears.
You know all of the 4 seasons: Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter and Construction.
You drive 3 hours to see Red White & Boom for 15 minutes...and 4 hours back. But you live 12 minutes away.
You know what a real buckeye is and have a recipe for the candy ones.
You take it for granted that screaming "O-H"...anytime, anywhere...will get a reply from a stranger saying "I-O"!
You don't consider it terribly strange that The Dispatch covers national and international news in a page or two...but requires 6 pages for sports (and 3 of those just for the Bucks).
You consider going to the Zoo in winter VERY normal...and we're talking real winter...ice and snow and stuff...not just the month of December. And you stopped noticing Jack Hanna's lisp years ago.
You have a Buckeye necklace..
You think 45 degree weather is justification enough to go through the car wash!
You call it pop. Soda is for weirdos.
You get chills when you hear Carmen Ohio.
You know that Wyandot Lake is NOT a body of water, and Mad River Mountain is not really a mountain.
You say Kroger's...although proper english would be Kroger.
You can see a building downtown...but you can't get there due to 500 million one-way streets!
You consider this weather pretty much normal:
Monday: 30 degrees
Tuesday: 70 degrees
Wednesday: 45 degrees and humid
Thursday: -10 wind chill
Friday: 80 degrees and sunny
Though there's not a snowball's chance...the guys like to pretend that all those Victoria's Secret models actually live here, just because the company's based here.
You take it as a matter of fact that if you don't like the weather today...stick around, it'll change!
One out of every 5 cars has something Buckeye on it.
You remember Flippo and Luci's Toy Shop
Your big Christmas event as a kid was seeing the window decorations and visiting Santa at Downtown Lazarus
You were surprised that there is ANOTHER Hoover Dam in the country
You know full well that people drive 10 mph with the first dusting of snow and 65 mph with 2 feet of snow
You've never even stopped to question the fact that a bunch of businesses close down on every OSU football game day..
You know what The Hospital Curve is
You think the standard protocol for a tornado warning is...to grab lawn chairs and head for the front porch.
You drive down 670 with your windows open to smell the fresh bread from the Wonder Bread factory and the cinnamon rolls from the Kroger bakery
You think there's nothing strange about the city of Westerville being Northeast of Columbus
You're fully confident that the word Columbus should always be followed by Ohio
Columbus Underground Messageboard » General Columbus Discussion
You Know You're from Columbus …
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Posted 2 years ago # -
UncommonSense
Hilliard
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Nice list... Several made me laugh. :)
(FYI - Oktoberfest always starts in September - even in Munich).
Posted 2 years ago # -
blammo
in the shadow of the wonder of bread
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JonMyers wrote >>
alove wrote >>
Well.. I wish Columbus didn't need the OH behind it but there are just too many Columbus' in the US.Agreed. If we could rename the city what would you name it? I don't have any ideas on names.
Uh oh. this is the very topic that got me started posting on CU. And it didn't end well, hahaha
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alove
Downtown
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somebuckeye
Franklin Park
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Columbus was originally going to be called "Ohio City"
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michaelcoyote
!seabus
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How do you say "Two Rivers" in Shawnee?
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Analogue Kid
5th by West-Northwest
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kcrissinger
Brookshire
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Walker
The KLD / Downtown
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JonMyers wrote >>
LOL - RAX could be graphically strong.Oh, it's graphically strong all right...
http://www.columbusunderground.com/rax-road-trip-and-roast-beef-review
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