The Pacific Northwest

[graceanne]

THIS IS WHAT JEFF FOXWORTHY HAS TO SAY ABOUT 'LIVING IN OREGON' . .


You know the state flower (Mildew)

Use the statement "sun break" and know what it means.

You feel overdressed wearing a suit to a nice restaurant.

In winter, you go to work in the dark and come home in the dark -while only working eight-hour days.

You are not fazed by "Today's forecast: showers followed by rain," and "Tomorrow's forecast: rain followed by showers."

You have no concept of humidity without precipitation

You can point to at least two volcanoes, even if you cannot see through the cloud cover.

You notice, "The mountain is out" when it is a pretty day and ou can
actually see it.

You put on your shorts when the temperature gets above 50, but still wear your hiking boots and parka.

You switch to your sandals when it gets about 60, but keep the socks on.

If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they don't work there, you live in Oregon.

If you've worn shorts, sandals and a parka at the same time, you live in Oregon.

If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed the wrong number, you live in Oregon.

If you measure distance in hours, you live in Oregon.

If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once, you live in Oregon.

If you have switched from 'heat' to 'A/C' and back again in the same day, you live in Oregon.

If you install security lights on your house and garage but leave both doors unlocked, you live in Oregon.

If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you live in Central, Southern or Eastern Oregon.

If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a 2 layers of clothes or under a raincoat, you live in Oregon.

If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow and ice, you live in Oregon.

If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter, and road construction, you live in Oregon.

If you feel guilty throwing aluminum cans or paper in the trash, you live in Oregon.

If you know more than 10 ways to order coffee, you live in Oregon.

If you know more people who own boats than air conditioners, you live in Oregon.

If you stand on a deserted corner in the rain waiting for the "Walk" signal, you live in Oregon.

If you consider that if it has no snow or has not recently erupted, it is not a real mountain, you live in Oregon.

If you can taste the difference between Starbucks, Seattle's Best, and Dutch Bros, you live in Oregon.

If you know the difference between Chinook, Coho and Sockeye salmon, you live in Oregon.

If you know how to pronounce Sequim, Puyallup, Clatskanie, Issaquah, Oregon, Umpqua, Yakima and Willamette, you live in Oregon.

If you consider swimming an indoor sport, you live in Oregon.

If you know that Boring is a city and not just a feeling, you live in Oregon.

If you can tell the difference between Japanese, Chinese and Thai food, you live in Oregon.

If you never go camping without waterproof matches and a poncho, you live in Oregon.

If you have actually used your mountain bike on a mountain, you live in Oregon.

If you think people who use umbrellas are either wimps or tourists, you live in Oregon.

If you buy new sunglasses every year, because you cannot find the old ones after such a long time, you live in Oregon.

If you actually understand these jokes and forward them to all your OREGON friends, you live or have lived in Oregon.

 

[YourCaptor]

I spent a few hours in Oregon once. I remembered a lot of trees and tattoo shops. And this guy at the gas pump, that was awkward.

 

[graceanne]

I spent a few hours in Oregon once. I remembered a lot of trees and tattoo shops. And this guy at the gas pump, that was awkward.

LOL I don't know any born and bred, never lived anywhere else, Oregonians who can pump their own gas. If I run out of gas in Washington or California, when I visit, I gotta shanghai a family member to do it for me. They always show me how, but by the time I have to do it again, I've forgotten.

 

[trojan_man_co]

thats funny, a couple of them ive heard about other states as well but there are alot of unique ones as well and while ive never been there myself i have alot of family from there, in fact i will be visiting it this summer... any suggestions or things i should know about hahah?

 

[Keroin]

Ah yes, I relate.

It was once suggested that the sun coming out in Vancouver is like cancer going into remission.

If you know the difference between "showers, drizzle, and sprinkles", then you live in the Pac North.

(BTW, I know how to pronounce all those place names..."Do the Puyallup!")

 

[DeepGreenEyes]

Dead on.

Also, if you think roofs are supposed to have moss for extra protection from the elements...

 

[WriterDom]

I lived in Washington for a short time. Absolutely loved the summer there. You can keep the other 11 months.

 

[graceanne]

Ah yes, I relate.

It was once suggested that the sun coming out in Vancouver is like cancer going into remission.

If you know the difference between "showers, drizzle, and sprinkles", then you live in the Pac North.

(BTW, I know how to pronounce all those place names..."Do the Puyallup!")

You can tell a tourist by how they say Willamette valley. lol

 

[KoPilot]

My uncle lives on a horse ranch on Bend, and we visit him once or twice a year. I LOVE it up there. Absolutely gorgeous.

 

[chy_girl]

If you consider that if it has no snow or has not recently erupted, it is not a real mountain, you live in Oregon.

*blinks*
We have an actual, real mountain that's doesn't have snow? Or isn't a volcano?
*looks around*
Really? Where?

If you know that Boring is a city and not just a feeling, you live in Oregon.

Do you know why Oregon's so wet all the time?

Because we only have one Drain! And it's little!!

*giggles maniacally before clearing throat and looking serious*
It's an Oregon thing.

 

[graceanne]

*blinks*
We have an actual, real mountain that's doesn't have snow? Or isn't a volcano?
*looks around*
Really? Where?

dunno *shrugs*

Do you know why Oregon's so wet all the time?

Because we only have one Drain! And it's little!!

*giggles maniacally before clearing throat and looking serious*
It's an Oregon thing.

LOL!!

 

[graceanne]

My uncle lives on a horse ranch on Bend, and we visit him once or twice a year. I LOVE it up there. Absolutely gorgeous.

I love it here, cause it's always green and in the northwestern part of the state there's no poisonous snakes or nasty big bugs. K's enjoying the rain, lol. He says Iraq needs a really good rain.

 

[chy_girl]

I love it here, cause it's always green and in the northwestern part of the state there's no poisonous snakes or nasty big bugs. K's enjoying the rain, lol. He says Iraq needs a really good rain.

We do too have poisonous snakes. Well, one poisonous snake... With a built in alarm system...

Now that I think about it, as long as you're paying attention while tromping around in the hills you probably won't run into one...

But we still have one!

 

[graceanne]

We do too have poisonous snakes. Well, one poisonous snake... With a built in alarm system...

Now that I think about it, as long as you're paying attention while tromping around in the hills you probably won't run into one...

But we still have one!

Not in the northwest. No rattle snakes in the northwest. nyah nyah nyah

 

[caela]

Ah yes, I relate.

It was once suggested that the sun coming out in Vancouver is like cancer going into remission.

If you know the difference between "showers, drizzle, and sprinkles", then you live in the Pac North.

(BTW, I know how to pronounce all those place names..."Do the Puyallup!")

Hey we know the difference between those types of precipitation in MI too!

Gracie, gotta ask, what the hell was that comment about seasons other than Winter and Construction? What other seasons???

 

[graceanne]

Hey we know the difference between those types of precipitation in MI too!

Gracie, gotta ask, what the hell was that comment about seasons other than Winter and Construction? What other seasons???

*shrugs*

Dunno. Are there other seasons?

 

[midwestyankee]

If you buy your pinot noir from another state than Oregon, you're a know-nothing snob.

 

[chy_girl]

Not in the northwest. No rattle snakes in the northwest. nyah nyah nyah

We do too have rattle snakes. The town I grew up in use to have a yearly rattle snake hunt and when they blew out a section of mountain to put in I-5 they accidentally blasted a bunch of dens. It vaporized enough of the venom (which then went air born) that it sent a bunch of the construction workers to the hospital.

From what my mom said, it was a pretty awesome sight to see the giant balls of snake roll down the hill.

 

[caela]

*shrugs*

Dunno. Are there other seasons?

Not in MI there aren't. You either have orange construction cones on the road, or ice.

 

[graceanne]

We do too have rattle snakes. The town I grew up in use to have a yearly rattle snake hunt and when they blew out a section of mountain to put in I-5 they accidentally blasted a bunch of dens. It vaporized enough of the venom (which then went air born) that it sent a bunch of the construction workers to the hospital.

From what my mom said, it was a pretty awesome sight to see the giant balls of snake roll down the hill.

There are no rattle snakes in the Willamette valley, the very northwestern part of the state, where I live. It does not get warm enough. I've lived in the Willamette valley for 22 years, and no one has ever seen a rattle snake, nor have I.

 

[chy_girl]

There are no rattle snakes in the Willamette valley, the very northwestern part of the state, where I live. It does not get warm enough. I've lived in the Willamette valley for 22 years, and no one has ever seen a rattle snake, nor have I.

Someone should tell that to the rattlers then. My family has been in the Willamette Valley for 4 generations and tons of them have seen rattlers. One uncle use to collect the rattle when he shot them for meat and when my brother's were hauling pipe the farmers always made sure each of the trucks had a .22 in it for coyote and rattle snakes. Everyone I grew up around had ran into one at one point or another.

Maybe you're just extra special.

 

[graceanne]

Someone should tell that to the rattlers then. My family has been in the Willamette Valley for 4 generations and tons of them have seen rattlers. One uncle use to collect the rattle when he shot them for meat and when my brother's were hauling pipe the farmers always made sure each of the trucks had a .22 in it for coyote and rattle snakes. Everyone I grew up around had ran into one at one point or another.

Maybe you're just extra special.

Probably a gopher snake.

http://www.desertusa.com/mag99/july/papr/gophersnake.html

They're not poisonous, but they imitate rattle snakes as a protection for themselves.

 

[chy_girl]

Rattlesnake Link 1

Rattlesnake Link 2

Rattlesnake Link 3

 

[chy_girl]

Probably a gopher snake.

http://www.desertusa.com/mag99/july/papr/gophersnake.html

They're not poisonous, but they imitate rattle snakes as a protection for themselves.

No one ever bothered to kill the gophersnakes. They ate all the pesky critters that got into the grain and ruined the crops.

They also don't have actual rattles - which are very creepy by the mason jar full.

 

[graceanne]

No one ever bothered to kill the gophersnakes. They ate all the pesky critters that got into the grain and ruined the crops.

They also don't have actual rattles - which are very creepy by the mason jar full.

I was reading some more on it, and evidently they are in the Bend area, but not any other place in the willamette valley, which would explain why I haven't seen them. They aren't, however, in the portland/gresham/boring/sandy area.