YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM INDIANA WHEN

1.	You think the state Bird is Larry.
2.	You can say "French Lick" without laughing out loud.
3.	There's actually a college near you named "Ball State."
4.	You know Batesville is the casket making capital of the world,and you're proud of it.
5.	You could never figure out spring forward-fall back, so Screw Daylight Savings Time!
6.	Your feelings get hurt whenever someone points out the acronym for Purdue University is P-U.
7.	You know several people who have hit a deer.
8.	Down south to you means Kentucky.
9.	You have no problem spelling or pronouncing Terre Haute.
10.	Your school classes were canceled because of cold.
11.	Your school classes were canceled because of heat.
12.	You know what the phrase Knee-high by the Fourth of July means.
13.	You've heard of Euchre, you know how to play Euchre, and you are the master of Euchre.
14.	You've seen a running car, with nobody in it, in the parking lot of the grocery store, no matter what time of year it is.
15.	Detassling was your first job. Bailing hay, your second. Or you could stack hay, swim in the pond to clean off, and then have the strength to play a couple of games of hoops, all in the same barn lot on the same day.
16.	You've ever had to switch from heat to A/C in the same day. (Stoke the fire and fling open the windows for the older version.)
17.	You say thing like catty-wampus and kitty corner.
18.	You install security lights on your house and garage, then leave both of them unlocked.
19.	You carry jumper cables in your car regularly.
20.	You drink pop.
21.	You know that strangers are the only ones who come to your front door. Kids and dogs ride in the passenger seats of cars and the backs of pickups.
22.	You think nothing of it in spring and fall to be stuck behind a farm implement driving on the roads.
23.	High school basketball games draw bigger crowds on the weekend than movie theaters, IF you have a movie theater.
24.	Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
25.	The local paper covers national and international headlines on one page, but requires six for local sports.
26.	Can repeat the scores of the last eight NBA games, but unless the MVP is a Hoosier, you are not sure who he is.
27.	You can see at least two basketball hoops from your yard.
28.	You can name every one of Bobbie Knight's exploits over the last few years.
29.	The biggest question of your youth was I U or Purdue. Indianapolis is the BIG CITY
30.	The Wabash River is the biggest body of water near your house.
31.	You know several different definitions as to what a Hoosier really is.
32.	Everyone knows who the town cop is, where he lives, and whether he is at home or on duty.
33.	To get to school, you had to drive on a gravel road, a road with several right-angle turns in it, or if you were really lucky, over a covered bridge.
34.	People in your neighborhood really, REALLY like NASCAR.
35.	You actually know what the CART Vs IRL debate is about and have taken a side.
36.	The vehicle of choice in your area is not a car, but a pickup.
37.	You've been to the Covered Bridge Festival. You took back roads to get there. Why sit in traffic?
38.	To you, tenderloin is not an expensive cut of beef, but a big, salty, breaded piece of pork served on a bun with pickle.

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