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The Soulful Mr T
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Username: Howardt
Post Number: 1309
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Friday, January 20, 2006 - 7:03 pm: | 
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Long Islanders'll appreciate this.
LONG ISLAND....
You live in the shadow of the greatest city in the world, but you almost never go there.
When you're away from Long Island, you love it and when you're there, you don't.
You think if you're not from Long Island or NYC, you're not really from New York.
You know the exact point at which Queens turns into Nassau simply on intuition.
You don't go to Manhattan, you go to "The City".
You never realize you have an accent till you leave.
Everything north of the Bronx is "upstate."
New Jersey sucks.
At some point in your life you've gone clamming.
Either your parents or your grandparents lived in the city.
You'd pay $11.50 for a movie.
You don't live in Long Island. You live ON Long Island.
You know where the Commack Motor Inn is.
Your distant future might involve the state of Florida.
You can correctly pronounce places like Ronkonkonma, Happauge, Wantagh, Mineola, Islandia, Massapequa.
You know the location of 6 malls and a dozen McDonalds and 36 7-11's.
You never, ever want to "change at Jamaica..."
You've tried to find the Amityville Horror house.
No, you don't want mustard on that burger!!
You can't understand why a diner would ever close.
You've had a seagull crap on your car.
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 went to an elementary school that promoted dodge ball as the number 1 game among children 7-13.
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 think that somehow, the Jets and Giants still play in New York.
You've missed that "Drunk Train", the 2:42 out of Penn and had the dreaded wait until 5:30.
You or someone you know has owned an animal that came from North Shore Animal League.
Quick! Who's your county Executive? Don't know do you?!
You've never taken an MTA bus.
The Long Island Expressway isn't really as bad as everybody thinks.
You don't associate Fire Island with gay men.
You know which parts of the Godfather were filmed on Long Island.
You've paid a $10 cover charge to get into a bar, but got nothing for it.
You miss wiffle ball and running through sprinklers.
You think Islip MacArthur airport is cute and you enjoy watching it grow up.
Billy Joel said it best, "either you date a rich girl from the North Shore, or a cool girl from the South Shore".
You don't really see the big deal about the Hamptons, unless you got smashed at the Bordy Barn.
When people ask "where are you from?" you answer Long Guy Land and automatically assume everyone in the world knows that answer means New York.
You've always liked Billy Joel and you own several of his "records."
The Belt Parkway sucks!
You've been stuck in a traffic jam for more than 2 hours (without moving).
Your parents took you to All American, Nathans or Carvel (on the way home from the beach).
Regular gas - $2.69 and you still pay it!!!
You hate paying tolls.
You don't have to go far to see your family.
You remember Grumman.
You've gotten drunk on the bleachers of some high school.
You know the color of the water at Jones Beach is not BLUE!
You were upset when all the Roy Rogers turned into Wendy's and Arby's closed for good.
You can spout off all the LIRR stops between Penn Station and Ronkonkoma.
Paying $35 for a haircut doesn't sound so crazy.
You think the people from Brooklyn are "da wunz dat tawk wit a accent."
You went sledding in the sumps.
You've partied on a golf course in the middle of the night.
You knew of Massapequa before the Amy Fisher-Joey Buttafuoco nightmare.
You think going to Queens was a hike.
The first time you heard the term "Long Island Iced Tea" you were somewhere else and you laughed.
When you live somewhere else and are astounded to see that people actually stop at yellow lights.
When you just sort of presume that wherever you live, you'll be able to find good delis, good pizza, and good bagels.
You can name at least three bands that came from Long Island.
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 actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Long Island.
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LibraryLady(ncjanow)
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Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 2943
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 20, 2006 - 7:12 pm: |
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As I am reading this, I am mentally copying and pasting it into my email and figgering who to send it on to.
(Does Bayside count??) |
The Soulful Mr T
Citizen
Username: Howardt
Post Number: 1310
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Friday, January 20, 2006 - 7:29 pm: |
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No, man, that's QUEENS! |
LibraryLady(ncjanow)
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Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 2944
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 20, 2006 - 7:59 pm: |
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Ah hem.. For those with a modicum of geography knowledge, Queens (and Brooklyn unfortunately) are located on Lawng Guyland. |
Virtual It Girl
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Username: Shh
Post Number: 3831
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 20, 2006 - 8:09 pm: |
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Much of that applies to SI as well, and that which didn't I understood and chuckled at. |
The Soulful Mr T
Citizen
Username: Howardt
Post Number: 1313
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Friday, January 20, 2006 - 8:09 pm: |
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Queens and Brooklyn may geographically be part of the island, but they are most certainly not "Long Island." Trust me, I spent 20 years there (in Suffolk, by the way, much cooler than Nassau, and the south shore, to boot) and no one from Brooklyn could get away with saying they're from Long Island. Eastern Queens, maybe, but they'd be pushin' their luck.
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shoshannah
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Username: Shoshannah
Post Number: 1147
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Friday, January 20, 2006 - 9:49 pm: |
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We had a sump in our neighborhood (on LI, or course). I never really understood what it was for. What IS is for? (And my parents never let us go sledding in it.) |
Rastro
Citizen
Username: Rastro
Post Number: 2276
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Friday, January 20, 2006 - 10:54 pm: |
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No one from Queens or Brooklyn would ever want to say they live on The Island. You live in Queens, you live in NYC. You live in Brooklyn, you live in Brooklyn. You live one inch east of Queens, you're from the Island, and wear gold chains and slick your hair back. |
meluga
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Username: Meluga
Post Number: 60
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 6:00 pm: |
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Due to circumstances .....we will be moving to LI with the year. We will end up in Suffolk County and have been looking around Setauket , Stonybrook and Port Jefferson for a while. We, of course ,are trying to find someplace similiar to MW. If anyone can think of possible towns for us to explore I would appreciate it. We have school age kids and a dog whose quality of life also gets factored in the equation. Thanks |
Pizzaz
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Username: Pizzaz
Post Number: 3078
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 6:07 pm: |
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How about West Hempstead? Mind you, I really don't know the island well enough to suggest, but West Hempstead seemed nice and residential to me. |
Virtual It Girl
Citizen
Username: Shh
Post Number: 3849
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 7:10 pm: |
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My cousin lives in SeaCliff...not sure if that's Suffolk but I know it's on the north shore right near Port Washington and sounds lovely. |
Jennifer Weiss-Wolf
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Username: Rebec2
Post Number: 8
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 7:16 pm: |
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I grew up in Port Jefferson... it is a wonderful place to live and raise kids. I hadn't been there for about 20 years, and then went this past summer for my 20th HS Reunion. I was amazed at how beautiful the downtown still is... a combination of historic buildings and funky and/or useful shops and restaurants. And being right on the water is heavenly...I still can't quite get used to not living right by the beach or hearing the sound of the ferry coming in to the harbor!
As a kid, I remember that it was nice to have Stony Brook close by... both for the University, museums, shopping, and other nice resources. It is probably also a great place to live... but I couldn't tell you firsthand. Setauket is also quite beautiful, but I think it might be less of a young family-type town. I don't know if any of these towns is more expensive that the other... don't really even know what houses go for out there.
Anyway, good luck!! After fleeing Long Island in 1985, I am surprised to hear myself say that I am a little jealous that I'm not the one moving out there!!!
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