Roost Air Lounge => General Discussion => Topic started by: BrianGMFS on December 06, 2006, 03:33:31 AM
Title: Vermont Dept. of Tourisim
Post by: BrianGMFS on December 06, 2006, 03:33:31 AM
The Vermont Department Of Tourism
Vermont seems to be on everyone's vacation wish list. This list of rules will be handed to each person entering the state. (Note: Vehicles from New Jersey, New York City and Connecticut will receive two copies.)
1. That slope shouldered farm boy you are snickering at did more work before breakfast than you will do all week at the gym.
2. It's called a "dirt road." No matter how slowly you drive, you're going to get dust on your BMW. I have a four-wheel drive because I need it. Now drive or get out of the way.
3. We all started hunting and fishing when w e were nine years old. Yeah, we saw Bambi. We got over it.
4. Any references to "corn fed" when talking about our women will get your butt kicked, by our women.
5. Pull your pants up, and turn your hat around. You look like an idiot.
6. If that cell phone rings while a bunch of mallards are making their final approach, we will shoot it. You might hope you don't have it up to your ear at the time!
7. No, there's no "Vegetarian Special" on the menu. Order steak. Order it rare. Order a two-pound lobster and steamers. Or, you can order the Chef's Salad and pick off the two pounds of ham and turkey.
8. Yeah, we have sweet tea. It comes in a glass with two packets of sugar and a long spoon.
9. You bring Coke into my house, it better be brown, wet, and served over ice.
10. So you have a sixty thousand dollar car. We're real impressed. We have quarter-million dollar skidders to pull logs out of the woods.
11. Let's get this straight. We have one stoplight in town. We stop when it's red, and we may even stop when it's yellow.
12. Our women hunt, fish, and drive trucks because they want to. So, you're a feminist. Isn't that cute.
13. Yeah, we eat lobster, scallops, clams and haddock too. If you really want sushi and caviar, it's available at the bait shop.
14. There are pigs and there are cows. That's what they smell like. Get used to it. Don't like it? I- 91 & 89 go two ways... Get on the Southbound Lane !
15. "Opening day" refers to the first days of fishin' and deer season'. They are religious holidays. You can get breakfast at the church.
16. So what if every person in every pickup waves? It's called being friendly. Understand the concept?
17. Yeah, we have golf courses. Don't hit in the water hazards. It spooks the fish.
18. Chowder is supposed to be white. Don't even think of asking for red chowder until you are somewhere safely south of Bennington.
Welcome to Vermont. The Way Life Should Be.
Title: Re: Vermont Dept. of Tourisim
Post by: TheSoccerMom on December 06, 2006, 07:14:24 AM
Allo,
The part about people waving when you pass them sure was true when I grew up there.
It took me several years to quit waving at people "out west" here, after I moved to the west. It was a real shock at first, when no one ever waved back. I was so surprised. :(
I also remember the day, when taking driver's ed to get my license, that I took the keys out of my dad's car, as the teacher in school had suggested. WHEW!! Did I get a chewing!! That was NEVER allowed, because, as he put it VERY clearly, "Well, what if someone breaks down and needs the car?!" It was just understood, you could take the neighbor's 'whatever' if you were in a bind. And, it happened... I never forgot that. I just wish I now lived in a place where I felt as comfortable doing that, as back then.
Vermont's a different place, even still. :-*
Enjoyed the list!! ;)
The Soccer Mom****
Title: Re: Vermont Dept. of Tourisim
Post by: Gulfstream Driver on December 06, 2006, 05:25:09 PM
That's awesome. I especially like #5.
Most of that applies to the upper midwest, and a number of other "backwards" states. Did you know that ND just got electricity last year?
Title: Re: Vermont Dept. of Tourisim
Post by: fireflyr on December 06, 2006, 06:37:07 PM
HEH ! Loved that, also agree on #5-----And in my little hamlet just about everybody in a pickup waves---gives us a united feeling against the Beemer jockeys that call us "quaint" :P
Title: Re: Vermont Dept. of Tourisim
Post by: Frank N. O. on December 06, 2006, 06:54:03 PM
I love #5 too, I don't mind a different clothing style since at least some wild clothing styles don't necesarrily meant violent people, but that doo-doo-filed diaper look and slouching is just laughable, unfourtunately if you do laugh, they're likely to start attacking you, at least here.
#9 is great too, but I can't say I recognize #2+11, people don't give a heck about their cars no matter if it's an old Golf/Rabbit or an S-Type Jag, and slowing down due to problems on the road? I'm in the only one doing that, and roadworkers have quit their jobs due to people buzzing them 2 ft away at 70+ mph despite giant warning signs, strobe flashes galore, giant buffer bumper trucks for those that still drive on and can't see a 10x10ft truck and battery of lights. Stoplights are also something people disregard directly, especially in Copenhagen nearly running over people walking over for green walking light and then yell obscenities to them from their car :'(
Btw, what's a Hamlet? Aside from a classic play based on a actual danish prince and immortalized on the big screen, on location in the castle in Denmark by legendary actors?
Frank
Title: Re: Vermont Dept. of Tourisim
Post by: Gulfstream Driver on December 06, 2006, 08:47:11 PM
Hamlet = small, barely a dot on the map, population 15, town
Title: Re: Vermont Dept. of Tourisim
Post by: fireflyr on December 06, 2006, 11:30:21 PM
