Strange questions about your town

[Hawkcigar]

Whenever we travel and tell someone we're from Iowa we are almost always asked...

Do you live on a farm?
Do you grow corn?
Do you have a pig?

The answers are, No, No, and No, but I do really like the movie "State Fair".

 

[fourstarbanner]

Whenever we travel and tell someone we're from Iowa we are almost always asked...

Do you live on a farm?
Do you grow corn?
Do you have a pig?

The answers are, No, No, and No, but I do really like the movie "State Fair".

Same with me! I was a townie! lol

Where in Iowa are you from?

 

[carebear]

carebear, cacklewack, rockyj...

THREE, Three Alaskans ah-ah-ah...

 

[Hawkcigar]

Same with me! I was a townie! lol

Where in Iowa are you from?

I was originally born in the small town of Ottumwa but have lived in Iowa City for most of my life.

What are your Iowa ties?

 

[vonwotan]

One question about the City of my birth, and one suggestive question about whether I was raised in a small berg arrested in time. I think my sin on that day was smiling and saying hello to a stranger on the street.

"You're from New York? But why don't you have the accent?"

and

"What, were you raised in a one light town stuck in the '50s?" In a rare moment of eloquence I managed to respond - "I was raised on a small island off the east coast where everyone still greeted their neighbors [pause while my slack jawed new friend stared] perhaps you've heard on Manhattan?" I'm not sure that went over very well.

 

[fourstarbanner]

I was originally born in the small town of Ottumwa but have lived in Iowa City for most of my life.

What are your Iowa ties?

I grew up in Iowa Falls, up in the north central part of the state.

 

[Snookie]

:Jumping on the Iowa bandwagon: Hey, I went to college in Grinnell! I didn't get away from I-80 much, unfortunately. I got lots of "hey, don't they grow potatoes out there??"

Interestingly, I've had several experiences going to the Mid-West, and having to fight an assumption that I'm stuck up because I'm from Los Angeles. (This was among high school and college kids, so I don't hold any grudges. ) They didn't get that I was just born that way, not the environment!!

 

[Emmababy]

whenever anyone finds out i'm from Birmingham they just revert into a typical brummy accent which gets to me a bit. " you all talk like that you do. yam yams"

if you had to ask where i was from then i obviously don't have an accent, do i?

 

[fourstarbanner]

Good one, Snookie! lol

Its strange-I only moved a state or so away and they still think its a completely different world in Iowa. I will admit we have better corn, though!

 

[patrick1987]

Not the smartest bloke in the crowd

whenever anyone finds out i'm from Birmingham they just revert into a typical brummy accent which gets to me a bit. " you all talk like that you do. yam yams"

if you had to ask where i was from then i obviously don't have an accent, do i?

Perhaps fftopic: but I heard that one Billy Bragg, upon playing concert dates it the U S., noted that some of our city's names are the same (or similar as in 'New') as in England....no comment.

 

[Phil]

Shirts

It's not so much about the town. BUt when I buy a shirt from another city or state, I'll wear it there if I'm out of clothes or at home in my regular cycle. I get asked in both places, on the street, if I'm from the town on the shirt.
(It's 2:13 AM, sorry if that doesn't make sense)

 

[Flivver]

I grew up in Worcester, MA...about 40 miles west of Boston. Being in such close proximity to Boston, we were always in their shadow. My favorite comment about Worcester occurred several months into a new job in Boston, when a co worker said to me:
"You're from the Midwest...right?
I replied, "No, I grew up in Worcester".
"That's what I mean...the Midwest!" she replied.

 

[Girl Friday]

No I did not shoot J.R.

Oil wells and horses...I don't own either.

 

[spiridon]

People are constantly amazed upon their visit here to Mobile that we actually wear shoes and have paved roads.

 

[Novella]

whenever anyone finds out i'm from Birmingham they just revert into a typical brummy accent which gets to me a bit. " you all talk like that you do. yam yams"

if you had to ask where i was from then i obviously don't have an accent, do i?

Accents? I would just pester you about Cadbury chocolate.

 

[Cousin Hepcat]

One question about the City of my birth, and one suggestive question about whether I was raised in a small berg arrested in time. I think my sin on that day was smiling and saying hello to a stranger on the street.

"You're from New York? But why don't you have the accent?"

Same here... I've had so many northerners insist, when they ask where I'm from and I tell them I'm a native North Carolinian, "No, you didn't grow up in North Carolina! You don't have an accent! Connecticut?"

All I can say is, "sorry, you're mistaken..." [huh]

 

[koopkooper]

Whilst visiting Florida I was asked what country I was from, I said "Australia" and the guy said "isn't that where Hitler was born"

On the same trip to the States I was in Ohio and a girl asked me what language we speak in Australia! I guess she hadn't heard about the whole colonisation thing that happened a couple of hundred years ago from England.
Interestingly this same girl asked me where I was going next and I told her Indianapolis, she then asked where that was!!!! I am guessing history and geography isn't big with Americans.

 

[carebear]

Whilst visiting Florida I was asked what country I was from, I said "Australia" and the guy said "isn't that where Hitler was born"

On the same trip to the States I was in Ohio and a girl asked me what language we speak in Australia! I guess she hadn't heard about the whole colonisation thing that happened a couple of hundred years ago from England.
Interestingly this same girl asked me where I was going next and I told her Indianapolis, she then asked where that was!!!! I am guessing history and geography isn't big with Americans.

Some, but I'm sure idiots come from every nationality...

Nah, it's mostly Americans. :eusa_doh:

 

[Story]

Some, but I'm sure idiots come from every nationality...

Stupidity is international. lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9yJlyNv4KU

And for non-Americans, if you want to see how dumb we can be, watch Jay Leno's "JAY WALKING" segments. Makes me proud to be a 'murrican, ah tell ya.

 

[Kimberly]

Whilst visiting Florida I was asked what country I was from, I said "Australia" and the guy said "isn't that where Hitler was born"

On the same trip to the States I was in Ohio and a girl asked me what language we speak in Australia! I guess she hadn't heard about the whole colonisation thing that happened a couple of hundred years ago from England.
Interestingly this same girl asked me where I was going next and I told her Indianapolis, she then asked where that was!!!! I am guessing history and geography isn't big with Americans.

lol I shouldn't laugh but I can't help myself. Just when you thought you have heard it all.