You know you're from Dallas.....

[Bouncy Ball]

if you can remember watching the Mr. Peppermint show.

if you can remember SLAM BANG THEATRE! on Channel 11, KTVT every weekday morning at 7 am. (Three Stooges, anyone?)

if you can remember the Dallas Times Herald (ah to be a two paper town again).

if, when it ices over, the weather reporters go outside, hold the microphone to the ice, and rap on it with their knuckles to show you how HARD and ICEY it is.

if you think the horn on your car is there to be used, dammit.

if you can remember your mother putting on full makeup and doing her hair to go to the grocery store.

if your mother ever shopped for groceries at Braum's.

Ok I'm out of stuff, sorry. Someone else take over.

[crispini]

1. If you can still sing the phone number to

The Dallas Times Herald Classifieds: 714-1414! (Call the Dallas Times Herald Classifieds, get results like you've never seen before!)

[Ilsa]

2. Your middle class neighbors with middle income jobs

move into a better neighborhood in Plano, but after four years still have sheets on the windows instead of real drapes.

[crispini]

3. If you're geographically prejudiced

against everyone who lives north of LBJ. :evilgrin:

If you continue to refer to the "George Bush Turnpike" as One Ninety.

If you refuse to refer to any other road by its number, i.e. Stemmmons, Central, LBJ, etc. instead of 35, 75, 635.

[Bok_Tukalo]

14. "George Bush Turnpike" as One Ninety.

I guess still calling it 161 makes you mid-cities.

[ChickMagic]

4. If you LOVED Icky Twerp

He was a used car salesman, and about one in 6 times, when he'd lift the wiper blade to put the price tag under it, it would break off.

If you liked to go to Peppermint Park (or was that Houston?). There was something similar on Northwest Hwy however.

Pizza and Pipes was the coolest place ever.

Southern Kitchen was the bomb.

[crispini]

6. OMG, my little brother LOVED Peppermint Park.

It was like an early pre-corporate version of Chuck E. Cheese. Damn, that was a fun place.

[crispini]

5. If you remember Central Expressway

when it was, like, two lanes. Wooo!

If you fondly remember the Dr. Pepper plant and still flip off "The Phoenix" every time you drive by.

If you remember the ORIGINAL Half Price Books location (across from the Dr. Pepper plant, thank you very much.)

If you, as a young and miscreant youth, hung out at the White Rock Lake pumping station. This was back before the water board moved in and the place was still covered in graffiti.

If you remember Tim DeLaughter's OTHER band ... Tripping Daisy.

[GOPisEvil]

7. You've ever gone to the Fair Grounds (or Cotton Bowl)...

...and parked in the yard of the first guy to jump on the hood of your car.

[Bouncy Ball]

8. LOL ain't that the truth???

LMAO

[GOPisEvil]

9. My friends thought my car was a goner.

I thought it was a hoot, because my dad used to do the same thing in his home town.

[crispini]

10. You know how important it is to water your foundation.

You have photos of yourself as a small child in bluebonnets (OK, that's pretty much a Texas thing.)

You remember when there was NOTHING in Frisco.

[Bouncy Ball]

11. Hell, I remember when Plano hardly existed.

I remember when the northern stretches of Garland were nothing but freaking farmland.

And there are no pics of me in bluebonnets, that particular trend hadn't gotten popular yet.

And watering your foundation, LOL! The first time we bought a house was in Plano and I'll never forget the real estate agent's very somber warning about watering our foundation. I laughed because I thought she was kidding. WATER a concrete slab???? Whatever for?

Then she explained and I saw she WAS serious. When I was a kid, I never realized that was important, but now that I think about it, I can remember my stepdad fussing over watering and the foundation all the time. What an odd thing, huh?

[crispini]

13. It's like a rite of passage when you move here.

Everybody that's new to the area gets the "Don't forget to water your foundation" speech. :)

And if they don't do it, heaven help 'em. :scared:

[johnnie]

15. Why water the foundation?

So the heat doesn't crack it?

[Bouncy Ball]

17. Bingo

[crispini]

23. Actually, it's the expansive soils in the area.

Dallas soils tend to contract a lot as they dry out and expand as they get wet. This movement will crack the bejeezus out of a slab if you don't watch it and it's not particularly good for a pier and beam foundation either. However, at least with a pier and beam they can crawl under the house and fix it, whereas if a slab foundation gets cracked too badly you've got to jack up the whole damn house.

</Dallas homeowner>

[ChickMagic]

21. My in laws don't have a sprinkler system

for their yard, but they DO have one for their foundation.

[texas1928]

12. I was on the front page of the Sports section of the Dallas Times

When UTA won the National Championship. They caught me in all my hungover glory getting off the plane at DFW.

[Misunderestimator]

16. If you remember the year JR was shot... 1980

My first year of college in Philadelphia... "So, Who shot JR?" (nyuck nyuck) was all ANYONE asked me for a year or so after finding out that I was from Dallas.

[VelmaD]

18. mmmmm...Braum's

Best. Ice Cream. EVER.

I grew up about an hour northeast of Dallas and every time I go home to visit I HAVE to go to Braum's. *droooooool*

[ChickMagic]

19. Ooh, ooh, I have another one

You'd drive on the 2 lane Central Expressway just to go past the Baird Bread bakery and smell fresh bread baking. YUM!!!

[GOPisEvil]

20. I used to do that in San Antonio!

I'd make trips down Broadway to smell the bread.

Then they closed the plant. :-( The one here in Austin is closed, too.

[ChickMagic]

22. The Dallas plant is shut down too

For a while, it became a Mexican bakery, but that didn't last long.

[crispini]

24. Awwww.....

the Baird Bread bakery. Ummmmm......