somewhat on, mostly off topic, You Might be a Coloradoan if:



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GeeDubb

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YOU MIGHT BE FROM COLORADO IF...



.... You carry your $3,000 mountain bike on top of your $500 car.

.... You thought "Californication" would be banned by Amendment 2.

.... You think "South Park" is a place to stop for gas on your way to
Buena Vista.

.... You have a business degree and are frying burgers at a McDonald's in
Vail.

.... You have a flat tire in your refrigerator and your garage.

.... You tell your husband to pick up granola on his way home from work
and he stops at the day care.

.... You own a big dog named Aspen, Buck, Cheyenne or Dakota that wears a
bandanna.

.... You cast out your fishing line while white-water rafting.

.... You've never seen the tourist attractions in your own city.

.... All summer you thought a redneck named "Bubby" was gonna be your
quarterback.

....You think a pass does not involve a football or a woman.

.... You are 82 years old and take up snowboarding.

.... Your SUV tire size exceeds your IQ.

.... Your real Y2K fear is running out of Celestial Seasonings tea and
trail mix.

.... The entire top of your head is bald, but you still have a pony tail.

.... You personally wouldn't pay $10 per head to drive up Pikes Peak
unless it was the only mountain on earth, but you tell all our house-
guests to do it.

.... You can recite the entire Bible from memory, but can't remember to
use your turn signal (CO Springs).

.... You get depressed after one day of foggy weather.

.... You wear the latest fashions a year after they went out of style.

.... You think that formal wear is ironed denim.

.... North means "mountains to the left;" south is "mountains to the
right;" and east and west are where all those damned liberals keep
moving in from.

.... You go anywhere else on the planet and the air feels "sticky" and
you notice the sky is no longer blue.

.... You consider a three-piece suit to be a pair of shorts, a sweatshirt
and Birkenstocks.

.... You see your East Coast relatives now more than when you lived
there.

.... You think gun control is not dropping it.

.... Your bridal registry is at REI.

.... You can run up 10 flights of stairs without huffing and puffing.

.... You've ever stood on solid ground and looked down on an airplane in
flight.
 
GeeDubb wrote:
> YOU MIGHT BE FROM COLORADO IF...
>
>

<snip>

Pretty good, but some of it is sounding a little dated (like the
bald/pony tail thing, that's kind of an 80's look IMO).

But what got me was - It costs $10 to drive up Pike's Peak?!?! No wonder
I've never done it!

Matt (I only fit a few of those)
 
GeeDubb wrote:
> YOU MIGHT BE FROM COLORADO IF...


OK, got a bit carried away in my comments. :)

Shawn

> ... You carry your $3,000 mountain bike on top of your $500 car.

My car's worth $1500, but it is a Subaru :)

> ... You thought "Californication" would be banned by Amendment 2.

It wasn't?

> ... You think "South Park" is a place to stop for gas on your way to
> Buena Vista.

Ahem, Salida, thank you...and it's Sa lye duh not Sa lee duh, and Byou
na Vista, Don't get me started on how my mother-in-law pronounce Pueblo.

> ... You have a business degree and are frying burgers at a McDonald's in
> Vail.

Mol Bio, stay-at-home father.

> ... You tell your husband to pick up granola on his way home from work
> and he stops at the day care.

I know (not well but acquainted with) parents of a kid named
"Speargarden", very nice people, smart kids, very athletic.

> ... You own a big dog named Aspen, Buck, Cheyenne or Dakota that wears a
> bandanna.

Very 1970s, so's the dog name "Bong Water"

> ... You've never seen the tourist attractions in your own city.

I didn't go to the top of Pike's Peak until four years after I moved
from Colorado Springs :)

> ... All summer you thought a redneck named "Bubby" was gonna be your
> quarterback.

Don't remind me. Jake's looking good though (in a scruffy kinda way).
>
> ...You think a pass does not involve a football or a woman.

Hey we had Broncos season tickets for years!

> ... Your SUV tire size exceeds your IQ.

That only applies to people who bought the two wheel drive version
(Usually from TX of GA)

> ... Your real Y2K fear is running out of Celestial Seasonings tea and
> trail mix.

LOL My sister works at Celestial Seasonings, gotta love Mo.

> ... The entire top of your head is bald, but you still have a pony tail.

Gave that up years ago.

> ... You personally wouldn't pay $10 per head to drive up Pikes Peak
> unless it was the only mountain on earth, but you tell all our house-
> guests to do it.

See above.

> ... You can recite the entire Bible from memory, but can't remember to
> use your turn signal (CO Springs).

Those fsck!ng evil (and I mean in that Agents of Satan kind of way) rat
bastards killed the city I considered my home. :-(

> ... You get depressed after one day of foggy weather.

********. Coloradans think rain is so cool and novel.

> ... You think that formal wear is ironed denim.

A shirt with buttons

> ... North means "mountains to the left;" south is "mountains to the
> right;" and east and west are where all those damned liberals keep
> moving in from.

If you're stuck on the Front Range. Lots more liberals now, and my wife
was even born here. :)

> ... You go anywhere else on the planet and the air feels "sticky" and
> you notice the sky is no longer blue.

Why do you think there are so few travel agents in Colorado?

> ... You consider a three-piece suit to be a pair of shorts, a sweatshirt
> and Birkenstocks.

Birks suck in the snow, didn't stop me this morning.

> ... You can run up 10 flights of stairs without huffing and puffing.

At sea level. Here's one for any CU students. Using the stairs, can
you get from the 1st to the 10th floor of Gamow tower before the
elevator? Back in the day, back in the day.

> ... You've ever stood on solid ground and looked down on an airplane in
> flight.

Looked up and seen hikers more often.
 
"MattB" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> GeeDubb wrote:
>> YOU MIGHT BE FROM COLORADO IF...
>>
>>

> <snip>
>
> Pretty good, but some of it is sounding a little dated (like the bald/pony
> tail thing, that's kind of an 80's look IMO).
>
> But what got me was - It costs $10 to drive up Pike's Peak?!?! No wonder
> I've never done it!
>
> Matt (I only fit a few of those)


My favorite was the guy told to get granola and stopping at the day care.

I still know a Nurse Practioner in Ridgway that fits the balding pony tale
theme but then Ridgway is still a spit on the side of the road.

This was sent to my by my friends that run the dog sled rides out of
Telluride....they live in a yurt....at 9100' and still shower and ****
outside......bbbrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

She's more manly than me!

Gary
>
 
GeeDubb wrote:
>
> "MattB" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>
>> GeeDubb wrote:
>>
>>> YOU MIGHT BE FROM COLORADO IF...
>>>
>>>

>> <snip>
>>
>> Pretty good, but some of it is sounding a little dated (like the
>> bald/pony tail thing, that's kind of an 80's look IMO).
>>
>> But what got me was - It costs $10 to drive up Pike's Peak?!?! No
>> wonder I've never done it!
>>
>> Matt (I only fit a few of those)

>
>
> My favorite was the guy told to get granola and stopping at the day care.
>
> I still know a Nurse Practioner in Ridgway that fits the balding pony
> tale theme but then Ridgway is still a spit on the side of the road.
>
> This was sent to my by my friends that run the dog sled rides out of
> Telluride....they live in a yurt....at 9100' and still shower and ****
> outside......bbbrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
>
> She's more manly than me!


Still quite a few of those types, but there's an awful lot of Generica
in Colorado too.

Shawn
 

> ... You think "South Park" is a place to stop for gas on your way to
> Buena Vista.



My best memories of South Park is sitting in the Fairplay hotel bar
watching the local cop get touron speeders that couldn't read the mph sign
at the edge of town. He got one about every 15 minutes.

There was that waitress in curlers and a t-shirt that said "short skis suck,
long skis truck". Remember, this was circa 1983 or so.

Who could forget the goat in Alma?

FWIW, Mr. Adventure spent a summer at 13,800 feet working on the world's
highest silver mine, on Mt. Lincoln.

penny
 
GeeDubb wrote:
> YOU MIGHT BE FROM COLORADO IF...
> ... You've ever stood on solid ground and looked down on an airplane in
> flight.


Several times.

JD
 
Shawn wrote:
> GeeDubb wrote:
>
>> YOU MIGHT BE FROM COLORADO IF...

>

How about,
If you don't like to talk about how great Colorado is in any public
forum, unless you are guiding them to the Front Range!

--
Craig Brossman, Durango Colorado

Owner/Operator of the Pekingnese Ranch.
 
Craig Brossman wrote:
> Shawn wrote:
> > GeeDubb wrote:
> >
> >> YOU MIGHT BE FROM COLORADO IF...

> >

> How about,
> If you don't like to talk about how great Colorado is in any public
> forum, unless you are guiding them to the Front Range!
>
> --
> Craig Brossman, Durango Colorado
>
> Owner/Operator of the Pekingnese Ranch.



That's under "You might be a Western Coloradan if..."

JD
 
small change wrote:
<snip>
>
> FWIW, Mr. Adventure spent a summer at 13,800 feet working on the world's
> highest silver mine, on Mt. Lincoln.
>
> penny
>
>


Penny, I toured a played-out silver mine that was at 16,400 feet above
sea level (well, the mouth was, at any rate). The silver ran out
hundreds of years ago, and now the few miners that still work it are
doing their best with other ores.



miles
 
miles todd wrote:
> small change wrote:
> <snip>
>>
>> FWIW, Mr. Adventure spent a summer at 13,800 feet working on the
>> world's highest silver mine, on Mt. Lincoln.
>>
>> penny
>>
>>

>
> Penny, I toured a played-out silver mine that was at 16,400 feet above
> sea level (well, the mouth was, at any rate). The silver ran out
> hundreds of years ago, and now the few miners that still work it are
> doing their best with other ores.
>
>
>
> miles



mmm- ok ;-) Where was it? SA? At any rate, we were TOLD it was the
highest, maybe only in the US or something, we were dumb college kids back
then.
 
miles todd wrote:
> small change wrote:
> <snip>
>>
>> FWIW, Mr. Adventure spent a summer at 13,800 feet working on the
>> world's highest silver mine, on Mt. Lincoln.
>>
>> penny
>>
>>

>
> Penny, I toured a played-out silver mine that was at 16,400 feet above
> sea level (well, the mouth was, at any rate). The silver ran out
> hundreds of years ago, and now the few miners that still work it are
> doing their best with other ores.
>
>
>
> miles



mmm- ok ;-) Where was it? SA? At any rate, we were TOLD it was the
highest, maybe only in the US or something, we were dumb college kids back
then.
 
small change wrote:
> miles todd wrote:
>
>>small change wrote:
>><snip>
>>
>>>FWIW, Mr. Adventure spent a summer at 13,800 feet working on the
>>>world's highest silver mine, on Mt. Lincoln.
>>>
>>>penny
>>>
>>>

>>
>>Penny, I toured a played-out silver mine that was at 16,400 feet above
>>sea level (well, the mouth was, at any rate). The silver ran out
>>hundreds of years ago, and now the few miners that still work it are
>>doing their best with other ores.
>>
>>
>>
>>miles

>
>
>
> mmm- ok ;-) Where was it? SA? At any rate, we were TOLD it was the
> highest, maybe only in the US or something, we were dumb college kids back
> then.
>
>




Yeah, in the Andes. Look up Cerro De Potosi. It's an interesting history.


miles
 
small change wrote:
> miles todd wrote:
>
>>small change wrote:
>><snip>
>>
>>>FWIW, Mr. Adventure spent a summer at 13,800 feet working on the
>>>world's highest silver mine, on Mt. Lincoln.
>>>
>>>penny
>>>
>>>

>>
>>Penny, I toured a played-out silver mine that was at 16,400 feet above
>>sea level (well, the mouth was, at any rate). The silver ran out
>>hundreds of years ago, and now the few miners that still work it are
>>doing their best with other ores.
>>
>>
>>
>>miles

>
>
>
> mmm- ok ;-) Where was it? SA? At any rate, we were TOLD it was the
> highest, maybe only in the US or something, we were dumb college kids back
> then.
>
>




Yeah, in the Andes. Look up Cerro De Potosi. It's an interesting history.


miles
 
miles todd wrote:

> Yeah, in the Andes. Look up Cerro De Potosi. It's an interesting history.


These ought to bring a flashback

http://www.pbase.com/463/mines_potosi

Dave

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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability
to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable
for their apparent disinclination to do so. - Douglas Adams
 
miles todd wrote:

> Yeah, in the Andes. Look up Cerro De Potosi. It's an interesting history.


These ought to bring a flashback

http://www.pbase.com/463/mines_potosi

Dave

[email protected]

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability
to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable
for their apparent disinclination to do so. - Douglas Adams
 
Dave wrote:

>
> These ought to bring a flashback
>
> http://www.pbase.com/463/mines_potosi
>
> Dave
>

On the second page are a couple of pictures of the Tio ("Uncle" in
Spanish). The miners may not believe in god, but they sure do believe
in the Devil. The shrines to appease El Tio are scattered around the mines.
Very bizarre.

miles
 
Dave wrote:

>
> These ought to bring a flashback
>
> http://www.pbase.com/463/mines_potosi
>
> Dave
>

On the second page are a couple of pictures of the Tio ("Uncle" in
Spanish). The miners may not believe in god, but they sure do believe
in the Devil. The shrines to appease El Tio are scattered around the mines.
Very bizarre.

miles