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toro272000
03-17-2004, 03:18 PM
YOU MIGHT BE FROM NEW MEXICO IF...

1. You can correctly pronounce words like Tesuque, Cerrillos, Acoma, Buena, Ocotillo, and Pojoaque (and you actually know what or where they are!).

2. You have been told by at least one out-of-state vendor that they are going to charge you extra for international shipping.

3. You expect to pay more if your house is made of Adobe.

4. You can order your Big Mac with green chile.

5. You buy salsa by the half-gallon.

6. You are still using the paper license tag that came with your car five years ago.

7. Your Christmas decorations include "red Chiles, a half-ton of sand and 200 paper bags."

8. Most restaurants you go to begin with "El" or "Los."

9. The tires on your roof have more tread than the ones on your car.

10. You price shop for tortillas.

11. You have an extra freezer just for green Chile.

12. You consider Billy the Kid a state hero.

13. You think six tons of crushed rock makes a beautiful front lawn.

14. You ran for state legislature just so you could speed legally

15. You pass on the right because that is the fast-lane.

16. You think Sonic is "America's Favorite Drive-in." Lota Burger Too!

17. Your swamp cooler got knocked off your roof by a Dust Devil.

18. You have been or know someone who has been abducted by aliens.

19. You can actually hear theTaos hum.

20. All your out-of-state friends and relatives ask if they can drink
the water when they come to visit.

21. When someone says "Las Vegas" you think of a small New Mexico town in the northeastern part of the state.

22. You iron your jeans to "dress up."

23. You don't see anything wrong with drive-up window liquor sales.

24. Your other vehicle is also a pick-up truck.

25. Two of your cousins are in Santa Fe, one in the legislature, the other in the state penitentiary.

26. You know what it means when a waitress asks you whether you want "red or green."

27. You're relieved when the pavement ends because the dirt road has fewer potholes.

28. You see nothing odd when, in the conversations of the people in line around you at the grocery store, every other word of each sentence alternates between Spanish and English.

29. You've seen the bat flight at Carlsbad Cavernsand have a t-shirt that says "Bats need friends, too!"

30. You know you are special because you're from the Land of
Enchantment!

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John Bridge
03-17-2004, 05:43 PM
So what the hell's the difference between red and green? It's all hot. :D

I agree with the final statement, Toro. "Land of Enchantment." I've criss-crossed your state many times. :)

flatfloor
03-17-2004, 06:49 PM
Re # 25..... Are they interchangeable? :D

toro27
03-17-2004, 08:14 PM
John,
You can get both hot or mild in red or green, it depends on the chile. Ever been through Alamoghetto, ----I mean Alamogordo?

Flatfloor,
Interchangeable one of them is probably on work release, won’t know which, they’re twin cousins – we’re a little like Kentucky. (we go to family reunions to meet someone) Kidding!

Ramon

John Bridge
03-17-2004, 08:58 PM
Hey Ramon,

Yep, I've been through there. I've been to Gallop, to Las Cruzes, Demming, Albequerque, Sante Fe. Never been to Taos, but I went though Raton Pass on a Sante Fe passenger train on my way to basic training up at Colorado Springs. That gives you an idea of how long I've been around, I guess. I don't think they make Sante Fe trains anymore. :D

toro27
03-17-2004, 09:23 PM
:) John

you rite just like i doo! tuuk me haf an our to korrect my last poste.

Just 2 tell you been registered sinse last year, YOU ALL ARE GREAT!!!!!!
Your advise is above all others. I have learned more from you and your pros in wun year, than I have from all these (so called pros) in alamoghetto, in 16 years!!!:bow:


Ramon:D

:D

cx
03-17-2004, 11:22 PM
I spend a lot of time in your fair state, Ramon. Gonna be workin' there some in May and/or June, matter of fact.

Yep, know people in Alamo, also La Luz and Tularosa, in that area. Very good friends live out West Side Road from High Rolls. Other good friends in Albuquerque, too, where they just built the prettiest highway overpass system in the country. :)

Where else you wanna know about? :D

jjwq8
03-18-2004, 12:20 AM
So Ramon, you live Alamogordo.
Do you glow in the dark too?

John Bridge
03-18-2004, 05:39 AM
Yeah, and what do they actually look like up close? You know. Aliens.

:D

cx
03-18-2004, 09:50 PM
One year when I worked in the Capitan Wilderness, way over on the east end (the end closest to Roswell - do-do-, do-do), I went to talk with a local land owner to get permission to cross her land for walking access. She was quick to point out that I would be walking right across one of the "known" landing sites of the UFOs back in the 40s (?). She was serious as a heart attack, too.

I never did see no aliens. Didn't find no Spotted Owls, neither. Maybe they all got took inna space ship? :eek:

bbcamp
03-19-2004, 05:49 AM
So, who is Captain Wilderness?

tileguytodd
03-19-2004, 01:03 PM
That would be scooter everytime he comes north to Minnesota :D :D :D

LadyGodiva
03-26-2004, 12:48 PM
Never been to NM but would love to visit that State.

cx
03-26-2004, 01:55 PM
Lotta pretty country in NM, LG, lotta not-so-pretty, too. Definitely worth a few trips, though. :)

jjwq8
03-27-2004, 11:13 AM
Kelly,
at least NM has a nuclear excuse for some of the not-so-perdy.
Q8 is just plain ugly-hot. Brutal beauty at its best. Desert kinda grows on you, I would say like mould but that only appears on cheese in the ice-box :D

Mike2
03-27-2004, 11:46 AM
Ramon:

Spent a fair amount of time in your state, but mostly in Albuquerque. One year however decided to take a 8 day drive around just to check it out.

As I sit here recalling that week, three places are foremost in my mind.

First there was the drive from Albu. to Santa Fe, not on the freeway but up highway 10 east of town through Golden, Madrid, and Cerrillos. Stopping at each little town along the way was like stepping back into history 109 years.

Then there was Jemez Canyon coming down out of Los Alamos. Who would think such a place would ever exist in what otherwise is such a dry and arid region.

Lastly, I remember this state park out west, just before you cross the border into Window Rock. One of the most fascinating pueblo ruins I've seen.