Lol... Thanks for the post - Too many true to count :)

Chase

Jesus tits, I've been to the green bar, the pirate house (know the original pirates) and the flanders house. I must be from Lawrence.

I'm from Leavenworth...

But don't worry I moved to San Francisco recently. I feel I have the spirit of Lawrence in me. Does that make me a second class citizen ?
LOL aLOT

Are you from Lawrence?

-- A friend sent this to me and I thought some were funny, while other were a little to close to the truth. Feel free to add to the list

If you roll your eyes when anyone from another Kansas town tells you where they live, you might be from Lawrence.

If your car is more bumper sticker than bumper, you might be from Lawrence.

If you can write a fifty page paper on the social impact of the automobile but struggle with opening the hood of your car, you might live in Lawrence.

If you or half your friends are in a band, you might live in Lawrence.

If you work in Kansas City or Topeka, you might just be from Lawrence.

If you still love Roy Williams... you might be from Lawrence

If you still hate Roy Williams.... you might be from Lawrence

If you know the names of all the wait staff at one or more eateries in town, but haven't spoken to your own relatives in a year, you might live in Lawrence.

If you bought your clothes, your home decor, and your bong in the same store, you might live in Lawrence.

If the remodeling of a local bar caused you great angst, you might be from Lawrence.

If you are angry about how your grocery store has "sold out", you might be from Lawrence.

If "West" is a dirty word, you might be from Lawrence.

If you proudly sport a T-Shirt that says "My body, my rules" and yet are thrilled about the anti-smoking ban, you might be from Lawrence

If you were a regular customer of the Paradise Cafe, but have never eaten at "Wa" because you are concerned about the healthiness of eating raw fish, you might be from Lawrence.

If your woman can out drink you and most sailors, while you like to stay home and read, you might be from Lawrence.

If all your exes changed their sexes, you might be from Lawrence.

If your front lawn doubles as a political soap box, you might be from Lawrence.

When coming out of the closet means telling people you're a Christian, you might be from Lawrence.

If you ask yourself "is it art?" at least once per block when downtown, you might be in Lawrence.

If you've ever overheard an intelligent political debate between a hippie and a punk rocker on a street corner, you might be from Lawrence.

If your favorite hometown-brewed beers are named after a poisonous snake and a broadsword-brandishing abolitionist, you might be from Lawrence.

If you can find a dozen or so coffee shops--and only one Starbucks--in a five-block downtown grid, you might be from Lawrence.

If you've spent more on your education than you have on your house, you might be from Lawrence.

If you think that tone-deafly plucking a piece-of-crap guitar with a tip jar nearby qualifies you as an "entrepreneur," you might be from Lawrence.

If you see nothing wrong with going back to school for a third degree because maybe teaching IS what you really want to do with your life, you might be from Lawrence

If you ever lived in a home in the student ghetto with 8 of your closest friends, you might live in Lawrence.

If you know what wheatgrass is, you might live in Lawrence.

If you think a single town can't support any more Mexican restaurants, and then one opens next door, you might live in Lawrence

If you begin hyper-ventilating every time you begin to think about current events in the rest of Kansas, you might live in Lawrence

If your landlord is ignoring your complaints about the waterfall that sprouts in your second bedroom every time it rains and then charges you for the repair & clean up, oblivious to the possibility that you might hire a lawyer (i.e. Gage Management), you're from Lawrence.

If you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you are living in the greatest little town in America but would prefer to tell the folks back home that the Children of the Corn run the place, you're from Lawrence.

If you refuse to live outside of walking distance of Mass, you might be from Lawrence.

If you've ever happily taken a job for which you are over-qualified and for which you will be under-paid, you may be from Lawrence.

If your circle of friends and close acquaintances includes at least one of each of the following: 1) an anarchist and/or vegan; 2) a politician and/or a government official; 3) a KU student; 3) a KU faculty or staff member; 4)someone who works in a coffee shop or restaurant on Mass street; 5) someone separated from you by at least two generations who shares your political views? then you probably live in Lawrence.

If you're favorite local bar hosts a fetish party, a b-boy competition, a heavy metal show, and a jam band all in the same week, well then you might live in Lawrence.

If you you believe it is more socially conscience to buy a home that is 100 years old and needs another $100,000 work in order to renovate, rather than a brand new home that has a working everything, you might live in Lawrence

If you have ever mooned Fred Phelps while he was picketing, or made out with a same gender friend even though you aren't gay just pi$$ them off, you might live in Lawrence

If you've ever had a homeless dude turn down your Teller's boxed leftovers because they weren't vegan, you might live in Lawrence.

If you listen with tolerance and an open mind to the rantings of witches, anarchists, and conspiracy theorists, but really think Christians need to keep their views to themselves, you might live in Lawrence.

If you waited in a line stretching down the block and around the corner to see Fahrenheit 9-11 the day it came to town, you might live in Lawrence.

If you regularly see your mayor riding his recumbent-style bike downtown, you might live in Lawrence.

If you've been to a Green Bar, a Pirate House, a Flanders House, a Half way House and a Pink House, you might be from Lawrence

If the phrase "Colony Woods" never registers with you because your brain immediately translates it into "Felony Hoods"... you might be pretentious...I mean from Lawrence.

If you have moved out of Lawrence and said you would never move back and sometime later you are back living in Lawrence, you might be in Lawrence

If you know more than 5 people that have said they are moving away from Lawrence for good and you end up seeing them a year later at Free State Brewery, you might be in Lawrence

If you celebrate 4:20 twice a day and every April, you might be in Lawrence

If you enjoy poking good-natured fun at your fellow residents, but the prospect of relocating to Des Moines with your husband's job makes you want to wail and rend your hair Old-Testament-style. . .Yeah. You probably live in Lawrence.

If you, your parents or grandparents, friends or relatives have ever known someone who have lived in, played poker at, read the newspaper or watched a softball game from the front porch or has been to or can give directions to or has been invited a party at Mark Kaplan's House you probably live in Lawrence.