Huh?
Ha! 
(Spent a few years in Redmond and Silverdale).
27 is dubious. We lived in Washington for 10 years in 3 different locations. Not one ever had a/c.
Mark Have you seen thease Pemco Ads?
http://www.werealotlikeyou.com/
Excellent Mark! I've been in Seattle for 5 years and agree with 85% of these!
Stephen
I'm a NW native. Everyone of these is true. I've seen and heard the Pemco ads. They are also true.
Man, I'm gonna be sad if we're really the only ones who can agree with #13...
My favorites in the Pemco ads were:
#30: Ghostlike Used Bookstore Waif
#5: NW Male Action Figure
Scariest:
#45: 50 Degrees Shirt's Off Guy
Brrr.
[Kathleen in Portland, OR]
Foxworthy must have spent considerable time up here in the Great NW. He is right on! Especially about the pedestrians waiting in the rain for the light to change and there is absolutely no traffic around. They make me feel guilty about crossing against the light in such situations. You can tell the newcomers, because they do as I do.
I lived in Spokane for a while, and my husband is from the TriCities, but hardly any of these apply to the eastern side of Washington--certainly not anything about the weather.
What's a TriCities?
My husband and I were stationed at Ft. Lewis, WA for 3 years. It took me 6 months to learn how to pronounce "Puyallup".
No. 14 is true and so depressing!
Ok, this Midwestern gal is curious: how *does* one pronounce Sequim, Puyallup, Issaquah, Oregon, Yakima and Willamette?
SEE-kwim
(??)
Iss-AH-kwah
OHR-uh-gahn
YEAH-kih-muh
Will-uh-MET
are my guesses (4 years of Spanish in college are really throwing me for a loop on "Puyallup".)
SEE-kwim -- Sequim is actually pronounced Squim. One syllable.
Puyallup -- PYEW - al - up
Iss-AH-kwah -- Close enough.
OHR-uh-gahn -- Close enough.
YEAH-kih-muh -- Close enough.
Will-uh-MET -- That one stumped me too.
26. You measure distance in hours.
27. You often switch from 'heat' to 'a/c' in the same day.
These two are directly from a similar list about Texas.
29. You know all the important seasons: Almost Winter, winter, Still Raining (Spring), Road Construction (Summer), Deer & Elk season (Fall).
The Texas version or the seasons is :
Almost Summer
Summer
Still Summer
Christmas
I've never been to the Northwest, but I get the humor in this list...
Mark S. (not for Shea), I would argue against your Iss-AH-kwah in favor of "IZ-uh-kwah."
It's Will-AM-it, dammit!!!!!
Or so my mother tells me. She was once a librarian at Whitman College.
Too true, too true.
I don't believe I ever had anything like Japanese or Thai food until I came out here from Colorado. I certainly never had Indian food (yum!). I also hated fish until I tried real salmon.
I still don't have Puyallup down pat, even after over 5 years. And major kudos to the mountain being out. Rainier is an awesome sight when you come across the bridge.
The best Seattle anecdote: one time 520 traffic was much worse than usual. When I finally made it to the west highrise, I learned what the problem was: people were rubbernecking watching a kite surfer on the lake.
One last thing: I knew I was a true Seattlite one morning when I stepped out of morning Mass, took a deep breath, and with all sincerity said, "what a beautiful day." I then realized that, yup, it was overcast and probably 50 degrees. Not a single bit of blue sky in view (though it was a light overcast).
True Seattlites know:
A day without rain is like a day with sunshine . . .
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