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You have at least one relative who wore a black dress every day for
an entire year after a funeral.

You spent your entire childhood thinking what you ate for lunch was
pronounced "sangwich."

Your family dog understood Italian.

Every Sunday afternoon of your childhood was spent visiting your
grandparents and extended family.

You've experienced the phenomena of 150 people fitting into 50 square
feet of yard during a family cookout.

You were surprised to discover the FDA recommends you eat three meals
day, not seven.

You thought killing the pig each year and having salami, capacollo,
pancetta and prosciutto hanging out to dry from your shed ceiling was
> absolutely normal.

You ate pasta for dinner at least three times a week, and every Sunday.

You grew up thinking no fruit or vegetable had a fixed price and that
the price of everything was negotiable through haggling.

You were as tall as your grandmother by the age of seven.

You thought everyone's last name ended in a vowel.

You thought nylons were supposed to be worn rolled to the ankles.

Your mum's main hobby is cleaning.

You were surprised to find out that wine was actually sold in stores.

You thought that everyone made their own bottled tomato sauce.

You never knew what to expect when you opened the margarine, after
all you thought washing out and reusing margarine containers was
normal.

You never ate meat on Christmas Eve or any Friday for that matter.

You ate your salad after the main course.

You thought Catholic was the only religion in the world.

Your were beaten at least once with a wooden spoon or broom.

You thought every meal had to be eaten with a hunk of bread in your left hand.

Your grandmother never threw anything away, you thought seeing washed
plastic bags hanging on the clothes line was normal.

You learned to play scopa before you went to school.

You can understand Italian but you can't speak it.

You have at least one relative who came over on the boat.

All of your uncles fought in a World War.

You have at least six male relatives named Tony, Frank, Joe or Louie.

You have relatives who aren't really your relatives.

You have relatives you don't speak to.

You drank wine before you were a teenager.

You relate on some level, admit it, to the Godfather and the Sopranos.

You grew up in a house with a yard that didn't have one patch of dirt
that didn't have a flower or a vegetable growing out of it.

Your grandparent's furniture was as comfortable as sitting on
plastic. Wait!!!! You were sitting on plastic.

You thought that talking loud was normal.

You thought sugared almonds and the Tarantella were common at all weddings.

You thought everyone got pinched on the cheeks and money stuffed in
their pockets by their relatives.

Your mother is overly protective of the males in the family no matter
what their age.

There was a crucifix in every room of the house, including the cellar.

Boys didn't do house work because it was women's work.

You couldn't date a boy without getting approval from your father.
(oh, and he has to be Italian)

You know what granita is.

Your Christmas tree was silver.

You called pasta macaroni.

You have at least one irrational fear or phobia that can be
attributed to your mother.

Your father is either a gardener, builder or mechanic.

You dreaded taking out your lunch at school, you would pray that you
didn't have melanzane again.

That is a looooong list.

Sono italiano in fondo. Qualifico?

i think something got lost in translation there

but i'll say yes

From Babel Fish:

"They are Italian in bottom. I characterize?"

So.......Steve's bottom is Italian?

I'm Italian at heart. Do I qualify..... (translation)

I like my translation better.

Good one Steve realy cracked me up

I have a similar one, isnt it strange how its almost the same:

You know you're a Greek when:

*You have at least one relative who wore a black dress every day for an entire year after a funeral... or their entire life!

*You spent your entire childhood thinking what you ate for lunch was pronounced "sangwich."

*Your family dog understood Greek.

*Every Sunday afternoon of your childhood was spent visiting papou and yiayia or extended family.

*You've experienced the phenomena of 150 people fitting into 50 square feet of yard during a family cookout.

*You were surprised to discover the FDA recommends you eat three meals day, not seven.

*You thought killing the lamb each year and having feta, tzatziki and olives on your dinner table was absolutely normal.

*You grew up thinking no fruit or vegetable had a fixed price and that the price of everything was negotiable through haggling.

*You were as tall as yiayia by the age of seven.

*You thought nylons were supposed to be worn rolled to the ankles.

*Mamas main hobby is cleaning.

*You were surprised to find out that wine was actually sold in stores.

*You never knew what to expect when you opened the margarine, after all you thought washing out and reusing margarine containers was normal.

*You thought Orthodoxy was the only religion in the world.

*You thought every meal had to be eaten with a hunk of bread in your left hand.

*Yiayia never threw anything away, you thought seeing washed plastic bags hanging on the clothes line was normal.

*You learned to play tavli before you went to school.

*You have at least one relative who came over on the boat.

*You have relatives who aren't really your relatives.

*You drank wine before you were a teenager.

*You grew up in a house with a yard that didn't have one patch of dirt that didn't have a flower or a vegetable growing out of it.

*You thought that talking loud was normal.

*You thought everyone got pinched on the cheeks and money stuffed in their pockets by their relatives.

*Your mother is overly protective of the males in the family no matter what their age.

*There was an icon in every room of the house, including the bathroom.

*You wear or at least own a gold chunky bracelet.

*Garlic is considered a main meal.

*Olive oil is like a drug - you can't survive without it.

*You don't know half your relatives.

*You have a wedding at least twice a year.

*You or at least most of your uncles own a spit

*You consider soccer the eighth wonder of the world.

*Your cheeks receive their weekly work out every time you visit an aunt.

*Your last name ends with: opolous, os, as, or is

*Your last name consists of the entire alphabet

*When leaving a house, you stand at the front door for a half hour more and talk

*You arrive 2 hours late to a party and think that is normal

*Your church has a fully loaded bar

*No air conditioning is on at the house or you'll get sick... "regma"

*You only speak Greek at home

*You were forced to go to Greek school when you were little

*You use plastic grocery bags as garbage bags

*Your parents have never realized phone connections have gotten better in the last 20 years and still continue to scream on the phone when calling Greece

*You expect atleast 600 people at your wedding

*Your 15 year old brother/sister can out drink ANY American guy

*Your only vacation is back to the homeland

*You tell your parents you're seeing someone and they start sending out wedding invitations.

*You're home an hour late and you're already listed as a missing person.

*You're Dad has those old Greek tapes in the car, and plays them on family drives. Especially in the vicinity of attractive members of the opposite sex.

*You break a leg, and yiayia thinks your life is over.

*You tell your parents you're having a party. They buy out the whole supermarket.

*It doesn't matter if people can't hear what you're talking about - you talk so much with your hands that people know what you're going on about anyway.

*You go to a wedding, and take a fancy to one of the guests. Later you discover that the guest is somehow related to you. =(

*You go to a wedding, and are introduced to cousins that you never knew existed.

*You tell mama you're not hungry and she thinks you have an eating disorder.

*You can distinguish between kefalotiri and kefalograviera

*You're an adult and are forced to be with your family at 12 midnight on New Year's eve

*Your yiayia / mama / thia has a miracle cure for everything.

*If you're a girl, your mother still tries to put those pony tail holders with the BIG plastic balls on the end on your hair.

*If you're a guy, your mother still tries to make you wear that super frilly dress shirt with that huge bow tie, because it looked so cute when you were 7.

*Your mother or father still feels the need to tell you, "katse kala" in public

*You have been hit at some point with a pandofla

*You can dance kalamatiano, tsamiko, zembekiko without music

*You go to church picnics pretending you're there for reasons other than to check up / gossip about other Greeks

*You or a family member has been photographed with a donkey

*You are familiar with the phrase, "Sto leo yia to kalo sou"

*You have one or more of those porcelain figurines in your house or you have broken one of those porcelain figurines and mama still hasn't forgiven you for it

*Your parents make up the name of a street / store / TV show because they couldn't remember it or they couldn't pronounce it

*You still get scared when you hear the name "Baboola"

*Upon meeting another Greek you try to find out what village they're from

*You or a family member wears their Sunday best to go grocery shopping

*You were spanked by your friend's parents because your parents gave them permission to

*You go to a wedding or a baptism and complain about the food, but are the first one to ask for a "to go" plate

*You know someone who always feels the need to point out how much something they bought costs

*You have a bottle of OUZO in your house right now

*You have been threatened to be eaten by the Kako/ baboola / yero / pontiki when you were little

*Add aki to the end of any English word, and it becomes Greek

*Someone in your family owns any type of restaurant

*Your family inheritance includes olive trees and xorafyia

*Your entire house is a needlepoint warehouse...

You know you’re Australian when…

1. You've had an argument over whether Ford or Holden makes the better car

2. You've done the "hot sand" dance while running back to your towel.

3. You own a pair of ugh boots.

4. You know that Burger King doesn’t exist. It’s Hungry Jacks.

5. You know the difference between thongs and a G-string.

6. You own a pair of thongs for everyday use, and another pair of dress thongs' for special occasions.

7. You know that “stubbies” are either short shorts or small beer bottles, a “gimp”, “bogan” or “geezer” is a random idiot, someone in trouble is in “strife” and you’re liable to burst out laughing whenever you hear of Americans “rooting” for something.

8. You realise that lifeguards are the only people who can get away with wearing Speedos.

9. You have the ability to compress several words into one - ie ‘g’day’ and ‘d’reckn?’. This allows more space for profanities.

10. You’ve used the words - tops, ripper, sick, mad, rad, sweet - to mean good. And then placed ‘bloody’ in front of it when you REALLY meant it.

11. You know that there is a universal place called “woop woop” located in the middle of nowhere… no matter where you actually are.

10. You’ve seen Gallipoli, Crocodile Dundee, Young Einstein, Muriel’s Wedding, The Castle, Beneath Clouds, Strictly Ballroom, 40,000 Horsemen, and maybe even WolfCreek.

12. You've tried to hang off a clothesline while pretending you can fly

13. You've had a visit to the emergency room after hanging off the clothesline pretending you can fly.

14. You've been on a beach holiday and have probably stayed in a caravan

15. You know how to slip, slop, slap like it’s nobody’s business.

16. You've played beach cricket with a tennis ball and a bat fashioned out of a fence post.

17. You have some time in your life slept with Aeroguard on in the summer. Maybe even as perfume.

18. You've squeezed Vegemite through Vita Wheats to make little Vegemite worms.

19. You’ve sucked your coffee through a Tim Tam.

20. You know what fairy bread tastes like, and you can’t imagine your childhood without it.

21. You don't know what's in a meat pie, and you don't care. End of story.

22. You have a story that somehow involves an excessive consumption of booze… but you can’t remember.

23. You’ve ordered a steak the size as your head and only paid $5 at your local RSL.

24. You call soccer "soccer, not "football" .

25. You know that Italy should never have been granted that fateful kick in the 2006 Soccer World Cup.

26. You know that the value of a public holiday is measured in terms of alchohol. God bless the queen and her 4-day birthday.

27. You know that backyard cricket is a nice way to bond with family and the rubbish bin. And the ‘one bounce, one hand’ rule always applies.

28. You know there’s no lbw in backyard cricket, and over the fence is out.

29. You know that the barbeque is a political arena; the person holding the tongs is always the boss and usually a man. And the women make the salad.

30. You know that none of us actually drink Fosters beer, because it tastes like shit. But we let the world think we do. Because we can.

31. You kind of know the first verse to the national anthem, but buggered if you know what 'girt' means.

32. You know that Sydney 2000 was one of our proudest moments in history. We just *frack* rocked.

33. You know that New Zealanders are basically our naive country cousins, who have a weird fush-and-chups accent and, for some bizare reason, think that they invented pavlova. They are to be pitied. They have no hope of gaining the upper hand in the endless sporting rivalry between our two nations.

34.You know Australia IS the best bloody place on earth. Bar none.

...and that coming from a reformed kiwi???

Love it Rupe!

ROFLOL for a long time Rupe!! I like it.

love it Rope....eeeerrrrr, its a bloody hills hoist mate

and no one even asked what melanzane were