YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM OKLAHOMA IF...

- You know the difference between the city of Durant and the city of Doo-rant.

- It doesn't seem odd to see the term "chicken fried chicken" on a menu.

- You have used the phrase "fixin' to" during the last 12 months.

- Someone you know has used a football schedule to plan their wedding date.

- You save all your life for your dream vacation, and use it to go to the OU/Texas game.

- A tornado warning siren is your signal to go out in the yard and look for a funnel.

- It doesn't seem peculiar if your spouse says "I'm going in to town for something" even though you live in town.

- You can properly pronounce Eufaula, Gotebo, and Okemah.

- You can remember the last 12 times a state legislator seriously introduced a bill involving castration, and he didn't mean farm animals.

- You don't turn on the news until 20 minutes past the hour, because that's the only thing you care about anyway.

- You know exactly what calf fries are, and eat them anyway.

- When someone refers to the current season, you have no idea if they mean spring, summer, fall, winter or football.

- "Howdy" seems to be a normal way of greeting another adult, with no irony intended.

- You think that people who complain about the wind in other states are sissies.

- It bothers you not one iota to use an airport named for a man who died in an airplane crash.

- A bad traffic jam involves two cars staring each other down at a four-way stop, each determined to be the most polite and let the other go first.

- You know in which state Miam-uh is and in which state Miam-ee is.