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[LUG] OT Devon membership advantages

 

You know you're from Devon when...you've bought stationery at Trago Mills :)
you think Exeter's a big city
you can tell sheep from goats
and straw from hay (obviously!)
you once went to Totnes for the day and returned three weeks later, very
happy, but with no idea why!
you think London's 'up north'
you know someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows Joss Stone
the smell of cow muck makes you feel at home
everywhere else in the UK feels cold
you have a friend who lives on a farm
you've been stuck behind a stupid tourist on a country lane
you saw the total eclipse in '99
your local newspaper's lead story is 'cow falls off bridge'
you know the best sledging to be had is at Hay Tor
your friends say you sound like a farmer
you have nothing to do after 5:30pm
you know 'Cornish' pasties are actually from Devon
you've boiled / frozen / been washed away during Ten Tors
you know how to walk over a cattle grid
you know all about 'letterboxing' (but wish you didn't)
you watch 'Spotlight' (and know Teresa Driscoll, Justin Leigh, Russel Labey, 
Craig Rich and the gang )
you've been pony trekking
'short and choppy on the North coast' makes total sense to you
you think nothing of grass growing in the middle of the road
your town is 'the gem of south Devon' or 'the English Riviera' despite 
overwhelming evidence to the contrary
until you went on holiday, the tallest building you had ever seen was
Debenhams in Exeter :)
you've reversed for 3 miles when you met a stubborn tourist on a country lane 
it takes you 4 times longer to drive anywhere between May and September
your neighbours' average age is 76
your parents regularly thanked God for Crealy Country Park and Woodlands
your teachers regularly thanked God for Paignton Zoo, Buckfast 
Abbey,Morwellham Quay and the legendary House of Marbles
you can't stand the grockles, despite living off their money
you thought it was normal for more than 50% of your high street's shops to be 
operated by charities
everyone you meet has been on holiday to your home town - no wonder it's so 
busy in summer
you spent your entire childhood wanting to leave the place, yet now that you 
have, you cry yourself to sleep then dream of rolling green hills and long, 
sandy beaches
you used to look through your physical geography textbook because you knew 
half of the 
places in there
you know that 'the Launa man can' :)
before Freeview, you didn't believe the rumours about a '5th television 
channel'
you don't yet have Freeview - what 5th channel?
you found out about Plymouth Hoe / Westward Ho! before you realised the 
name could be entertaining
your local shop sells clotted cream fudge and bucket/spade packs, but not 
newspapers
your local publican (who has sideburns and red face) is a member of CAMRA, & 
thinks a 'gastropub' is some kind of medical complication (he serves peanuts 
& crisps)
you don't understand why a cinema would need more than two screens
someone once ran past you clutching a burning barrel of tar

You are addicted to reading every post on DCLUG in spite of only understanding 
10% of what is said.

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