Heehee, this is actually the best one of these I've seen yet for Missouri. I like the fact that "float trip" is number 1 . . . the number of people that I've had to explain what a float trip is! It's one of the few speech habits that is as thoroughly engrained now as it was before I left for college. Perhaps because there's no northeastern equivalent. It's not necessarily rafting, and "canoe trip" is too boy-scoutish for the typical float trip experience.

1.Everyone in your family has been on a "Float trip." Even better, we used to take family float trips. With the extended family. Aunts uncles cousins and all - and we're a big German family.
2. "Vacation" means driving to Silver Dollar City, Worlds of Fun or Six Flags.
3. Down south to you means Arkansas.
4. The phrase, "I'm going to the Lake this weekend," can mean only one thing. Lake of the Ozarks.
5. You know what "Party Cove" is. (If you know where, you are a boating party animal)
6. You think Missouri is pronounced with an "ah" at the end. Okay, I'm beginning to think they must teach this one at MU or something cuz it's always on this list but my classmates didn't call it that growing up . . . unless you're doing a cheer at an MU sports event.
7. You know in your heart that Mizzou can beat Nebraska in football. And they did in 2004, at home, for the first time in I think 25 years!
8. You think I-44 is spelled "foarty-foar." (St. Louis Only)
9. You'll pay for your kids to go to college unless they want to go to KU. I'm proud to say I was born and raised on Tiger basketball . . . Tigers eat Jayhawks for dinner!
10. You know that Concordia is halfway between Kansas City and Columbia, and Columbia is halfway between St. Louis and Kansas City, and Warrenton outlet mall is halfway between Columbia and St. Louis. And they're all along the I-70 corridor as you cross the state.)
11. You can't think of anything better than sitting on the porch in the middle of the summer during a thunderstorm.
12. You know that Harry S. Truman, Walt Disney and Mark Twain are all from Missouri. Their pictures were on my wall with a map of Missouri freshman year of college.
13. You know what "cow tipping" or "Possum Kicking" is.
14. You think "frog gigging" should be an Olympic sport. Uh, I don't know what this is.
15. You think Imo's is larger than Pizza Hut. Well let's not get carried away . . .
16. You can tell the difference between a horse and a cow from a distance.
17. You don't put too much effort into hairstyles due to wind and weather. Hee hee, that's my excuse.
18. There's a tornado warning and the whole town is outside watching for it.
19. The local gas station sells live bait.
20. Little smokies are something you serve on special occasions. Again with the not-knowing.
21 All your radio preset buttons are country. Damn straight skippy!! Every radio station from Rhode Island to Ithaca on preset . . .
22. You know enough to get your driving done early on Sundays before the Sunday drivers come out. Yeah, but I'll take the old ladies on their way to church over Mass-holes any day. And that's a Massachussetts joke, not a Catholic joke!!
23. You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Missouri.