You Know You're Armenian When...

[nimda]

1. You unwrap Christmas gifts very carefully, so you can save and reuse the wrapping (and especially those bows) next year.

2. You only buy Christmas cards after Christmas, when they are 50% off.

3. When there is a sale on toilet paper, you buy 100 rolls and store them in your closet or in the bedroom of an adult child who has moved out.

4. Your stove is covered with aluminum foil.

5. You use the dishwasher as a dish rack.

6. You have never used your dishwasher.

7. You eat all meals in the kitchen.

8. You save grocery bags, tin foil, and tin containers.

9. You use grocery bags to hold garbage.

10. You always leave your shoes at the door.

11. You have a piano in your living room.

12. You play a musical instrument.

13. You pick your teeth at the dinner table (but you cover your mouth).

14. You twirl your pen around your fingers.

15. You hate to waste food.... a. Even if you're totally full, if someone says they're going to throw away the leftovers on the table, you'll finish them. b. You have Tupperware in your fridge with three bites of rice or one leftover chicken wing.

16. You don't own any real Tupperware-only a cupboard full of used but carefully rinsed margarine tubs, takeout containers, and jam jars.

17. You have a collection of miniature shampoo bottles that you take every time you stay in a hotel.

18. The condiments in your fridge are either Price Club sized or come in plastic packets, which you save/steal every time you get take
out or go to McDonald's.

19. Ditto for paper napkins.

20. You never order room service.

21. You own a rice cooker.

22. Your dad thinks he can fix everything himself.

23. You majored in something practical like engineering, medicine or law.

24. When you go to a dance party, there are a wall of guys surrounding the dance floor trying to look cool.

25. You live with your parents and you are 30 years old (and they prefer it that way). Or if you're married and 30 years old, you live in The apartment next door to your parents, or at least in the same neighborhood.

26. Your parents' house is always cold.

27. Your mom drives her Mercedes to the Price Club.

28. You only make long distance calls after 11 PM.

29. You always cook too much.

30. If you don't live at home, when your parents call, they ask if you've eaten, even if it's midnight.

31. You e-mail your friends at work, even though you are only 10 feet apart.

32. Your parents send money to their relatives in ARMENIA.

33. You're always late.

34. You eat every last grain of rice in your bowl, but don't eat the last piece of food on the table.

35. You know someone who can get you a good deal on xxxelry or
electronics.

36. You never discuss your love life with your parents.

37. Your parents are never happy with your grades.

38. You save your old Coke bottle glasses even though you're never going to use them again.

39. You keep used batteries.

40. Your toothpaste tubes are all squeezed paper-thin.

41. Your relatives either work in medicine or real estate.

42. You take this webpage, put it in e-mail form and forward it to all your ARMENIAN FRIENDS.
:-)

[sexytina]

Hey AC:
All of those were funny and very true; especially when garlic cloves are stored in an old strawberry jam jar...It's rather peculiar wouldn't you say?
Oh, and I'd like to add another one on that list: You know you're Armenian when you truly believe that Gwen Stefani is Armenian. That's my personal favorite. ;)

[nimda]

lol

[Anonymouse]

Actually I'll add another one as well.

You know you're Armenian when you believe Tupac was Armenian because he had a unibrow.

[Lilya]

If you're a hayastanci.. Aper k' jokes inchi masin em khosum;)

You knowingly worn your slippers out of your house.

The lottery conversations that have nothing to do with money! (greencard lottery)

your family believes that banks and investments are scams- the mattress is the most secure place for money.

You cannot eat fruit in America without commenting how much better it tasted in hayastan.

We all know someone who has armenian carpets on their car floors.

Whats wrong with bribing a policemen with a couple of dollars or a pack of cigarettes?

It took a while for you to figure marojhni is NOT an Armenian word. No its not!!

[Anonymouse]

Hey I'm Hayastansi, what's the big idea here... :(


Anyway, I always thought I was a mild-mannered go lucky guy. I guess that's not what the populace out there thinks of me. Arggh!

[xxaxx]

:-)You swim in the ocean on your back and everybody thinks it's a
shark .

[xxaxx]

:-)here's another one
You swim in the ocean on your back and everybody thinks it's a
shark

[Anonymouse]

Actually, xxaxx I would go on to say that you know you're Armenian when you know you can knock someone the f*ck out from 10 ft away by simply turning your head around. :)

[Anonymouse]

Also, you know you're Armenian if you own a cell phone store.

[Lilya]

im hayastanci too....

[Anonymouse]

im hayastanci too....
The only difference with me and the rest are I have very little facial hair and I tried everything to initiate growth, from tonics to constant shaving. Don't work.

[Lilya]

one in a million eh... one in a million

[Anonymouse]

I don't know if I am that special to be one in a million but it's just the lack of facial hair. My body looks like shag carpet. I look like a yeti.

[Lilya]

hehehh :P

[Anonymouse]

I shave my body with a weedwacker and you wouldn't believe what happened thsi morning I actually got some facial hair! It was soo much at once that I had to trim it with our lawnmower but it's stable now. Even then I am so hairy I can't even sweat because I am like a human sponge. And I can't even xxxx because my ass hair tangles every turd into submission!

[Lilya]

Oh you poor thing! :(

[Anonymouse]

Well it's nothing to feel sorry for...I mean I love the way I am. Of course girls don't like it because they need a map for me but thats another story.

Another thing...you know you're Armenian when you are Armenian and you are pretending to be black or a thug and you type in ebonics too ( this goes out to all the guys and girls respectively.

[Lilya]

heheh :P

[Lilya]

okay, now i can say you're one in a million for requiring a personal map....

[vrej]

when you have a picture of Ararat in your living room

[Lilya]

when you have pictures with different views of Ararat in each room of your house.

[Andromida806]

OK how bout this.... ;)

You know you're armenian when you have an extra fridge in your garage.

Own a small grill that has been used for the past 15 yrs that has stacks of folded sheets of foil to cover the holes at the bottom.

Have an uncle that works in some type of automotive trade.

[Andromida806]

:o Your drunk uncle dresses up as "Gaghant baba" and makes your little cuzins recite poems they learned at school to get there presents.

[Anonymouse]

You know you're Armenian ( male ) when you shave twice a day.

[Andromida806]

LoL very true

[Lilya]

i dont know about having an extra fridge in the garage Andromida, but my grandparents had two refrigerators next to each other right there in the kitchen.

[Anonymouse]

What about if you have one of them rugs hanging from your wall?

[Anonymouse]

What about if you have one of them rugs hanging from your wall?

[Andromida806]

LOL I've never seen em next to each other..... But it seems pretty armenian to me. Personally I haven't seen the rugs on the wall, But in my family I see a lot of pictures near the dining area of the house, or even the kitchen. ;)

[Lilya]

A rug in the kitchen? interesting!

[Andromida806]

sorry I didn't specify that correctly, I meant pictures of the last supper. ;)

[Lilya]

oh ok ;)

[Andromida806]

Ok heres another "You know you're Armenian when"....

You happen to decide to date someone in the same Armenian community that your family associates in. By the morning after the date everyone already thinks that you are going to get married (sarcasm). But you guys have an idea of what I mean. ;)

[Anonymouse]

You know you're Armenian when you have little coffee cups.

[vrej]

and u read your future after you drink the coffee from them. . .

[Andromida806]

LOL.... I was skeptical about saying anything in case my family were the only ones who did that. ;)

[Lilya]

and if the coffee makes the cup stick to the plate then someone is going to kiss you.

[vrej]

i think the cups are so small cus the coffee is so strong it would be leathal if you drink more than the recomended amount

[Lilya]

haha ;)

[Lilya]

my dad drinks 5 little cups of coffee a day

[Anonymouse]

You know you're Armenian if there is a cross hanging from your rear view mirror.

[Andromida806]

Or a blue eye above the main door of your house...

[vrej]

5 cups Lilya?? woooow he must be jumpy!!!

you know your armo when your caught picking grape leaves from a random park, and people think you smoke them...

here's a funny incident. when my grandparents and their friends first came to canada they went to a park and mistaked maple leaves with grape leaves and picked them and made sarma.. this is not a very good north american experience for armenian immigrants.. especially when you worship sarma..
ya they ate the stuff and they were disgusted and they damned Canada for not providing good enough grapeleaves until they realized that they were maple leaves...

[Lilya]

haha... that is funny.
My parent's friends have grape leaves growing in their backyard. And once in a while all the Armenian women gather and start picking leaves. all the neighbors have this astonished look on their faces.. i bet they think its some kind of Armenian ritual where Armenian women smoke............grape leaves. :shock:

[Lilya]

yes Vrej, my dad's quite frantic.. all the time. he probably smokes a pack of cigarettes with each little cup of coffee.

[vrej]

Once we were at my cusin's baseball game, and my nene found grape leaves and started picking them.. i decided it was a good idea to stand next to her in case one of the cops decided to start questioning her ... her english is horrible and she would probably end up admitting that she smokes them..

[Lilya]

hahah :)

[albert007]

LOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yep, that how you know! ;)

[TVAdict710]

whoa whoa whoa, you can SMOKE grape leaves?!?! i gotta freakin grapevine in my backyard dude, i can make FORTUNE.

[Chrissypriss]

those reasons are pretty dumb. Almost everyone i know (armo or not) does half the things on there, and the other half I don't do.

[vrej]

are you refering to the list or to our posts?

[Anonymouse]

those reasons are pretty dumb. Almost everyone i know (armo or not) does half the things on there, and the other half I don't do.

You've been hit by, you've been struck by, a smooth criminal!

http://www.smalltowngenetics.com/Smooth%20Criminal%202.jpg

[TVAdict710]

wait, so can you or can't you smoke grape leaves?

[Lilya]

hahah :rolleyes:

[TVAdict710]

is that a yes or no?

[Lilya]

yeah sure why not

[TVAdict710]

shibby! i'ma become a dealer. say...anyone want a dime bag?

[sSsflamesSs]

I want some dolma.

[TVAdict710]

i dont like dolma much. i like the one thats supposed to be cold w/o meat. the hot one is irritating to my poo. it hurts coming out.

[armenator301]

ara, lilya ac'in cheeshta
amen ankam yes etenc baner em anum
hahahha
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hahahha
hahahah
hahhah
hahaha
hahaha
hahah
hahaha
lol

[HaMoVik]

lol

[Chichu]

...Your car payment comes close or exceeds your apartment's rent costs.
...You have the "You're so insignificant, you're not worth my attention, but I am still going to stare at you" expression on your face (males), or the "I am discusted with the world, and - no - I didn't look at your penis" expression (females).
...You're convinced that all more or less famous people have Armenian roots, even if its their great-great-great-grandmother (someone told me: "...did you know that princess Diana is 1/32 Armenian!...")
...Your sunglasses always wind up in a position where you have to look over them.
:)

[Chichu]

hehe, I tried to think of ones that haven't been mentioned yet, because - as the last sentence in the very first message on this thread indirectly observed - you know you're Armenian if you've come across this list of "proofs that you're Armenian" many times either in form of a forwarded e-mail or on a thread/website like this. ;)

[Hyerise]

man all those jokes u said are played out, try being funny and not stupid next time, and making fun of your own race isn't funny, dumb ass

[sSsflamesSs]

Why so bitter? And that's the beauty of it...when you make fun of your own self (or nationality in this case), the truth can be nothing but funny. This changes when an outsider makes fun of you, and THAT, my friend, is the time to show the attitude. So chill out...

[Hyerise]

ok Miss. Einstein whatever u say

[SaSSoun]

when you take everything the wrong way.. hint hint

[TVAdict710]

hyerise u gotta chill a little and laugh

[HaMoVik]

MAn ArmoS rOCk!~

[vrej]

we rock alright!!!!

[TVAdict710]

yea, we're rockin in the house with grandmaster daddy flash...man

[Andromida806]

fa'shizzle mah'nizzle ;)

[TVAdict710]

watch that xxxxx, i'm the only black man here!

[Hammov]

YOU R BLACK OR U WANT TO BE BLACK

[Andromida806]

you seem a lil confused TV. And its not like i was saying any racial slurs either. so have a 40oz. and chill it skillet. ;)

[Hammov]

:D :) :( :o :shock: :? 8) :D :x :P :oops: :( :evil: :twisted: :rolleyes: ;) :!: :?: :idea: :arrow:
hehehe

[TVAdict710]

that's right xxxxx-ho, now gimmie my forty and my grits

[Andromida806]

Want some coacoa butter? maybe some Hennasy ? You want a lil thug passion ? ;)

[TVAdict710]

all that and the new fifty cent album

[Andromida806]

Want some Gumbo? Maybe some Pig's Feet ? Collard Greens ? Maybe some Fried Chicken ? Or do you just want to go to a waffle house ? "Waffle House" sux by the way.

[TVAdict710]

rosco's chicken and waffles xxxxx! dont talk, dont talk