Boricuas in North Carolina
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You Know You're Puerto Rican When...
You have been spanked with a folded leather belt and/or "chancletas" ...leather ones!
You know your mom is sneaking up on you cause you can hear her "chancletas" flapping on the linoleum floor.
Your mom yells at the top of her lungs to call you to dinner and you only live in a one bedroom apartment.
You've ever called linoleum floor a "rug"
You can get to your house blindfolded by the smell of the "chuletas."
You say "Vamoj pa' encima" or "mete mano" instead of "Let's get started."
You got scared whenever someone mentioned "el CUUUCO"!!!
You remember every Christmas those "aguinaldos" that abuela used to sing for you.
You've gone to titi's house and passed through the "bead curtain" in the living room.
You know someone who owns a conga, bongos and/or a cowbell.
You step into a house that has all those little figurines taking up every inch of space on the tv and under the tv.
You have a porcelain cat/dog/rooster or frog on a doilie in your living room.
You have a perpetually semi-drunk uncle.
Someone in your family is named Maria, Charlie, Papo, Ana or Carmen.
You call rug-carpeta , roof-rufo, parking-palkin, stress-estress, library-libreria (instead of biblioteca), boiler-boila, sucker-soca, or to knock-noquiar.
You have told your kid not to walk the floor barefoot or they'll catch a cold.
You need a cup of coffee after every meal, expresso boricua style "con leche".
Your sister has hair on her legs and as much moustache as your father.
One of your aunt's weighs over 300 pounds.
You have one or more cousins in and out of jail.
Your uncle has more gold in his mouth and/or neck than you've ever seen.
You have sat in a two-passenger car with over 5 people in it.
You put a big Puerto Rican flag on your car... an a PR bumper sticker.
You have a picture of "Cristo" or a crucifix in your house.
You actually think some names begin with "Ave Maria pur�ma, Papo."
You walk around saying "chacho" or "chacha" or "ay,bendito".
You have said, "no, hombe" instead of "no, hombre" to both sexes.
You do that funny pointing thing with your nose and if the person doesn't understand you, you use the lips for emphasis.
You can speak with your face: twitch like a rabbit to ask "what do you want? or nod your head upwards to mean "wassup?"
You have driven a "cheby" (Chevy) or a "forito" (Ford)!
You call all sneakers "loj tennis" and the Converse are "loj champion".
All cereal is called "con-flei"
All brands of diapers are called "pampel".
You have ever ground plᴡnos and/or fingers for pasteles during Christmas time.
Your car has fifteen speakers in it and you fix it every weekend.
You remember when Heineken replaced Shaeffer and Schlitz.
Your dinner consists of a "mixta"...rice and beans and some kind of meat.
Your uncle has a wife and a "corteja" or "chilla".
You've put a penny on your forehead to stop a nose bleed.
Your mother has put a balled up piece of thread on your baby cousin's forehead to stop her hiccups.
You have at least thirty cousins.
You know how to drive "estandard" or "estick" shift.
You can tell the difference between Cafe Rico and anything else.
A coqui's sound has driven you crazy.
Your grandmother thinks Vick's vapor-rub is the miracle cure for everything.
You're proud to be Puerto Rican - and you pass these jokes on to all your Puerto Rican friends!
You have been spanked with a folded leather belt and/or "chancletas" ...leather ones!
You know your mom is sneaking up on you cause you can hear her "chancletas" flapping on the linoleum floor.
Your mom yells at the top of her lungs to call you to dinner and you only live in a one bedroom apartment.
You've ever called linoleum floor a "rug"
You can get to your house blindfolded by the smell of the "chuletas."
You say "Vamoj pa' encima" or "mete mano" instead of "Let's get started."
You got scared whenever someone mentioned "el CUUUCO"!!!
You remember every Christmas those "aguinaldos" that abuela used to sing for you.
You've gone to titi's house and passed through the "bead curtain" in the living room.
You know someone who owns a conga, bongos and/or a cowbell.
You step into a house that has all those little figurines taking up every inch of space on the tv and under the tv.
You have a porcelain cat/dog/rooster or frog on a doilie in your living room.
You have a perpetually semi-drunk uncle.
Someone in your family is named Maria, Charlie, Papo, Ana or Carmen.
You call rug-carpeta , roof-rufo, parking-palkin, stress-estress, library-libreria (instead of biblioteca), boiler-boila, sucker-soca, or to knock-noquiar.
You have told your kid not to walk the floor barefoot or they'll catch a cold.
You need a cup of coffee after every meal, expresso boricua style "con leche".
Your sister has hair on her legs and as much moustache as your father.
One of your aunt's weighs over 300 pounds.
You have one or more cousins in and out of jail.
Your uncle has more gold in his mouth and/or neck than you've ever seen.
You have sat in a two-passenger car with over 5 people in it.
You put a big Puerto Rican flag on your car... an a PR bumper sticker.
You have a picture of "Cristo" or a crucifix in your house.
You actually think some names begin with "Ave Maria pur�ma, Papo."
You walk around saying "chacho" or "chacha" or "ay,bendito".
You have said, "no, hombe" instead of "no, hombre" to both sexes.
You do that funny pointing thing with your nose and if the person doesn't understand you, you use the lips for emphasis.
You can speak with your face: twitch like a rabbit to ask "what do you want? or nod your head upwards to mean "wassup?"
You have driven a "cheby" (Chevy) or a "forito" (Ford)!
You call all sneakers "loj tennis" and the Converse are "loj champion".
All cereal is called "con-flei"
All brands of diapers are called "pampel".
You have ever ground plᴡnos and/or fingers for pasteles during Christmas time.
Your car has fifteen speakers in it and you fix it every weekend.
You remember when Heineken replaced Shaeffer and Schlitz.
Your dinner consists of a "mixta"...rice and beans and some kind of meat.
Your uncle has a wife and a "corteja" or "chilla".
You've put a penny on your forehead to stop a nose bleed.
Your mother has put a balled up piece of thread on your baby cousin's forehead to stop her hiccups.
You have at least thirty cousins.
You know how to drive "estandard" or "estick" shift.
You can tell the difference between Cafe Rico and anything else.
A coqui's sound has driven you crazy.
Your grandmother thinks Vick's vapor-rub is the miracle cure for everything.
You're proud to be Puerto Rican - and you pass these jokes on to all your Puerto Rican friends!
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just a few of the reasons why:
We are a mix of the best of every race.
Our legal drinking age is 18.
We could care less of what other people think of us.
We are not only bilingual but we can speak "Spanglish"
Our women are the most beautiful in the world (5
Puerto Rican women have won the Miss Universe Pageant)
We are LATIN, and yet AMERICANS
Mofongo… (that's all I have to say)
In PR, any road will take you to a beach..... or a
pub.
We are the only "territory" of another country with
our own
Olympic teams.
We do everything under the sun... because we CAN!
Because even though we are a territory we are still a
whole
NATION.
We don't need to take vacations to be in a tropical
paradise.
In PR everything is really close.
I can call you sir ("USTED"), and insult you in the
same sentence.
Our Spanish is completely different from any other
Spanish
speaking country.
We all have cool nicknames (Tito, Cuto, Perico,
Papín…)
We make the best coffee in the world.
WE CAN DANCE!!!!!!!!!
Four Puerto Ricans have received the Congressional
Medal of Honor:
Euripides Rubio
Carlos Lozada
Héctor Santiago
Fernando Luis Ledesma García.
Only 4 Major League Baseball players have hit 2 Home
Runs in the same inning; 3
of them are Puerto Ricans: Roberto Clemente, Roberto
Alomar y Carlos
Baerga.
They come to PR from around the world to hire our
engineers and
scientists.
We are the country with the most roads by square mile
(and there is
still traffic).
We have the longest swimming pool in the world
(Cerromar Beach Hotel)
La "Calle del Cristo" (Old San Juan P.R .) was the
first road of "The
New World" to be paved.
We are the major RUM manufacturers of the world. 86%
of the rum consumed in the U.S. is from Puerto Rico.
We have more female engineers than any other country
(and you
still call us macho?)
We know how to party, without absurd curfew laws.
The bats for the Movie Batman Forever were filmed in
Las Cuevas
de Camuy (Camuy Caverns), Camuy P.R.
We invented the MayoKetchup!
We kicked the DREAM TEAM's ***
Puerto Rico has one of the world's highest
productivity ratios.
Salsa music is the fastest growing genre in the last
20 years.
Tito Trinidad (Puerto Rican professional boxer) never
went to the Olympics but defeated 4 gold medal
champions.
A Puerto Rican, Nellie Toledo, designed the interior
for the 1984 Chevrolet Camaro Berlinetta.
We were the 5th country in THE WORLD to have a radio
station.
(before Washington D.C.)
Junior Cordero (Puerto Rican jockey) won the Kentucky
Derby 3 times.
There are only 7 bioluminescent lagoons in the world;
We have 4 of them.
Giovanni Hidalgo (PR) is considered the best
percussionist in THE WORLD.
Jose Feliciano, is in the top 3 guitar players in THE
WORLD
(don't forget he is blind).
The Discovery 500; a Solar- powered car designed by
engineering students at the University of Puerto Rico
at Mayaguez, won 41 awards en Sunrayace, Iowa in 1993.
We established the first lottery system in the "New
World".
We invented the coffee break.
NOT TOO BAD FOR A 3500 SQUARE MILE (100 X 35)
ISLAND...
We are a mix of the best of every race.
Our legal drinking age is 18.
We could care less of what other people think of us.
We are not only bilingual but we can speak "Spanglish"
Our women are the most beautiful in the world (5
Puerto Rican women have won the Miss Universe Pageant)
We are LATIN, and yet AMERICANS
Mofongo… (that's all I have to say)
In PR, any road will take you to a beach..... or a
pub.
We are the only "territory" of another country with
our own
Olympic teams.
We do everything under the sun... because we CAN!
Because even though we are a territory we are still a
whole
NATION.
We don't need to take vacations to be in a tropical
paradise.
In PR everything is really close.
I can call you sir ("USTED"), and insult you in the
same sentence.
Our Spanish is completely different from any other
Spanish
speaking country.
We all have cool nicknames (Tito, Cuto, Perico,
Papín…)
We make the best coffee in the world.
WE CAN DANCE!!!!!!!!!
Four Puerto Ricans have received the Congressional
Medal of Honor:
Euripides Rubio
Carlos Lozada
Héctor Santiago
Fernando Luis Ledesma García.
Only 4 Major League Baseball players have hit 2 Home
Runs in the same inning; 3
of them are Puerto Ricans: Roberto Clemente, Roberto
Alomar y Carlos
Baerga.
They come to PR from around the world to hire our
engineers and
scientists.
We are the country with the most roads by square mile
(and there is
still traffic).
We have the longest swimming pool in the world
(Cerromar Beach Hotel)
La "Calle del Cristo" (Old San Juan P.R .) was the
first road of "The
New World" to be paved.
We are the major RUM manufacturers of the world. 86%
of the rum consumed in the U.S. is from Puerto Rico.
We have more female engineers than any other country
(and you
still call us macho?)
We know how to party, without absurd curfew laws.
The bats for the Movie Batman Forever were filmed in
Las Cuevas
de Camuy (Camuy Caverns), Camuy P.R.
We invented the MayoKetchup!
We kicked the DREAM TEAM's ***
Puerto Rico has one of the world's highest
productivity ratios.
Salsa music is the fastest growing genre in the last
20 years.
Tito Trinidad (Puerto Rican professional boxer) never
went to the Olympics but defeated 4 gold medal
champions.
A Puerto Rican, Nellie Toledo, designed the interior
for the 1984 Chevrolet Camaro Berlinetta.
We were the 5th country in THE WORLD to have a radio
station.
(before Washington D.C.)
Junior Cordero (Puerto Rican jockey) won the Kentucky
Derby 3 times.
There are only 7 bioluminescent lagoons in the world;
We have 4 of them.
Giovanni Hidalgo (PR) is considered the best
percussionist in THE WORLD.
Jose Feliciano, is in the top 3 guitar players in THE
WORLD
(don't forget he is blind).
The Discovery 500; a Solar- powered car designed by
engineering students at the University of Puerto Rico
at Mayaguez, won 41 awards en Sunrayace, Iowa in 1993.
We established the first lottery system in the "New
World".
We invented the coffee break.
NOT TOO BAD FOR A 3500 SQUARE MILE (100 X 35)
ISLAND...
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From: Fayetteville, NC via Puerto Rico
En Fayetteville via Guaynabo. Estoy en el USAF pero tenemos un shop aqui en fayetteville. Como buen puertorriqueno que soy, le metemos turbo a todo. Tambien tuneo AEM, microtech y ecuflash. Aqui en fayetteville tenemos un AWD dyno y pista 1/4 milla tambien. deveriamos juntarnos pa ensenar a los gringos lo que es drageo.
