• You know more than 10 people who own boats and they all park them at the same marina in Annapolis
• 1 hour is an easy commute to work
• You have more than three recipies for crabcakes
• French fries just don't taste right without Old Bay
• There are more than two crab places in your town
• Even your high school cafeteria made good crabcakes
• You got your first lacrosse stick before you were six years old
• You call all turtles "terrapins"
• You refer to your state as "Merlind"
• Your mother shops at Hecht's
• You still call Six Flags America "Adventure World", or even >"Wild World"
• You can tell the difference between the smells of septic and marsh
• You not only know how to eat hard crabs but you also know how to catch them, >cook them and tell the males from the females.
• You don't think that Assawoman Bay is a strange name for a body of water.
• You know perfectly well why Rehoboth is called "Little San Francisco."
• M R Ducks makes perfect sense. So does C M Wangs.
• You think Salisbury is a big city.
• You think of dumplings as wet slippery squares of boiled dough
• You and your boss take off of work when the fish are running or the ducks are flying in.
• You think of "Dairy Queen" as a pageant title and not a place to get an ice cream.
• "Formal wear" is a ball cap, a flannel shirt and Timberlands.
• You still root for the Orioles even when they suck
• You'll never understand why tourists come to DC.
• When in Florida, you can only laugh when you see signs saying
• "Real Maryland Blue Crab Cakes!"
• You color with "Crowns", take a "Share" with "Wooter" and think the president lives in "Warshenton."
• You know the difference between Glen Burnie ghetto and Catonsville ghetto.
• Your whole family lives within a 200 mile radius of your town.
• At least one man in your family is a waterman
• You plan for "The Festival" a year in advance.
• During the summer, you spend more time in Ocean City than at home
• Your radio dial is stuck on 99.1
• You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Maryland.

While they were there the mother-in-law passed away. The undertaker told them, "You can have her shipped home for $5,000, or you can bury her here in the Holy Land for $150.00."

The man thought about it and told him he would just have her shipped home.

The undertaker asked, "Why would you spend $5,000 to ship your mother-in-law home, when it would be wonderful to be buried here and spend only $150.00?"

The man replied, "A man died here 2000 years ago, was buried here, and three days later he rose from the dead.

I just can't take that chance."

Submitted by Andy, Gettysburg, Pa.