James writes:

> You know you live in New Mexico when....
>    You can correctly pronounce Tesuque, Cerrillos, and
>  Pojoaque.
>    You expect to pay more if your house is made of mud.
>    You can order your Big Mac with green chile.
>    You are still using the paper license tag that came
>  with your car five years ago.
>    Your Christmas decorations include "a yard of sand
>  and 200 paper bags".
>    Most restaurants you go to begin with "El" or "Los".
>    You price shop for tortillas .
>    You have an extra freezer just for green Chile.
>    You think a red light is merely a suggestion.
>    You believe that using a turn signal is a sign of
>  weakness.
>    You think six tons of crushed rock makes a beautiful
>  front lawn.
>    You know they don't skate at the Ice House and the
>  Newsstand doesn't sell newspapers.
>    There is a piece of a UFO displayed in your home.
>    You just got your fifth DWI and got elected to the
>  state legislature in the same week.
>    Your swamp cooler got knocked off your roof by a
>  dust devil.
>    You have been on TV more than three times telling
>  about your alien abduction.
>    You think Las Vegas is a town in the northeastern
>  part of the state.
>    You iron your jeans to "dress up".
>    Your other vehicle is also a pick-up truck.
>    Two of your cousins are in Santa Fe, one in the
>  legislature the other in the state pen.
>    You know the punch line to at least one Espanola
>  joke.
>    You have driven to an Indian Casino at 3 am because
>  you were hungry.
>    You think the Lobos fight song is "Louie, Louie".
>    You know whether you want "red or green."
>    You see nothing odd when, in the conversations of
>  the people in line around you at the grocery store,
>  every other word of each sentence alternates between
>  Spanish and English.
>    You know you will run into at least 3 cousins and/or
>  a dozen friends whenever you shop at Walmart.

You know you're in New Mexico when:

The local university's Engineering Psychology/Cognitive Science lab is named
: "Computer Human Information Processing Systems and Studies Assessing Latent
Semantic Analysis" -- which, of course, abbreviates out to "CHIPS & SALSA."

Or when the SIGIMAGE executive committee met in New Mexico to plan for
further improvements in TurboIMAGE -- and comes up with the acronym "ENhancement for
caCHIng Limited Authorized DAta" for its mechanism to embed a simple data
dictionary in IMAGE, which of course is then called the ENCHILADA proprosal.

Wirt Atmar


Wirt Atmar

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