Du
tjjum es miain TATA-i tak. Mek mek el lsum es Aram Asatrian.
Du hagnum es Adidas kam Nike spArtivka.
Du AHAVOR rasist es.
Poghocum nayum es axchikneri hetevic minchev da anhnara darnum.
Unes amenaqich@ 5-7 barekam USA um.
Unes Ararati nkar@ EVEN qo garajum.
You
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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 jewelry 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 tell all your friends about this website.
You
might be Armenian if ...Go
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You
think that the Armenians invented everything.
You
can pronounce "gh" and "kh" and are proud of it.
You
believe that the most important people in history must have Armenian
blood in them.
At
meetings, you MUST state your opinion, even if it is EXACTLY the same
as someone else's who just spoke.
You
were overjoyed when you learned that Principal Skinner was Armenian.
You
are over 30, male, and still living at home.
Your
sweat smells like garlic or basterma.
Your
make up rhyming words that start with the letter "M" like"oosh,
moosh" or "duhkegh, muhkegh."
You
know the meaning of "shesh besh."
Someone
in your family sells carpets or jewllery.
Your
father is an import-export contractor, or you don't know what he does.
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YOU'RE HYASTANCI
IF...
-
IF your rims cost more than your house
- If you wear Lofers
- If your welfare check is bigger than your car payments
- If You wear 4 or 5 stripe adidas or Badidas
- If you have one eyebrow
- If you think you're in some Armenian Mafia
- If you think everyone's name is "Ara"
- If your armpits smell like basterma
- if your beamer's liscense plate says Davo em apeh
- If you have an illegal cell phone from North Hollywood
- If what you're reading is on a stolen/bought or at good guys computer
- If you playa hate Beirutsis and Barskahyes
YOU'RE
BARSKAHYE IF...
- if you have a special way of pronouncing R when speaking Armenian
- if your last name ends w/ "IAN"
- if you go to Shiraz regularly
- if your name or your cousin's is ARTIN or ARBI or NARBEH
- If your favirote word is "HEIR" (meaning why)
- If you CALL what you do Break Dancing
- If you pluck your eyebrows or shave your legs
- If you go to Ararat parties and call them Raves
- if you wear blue contacts
- if you go "bareeeeeeeeeeev, mamen baben inchbeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeen?"
YOU'RE
BEIRUTSI IF...
- You go to Teen Dances every week
- You're in AYF
- if you always go "yallah"
- if you think that you're the best in everything
- if your name is panos, sako, george, puzant, garo, rita, sevag,
jirayr, anto...or anything else as of that.
- if every sentence you say, you end with "AGA, SHAKHS, or LAN"
- YOU Become a mechanic in the future after being in law school
- if you have a computer just for Solitaire
- if you have more oil in your hair than you have in your car
- if you won't date a guy without a car or money
- if you're very very very tight with money $
- if your parents want you home before 6am
- if your parents are DEGENERATE gamblers
- if you call your Peachfuzz A Goatee
- if your dad owns a Panose's Bakery, haha
- If you work at Gap, Millers Outpost, or some "cool" store
- if you buy your clothes from abercrombie or you know , that kinda
stuff
- if you have an ararad masis picture in your TV room
- if you have one of those William Saroyan posters
- if your dad thinks "oghi for life"
- if you have "dolma" on a weekly basis
- if you like giving only GOLD stuff as gifts