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/> Yes<br
/> </strong>No</p><p>Someone told me that high-fives are passe so I have replaced them with bumps and regular, manly, handshakes.</p><p><strong>2 You order foreign dishes in an accent.<br
/> Yes<br
/> </strong>No</p><p>I ask for foreign dishes, yes, properly. If the dish is French then I order it in French and if it is Mexican, I pronounce it in Spanish. And in Germany, I sort of need to order it in German. If you do it right, you don&#8217;t really draw much attention to yourself.</p><p><strong>3 You shave your head at the first sign of balding.<br
/> Yes<br
/> </strong>No</p><p>I would totally either shave my head or crop it close if I started balding.</p><p><strong>4 You use any word Stephen Colbert invented.<br
/> Yes<br
/> </strong>No</p><p>I use as many words as I can remember if they were coined by Stephen Colbert.</p><p><strong>5 You have an elaborate bedtime ritual on planes—with neck pillow, sleep mask, and noise-canceling headphones.<br
/> </strong>Yes<br
/> <strong>No<br
/> </strong></p><p>People with sleeping rituals of any kind need to lose their guy card immediately.</p><p><strong>6 You have a downloaded ring tone.<br
/> </strong>Yes<br
/> <strong>No</strong></p><p>I am quite amused with classic, normal, default ringtones; however, I really enjoyed sporting the &#8220;bring out your dead&#8221; skit from Monty Python.</p><p><strong>7 You wave someone along even though they have the right of way.<br
/> Yes<br
/> </strong>No</p><p>I think I have forgotten who actually does have right-of-way at 4-way intersections, so if I feel like I arrived a millisecond later than another, I will wave and wave.</p><p><strong>8 You say the name of the town where your Ivy League alma mater is located instead of the name of the school.</strong><br
/> <strong>Yes<br
/> </strong>No</p><p>If I had actually gone to an Ivy League school, I would totally say New Haven or Boston or wherever.</p><p><strong>9 You own a Manchester United jersey.<br
/> </strong>Yes<br
/> <strong>No<br
/> </strong></p><p>No, I am afraid not. I almost bought a Norwich Canaries jersey but decided not to.</p><p><strong>10 You quote Borat, Zoolander, or Anchorman, or reference &#8220;TPS reports&#8221; and &#8220;pieces of flair.&#8221;</strong><br
/> <strong>Yes<br
/> </strong>No</p><p>I don&#8217;t have the best memory for these things but I made a Zoolander reference just the other day &#8212; a Blue Steel reference.</p><p><strong>11 You put your BlackBerry on the table when you sit down at a restaurant.<br
/> Yes<br
/> </strong>No</p><p>Yes.  In fact, all of my friends deBerry and dePhone the moment we sit down for food &#8212; not to show off but because I always have too much shit in my pockets.</p><p><strong>12 You talk baby talk to your girlfriend on your office phone.<br
/> Yes<br
/> </strong>No</p><p>I don&#8217;t have a girlfriend presently but all indicators point to &#8220;yes.&#8221;</p><p><strong>13 You offer to buy a cigarette from people outside bars.<br
/> </strong>Yes<br
/> <strong>No<br
/> </strong></p><p>No, I have too much of a problem with entitlement &#8212; I would never offer to buy.</p><p><strong>14 You order &#8220;off-menu.&#8221;<br
/> </strong>Yes<br
/> <strong>No<br
/> </strong></p><p>Food isn&#8217;t really my bag and restaurant-going isn&#8217;t my bag, and I am pretty much omnivorous, so, like a diesel, I can run on anything.</p><p><strong>15 You own a reptile.<br
/> Yes<br
/> </strong>No</p><p><a
href="http://chrisabraham.com/category/chameleons/">Spike</a>, God rest your little soul</p><p><strong>16 You say “My bad.”<br
/> Yes<br
/> </strong>No</p><p>I hate that I say this. My bad.</p><p><strong>17 You describe your relationship status by saying &#8220;It&#8217;s complicated.&#8221;<br
/> Yes<br
/> </strong>No</p><p>With me, it always is.</p><p><strong>18 You say &#8220;We&#8217;re pregnant.&#8221;<br
/> Yes<br
/> </strong>No</p><p>I would love to say this &#8212; I will totally be that guy, if that guy says, &#8220;we&#8217;re pregnant.&#8221;</p><p><strong>19 You have destination-related car stickers like MV, NTK, PVT, HMP, or NPT.<br
/> </strong>Yes<br
/> <strong>No<br
/> </strong></p><p>I might actually get myself a vanity plate. I never have, yet, but I aspire to.</p><p><strong>20 You make a show out of tasting wine.<br
/> </strong>Yes<br
/> <strong>No<br
/> </strong></p><p>I tried to make a point of being fussy over coffee and cheese, but what&#8217;s the use.</p><p><strong>21 You preface statements with &#8220;spoiler alert.&#8221;<br
/> Yes<br
/> </strong>No</p><p>I am Mr. Online and have been beaten down by spoiling, so I have learned my lesson.</p><p><strong>22 You don&#8217;t wash last night&#8217;s admission stamp off your hand.<br
/> Yes<br
/> </strong>No</p><p>I am not likely to scrub off the thing.  Does that mean I am preserve it or am I just <em>dirty</em>?</p><p><strong>23 You use abbreviations like TBD, ASAP, and BFD in conversation and sign off e-mails with &#8220;thx&#8221; or &#8220;cheers.&#8221;<br
/> Yes<br
/> </strong>No</p><p>I have been signing emails with &#8220;Cheers, Chris&#8221; forever.</p><p><strong>24 You wear flip-flops, Croakies, Crocs, or board shorts in the city.<br
/> Yes<br
/> </strong>No</p><p>My only excuse here is that I grew up in Hawaii and I never used to wear flip-flops (rubber slippers) in the city until it because ubiquitous.</p><p><strong>25 You have a nighttime wardrobe that includes a going-out shirt, concert merchandise, or limited-edition sneakers you bought in Tokyo.</strong><br
/> Yes<br
/> <strong>No<br
/> </strong></p><p>I pretty much wear a uniform, no matter what the situation. I have &#8220;dressed up&#8221; and &#8220;dressed down&#8221; and &#8220;dressed up with jacked.&#8221;</p><p><strong>26 You say &#8220;I need my Starbucks.&#8221;<br
/> Yes<br
/> </strong>No</p><p>It might sound a little prissy until I tell you that most of the coffee you drink, especially from Dunkin&#8217; Donuts, is really a lot lot worse than Starbucks. You may think Starbuck&#8217;s coffee is &#8220;burnt&#8221; but the truth is, you just have poor taste in coffee. You&#8217;re decidedly &#8220;truck stop&#8221; class.</p><p><strong>27 You refer to the woman you’re casually hooking up with as a &#8220;friend with benefits.&#8221;</strong><br
/> Yes<strong><br
/> No</strong></p><p><strong>28 You pretend not to know who Spencer Pratt is.<br
/> Yes<br
/> </strong>No</p><p>I actually don&#8217;t know who Spencer Pratt. How do I answer? Yes or no?</p><p><strong>29 You offer advice to women on their &#8220;form&#8221; at the gym.<br
/> </strong>Yes<br
/> <strong>No<br
/> </strong><br
/> <strong>30 You call friends and colleagues by their last names.<br
/> Yes<br
/> </strong>No</p><p>I call David Gelles &#8220;Gelles&#8221; &#8212; but one is enough. I should start colling Andrew Curry, &#8220;Curry,&#8221; but I don&#8217;t.</p><p><strong>31 You refer to a date/girlfriend’s having done some &#8220;print work.&#8221;<br
/> </strong>Yes<br
/> <strong>No<br
/> </strong></p><p>I am not much of a modelizer.</p><p><strong>32 You describe anything good as &#8220;sick.&#8221;<br
/> </strong>Yes<br
/> <strong>No<br
/> </strong></p><p>I have referred to things as &#8220;sweet,&#8221; &#8212; where does that fall?</p><p><strong>33 You refer to your wife as &#8220;the ol&#8217; ball and chain&#8221; and say &#8220;I&#8217;ll take the request to management.&#8221;<br
/> </strong>Yes<br
/> <strong>No<br
/> </strong></p><p>I might never refer to my wife as my wife.  She is &#8220;Stephanie&#8221; or &#8220;Michelle.&#8221;</p><p><strong>34 You refer to a trip to the gym as a &#8220;legs day.&#8221;<br
/> </strong>Yes<br
/> <strong>No<br
/> </strong></p><p><strong>35 You go to a show to see the opening band.<br
/> Yes<br
/> </strong>No</p><p>If I like the opening band, I go to a show for the opening band.</p><p><strong>36 You think Hayden Panettiere is hot.<br
/> Yes<br
/> </strong>No</p><p>As a huge Heroes fan, who in the hell wouldn&#8217;t think that  Hayden Panettiere is hot?<strong><br
/> </strong></p><p><strong>37 You put your kid in a Che Guevara T-shirt.<br
/> Yes<br
/> </strong>No</p><p>I love Che.</p><p><strong>38 You include the names of your kids and pets in your home outgoing message.<br
/> Yes<br
/> </strong>No</p><p>I would, the moment I can find a woman who might be willing to breed with me.</p><p><strong>39 You refer to money as &#8220;Benjamins,&#8221; &#8220;dead presidents,&#8221; &#8220;ducats,&#8221; or &#8220;coin.&#8221;<br
/> Yes<br
/> </strong>No</p><p>I like to be as colloquial as possible when it comes to coin.</p><p><strong>40 You bitch about your contractor at parties.<br
/> Yes<br
/> </strong>No</p><p>I totally bitch about my contractors, who are actually employees!  Not a lot of bitch about these days &#8212; they&#8217;re a well-oiled machine, yo.</p><p><strong>41 You talk about a record &#8220;dropping.&#8221;<br
/> Yes<br
/> </strong>No</p><p>I am actually old enough to remember when you would stack records on a record player and they would drop down, get played, and then another would drop, and it would be played, too.  The &#8220;record&#8221; version of a multi-CD player.</p><p><strong>42 You half-tuck your shirt.<br
/> </strong>Yes<br
/> <strong>No<br
/> </strong></p><p>I think the half-tucked shirts look cool but I am not cool enough to pull it off.</p><p><strong>43 You have a goatee.<br
/> </strong>Yes<br
/> <strong>No<br
/> </strong></p><p>I am either clean-shaven or I have a beard &#8212; sometimes, just scruff.  Never a goatee. Back in the day, though, my girlfriend Michelle demanded her beoyfriends have goatees (what&#8217;s up with that) and I complied.</p><p><strong>44 You refer to anything as &#8220;small-batch&#8221; or &#8220;artisanal.&#8221;<br
/> Yes<br
/> </strong>No</p><p>Like I mentioned before, I was well into cheeses and into hams and into other foodie things and I was very much into getting as many whole milk cheeses as possible. And, when you want to get whole milk goat cheese of and elite quality, you need to go &#8220;artisanal.&#8221;</p><p><strong>45 You refer to any last-stop bar as &#8220;the 19th hole.&#8221;<br
/> Yes<br
/> </strong>No</p><p>I refer to as many things as possible as &#8220;the 19th hole.&#8221;</p><p><strong>46 You&#8217;re a Caucasian with a tattoo in Asian lettering.<br
/> </strong>Yes<br
/> <strong>No<br
/> </strong></p><p>Tatoos appal me.</p><p><strong>47 You Evite.<br
/> Yes<br
/> </strong>No</p><p>I have Evited people for years and year by now. I love it.</p><p><strong>48 You own a wine Rabbit.<br
/> </strong>Yes<br
/> <strong>No<br
/> </strong></p><p>I am a huge fan of the very basic &#8220;Waiter&#8217;s Friend&#8221; or the Laguiole knife/wine opener.</p><p><strong>49 You proselytize about carbon footprints.<br
/> </strong>Yes<br
/> <strong>No<br
/> </strong></p><p>I am very anti-climate change hypocrisy.</p><p><strong>50 You name your kid after a character in To Kill a Mockingbird.<br
/> Yes<br
/> </strong>No</p><p>My son or daughter will surely be named after some character or actor. I am a huge film-lover and also have a degree in American Literature with a minor in creative writing. It is bound to happen.</p><p><strong>51 You use the phrase flyover states.<br
/> Yes<br
/> </strong>No</p><p><strong>52 You use the word bicoastal.<br
/> Yes<br
/> </strong>No</p><p>Yes, but when I use the term bicoastal, I mean American and Europe; Washington, DC, and Berlin, Germany.  Bicontinental, I guess.</p><p><strong>53 You pretend to like country music.<br
/> Yes<br
/> </strong>No</p><p>I actually do love country music, especially bluegrass.</p><p><strong>54 You wear DJ headphones.<br
/> </strong>Yes<br
/> <strong>No<br
/> </strong></p><p>Nope. Just simple buds.</p><p><strong>55 You use a Bluetooth headset.<br
/> Yes<br
/> </strong>No</p><p>I drive in Washington, DC, and do most of my conference calls enroute. I own two bluetooth headsets: a Motorola and a Jawbone.</p><p><strong>56 You call muscle groups by shortened versions of their technical names, like &#8220;lats,&#8221; &#8220;traps,&#8221; and &#8220;pecs.&#8221;<br
/> Yes<br
/> </strong>No</p><p>I used to be a wrestler and also a college rower, so you sort of just do call them traps, quads, lats, pec, etc.</p><script type="text/javascript">(function() {var s = document.createElement('SCRIPT'), s1 = document.getElementsByTagName('SCRIPT')[0];s.type = 'text/javascript';s.async = true;s.src = 'http://widgets.digg.com/buttons.js';s1.parentNode.insertBefore(s, s1);})();</script><a
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