1. Nationality
What it means everywhere else: Living in America, exactly the way James Brown intended it.
What it means in Washington: LONG LIVE CASCADIA!
2. Beaches
What it means everywhere else: Sunshine, blazing hot sand, bikinis, warm waves, and loads of tourists.
What it means in Washington: Gray skies, lots of rocks, freezing cold water, and loads of locals. Because traditional beaches are for wussies.
3. Coffee
What it means everywhere else: The stuff that gets you up in the morning and unslumps you midafternoon.
What it means in Washington: Everyone in Washington’s blood type.
4. Starbucks
What it means everywhere else: The elite of the coffee chains.
What it means in Washington: The coffee chain that Washington gave to the world but you’re too embarrassed to admit that you go to sometimes because what would the coffee snobs say?
5. Umbrella
What it means everywhere else: What you use when it’s raining.
What it means in Washington: What tourists use when it’s raining.
6. Overcast
What it means everywhere else: The color of those gloomy skies that you have to deal with sometimes.
What it means in Washington: The color of the sky for basically nine straight months out of the year.
7. Seattle
What it means everywhere else: The capital of Washington.
What it means in Washington: Just The City. The best city in the entire world.
8. Portland
What it means everywhere else: The new Seattle.
What it means in Washington: The Seattle wannabe.
9. Needle
What it means everywhere else: The thing you have to brave every year when you get your flu shot.
What it means in Washington: The giant needle in the sky. Be afraid, Portland.
10. Volcano
What it means everywhere else: Lava-spewing mountains of doom found in Mordor.
What it means in Washington: Mount St. Helens: the lava-spewing mountain of doom and awesome found in your backyard, making reenacting the journey to Mordor much more realistic.
11. SirMixaLot
What it means everywhere else: That honest fellow who loves big butts.
What it means in Washington: The Seattle anomaly who’s still got game.
12. Grunge
What it means everywhere else: The scene from the 90s that you think of every time you find your Pearl Jam shirt in the back of your closet.
What it means in Washington: The scene that never really died, as evidenced by the Pearl Jam shirt that you still wear. Go ahead, pretend like One Direction is better.
13. The Sun
What it means everywhere else: The big ball of fire in the sky that you see almost every day.
What it means in Washington: The big ball of fire in the sky that peeks out on occasion. IT BURRRRNS! Don’t worry, it won’t last long.
14. Summer
What it means everywhere else: The season everyone wishes for as they’re digging out from under twelve feet of snow. Until the first heat wave hits and they’re begging for winter.
What it means in Washington: The season in which your Instagram and Twitter feeds are filled with nothing but images of the sun and the park and basically anything that involves being outside. Because summer in Washington makes up for the rest of the year by far.
15. Pot
What it means everywhere else: Everybody has that one friend.
What it means in Washington: Everybody is that one friend. And now that marijuana is somewhat legal in Washington, all the better.
16. Hops
What it means everywhere else: That magical flower that makes every bottle of beer you love.
What it means in Washington: That magical flower that makes every bottle of beer that everyone loves thanks to Washington, which exports seventy-five percent of all hops in the country. You’re welcome, America.
17. Beer
What it means everywhere else: Mmmm, beer!
What it means: With 172 craft breweries in the state, beer is everything in Washington. The only other state that has more is California. And they’re a lot bigger and voted the Terminator as their governor. Twice. So, they don’t matter.
18. Beards
What it means everywhere else: What you tried to grow so you could blend in with all the hipsters at the bar but couldn’t because you looked like you were growing a rat with alopecia.
What it means in Washington: The fur coat you can grow on your face in a matter of days. Washingtonians’ beards are so monumental, they deserve to be chiseled into the side of a mountain.
19. Swimming
What it means everywhere else: What you do all summer long in your best friend’s backyard pool.
What it means in Washington: Something much better enjoyed when performed indoors.
20. Lawn
What it means everywhere else: Grass.
What it means in Washington: Moss.
21. Mountains
What it means everywhere else: Where you go for a long weekend when you’re feeling particularly lumberjack and outdoorsy.
What it means in Washington: Mount Rainier, otherwise known as the mountain that would give every other mountain in the country the middle finger if it could. That’s how cool it is.
22. Thrift Shop
What it means everywhere else: Where you go to drop off old clothes that the donuts defeated in your own personal Battle of the Bulge.
What it means in Washington: Where you go for awesome clothes that look like a cooler version of something three times as expensive at Urban Outfitters; also the song that reminded the world Seattle’s music scene is still kickin’. Holla, Macklemore.
23. Flannel
What it means everywhere else: What you wore to look like you were from Seattle in the 90s.
What it means in Washington: Still the perfect top layer.
24. Chicken
What it means everywhere else: What you ate for dinner.
What it means in Washington: Your backyard pets.
25. Showers
What it means everywhere else: What you hopefully take daily to avoid walking around in a cloud of dust like Pigpen.
What it means in Washington: Rain followed by showers? Or showers followed by rain? What does the forecast hold for you today?
26. Tech
What it means everywhere else: The IT guys who help you out at the Apple bar and Geek Squad stations. In a matter of speaking.
What it means in Washington: Tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon, brought to you by none other than Washington.
27. Heart
What it means everywhere else: What you drew your crush’s name inside on your 7th grade notebook.
What it means in Washington: The two ballsiest chicks in rock-n-roll, hailing from The Evergreen State. Double-dog dare you to listen to Barracuda and disagree.
28. Equality
What it means everywhere else: That elusive carrot dangling right in front of society but just out of reach.
What it means in Washington: Come one, come all, get married and fight over who does the dishes tonight like everyone else is allowed to do.
29. Vancouver
What it means everywhere else: That city (or province? Those silly Canadians) on the other side of the northern border.
What it means in Washington: That city at the bottom of the Washington border that came before the Canadian one.
30. Northern Exposure
What it means everywhere else: That show set in Alaska.
What it means in Washington: That show set in Alaska but filmed in Washington. Why? Because Washington is a million times better than Alaska and, by default, every other state.
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