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You Know You're from San Rafael if...

Facebook pages commemorate Marin, West Marin and San Rafael High inside jokes.

How do you know you'er from San Rafael?

Over 120 members of a Facebook fan page are finishing the sentence with phrases like "if you ordered a pizza and salad fromalmost everyday before lunch," and "if you had 'Birdman' buy beer for you."

 A larger Facebook page for Marin County has garnered over 2,700 fans, is finishing the sentence "You Know You're from Marin County When..."

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It's a place for people to remember growing up in Marin, make fun of some of of our liberal and upper-class biases. The page starts with "You know you're from Marin County when it's a bigger deal to come out as a Republican than to come out of the closet."

And then there's this insight from Alberta Brown Buller "...when it's 6 a.m. on a Sunday morning and you're driving on Sir Francis Drake Blvd and you see a guy walking down the street in full Scottish dress, kilt and all. Oh, sorry. I guess that just meant I was in Fairfax."

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Similar pages have cropped up for West Marin, , San Rafael and .

"You Know You're from West Marin..." suggests residents on the other side of the hill have a long way to drive into town and their own inside jokes and "...a new stop sign makes the local paper."

And how do you know you're a bulldog? One user says when "you schedule your day around the classes you are going to ditch."

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