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roadtrip se
09-21-2004, 01:44 PM
In the words of Jeff Foxworthy.... :kyle: :kyle: :kyle:

If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 18 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by, you might live in Michigan.

If you're proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights each year because Pelston is the coldest spot in the nation, you might live in Michigan.

If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March, you might live in Michigan.

If you instinctively walk like a penguin for five months out of the year, you might live in Michigan.

If someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don't work there, you might live in Michigan.

If your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead, you might live in Michigan.

If you have worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you might live in Michigan.

If your town has an equal number of bars and churches, you might live in Michigan.

If you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you might live in Michigan.

YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRUE Michigander WHEN:

1. "Vacation" means going up north past I-69 for the weekend.
2. You measure distance in hours.
3. You know several people who have hit a deer more than once.
4. You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back (doesn't everyone?)again.
5. You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching!
6. You see people wearing camouflage at social events (including weddings).
7. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
8. You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend knows how to use them.
9. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
10. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
11. You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction.
12. You can identify a southern or eastern accent.
13. Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to your blue spruce.
14. You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.
15. Down South to you means Indiana.
16. A brat is something you eat.
17. Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new pole shed.
18. You go out to fish fry every Friday.
19. Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.
20. You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.
21. You find 0 degrees "a little chilly."
22. You actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to all your friends!

Rootsy
09-21-2004, 01:56 PM
wimp...

gcarter
09-21-2004, 09:56 PM
Having lived in michigan for all of seventeen months one decade.......actually in '86 & '87, the thing I noticed, was most of the people I met vacationed in Florida and got there by I-75. Now we all know I-75 goes through a number of fine states like Tennessee, Kentucky and Georgia, but these dear folks were oblivious to this fact, it was just the way you got to Florida! :rlol: :hyper:

gcarter
09-22-2004, 08:33 AM
Actually we enjoyed the summers in Michigan tremendously, particularly the fairs and festivals.
We also made some really good friends that we're still in contact with.
It was just that winter REALLY sucked. :frown:

Woodsy
09-22-2004, 09:33 PM
My all time favorite Michigan saying....

You might be fron Michigan if... You refer to summer as those darn three weeks of bad sledding!

Of course, that and the post above pretty much sums up NH too...

Woodsy Von Outboard

picklefish
09-22-2004, 10:47 PM
Drive 65 in two feet of snow without flinching sounds like the 401 from Ottawa to Toronto. They really do drive that fast and the scary part is that if you don't keep up with them you know you're dead.

boxy
09-23-2004, 07:41 AM
Drive 65 in two feet of snow without flinching sounds like the 401 from Ottawa to Toronto. They really do drive that fast and the scary part is that if you don't keep up with them you know you're dead.

:D :D

Who me.....

and while we are being honest PF, have you ever driven the AutoRoute from Montreal to Tremblant..... the GrandPrix doesn't just happen in the summer ..... :D