You know you're from michigan when...

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  1. qbee42

    qbee42 My other car is a boat

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    This list is getting forwarded around the email circuit. See if it applies to any of you:

    1. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


    Part 2 - You know you're a true MICHIGANDER when . . .

    1. 'Vacation' means going up north on I-75

    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.

    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 Ohio.

    16. A brat is something you eat.

    17. Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new pole barn.

    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 drink pop and bake with soda.

    23. Your doctor tells you to drink Vernors and you know it's not medicine.

    24. You can actually drink Vernors without coughing.

    25. You know what a Yooper is.

    26. You think owning a Honda is Un-American.

    27. You know that UP is a place, not a direction.

    28. You know it's possible to live in a thumb.

    29. You understand that when visiting Detroit, the best thing to wear is a Kevlar vest.

    30. You actually understand these jokes
     
    #1 qbee42, Dec 18, 2007
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    galaxee mostly benevolent

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    that's very very similar to the "you know you're from wisconsin if" email i've gotten :p
     
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    qbee42 My other car is a boat

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    Not much difference, except for the cheese hats. :p:p:p

    Tom
     
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    reminds me of the chili peppers song
     
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    This alone would make life not worth living. How do you survive?
     
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    You know you're from Michigan when your daily workout is getting snow out of the car.
     

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    qbee42 My other car is a boat

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    Hi Michgal. We were just in A^2 over the weekend, just in time for all the snow. I looked for your Prius, but alas, once again I didn't see you. Our daughter graduated on Sunday, so we had to drive our Prius through all of that unplowed snow. They don't do a very good job plowing in that city. I'm happy to report that the Prius went happily through everything except when the snow was so deep that it would bottom-out. I had to rock it out of one spot, and contrary to popular belief, you can get the Prius to rock.

    Tom
     
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    This thread has got me craving ,in a BIG way,a Detroit Coney Island Chili Hot Dog.
    I searched a bit and found a place that delivers a kit for 2 dozen ,for $40 plus shipping.
    Thats cheaper than a plane ticket from San Francisco.
     
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    I've seen this for Minnesota too.
    Is "Escanaba in da moonlight" an accurate portrayal of a Yooper?
    That's a hilarious movie, all deer hunter should watch it.
     
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    galaxee mostly benevolent

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    i worked in a video store for a number of years in wisconsin... i can't tell you how many inquiries we got for that movie! :p and yet, no matter how many times we ordered it, corporate never approved it... go figure. so i haven't seen it myself.
     
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    DaveinOlyWA 3rd Time was Solariffic!!

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    well, since all my paternal relatives are from Michigan...yes, a lot of it is VERY applicable.

    luckily, i was an army brat, so it was only the latter part of my youth plus EVERY Summer spent there...but ya, i lived in Port Huron, considered a lightweight resort of sorts, and spent every summer vacation in Cheboygan...(yes, it IS SPELLED CORRECTLY) where the water was at least 10 degrees colder
     
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    "i worked in a video store for a number of years in wisconsin... i can't tell you how many inquiries we got for that movie! :p and yet, no matter how many times we ordered it, corporate never approved it... go figure. so i haven't seen it myself."

    It is LUDICROUS that a video store in Wisconson would not have the only movie I know of about deer hunting. Isn't deer opener a state holiday there?
    If you've never been around "deer camp", you probably wouldn't enjoy the movie as much.
     
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    galaxee mostly benevolent

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    don't forget "da turdy point buck!"
     
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    Must be global warming. It was to cold for deer in the UP when I was kid there. If there are deer up there now, its probably warmer. Maybe that deer camp is in Wisconsin, and them Yoopers are on their down south vacation?

    My mom's uncle had bear dogs, which we kids were not allowed to go near, though.

    Ya, we lived north of Pellston, but at a higher altitude. So there was none of the cold settling there like in Pellston. 200 " of snow a year though.

    Saw our old house on the national news one year. They said the UP had gotten a record snow fall. There was snow up to the porch, which was high enough it would be up to the roof of the neighbor's house. The houses tend to be built on little hills, so one just has to push the snow down the hill to get out.
     
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    You understand someone describing where they live upon the palm of their hand.

    You are as likely to order Vernors as Coke or Pepsi

    You buy nutty donuts. Can't get them out of state.
     
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    Mmmmm Vernors. I remember touring their Detroit plant as a kid.

    Say ya to da UP! eh?

    "I survived the bridge!" (if you're from Michigan you know which bridge! and the story of the Yugo...)



    - "adopted" Yooper (went to school there - MTU '92)
     
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    qbee42 My other car is a boat

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    Did you go there to meet women?

    Tom
     
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    One of the more classic and unique "you know you're from Michigan when..." things is that when someone asks you where you're from, you raise your right hand, palm facing the inquirer, and point to where you live.
     
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    galaxee mostly benevolent

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    in wisconsin, the palm faces us but we do that all the time too :p

    no mention of deer shining? cow tipping? ya, hey?

    paper mills? gotta love that kaukauna air.
     
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