You know you're IN.... when....

[IcePrincessKRS]

[quote name='photosynthesis' date='Jul 15 2005, 05:36 PM']I LOVE Stewart's.
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You'd never think that a gas station/convenience store would have such good ice cream but they DO! At the one up the road from my mom's house we always used to go in and there was this kid named Eric, he made the best sundaes.

[kaidoh]

wow that is soo true

[azaelia]

You know you're in Maine:

If you own more than four pair of gloves.

[b]If every other vehicle is a 4X4.[/b] - even in the city.

If camping is allowed it's only in steel sided campers.

If, when the sun goes down, you start looking for your coat.

[b]If in March your vehicle is 43% mud.[/b]

If you leave your keys in your car and the next morning your car is still there.

If you're on the shoulder of the highway with your hood up and somebody stops to help you.

If you can pay for six big macs with a personal check.

If drive by shootings only occur on the evening news.

[b]If your central heating system is fueled by large logs.[/b]

If you see numerous chauffeur-driven dogs.

If you can see the stars at night.

[b]If people drive 100 miles to shop in a real mall.[/b] - LOL!!!

If a deer throws itself under your wheels.

If you got a set of new snow tires for Valentines day.

If more than 1/2 the meat in your freezer is moose.

If the term "chill factor" is part of your daily vocabulary.

If the bumper jack in your pickup will lift a house.

If you only paid $5 to cut down your own douglas fir christmas tree.

If you enjoy a hot chocolate more than you do a margarita.

If a girls basketball game fill's the school gym.

If you put the car heater on your list of best friends.

If you pawned a snow blower instead of a set of golf clubs.

If dressing up means wearing a tie with your flannel shirt.

[b]If you think you're in a traffic jam when you're in the second car at the light.[/b]

[b]If you don't use your blinker because everyone already knows where you're going.[/b] -

If your long john's don't come off until mid-May


And a few I have added myself:

You see signs for Free Air.

Most houses front doors are three feet above the ground.

You see more double-wide trailers than actual houses.

Paved roads are a luxury.

All the men wear trucker hats and all the women wear their husband's flannel shirts.

You throw on your shorts and turn the air conditioning on high as soon as the temperature reaches 80.

You know what Ployes are.

You've heard at least one person say "wayong!" or "ayuh."

[franciscanheart]

this bump is for rachael yay.

[Deus te Amat]

Your Know You're From Minnesota If...
You've never met any celebrities.
"Vacation" means going to Valleyfair.
You've seen all the biggest bands ten years after they were popular.
You measure distance in minutes, (or hour)
You know several people who have hit a deer (or deer plural).
Your school classes were canceled because of cold.
Your school classes were canceled because of heat.
You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day. (multiple times)
You think ethanol makes your truck "run a lot better."
You know what's knee-high by the Fourth of July.
Stores don't have bags; they have sacks.
You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one in it no matter what time of the year.
You end your sentences with an unnecessary preposition. Example: "Where's my coat at?" or "If you go to town I wanna go with."
You carry jumper cables in your car.
You know what "cow tipping" and "snipe hunting" is.
You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
The local paper covers national and international headlines on one page but requires 6 pages for sports.
You think that deer season is a national holiday.
You know which leaves make good toilet paper.
You find -20 degrees F "a little chilly".
You know all 4 seasons: Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter, and Construction.
You know if another Minnesotan is from southern, middle or northern Minnesota as soon as they open their mouth.
You never actually go the the Mall of America.
You know where "Paul Bunyanland" is.
You've had a conversation with Paul.
You complain about the cold in the winter and the heat in the summer.
You know the best mosquito repellents.
You've had to replace paperboxes because of snowmobiles.
Your local economy is dependent on Snowmobile tourism.
You know what "Kwitchabeliachin" means.
You dont actually say "dontchakno"
Its pop, not soda. Coke is a flavor.
You know what a "Loon" is.
You can replicate the noise a loon makes.
You dont have a marching band because it is impossible to practice 8 months out of the year.
You've been asked if you live in an igloo by your southern brethren.
You know what depth of ice is safe to drive, walk, or skate on.
You aren't surprised when some stupid idiot falls through the ice (tourist)
You know what Minnesota Nice means.
You think St. Cloud is a big city.

[iggyjoan]

[quote name='hugheyforlife' post='643587' date='Jul 14 2005, 06:23 PM']* People walking down the sidewalk spontaneously burst into flames.[/quote]



hahahahahhahahahahahhahahahhaha

[franciscanheart]

our highs are still in the 80s in Dallas that makes all of these more fun

[Azriel]

You might be a Michigander ...(note, not MICHIGANIAN - MICHIGANDER)

... if you define Summer as three months of bad sledding.

... if your definition of a small town is one that doesn't have a lake.

... if your family breaks into violence during the UM-MSU game (any sport!).

... if snow tires come standard on all your cars.


... if at least 50% of your relatives work for the auto industry.

... if you have ever gotten frostbitten and sunburned in the same week.

... if you can identify an Ohio accent.

... if owning a Japanese car was a hanging offense in your home town.

... if you learned to pilot a boat before the training wheels were off your bike.

... if you think Alkaline batteries were named after a Tiger outfielder.

... if you point at the palm of your right hand when telling people where you grew up.

... if you don't understand what the big deal about Chicago is.

... if someone asks you if you've been to Europe and you answer, "No, but I've been to Ann Arbor..."

... if "Down South" to you means Toledo.

... if you have any idea who Bob Ufer was.

... if octopus and hockey go together as naturally as hot dogs and baseball.

... if traveling coast to coast means going from Port Huron to Muskegon.

... if you refer to your relatives in southern Michigan as "trolls" or "lopers".

... if the "Big Three" can mean either Ford, Chrysler and GM or Domino's, Little Ceaser's and Hungry Howie's.

... if a Big Mac is something you can drive across.

... if you have no problem spelling Mackinac Island.

... if you had to get a passport to go to Ohio.

... if you have as many Canadian coins in your pockets as American ones.

... if your kid's baseball or softball games games have been ever been snowed out.

... if the trees in your backyard have spigots.

... if you know that a place called "Kalamazoo" really exists.

... if you bake with "soda" and drink "pop".

... if you know what a pastie is.

... if you drive 70 mph on the highway and pass on the right.

... if your favorite hockey team's mascot is an octopus.

... if you have a favorite hockey team.

... if you don't have a coughing fit from one sip of Vernor's.

... if you know how to play Euchre.

... if you classify your friends and relatives as "yoopers," "trolls," "Canadians," or "not from 'round here,".

... if you know at least 2 yooper jokes.

... if fudge and Bicycles remind you of your honeymoon.

... if you can name all 5 of the Great Lakes, and point to their locations around your left and right hands.

... if you don't cross picket lines.

... if you used to think Deer Season included an official school holiday.

... if you know that Pontiac and Cadillac are cities.

... if you've been to Hell and to Paradise and back again.

... if you had Tornado Drills in elementary school.

... if you know all the words to Gordon Lightfoot's classic ballad, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"

... if you can actually pronounce Ypsilanti.

... if the first decision you have to make on an international trip is, "bridge or tunnel?"

... if you own only three spices - salt, pepper and ketchup.

... if you design your Halloween costumes to fit over a snowsuit.

... if you have more miles on your snow blower than your car.

... if you have 10 favorite recipes for venison.

... if Home Depot on any Saturday is busier than the toy stores at Christmas.

... if you've taken your kids trick-or-treating in a blizzard.

... if driving is better in the winter because the potholes get filled with snow.

... if you think everyone from the city has an accent.

... if you think sexy lingerie is tube socks and a flannel nightie with only 8 buttons.

... if you owe more money on your snowmobile than your car.

... if the local paper covers national and international headlines on l/4 page, but requires 6 pages for sports.

... if your snow blower gets stuck on the roof.

... if summer takes place the second week of July (and it still rains!!).

... if you know which leaves make good toilet paper.

... if you find -20F a little chilly.

... if the trunk of your car doubles as a deep freezer.

... if you attended a formal event in your best clothes, your finest jewelry and your snowmobile boots.

... if shoveling the driveway constitutes a great upper body workout.

... if you know the 4 seasons: Winter, Still Winter, Almost Winter, and Construction.

... if the municipality buys a zamboni before a bus.

... if you drink "Vernors" and play "Euchre".

... 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.

... if you're proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights each year because Pellston is the coldest spot in the nation.

... if your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March.

... if you instinctively walk like a penquin for five months out of the year.

... if you have worn shorts and a coat at the same time.

... if "vacation" means going up north on I-75.

... if you know several people who have hit a deer more than once.

... if you often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.

... if you can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.

... if you see people wearing camouflage at social events (including weddings.)

... if you carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend knows how to use them.

... if your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to your blue spruce.

... if you were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.

... if down South to you means Ohio.

... if a brat is something you eat.

... if your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new pole barn.

... if you go out to a fish fry every Friday.

... if your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.

... if your doctor tells you to drink Vernors and you know it's not medicine.

... if you know what a Yooper is.

... if you know that UP is a place, not a direction.

... if you know it's possible to live in a thumb.

[Deus te Amat]

It was -20 degrees this morning, i think it got up to around 10... its 0 degrees exactly here right now.

[hoosieranna]

You know you're in IN if (my own):
You change your clock going from one end of the state to the other.
You eat your beef and noodles (or chicken and noodles) on TOP of your mashed potatoes.
You are surprised that others see this as too much starch.
You like Texas Tech because of Bobby Knight.
You say "antanna", "warsh", and "crick", often in the same conversation.
All journeys are "up there", even if you are going south.
You voted for Mitch Daniels and then complained when he tried to lease out the toll road system.
Indianapolis is a prime vacation spot.
You take Dan Quayle seriously. AND,
You know that things could be far worse. You could be from Kentucky.

[Deus te Amat]

[quote name='Azriel' post='1431553' date='Dec 8 2007, 09:23 PM']... if you're proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights each year because[b] Pellston[/b] is the coldest spot in the nation.[/quote]


NU UH!!! its International Falls!!! that place is IN canada! Northernmost spot in the US!!! minus alaska

Actually.. Most of Michigan's seem to apply to MN... especially the cold/ice/fish ones...

[iggyjoan]

[quote name='Nadezhda' post='1431556' date='Dec 8 2007, 10:27 PM']You voted for Mitch Daniels and then complained when he tried to lease out the toll road system.

Indianapolis is a prime vacation spot.[/quote]



OMG, I nearly DIED reading these

hahaahahahhahahahahahahahahahhahahahahha

[Azriel]

[quote name='Deus_te_Amat' post='1431559' date='Dec 8 2007, 10:29 PM']NU UH!!! its International Falls!!! that place is IN canada! Northernmost spot in the US!!! minus alaska

Actually.. Most of Michigan's seem to apply to MN... especially the cold/ice/fish ones...[/quote]

Guarantee you that Pellston and International Falls regularly battle it out for coldest place in the nation!

And yeah, us northerners ... that's what we get for living in the Tundra.

[Lena]

[quote]... if you point at the palm of your right hand when telling people where you grew up.[/quote]

best part of living in Michigan

[Azriel]

Yep, the only state where you will hear a weather forcaster say "and further up into the Thumb, we'll see heavy snowshowers" .... LOL