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Jul. 23rd, 2010 01:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
karra1. Google "You know you're from (your state) when..."
2. Cut and paste the list.
3. Bold the items that apply to you.
* You show people where you're from
by pointing to a spot on the back
of your left hand. (Especially useful
if you're from the Thumb or the
Little Finger.)
* 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.
* Your local Dairy Queen is closed from
November through March.
* You know that UP is a place, not a direction.
* You know it's possible to live in a thumb.
* The only place in the world can you experience all four seasons in one day.
* Your doctor tells you to drink Vernors and you know it's not medicine.
* You know what a 'party store' is.
* You've never met any celebrities.
* "Vacation" means going to Cedar Point.
* At least one member of your family disowns you the week of the
Michigan / Michigan State game.
* Your idea of a traffic jam is 40 cars waiting to pass an orange barrel.
* Half the change in your pocket is Canadian....eh? (I haven't even been to canada since 2002)
* You drive 86 mph on the highway and pass on the right.
* You know how to play (and pronounce) Euchre.
* It's easy to get Vernor's ginger ale, Better Made chips, Sanders hot fudge sauce, and Faygo pop.
* You know how to pronounce "Mackinac."
* You've had to switch on the heat and the air conditioning in the same day.
* You bake with SODA and drink POP.
* The movie "Escanaba in Da Moonlight" wasn't funny. You consider it a documentary.
* Your little league game was snowed out.
* The word "thumb" has geographical rather than anatomical significance.
* Traveling coast-to-coast means driving from Port Huron to Muskegon.
* You measure distance in minutes.
* When giving directions, you refer to "A Michigan Left."
* You know that Kalamazoo not only exists, but is only 100 miles fom Hell.
* Your year has two seasons: Winter and Construction.
* Home Depot on any Saturday is busier than toy stores at Christmas.
* You know when it has rained because of the smell of worms.
* You believe that "down south" means Toledo.
* You can see a car running in a parking lot with no one in it, no matter what time of the year.
* You end your sentences with a preposition; example: "Where's my coat at?"
* All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, or animal.
* You think of the four major food groups as beef, pork, BBQ sauce, and beer.
* You carry jumper cables and snow chains in your trunk.
* You design your kids' Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
* Driving in the winter is better because the pot-holes are filled with snow.
* You learned to drive a boat before you could ride a bike.
* You owe more money on your snowmobile than your car.
* Your snowblower has more miles on it than your car. (What, do I live in the UP?)
* Shoveling the driveway constitutes a great upper body workout.
* You’ve ever used the word “bogue.”
* The "Big Three" means either Ford, Chrysler and GM, or Little Caesar's, Domino's, or Hungry Howie's.
* You think alkaline batteries were named after a Tiger outfielder.
* Your definition of a small Michigan town is one that doesn't have a lake.
* You define summer as three months of bad sledding.
* The orange barrel is considered Michigan's 'other' lighthouse.
2. Cut and paste the list.
3. Bold the items that apply to you.
* You show people where you're from
by pointing to a spot on the back
of your left hand. (Especially useful
if you're from the Thumb or the
Little Finger.)
* 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.
* Your local Dairy Queen is closed from
November through March.
* You know that UP is a place, not a direction.
* You know it's possible to live in a thumb.
* The only place in the world can you experience all four seasons in one day.
* Your doctor tells you to drink Vernors and you know it's not medicine.
* You know what a 'party store' is.
* You've never met any celebrities.
* "Vacation" means going to Cedar Point.
* At least one member of your family disowns you the week of the
Michigan / Michigan State game.
* Your idea of a traffic jam is 40 cars waiting to pass an orange barrel.
* Half the change in your pocket is Canadian....eh? (I haven't even been to canada since 2002)
* You drive 86 mph on the highway and pass on the right.
* You know how to play (and pronounce) Euchre.
* It's easy to get Vernor's ginger ale, Better Made chips, Sanders hot fudge sauce, and Faygo pop.
* You know how to pronounce "Mackinac."
* You've had to switch on the heat and the air conditioning in the same day.
* You bake with SODA and drink POP.
* The movie "Escanaba in Da Moonlight" wasn't funny. You consider it a documentary.
* Your little league game was snowed out.
* The word "thumb" has geographical rather than anatomical significance.
* Traveling coast-to-coast means driving from Port Huron to Muskegon.
* You measure distance in minutes.
* When giving directions, you refer to "A Michigan Left."
* You know that Kalamazoo not only exists, but is only 100 miles fom Hell.
* Your year has two seasons: Winter and Construction.
* Home Depot on any Saturday is busier than toy stores at Christmas.
* You know when it has rained because of the smell of worms.
* You believe that "down south" means Toledo.
* You can see a car running in a parking lot with no one in it, no matter what time of the year.
* You end your sentences with a preposition; example: "Where's my coat at?"
* All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, or animal.
* You think of the four major food groups as beef, pork, BBQ sauce, and beer.
* You carry jumper cables and snow chains in your trunk.
* You design your kids' Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
* Driving in the winter is better because the pot-holes are filled with snow.
* You learned to drive a boat before you could ride a bike.
* You owe more money on your snowmobile than your car.
* Your snowblower has more miles on it than your car. (What, do I live in the UP?)
* Shoveling the driveway constitutes a great upper body workout.
* You’ve ever used the word “bogue.”
* The "Big Three" means either Ford, Chrysler and GM, or Little Caesar's, Domino's, or Hungry Howie's.
* You think alkaline batteries were named after a Tiger outfielder.
* Your definition of a small Michigan town is one that doesn't have a lake.
* You define summer as three months of bad sledding.
* The orange barrel is considered Michigan's 'other' lighthouse.
