[124]

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 Pellston 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 coat 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

Part 2 - You know you're a true MICHIGANIAN 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 fill ed
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 know what a Yooper is.

25. You think owning a Honda/Toyota is Un-American.

26 You know that UP is a place, not a direction

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

28. You understand that when visiting Detroit , the best thing to wear
is a Kevlar vest and a 9mm.

29. You actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to all
your Michigan friends.

[Dust Devil]

I've seen the exactt same thing but it was "Idaho" instead of Michigan.

[124]

We must have the same $hit as Idaho then, because every single item under the "PART 2" is 100% true. I thought it was hilarious...

Oh well...

[redrider911]

Same as Buffalo....Need to add something like "you know what lake effect snow is". Oh and thats 65 mph sidways!

[crf100rider21]

very funny

lol


i used to live in michigan

[mustang]

about 3/4's of those could apply to good ol New Hampshire also !

[Danny]

I Knew what UP was. And I wear shorts with a coat but not to the same extreme.

Thanks Danny

[matt watt]

What is a Yooper?

[Danny]

What is a Yooper?

Yeah what is a Yooper?

Danny

[XGiant]

The state of Michigan is broken up into two peninsulas - the Lower Peninsula and the Upper Peninsula. They are connected together by the Mackinac Bridge. The people that live in the Upper Peninsula or the U.P. are called "Yoopers" and are proud of it. The people that live under the bridge are called "trolls." The song "I'm a Troll Man" was written about them. Lots of trolls from down below dream about moving to da U.P., but there's no work here. So we let them come up to relax, enjoy and spend their cash, but they gotta go home afterwards.

Just an Oregon opinion backed up by Google!

[JAWS]

Talked with a gal from Michigan this week. She told me she was a MichiGANDER not a MichiGANIAN.!

Joe

[Asmith]

Talked with a gal from Michigan this week. She told me she was a MichiGANDER not a MichiGANIAN.!

Joe

Since she was a woman, Wouldn't it be MichiGOOSE?

[JAWS]

Talked with a gal from Michigan this week. She told me she was a MichiGANDER not a MichiGANIAN.!

Joe

Since she was a woman, Wouldn't it be MichiGOOSE?

I will pass that one on to her!

Joe