Tim can relate

[RUBICON19]

SOME OF THESE ARE SO TRUE


Speaking of being a proven New Englander....


Forget Rednecks ......here is what Jeff Foxworthy has to say about New Englanders...

If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May, you live in New England.

If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they don't work there, you live in New England.

If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you live in New England.

If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you live in New England..

If "Vacation" means going anywhere south of New York City for the weekend, you live in New England.

If you measure distance in hours, you live in New England.

If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once, you live in New England.

If you have switched from "heat" to "A/C" in th e same day and back again, you live in New England.

If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you live in New England.

If you install security lights on your house and garage, but leave both unlocked, you live in New England.

If you carry jumpers in your car and your wife knows how to use them, you live in New England.

If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit, you live in New England.

If the speed limit on the highway is 55 mph -- you're going 80 and everybody is passing you, you live in New England.

If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow, you live in New England.

If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction, you live in New England.

If you have more mi les on your snow blower than your car, you live in New England.

If you fin d 10 d egrees "a little chilly", you live in New England.

If there's a Dunkin Donuts on every corner, you live in New England

If you actually understand these jokes, and forward them to all your New England friends & others, you live in New England.

If your football team kicks every other football team AS S ES!!!, you live in New England



and one more late addition..... If your baseball team is the 2007 World Series CHAMP!!! You live in New England!!

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Here's my attempt at making this Minnesota-centric:

If your local Dairy Queen is open from June-July, you live in Minnesota.

If the Home Depot store has more snowblowers in stock in May than lawnmowers, you live in Minnesota.


If you've worn shorts in December while shovelling 2 feet of snow, you live in Minnesota.


If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation saying little more than Oh yah..., you live in Minnesota.


If "Vacation" means going nord' for the weekend, you live in Minnesota.

If you measure distance in pounds of cheese curds consumed during the drive, you live in Minnesota.


If you know several people who have hit a moose more than once, you live in Minnesota.

If you don't close the windows until it reaches zero, you live in Minnesota.

If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow across the frozen lake during a raging blizzard just to check on the ice hut, you live in Minnesota.

If you install a 50" plasma, home theater, stove, ping pong table and guest room in your ice hut, you live in Minnesota.

If your biggest catch was wearing a parka with the name "Ole" on it and still gripping his pole, you live in Minnesota.

If you design your kid's Halloween costume to look like Paul Bunyan (and send him out with the snow shovel), you live in Minnesota.

If the speed limit on the highway is 55-- and you're headed north in May going 20, you live in Minnesota.


If winter is the only time potholes are outnumbered (by ice-fishing holes), you live in Minnesota.

If you know all 4 seasons: opening day, opening day, opening day and road construction, you live in Minnesota.


If you have more miles on your boat than your car, you live in Minnesota.

If you find 10 degrees "balmy", you live in Minnesota.

If there's a Caribou Coffe on every corner, you live in Minnesota.

If you actually understand these jokes, and forward them to all your Minnesota friends & others, you live in Minnesota.


If your football team's mascot is named Ragnar, well....

[RUBICON19]

Good stuff Fit!!! ;D

[Tim Wescott]

Can definately relate bigtime!!