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New Post! Mar 01, 2008 @ 18:25:29#1
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Join Date: Feb 2008

- 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.)

- The only place in the world can you experience
all four seasons in one day.

- 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 pa** an orange barrel.

- Half the change in your pocket is Canadian....eh?

- You drive 86 mph on the highway and pa** 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 isn't far from 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.

- When owning a Japanese car was a hangin' offense in your hometown.

- You believe that "down south" means Toledo.

- Your idea of a seven-course meal is a six-pack and a bucket of smelt.

- You know that Big Mac is something that you drive over.

- 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.

- Your favorite holidays are Christmas,Thanksgiving, and the opening of
Deer Season, which you consider a National Holiday.

- You have 10 favorite recipes for venison.

- 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.

- 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.

- You attend a formal event in your best clothing, finest jewelry, and
snowmobile boots.

- The municipality buys a zamboni before a bus.

- You have experienced frostbite and sunburn in the same week.

- The orange barrel is considered Michigan's 'other' lighthouse.


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New Post! Mar 01, 2008 @ 18:27:03#2
aceuvclubs

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29/M/Sault Ste Marie, Michigan
Join Date: Nov 2007

Try pronouncing Bois Blanc. That took me forever.


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New Post! Mar 01, 2008 @ 18:51:20#3
beautifullyxbroken

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22/F/Manteno, Illinois
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That is completely true! I live in IL now but I am from MI!


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New Post! Mar 01, 2008 @ 18:58:56#4
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29/M/Sault Ste Marie, Michigan
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Oh and the Frostbite and Sunburn is this week. It's going to be 34 and sunny tomorrow and then get back down to the single digits during the rest of the week


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New Post! Mar 01, 2008 @ 19:26:43#5
real_red_head

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34/F/Here,
Join Date: Jan 2008

Haha...


"Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead."

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