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MisFiT Discussions => MisFiT Humor Room => Topic started by: Smokebender on January 14, 2009, 12:24:30 AM
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If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November thur March.......you might live in Michigan.
If you like to cook meat on a stick over an open fire.......you might be from Michigan.
If you know that "UP" is a place and not a direction.......you might live in Michigan. ((*))
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If your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.......you might live in Michigan. ((*))
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If you see people wearing camouflage at social events.......you might live in Michigan. ((*)) ((*))
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If you can drive 65 mph through 2 ft. of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching.......you might live in Michigan.
If you often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.......you might be from Michigan. ((*)) [anyone]
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If you are concerned that the mosquitoes that just carried you off will drop you and the big ones will pick you up....you might live in Michigan.
If you wear a ski coat over your bathing suit on the way to the beach.......you might live in Michigan.
If you encounter a gang of deer walking down the road with toothpicks hanging out of the corner of their mouth, while looking over their shoulder with defiance........you might live in Michigan.
If while driving on the Interstates, you notice that 70mph seems to be the minimum speed......you might live in Michigan.
If while driving you cross a river or stream or creek and it seems you just crossed one a few miles back......you might live in Michigan.
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If you cook and eat "V-Meat" on a stick.............you might live in Michigan. :)
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If you get 32 inches of snow in one day.........you might live in Michigan. (Mi.U.P.2009) Yep it's true.
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If you write an excuse note for your kids, so they make opening day of deer season...you might be from MI.
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If you're paid $300.00 a day to take someone fishing.............you might live in Michigan.
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If you're paid $300.00 a day to take someone fishing.............you might live in Michigan.
I love that one.
If you hear the same people complain about how hot it is and how cold it is on the same day, you might be in Michigan.
If there is a lake just down the street from where you live, you might be from Michigan.
If you're wearing a Stormy Kromer hat, a chamois shirt with a wool vest and swampers when you go to the mall, you might be from Michigan.
If you buy a pop (not a soda) and ask for a bag (not a sack) to put it in, you might be from Michigan.
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If you're up-state friends speak with a different accent than you do.......... you might live in Michigan.
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If the stop sign at your corner is full of ((*))............you might live in Michigan.
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If you cook and eat "V-Meat" on a stick.............you might live in Michigan. :)
Just a question from someone who is from Texas and never been to Michigan - what's V-meat? <:(
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If you cook and eat "V-Meat" on a stick.............you might live in Michigan. :)
Just a question from someone who is from Texas and never been to Michigan - what's V-meat? <:(
Hello to the great state of Texas. The answer to your question Sir is venison. V-meat is venison.
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If you're wearing a Stormy Kromer hat, a chamois shirt with a wool vest and swampers when you go to the mall, you might be from Michigan.
Last Thursday, Sassafras and I went to the Mesick Mushroom Festival to purchase some canopy supplies for the year. Our supplier was set up there and we were on our way to Clio, MI. and simply drove a couple of hundred miles out of our way to get what we needed. Anyway, I had put on a pair shorts, the kind with all the pockets, a pair of argyle socks that came up over my calves, an Hawaiian shirt over a tank top and to finalize my wardrobe I had put on a wool vest over the shirt and a Stormy Kromer hat. This would be the height of fashion in the UP. The Hawaiian shirt is a statement that we think warm even when it ain't, the argyle socks are to keep the bare legs warm, the Stormy Kromer hat doesn't need explanation and the wool vest is so you don't freeze to death while making a fashion statement. When I got out of my van and walked towards a couple of vendor friends of mine, they started laughing at me and making fun of my ensemble. It didn't bother me because I knew they were just a bunch of Trolls (people that live below the Mackinac Bridge).
On Sunday, I had on the same outfit when we returned and went into a restaurant near out house. I asked the waitress how she liked my outfit. She said she had a wool vest and really liked it. She also said she always thinks that Hawaiian shirts look good. I asked her if she thought I looked odd. She gave me a quizzical look and asked me, "Why would I think that." I told her, "Exactly" and then related how I had been made fun of and she just shook her head knowingly (she also knows that Trolls just don't get it.)
Well, that is my story of being a Uper (pronounced Yoooper) and my experience with going to another world.
Mick
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If you cook and eat "V-Meat" on a stick.............you might live in Michigan. :)
Just a question from someone who is from Texas and never been to Michigan - what's V-meat? <:(
Hello to the great state of Texas. The answer to your question Sir is venison. V-meat is venison.
OMG! You eat Bambi?! :O---:O
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If you're wearing a Stormy Kromer hat, a chamois shirt with a wool vest and swampers when you go to the mall, you might be from Michigan.
Last Thursday, Sassafras and I went to the Mesick Mushroom Festival to purchase some canopy supplies for the year. Our supplier was set up there and we were on our way to Clio, MI. and simply drove a couple of hundred miles out of our way to get what we needed. Anyway, I had put on a pair shorts, the kind with all the pockets, a pair of argyle socks that came up over my calves, an Hawaiian shirt over a tank top and to finalize my wardrobe I had put on a wool vest over the shirt and a Stormy Kromer hat. This would be the height of fashion in the UP. The Hawaiian shirt is a statement that we think warm even when it ain't, the argyle socks are to keep the bare legs warm, the Stormy Kromer hat doesn't need explanation and the wool vest is so you don't freeze to death while making a fashion statement. When I got out of my van and walked towards a couple of vendor friends of mine, they started laughing at me and making fun of my ensemble. It didn't bother me because I knew they were just a bunch of Trolls (people that live below the Mackinac Bridge).
On Sunday, I had on the same outfit when we returned and went into a restaurant near out house. I asked the waitress how she liked my outfit. She said she had a wool vest and really liked it. She also said she always thinks that Hawaiian shirts look good. I asked her if she thought I looked odd. She gave me a quizzical look and asked me, "Why would I think that." I told her, "Exactly" and then related how I had been made fun of and she just shook her head knowingly (she also knows that Trolls just don't get it.)
Well, that is my story of being a Uper (pronounced Yoooper) and my experience with going to another world.
Mick
Question from a troll. If I may ask?
Having been a troll most of your life, did you find a need to buy all new clothing after moving north?
How long will it be before you say "eh?" at the end of each statement?
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Questions from a troll. If I may ask?
Having been a troll most of your life, did you find a need to buy all new clothing after moving north?
Why eat near a out house?, or is out house a town?
How long will it be before you say "eh?" at the end of each statement?
These are all good questions.
First, I have been wearing chamois shirts for most my life. When I lived as a troll, though, it was seasonal. Fall, Summer and Spring. Now that I live where summer is only a week long festival, I can wear my chamois shirts most of the year. I have pretty much packed my, "God, it's hot!" clothes away and only break them out during our week of summer and when I have to travel south to, say, Sparta or Muskegon during their summer months.
Second. Concerning an out house. I could tell you that it was a typo, but you probably wouldn't believe me, but let me say that the flush toilet was introduced not to long ago up here and it is catching on.
Thirdly, (that is how we say it up here). Ya da sure, eh? I am sure dat I will never take on an accent while living up here, eh? Why would you ask me dat, anyway, eh? Well, dis is all dat I can tink of ta tell, ya, so ya yest come up hear and see foe yoeself, now.
Mick da Yooper
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If you cook and eat "V-Meat" on a stick.............you might live in Michigan. :)
Just a question from someone who is from Texas and never been to Michigan - what's V-meat? <:(
Hello to the great state of Texas. The answer to your question Sir is venison. V-meat is venison.
OMG! You eat Bambi?! :O---:O
Oh, yeah and his father and mother. We eat them, we skin them and wear clothing made from the, we even make lamps out of their hoofs and hang their heads on the wall. We see them as rodents or vermin with an attitude. They will walk out in front of your car for no reason other than a death wish or simply out of contempt for humans. They look pretty, but inside of that skull they are always plotting ways of destroying crops and cars.
Mick
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Very well then Mick I will come up there. In fact I would be living there too, but for family ties here. Great answers.
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Well I might as well admit it I'm the classic yooper wanna-be. I love it up there, the air smells better, the water is cleaner, and the people are the friendliest I've ever met( as long as your spending money). Even thier bucks grow bigger. They know plaid as a color, not a pattern. And most of all they have many beasties roaming the forest.
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I received this from a Yooper relative. Some of the second part has already been posted on this thread, so if it seems you have already read one of these, simply skip over it after you are done reading it, eh?
I can tell you that I can say yes to the first nine of them for sure.
Read on. (pretty funny and accurate)
1. 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 .
2. 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 .
3. If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March, you might live in Michigan .
4. If you instinctively walk like a penguin for five months out of the year, you might live in Michigan .
5. If someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don't work there, you might live in Michigan.
6. If your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead, you might live in Michigan .
7. If you have worn shorts and a coat at the same time, you might live in Michigan .
8. If your town has an equal number of bars and churches, you might live in Michigan .
9. 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 MICHIGANDER 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 filled 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 can actually drink Vernors without coughing.
25. You know what a Yooper is.
26. You think owning a Honda is Un-American.
27. You know that UP is a place, not a direction.
28. You know it's possible to live in a thumb.
29. You understand that when visiting Detroit , the best thing to wear is a Kevlar vest.
30. You actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to all your Michigan friends
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