minnesota
You Might Be A Minnesotan if....
Weather is 80% of your conversation
"Down South" to you means Iowa.
Snow tires came standard on your car.
You have no concept of public transportation
You know more than 1 person that has hit a deer
"Perkins" was a popular hangout option in high
school
You get mad at people who think Fargo is in Minnesota
School classes have been cancelled because of snow/cold
You assume when you say "The Cities" people
know where you're referring to.
You have tried boiled fish in lye at Christmas
You know what "uff-da" means and how to use it
properly in a sentence
You've licked frozen metal
You own an ice house, a snowmobie, and a 4-wheel drive vehicle
You wear shorts when it's 50 degrees outside in March,
but bundle up and complain in August when it goes below 60
When you talk about the "opener" you are not
talking about cans
You have gone Trick-or-Treating in 3 feet of snow
You know what the word SPAM stands for
You carry jumper cables in your car
You drink "POP", not "SODA"
Everyone you know has a cabin
You say 'supper' instead of 'dinner'
In a conversation, you heard someone say "Yah sure,
you betcha" and you didn't laugh
Your state pays a bounty for killing the state mascot
You consider it a sport to drill through 18 inches of ice
and sit there all day hoping food will swim by
You keep the snow tires on your truck all year because it
isn't worth taking them off for only two months
You are proud that your state makes the national news 96
nights each year because International Falls is the coldest
spot in the nation
You like to come in out of the sun when the temperature gets
above 72
Your Dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the
middle of his forehead
You believe that REAL vehicles have skis in front and a loud
motor under your seat
You like theWinter Olympics better then the Summer Olympics
You've worn shorts and a parka at the same time
Your town has an equal number of bars and churches, or more
bars than churches.
You have ever had an entire telephone conversation with
someone who dialed the wrong number
You consider Lime Jello a higly versatile food: a breakfast
dish when it's filled with fruit, a salad when is has
shredded carrots and a dab of mayonnaise, and a dessert
when topped with Cool Whip
You never had to rewind any part of "Fargo" because
you missed some of the dialogue
You always believed that vacation meant "going up
north"
Your town has an annual festival honoring a fruit, vegetable,
or ethnic food
You thought "Grumpy Old Men" was a documentary
You believe that bitter cold, a slippery surface and speed
go together in both sports and on the interstate
You think that 20 below is cool, 40 below is getting cold,
and 60 below ain't bad if there's no windchill
When people ask what you do in Minnesota in the summer, you
reply, "Well, if it falls on the weekend we go up to
the lake"
You always make sure you have a can of cream of something
soup in the cupboard just in case you need to make a hot dish
for the church potluck
You know people that have more fishing poles than teeth
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