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Meme time!

I've italicized the ones that that actually applied to me, and bolded the ones that made me laugh out loud.

You Know You're From Michigan When...

You define summer as three months of bad sledding. You think Alkaline batteries were named for a Tiger outfielder. You can identify an Ohio accent. Your idea of a seven-course meal is a six pack and a bucket of smelt. Owning a Japanese car is a hanging offense in your hometown. You know how to play (and pronounce) Euchre. The Big Mac is something that you drive across. You believe that "down south" means Toledo. You bake with soda and drink pop. You drive 75 on the highway and you pass on the right. Your Little League baseball game was snowed out. (Well, my little brothers') You learned how to drive a boat before you learned how to ride a bike. You know how to pronounce "Mackinac". (A bigger challange would be knowing how to pronounce "Michilimackinac") The word "thumb" has a geographical rather than an anatomical significance. You have experienced frostbite and sunburn in the same week. You expect Vernor's when you order ginger ale. You know that Kalamazoo not only exists, but that it isn't far from Hell. Your favorite holidays are Christmas, Thanksgiving, the opening of deer season and Devil's Night. (Actually, I'd like to be able to ignore pretty much all of them, but I do know what a big deal people make of them) Your snowmobile, lawn mower and fishing boat all have big block Chevy engines. At least one person in your family disowns you for the week of the Michigan/Michigan State football game. (but only because I hate football, and will bitch about the tedium if forced to watch it) You know what a millage is. Traveling coast to coast means driving from Port Huron to Muskegon. Half the change in your pocket is Canadian, eh. You show people where you grew up by pointing to a spot on your left hand. (Actually, I use my right hand, since that's the one that looks like Michigan when facing me, then people just see it backwards) You know what a "Yooper" is. Your car rusts out before you need the brakes done Half the people you know say they are from Detroit... yet you don't personally know anyone who actually lives in Detroit "Up North" means north of Clare. (No. They can call themselves the gateway to the north all they want, but as far as I'm concerned up north is everything north of Mackinaw City. In other words, the bridge and the UP) You know what a pasty is. (Mmmm, pastys. *drools*) You occasionally cheer "Go Lions- and take the Tigers with you." Snow tires come standard on all your cars. At least 25% of your relatives work for the auto industry. You don't understand what the big deal about Chicago is. Octopus and hockey go together as naturally as hot dogs and baseball. You know more about chill factors and lake effect than you'd EVER like to know! Your snowblower has more miles on it than your car. Shoveling the driveway constitutes a great upper body workout. When giving directions, you refer to "A Michigan Left." (I actually had to look up what a Michigan Left was, I didn't know that highways aren't like that everywhere) You know when it has rained because of the smell of worms. (*shudders in terror*) You never watch the Weather Channel - you can just assume they're wrong. The snowmen you make in your front yard actually freeze. Solid. (this isn't the same elsewhere?) The snow freezes so hard that you can actually walk across it and not break it or leave any marks. All your shoes are called "tennis shoes", even though no one here plays tennis anyway. Your major school field trip includes camping and cross-country skiing. Half your friends have a perfect sledding hill right in their own backyard.

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[haku-kaen.livejournal.com]

What the heck is up with that pronounciation anyway?? >_>

*grins* Blame the French messing up the pronunciation of a Chippewa word. Just be glad that other then for the fort they eventually hacked off the first half of Michilamackinac, which is what it was originally called.

Personally, I think the laundry machines in my apartment building should take Canadian quarters too, since even the bank manages to slip me a couple in every roll of quarters I get.

While I don't need to deal with pay laundry machines, I do definately think that everything in this state that takes coins should be modified to take Canadian. It's annoying as hell when you're feeding your money into a newspaper machine or payphone or whatever without paying attention to it, then your last quarter just falls through and I have to run into the nearest store to get an American one.

Heehee! I've never lived somewhere where that was actually true until I moved here.

Really, the people should just say "snowy" every day in the winter, and "rainy" for the rest of the year. At least that way they'd get it right half the time.

We have to be getting close to it, right? I keep seeing pictures of deer, dead deer, and dead bears in the pictures I develop at work....

Yup, it's almost there. *shudders* I don't really mind the people who actually eat the deer they kill, but in the area I grew up in people would just shoot the deer, snap a picture, hack of the head or antlers, then leave the rest of it in the nearest ditch. It's no wonder that I grew up as the unpopular kid in class who hated hunting season.

Now that I live in the woods I like it even less, since I'm always afraid that a hunter will see my dog bounding around in my backyard and shoot without thinking.

Uh, and yes, I'll stop randomly babbling at you now. ^__^;;;

Hey, feel free to babble. No one knows better then me that when a babble-fit hits it's hard to resist.