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Mon Apr-17-06 08:10 AM
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How Minnesotan are you? find out here |
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1. "Vacation" means going South past Chicago for the weekend.
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 and back again.
5. You can drive 65 mph through two 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/wife 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 Canadian 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 Des Moines.
16. A brat is something you eat.
17. Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new shed.
18. You go out for a 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 10 degrees "a little chilly."
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Mon Apr-17-06 08:24 AM
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1. This sounds like Wisconsin, too! |
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Mon Apr-17-06 08:24 AM
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I think we're all afflicted with the same disease :hi:
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Mon Apr-17-06 08:27 AM
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that all of the midwest applies here, with slight variations in temperature :D
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Mon Apr-17-06 08:27 AM
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2, 3, 4, 7, 8, and 16 all work for Ohio too :D
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Mon Apr-17-06 09:04 AM
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however, Minneapolis/St Paul gets more snowfall each year than any other major metropolitan area in the US.
That explains why we're all going crazy out there at the lake
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