"You Might Be From Minnesota If.."

[Phottoman]

I just wanted to see Ice smile.

* you define Summer as three months of bad sledding...
* your definition of a small town is one that only has one
bar...
* snow tires come standard on all your cars...
* at least 50% of your relatives work on a dairy farm...
* you have ever gotten frostbitten and sunburned in
the same week...
* you can identify a Duluth accent... it's pronounced;
Doo-loot
* you know what "cow-tipping" is.....
* you learned to drive a tractor before the training
wheels were off your bike...
* "Down South" to you means Iowa...
* traveling coast to coast means going from Stillwater
to Ortonville.
* a brat is something you eat ...
* you actually miss Rudy Perpich....
* you have no problem spelling Minneapolis..
* you got a passport to go to Wisconsin...
* you used to think Deer Season was included as an official
school holiday...
* your radio dial is "locked" onto 'CCO.
* You can actually pronounce and spell Mille Lacs...
* you know what a bubbler is.....
* the snow on your roof in August weighs more than you do...
* your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a cow
next to your blue spruce...
* you think there should be a "FBI go home" bumper sticker
on every car north of Rochester...
* a Friday night out is taking your girlfriend shining for deer...
* you go out for fish fry on every Friday...


* you go to work in a snowsuit in the morning and return
home wearing shorts...
* when you tell someone where you are from and they say:
'I thought that was part of Canada...
* your idea of the seasons is Winter, Spring and the 4th of
July...
* you know how to polka....
* you think that Lutheran and Catholics ARE the major religions.....
* formal wear is a flannel shirt, blue jeans and a baseball cap...
* all your vacations are in-state, and "up nort".
* you have to go to Florida to get a tan in August...
* you define "swimming season" as "first week in August".
* your 4th of July Family Picnic was moved indoors due to frost...
* you own an ice house, a snowmobile, and a pickup truck
* your sports teams are "The Twinkies" and "The Queens"
* you have more fishing poles than teeth...
* you decided to have a picnic this summer because it fell
on a weekend...
* you need a second garage to store your "stuff"
* when you talk "opener", you're not talking about cans.
* you've got a bass boat, a speed boat, a canoe, and a
pontoon..
* you take pride in the winter temps at International Falls
* happiness is owning a "piece of lakeshore"
* you don't mind state taxes because of the "quality of life"
* your major sports events are the high-school hockey and
basketball tournaments
* you go "home" ( to the farm ) for Christmas, Thanksgiving,
and harvest.
* you carry jumper cables in your car.

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[Tron]

Quite a few of those could label one a Louisianian as well (the fishing-related ones, not the weather ones) ...

 

[Dishman Dan]

I just wanted to see Ice smile. ...

Very funny!

But...

I think that you just got yourself banned from ever entering Minnesota! :dead


More serious is you might be banned from SatelliteGuys!


The server is in Iceberg's garage!

 

[AcWxRadar]

Phottoman,

As crazy as people miight think all that to be, it probably isn't too far from the truth. I am not that far north as ICE is and I can identify with a lot of it. You are lucky to live someplace warm! Can we move in with you? We'll carpool!

RADAR

 

[TheTony]

I'm offended!

But I chuckled

A few of those are true...

 

[Magic Static]

* on the bottom of beer bottles is written "OPEN OTHER END"

 

[whitewolf8214]

I just wanted to see Ice smile.

* you define Summer as three months of bad sledding...
* your definition of a small town is one that only has one
bar...
* snow tires come standard on all your cars...
* at least 50% of your relatives work on a dairy farm...
* you have ever gotten frostbitten and sunburned in
the same week...
* you can identify a Duluth accent... it's pronounced;
Doo-loot
* you know what "cow-tipping" is.....
* you learned to drive a tractor before the training
wheels were off your bike...
* "Down South" to you means Iowa...
* traveling coast to coast means going from Stillwater
to Ortonville.
* a brat is something you eat ...
* you actually miss Rudy Perpich....
* you have no problem spelling Minneapolis..
* you got a passport to go to Wisconsin...
* you used to think Deer Season was included as an official
school holiday...
* your radio dial is "locked" onto 'CCO.
* You can actually pronounce and spell Mille Lacs...
* you know what a bubbler is.....
* the snow on your roof in August weighs more than you do...
* your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a cow
next to your blue spruce...
* you think there should be a "FBI go home" bumper sticker
on every car north of Rochester...
* a Friday night out is taking your girlfriend shining for deer...
* you go out for fish fry on every Friday...


* you go to work in a snowsuit in the morning and return
home wearing shorts...
* when you tell someone where you are from and they say:
'I thought that was part of Canada...
* your idea of the seasons is Winter, Spring and the 4th of
July...
* you know how to polka....
* you think that Lutheran and Catholics ARE the major religions.....
* formal wear is a flannel shirt, blue jeans and a baseball cap...
* all your vacations are in-state, and "up nort".
* you have to go to Florida to get a tan in August...
* you define "swimming season" as "first week in August".
* your 4th of July Family Picnic was moved indoors due to frost...
* you own an ice house, a snowmobile, and a pickup truck
* your sports teams are "The Twinkies" and "The Queens"
* you have more fishing poles than teeth...
* you decided to have a picnic this summer because it fell
on a weekend...
* you need a second garage to store your "stuff"
* when you talk "opener", you're not talking about cans.
* you've got a bass boat, a speed boat, a canoe, and a
pontoon..
* you take pride in the winter temps at International Falls
* happiness is owning a "piece of lakeshore"
* you don't mind state taxes because of the "quality of life"
* your major sports events are the high-school hockey and
basketball tournaments
* you go "home" ( to the farm ) for Christmas, Thanksgiving,
and harvest.
* you carry jumper cables in your car.

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lmaooooooo

 

[AcWxRadar]

you have ever gotten frostbitten and sunburned in
the same week...

Now you have to know that this can happen.

* you know what "cow-tipping" is.....

Doesn't everybody?

* You can actually pronounce and spell Mille Lacs...

No one can! That's why its spelled the way it is!

you know what a bubbler is.....

A VERY BAD friend to have along with you in the hot tub with you and your girlfriend! Don't invite the "bubbler"!

RADAR

 

[Mr Tony]

* your definition of a small town is one that only has one bar...

yep. Some have a church too

* you have ever gotten frostbitten and sunburned in the same week...

same week? Hell latelly it can be same day. Monday was 35 at noon and at 8:00 was -2

* you can identify a Duluth accent... it's pronounced Doo-loot

live in Doo-loot for a couple years so yep know that one

* you know what "cow-tipping" is.....

been there done that

* you got a passport to go to Wisconsin...

only reason to got here...good fireworks and they sell good alcohol on Sundays

* you used to think Deer Season was included as an official
school holiday...

it is

* your radio dial is "locked" onto 'CCO.

yeah when the Twins and Vikings were on there...not so much anymore

* You can actually pronounce and spell Mille Lacs...

have a lake house ON Mille Lacs

* the snow on your roof in August weighs more than you do...

August we dont have any snow so that doesnt sound right

* you go out for fish fry on every Friday...

not every Friday...but with Lent coming up yes we will....at the KC Hall of course

* you go to work in a snowsuit in the morning and return home wearing shorts...

yep

* when you tell someone where you are from and they say: 'I thought that was part of Canada...

actually when I worked last and I'd tell people where we were they'd say "Oh I thought you were from Canada"

* you know how to polka....

damn right. And there is a polka TV show on Saturdays (Bandwagon)..the longest running televised musical program ..50+ years

* you think that Lutheran and Catholics ARE the major religions.....

there are others????

* formal wear is a flannel shirt, blue jeans and a baseball cap...
* all your vacations are in-state, and "up nort".

yep

* you own an ice house, a snowmobile, and a pickup truck

dont forget a 4 wheeler. Thats how we pull the ice house out on the lake

* your sports teams are "The Twinkies" and "The Queens"

dont forget the Wolfies (or Timberpupies)

* you need a second garage to store your "stuff"
* when you talk "opener", you're not talking about cans.

yep

* you've got a bass boat, a speed boat, a canoe, and a
pontoon..

no canoe but the others

* you take pride in the winter temps at International Falls

and Tower and Embarrass...they usually get colder. -60 in Tower

* happiness is owning a "piece of lakeshore"

damn right....even better on Mille Lacs

* your major sports events are the high-school hockey and
basketball tournaments

the hockey tourney is a religious event. It got kinda diluted when they switched to 2 classes (small and large schools). Always fun to see the "small school" Northern Minnesota teams come down and kick the big kids ass every year. It has got better lately. Folks go to it just because. Their school isnt in it but folks still go. The bball ones got really diluted going to 4 classes (use to be 2).
Heck some of the section finals (winner goes to the tourney) are televised on TV.

* you carry jumper cables in your car.

who in a northern state DOESN'T?


But they forgot the fun town names and the sentence that goes with it. Towns are Emily, Outing, Aitkin, Remer, Climax, Moorhead and remember.....
You can take Emily to an Outing but you might get to Aitkin before you get to Remer and then you'll Climax and have Moorhead

 

[Dishman Dan]

But they forgot the fun town names and the sentence that goes with it. Towns are Emily, Outing, Aitkin, Remer, Climax, Moorhead and remember.....
You can take Emily to an Outing but you might get to Aitkin before you get to Remer and then you'll Climax and have Moorhead

Pennsylvania has some strange names for towns too!

Besides Erie there is:

Lititz, Conshocken, Lover, Mount Joy, Fertility, Jugtown, Intercourse, Virginville, Beaver, Climax, Two Lick, Hosensuck, Rough and Ready, Balls Mills, Tidioute and who knows what else! I think they covered most everthing!!! :shocked

Them thar Amish are sure clever and responsible for a lot of those! :

Also Climax locomotives were produced in nearby Corry! My nephew did a report in school on the locomotives and I would like to have seen his face when he did the Google search!

 

[freezy]

Comedian Emo Phillips said," Minnesota is the Dakota word for-Can I put butter on that for ya?"

Another Minnesota institution aired on RFD-TV is "The Big Joe Polka Show" shot in Pine City Minnesota

You take a Hot Dish out of the oven not the dishwasher.

We take credit for any famous person being Minnesotan even if they were only here for a couple years. eg Jennifer Hudson, Tom Arnold, Ahmad Rashad, Jessica Beil, Jane Russel, Richard Widmark, Cheryl Tiegs etc...

 

[Mr Tony]

and sadly we have had a pro-wrestler for a governor (Jesse Ventura) and a comedian for a senator (Al Franken)

 

[Phottoman]

Um ... ah ... Radar, a bubbler, where I grew up (Boston) was a water fountain, not the guy that farts in a hot tub. (snicker)

And Ice, I kind KNEW you'd like this and not ban me (another snicker)

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[Lak7]

A few of those are true...

Ah-Hem.....
They are all true.

 

[freezy]

that comedian had a poli-sci degree before he was a comedy writer.

the wrestler....no excuse...we are morons

I thought a bubbler was something to keep a hole in the ice and prevent your pond from freezing out.

um no, all them are not correct. there are hardly any dairy farms in Minnesota. Moved to Florida and California.
¿Tiene leche?

What is the FBI thing about?
Here's one you missed...We eat pasties not wear them on our nipples.

 

[AcWxRadar]

Um ... ah ... Radar, a bubbler, where I grew up (Boston) was a water fountain, not the guy that farts in a hot tub. (snicker)
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Still not a good idea to invite a "bubbler" to your hot tub party! That's just good common sense!

Seriously, a bubbler is (to those of us on the river) a portable, usually battery powered aeration system for keeping your live bait alive. If it is AC powered, and more robust than just a simple acquarium pump, then we just refer to it as simply an aerator.

I am an avid catfisherman and we use live bait around here. A half pound bullhead or a four inch bluegill is great bait (if it's alive) for catfish.
Flathead catfish is our main target as their meat is very white and clean. I brought some to a fish fry and many mistook it for walleye.
Flathead catfish are not scroungers or bottom feeders, they only like live bait, normally. We catch them here all the way up to 80 pounds.
You know you have something on the end of your line when you haul one of these cats in.

RADAR

 

[AcWxRadar]

Here's one you missed...We eat pasties not wear them on our nipples.

LOL! Those are "PASTRIES" ROFLMAO!

Oh my! I better not go there!

RADAR

 

[Magic Static]

not so Radar a Pasty is a meat pie (pl pasties)

 

[eurosport]

This thread has got me rolling! I'll say one thing ....having the Droid has kept a lot of sweet tea off my computer monitor!!!

Sent from my DROIDX using SatelliteGuys

 

[freezy]

do you do the Sun Tea? (Grandfather is from Tarpon Springs)


Radar...is fishing tackle required all the time or can you "Noodle" 'em?