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You Might Be From Michigan If....Posted on Friday 11 May 2007 at 1:16 PM in Just For Fun - Post CommentOne of the groups I'm in had a blog challenge. I've been sick so I'm a little behind in my emails and blog reading, but I'm still going to do it. :) I know that we now live in Indiana...but up until a couple years ago all of my soon to be 40 years (I'm still finding it hard to say 40...I certainly don't feel almost 40) were lived in Michigan. Since my head is still clouded with cold medicine, I thought I'd just repost something I posted last year. I know this isn't myth busters and stuff, but it's still a great read.YOU MIGHT BE FROM MICHIGAN... If you define summer as three months of bad sledding. If you think Alkaline batteries were named for a Tiger outfielder. (You mean they aren't??) If you can identify an Ohio accent. If owning a Japanese car is a un-American. If you know someone from Porch Yearn. (Yeah I do, hubby and I lived there for 9 years) If half the people you know say they are from Detroit yet you don’t personally know anyone that actually lives IN Detroit. If you know that 50 miles any direction from Detroit, is still considered "Detroit". If you know how to play (and pronounce) Euchre. (Anyone want to play?) If you know "Submarine" is a sandwich and "Big Mac" is a bridge. If you believe ‘Down South’ refers to Toledo. If you bake with ‘soda’ and drink ‘pop.’ (It's not red SODA or red COKE...it's Faygo Red POP!) If you grew up drinking Town Club Pop, but you really wished that you were drinking Faygo. If you can sing the Faygo Boat Song. (Sing with me now...Comic books and rubber bands, climbing to the tree top....) If you know that it's called the Faygo Boat Song because the commercial was filmed on the Boblo boat. If you know what the Bablo boat is. If you know what a pastie is. If you know Mackinac rhymes with Mackinaw. If you celebrate a holiday called "Fat Tuesday". If you know how to say packzi properly, know what they are and know where to go to get real ones. (I'll give you a hint...it's pronounced "Poonch-key", they are Polish donuts and the best place to get them is Hamtramck.) If you no longer ask when they are going to stop working on I-94. If you occasionally cheer ‘GO Lions and take the Tigers with you’. If you used to believe Ernie Harwell when he said that the fly ball that went into the stands at Tiger Stadium was caught by a man from Warren. If you understand what a "Yooper" is. If your definition of a small town is one that doesn't have a lake. If you had a foot of snow and school WASN'T cancelled. (They did close however when we got a foot and a half.) If the first decision you make on an international trip is "bridge or tunnel?" If you had to recite "By the Shores of Gitchee-Gumee" for your 7th grade English class. If you know octopus and hockey go together as naturally as hot dogs and baseball. If your idea of a "vacation" means going "up north" on I-75 for the weekend. If the word ‘Thumb’ brings to mind a geographical rather than anatomical definition. If you measure distance in hours. If you've ever experienced frostbite and sunburn in the same week. If you have any idea who Bob Ufer was. (GO BLUE!) If you don't have coughing fit after a sip of Vernors AND when you ask for Ginger Ale you expect Vernors, not Canada Dry. If you know that Kalamazoo not only actually exists but isn’t too far from Hell. (Actually, it's a few hours drive away.) If at least 50% of your relatives work for the auto industry. If someone asks you if you've ever been to Europe, and you answer, "No, but I've been to Ann Arbor..." If you knw that Hell really freezes every year. (Take exit 54 off route 23 west. Follow M-36, turn left on Howell Street, right on Patterson Lake Road and you will be there shortly!) If a trip to the islands means "Mackinac." If your favorite holidays are Thanksgiving, Christmas and the opening day of deer season. If your snowmobile and fishing boat have big block Chevy engines. If you know what "cow tipping" and "snipe hunting" are. If your family breaks into violence during the MSU/UofM football game. If your year has two seasons Winter and Construction. If you think driving is better in the winter because the potholes get filled with snow. If you know what a ‘millage' is. If traveling ‘coast to coast’ mean's going from Port Huron to Muskegon. If half the change in your pocket is Canadian. If you point at the palm of your right hand to explain to people where you grew up. (Quite "hand"-y to have a map with you all the time!)
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