I can take no credit what-so-ever for this list, I recieved it as an
e-mail forward and really liked it.
You Might be a Michigander......
- If you define Summer as three months of bad sledding...
- If your definition of a small town is one that doesn't have a lake...
- If your family breaks into violence during the UM-MSU game
(any sport!)...
- If snow tires come standard on all your cars...
- If at least 50% of your relatives work for the auto industry...
- If you have ever gotten frostbitten and sunburned in the same week...
- If you can identify an Ohio accent...
- If owning a Japanese car was a hanging offense in your home town...
- If you learned to pilot a boat before the training wheels were off
your bike...
- If you think Alkaline batteries were named after a Tiger outfielder...
- If you point at the palm of your right hand when telling people where
you grew up...
- If you don't understand what the big deal about Chicago is...
- If someone asks you if you've been to Europe and you answer, "No, but
I've been to Ann Arbor"...
- If "Down South" to you means Toledo...
- If octopus and hockey go together as naturally as hot dogs and
baseball...
- If traveling coast to coast means going from Port Huron to Muskegon...
- If you think "going up north" would be a great
vacation....in January....
- If you refer to your relatives in southern Michigan as
"trolls" or "lopers"...
- If the "Big Three" can mean either Ford, Chrysler and
GM, or Domino's, Little Ceasar's and Hungry Howie's...
- If a Big Mac is something you can drive across...
- If you have no problem spelling (or pronouncing) Mackinac Island...
- If you had to get a passport to go to Ohio...
- If you have as many Canadian coins in your pockets as American ones...
- If your kid's baseball and softball games have ever been snowed out...
- If the trees in your backyard have spigots...
- If you know that a place called "Kalamazoo" really exists...
- If you bake with "soda" and drink "pop"... (see also
The Great Pop
vs. Soda Controversy)
- If you know what a pastie is...
- If you drive 70 mph on the highway and pass on the right...
- If your favorite hockey team's mascot is an octopus...
- If you have a favorite hockey team...
- If you don't have a coughing fit from one sip of Vernor's...
- If you know how to play (and pronounce) Euchre...
- If your favorite holidays are Christmas, Thanksgiving, the opening
of deer season, and Devils' Night...
- If your snowmobile, lawn mower, and fishing boat all have big block Chevy
engines...
- If you know what a millage is...