You Might be a Michigander If...
- 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 you have any idea who Bob Ufer was.....
- 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 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"...
- 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 Euchre...
If you have a favorite joke, please send
it to me. I'd be happy to post it on my site.
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