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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 came 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 came 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 ever 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 octupus and hockey go together as logically as hot dogs and baseball...
  • If travelling coast to coast means going from Port Huron to Muskegon...
  • 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 Dominos, Little Ceaser's and Hungry Howie's...
  • If the Big Mac is something you can drive across...
  • If you have no problem spelling Mackinac Island...
  • If had to get a passport to travel to Ohio...
  • If you have as many Canadian coins in your pocket as American coins...
  • If you kids' 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 actually exists...
  • If you bake with "soda" and drink "pop"...
  • If you know what a pastie is...
  • If you drive 70 on the highway and always 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...
Author: Unknown
Received: December 1995
   

 

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