Understanding Severus

[Newt]

Severus is from the State of Michigan and sometimes those folks are a little hard to understand but I thought this might help.

 

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If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 18 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by, you might live in Michigan .

 

If you're proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights each year because Pellston is the coldest spot in the nation, you might live in Michigan .

 

If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March, you might live in Michigan.

 

If you instinctively walk like a penguin for five months out of the year, you might live in Michigan.

 

If someone in a store offers you assistance and they don't work there, you might live in Michigan.

 

If your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead, you might live in Michigan.

 

If you have worn shorts and a coat at the same time, you might live in Michigan.

 

If your town has an equal number of bars and churches, you might live in Michigan.

 

If you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you might live in Michigan.

 

You know you're a true MICHIGANIAN/MICHIGANDER when:

 

1. "Vacation" means going up north on I-75.

2. You measure distance in hours.

3. You know several people who have hit a deer more than once.

4. You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.

5. You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching.

6. You see people wearing camouflage at social events (including weddings).

7. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.

8. You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend knows how to use them.

9. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.

10. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.

11. You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction.

12. You can identify a southern or eastern accent.

13. Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to your blue spruce.

14. You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.

15. Down South to you means Ohio.

16. A brat is something you eat.

17. Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new pole barn.

18. You go out to fish fry every Friday.

19. Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.

20. You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.

21. You find 0 degrees F "a little chilly".

22. You drink pop and bake with soda.

23. Your doctor tells you to drink Vernors and you know it's not medicine.

24. You can actually drink Vernors without coughing.

25. You know what a Yooper is.

26. You think owning a Honda is Un-American.

27. You know that UP is a place, not a direction.

28. You know it's possible to live in a thumb.

29. You understand that when visiting Detroit , the best thing to wear is a Kevlar vest.

30. You actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to all your Michigan friends

[Vagabond]

Very good, and a few of those events apply here also. I carry a charged spare battery and jump leads - and Norma can use them.

 

She once left the battery behind after jump-starting the Volvo on Waitrose carpark, but in true Michigan fashion it was still there an hour later when she remembered and went back for it.

 

The telephone conversations with a wrong number happen too, and any of the regulars in Ted's tackle store sell gear to any stranger that walks in !

Edited December 30, 2009 by Vagabond

[Worms]

22. You drink pop and bake with soda.

That's what normal people do!

 

26. You think owning a Honda is Un-American.

Sounds a bit odd, none of the Hondas I've driven have handled properly! (includes bikes)

[severus]

Must be a slow day down South, huh Newt? Most of these apply to your Better Half, you know. And to clarify a few entries for you Brits, Vernors is aged ginger-ale, and a Yooper is someone from our Upper Peninsula, or U.P. I'm considered a troll because I live below the Mackinac Bridge.

 

Ice-fishing does have a certain charm, however. Like the Swedish Bikini Team:

 

[Vagabond]

Ice-fishing does have a certain charm, however.

 

 

Yeh, I thought fishing through the ice from those li'le ol' huts could be kinda slow.

 

Now I know what one does between bites I'm much keener to try it.....

[Colin Brett]

Must be a slow day down South, huh Newt? Most of these apply to your Better Half, you know. And to clarify a few entries for you Brits, Vernors is aged ginger-ale, and a Yooper is someone from our Upper Peninsula, or U.P. I'm considered a troll because I live below the Mackinac Bridge.

 

Ice-fishing does have a certain charm, however. Like the Swedish Bikini Team:

 

 

I always did like women in a little black numbers, but I'm beginning to encompass other colours such as blue, pink, red, infact all the colours displayed above.

 

Thanks for sharing