Michiganders, rejoice!

[eris esoteric]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=208&item=3949905269&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

$73 for a snowball. I'm gonna be SOOOOO rich...

[Redlass]

38 bids? And it is still open?

Someone is going to pay $73 for a small snowman?

You're right, we could be soooo rich. Now we just have to come up with a historical angle...

[CurtisEdmonds]

Here's what you do. Buy a truck, and ship Michigan snow to the South. Then buy used bottles and load them in the truck and return them to Michigan for the 10-cent deposit (like Newman & Kramer did in Seinfeld).

[Redlass]

Oh no, there's major big time fines for doing that. Something like $10,000.

And buy a truck? When I already live in Michigan? Isn't that redundant?

(OK, I don't really own a truck, but I can't explain why not given my roots. )

[Redlass]

And while I was posting this, I got this in the mail:

If you consider it a sport to gather drill through 18 inches of ice and sit there all day hoping that dinner will swim by, you might be from 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 be from Michigan.

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

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

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

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

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

If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once, you might be from Michigan.

If you often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day, you might be from Michigan.

If you can drive 65 mph through two feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching, you might be from Michigan.

If you see people wearing camouflage to social events, you might be from Michigan.

If you install security lights on your house and garage, but leave both unlocked, you might be from Michigan.

If you carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend knows how to use them, you might be from Michigan.

If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit, you might be from Michigan.

If you think driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow, you might be from Michigan.

If you know all four seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction, you might be from Michigan.

If your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to your blue spruce, you might be from Michigan.

If you were unaware that there is a legal drinking age, you might be from Michigan.

If “Down South” to you means Ohio, you might be from Michigan.

If you go out to fish fry every Friday, you might be from Michigan.

If your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost, you might be from Michigan.

If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car, you might be from Michigan.

If you find 0 degrees “a little chilly,” you might be from Michigan.

If you drink pop and bake with soda, you might be from Michigan.

If your doctor tells you to drink Vernors and you know it's not medicine, you might be from Michigan.

If you know what a yooper is, you might be from Michigan.

If you know that UP is a place not a direction, you might be from Michigan.

If you know it's possible to “live in the thumb,” you might be from Michigan.

And yeah, I scored pretty high. I'm definitely form hereabouts.

[Prepoia[$]]

Yep, Bridgette....that would be me

Sandy

[realtraveller]

Okay, what exactly is a "yooper"?

[brian_igo]

realtraveller said

Okay, what exactly is a "yooper"?

Someone who lives or was born in the Upper Peninsula.



Brian
(Not native, but lived in Coldwater for a while when he was a kid and once spent New Years in Marquette.)

[murasaki]

Our local Dairy Queen is closed from November to April .