You know you're Minnesotan when...
Minnesnowtagurl
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You guys know you are Minnesotan when.....
(I'll start)
When you think that sunny with high of 3 degrees in January means it's "pretty nice" outside!
Found these two on-line:
- When you know a lot of people who have hit a deer.
- When have to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
(I'll start)
When you think that sunny with high of 3 degrees in January means it's "pretty nice" outside!
Found these two on-line:
- When you know a lot of people who have hit a deer.
- When have to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
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When people are surprised you don't sound like the movie Fargo.
When you start wearing shorts once it gets up to 35F. SO WARM!
If you'll never take the last piece of anything, that would rude.0 -
It's snowing but you go from car to store several times without donning your coat. (Or is that Californian living in Minnesota? )0
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It's snowing but you go from car to store several times without donning your coat. (Or is that Californian living in Minnesota? )
Not sure, I do have a friend from California who generally refuses to wear coats. He's typically in a wife beater or muscle shirt in the snow. (Stereotypical, I know)
I refused to wear a coat until it actually snowed. It just didn't feel right.0 -
Did this today
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Between the months of October and May, you drive nowhere without an extra coat, blanket, flashlight, food, jumper cables water,cat litter, flares, and a shovel in the back of your car.
Your family has to have a truck because of the boat. The boat didn't get wet last season.
Charitable pancakes are a staple in your diet (I have some tickets to sell BTW )
Your consumption of butter and brown sugar can be measured in pounds after Thanksgiving until the new year.
A Catholic and a Lutheran marrying constitutes a cross-religion marriage.
You have a Halloween blizzard of 1991 story if you were born before 1986.
As a kid you or someone you know were threatened with being sent sent to Red Wing.
You refer to certain schools as "cake eaters" during state tournaments.
You can name at least 3 Olympians and at least 2 companies their families are associted with all from a town of less than 3,000 people closer to Canada than any other American city.
Garrison Keillor hits a little close to home and you wonder who in your circle has been talking.
You've actually been to a casino that doesn't serve alcohol.
You think Canadians make a bit more sense than Southerners.0 -
"The South" starts somewhere around Des Moines.0
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Watch how you throw around that "cake eater" word now! You've got an EPHS graduate and current Edina resident as a mod! :laugh:0
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So you just love Blake and Cretin and the rest of them? When high school costs more than my private college did, you got cake eaters.
It is also all about outstate over metro too but I didn't bring that up due to mod's geography.
For hockey, Warroad. Then Northern. Then outstate. Then non-cake eater. Then public. Then sigh and turn off the tv.
So you know you're Minnesotan when high school sports generate great passion years past graduation and when you have a complicated hierarchy of who you will and will not root for.
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:laugh: I don't give a damn about high school sports, never did. I do think the rivalries are amusing though. I do not doubt that cake eater schools spend way too much on athletics. EPHS was laying off art teachers while the football team stayed strong.
I was never a rich kid either, so I have as much disdain for cake eaters as the next person.0 -
You know your from MN when
You expect tv to me premepted for the State HS Hockey tournament.
Going up North is really going outside of the Cities
You call the Twin Cities and surrounding area the Cities
You do anything not to have to use the I35/Highway 62 interchange
Its a HOTDISH not a cassarole0 -
You do anything not to have to use the I35/Highway 62 interchange
If you're talking about 35W and 62, the construction is finally done, but it's still stupid! 62 still goes down to one lane...wtf!0 -
Going up North is really going outside of the Cities
You call the Twin Cities and surrounding area the Cities
You also expect everyone to know what you're talking about when you say "the Cities" even if they're from out of state and giving you funny looks.0 -
Going up North is really going outside of the Cities
You call the Twin Cities and surrounding area the Cities
You also expect everyone to know what you're talking about when you say "the Cities" even if they're from out of state and giving you funny looks.
hahah try living outside of MN and you still say "going to the Cities"0 -
You know you're from Minnesota when:
*You have relatives that LIVE for the lutefisk dinner at the local Lutheran church.
*You are inclined to wear cuddle-duds or long underwear under everything (even dress-up clothes), from about October through April.
*You boast about how cold the wind-chill was last night.
*You boast that your car will start NO MATTER WHAT the wind-chill was last night.
*You know which towns make up "da Range"
*You know that going to Duluth from da Range is "going to town".0 -
*You have relatives that LIVE for the lutefisk dinner at the local Lutheran church.
Lutefisk feels like wet diapers in my mouth. Never again. :sick:0 -
*You have relatives that LIVE for the lutefisk dinner at the local Lutheran church.
Lutefisk feels like wet diapers in my mouth. Never again. :sick:
:laugh: This is too funny!0 -
You know you're from Minnesota when...
You eat hotdish several times per week for lunch or dinner (or supper!). You bring hotdish to potlucks. You bring hotdish to funerals. You consider hotdish a vegetable.
When you're exasperated you say "uffda".
You think ice fishing is fun.
Your fondest childish memories involve "going to the lake."
You assume everyone is nice and honest. If you're not nice & honest, you must be from some place else.0 -
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You know you're Minnesotan when you ride your snowmobile to work.
When you laugh at everyone who seems to have forgotten how to drive the speed limit the first day of snow0 -
-You describe distance in time instead of miles-0
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-You describe distance in time instead of miles-
Just reading through everyone's introductions from where they live and you know this one is true. I never knew that til my husband moved here from WA state and when asked where he was from he's say "30 miles north of seattle" to which every Minnesotan (myself included) replied with "so a half an hour away?" LOL0 -
...when you hear another snow storm is coming and you just shrug your shoulders and keep going strong.0
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LOL! This has been the story of our lives for the past few months.0
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When the temp drops to freezing in mid-May, and then is going to be 90 just a couple of days later.0
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I've been out of Minnesota since 2005 (I visit a couple of times a year), and all I can say is: I have NO IDEA how I survived the humidity when I was there! Holy crap, every time I go back in July or August it just kicks my butt. Ugh!! And I think people must stay used to it, because nobody else around me complains about the sweaty grossness.
Also, saw some on article on Facebook floating around about Bloody Marys in Minnesota: I always wondered why bars where I live now (Spokane, WA) don't serve beer backs. There's only one I know of in town that does it and--surprise, surprise--one of the owners is originally from Minnesota. Beer backs might be the best thing that ever came from Minnesota.0 -
When you're exasperated you say "uffda".
My dad, who's British, said this a lot while climbing stairs and I picked up the habit. When I moved to Minnesota and my mother-in-law used it for exasperation, it made me chuckle.0 -
These all made me giggle. They are all so true.0
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Haha, love these all :laugh:0
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The first 40 degree day of spring, tops are down on the convertibles.0
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When people are surprised you don't sound like the movie Fargo.
When you start wearing shorts once it gets up to 35F. SO WARM!
If you'll never take the last piece of anything, that would rude.
shorts and hoodies FTW!!0
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