You know your from Michigan when.....

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1) You define summer as three months of bad sledding.

2) You think alkaline batteries were named for a tiger outfielder.

3) Your idea of a seven-course meal is a six-pack of beer and a bucket of smelt.

4) Owning a Japanese car was a hanging offense in your hometown.

5) You know how to play and pronounce euchre.

6) The big mac is something you drive across.

7) You bake with soda and you drink pop.

8 ) You drive 76 on the highway and pass on the right.

9) Your Little League baseball game was snowed out.

10) You learned to drive a boat before you learned to ride a bicycle.

11) You know how to pronounce "Mackinac".

12) You occasionally cheer "Go Lions -- and take the Tigers with you."

13) The word "thumb" has a geographical rather than an anatomical definition.

14) You have ever experienced frostbite and sunburn in the same week.

15) You expect Vernors when you order ginger ale.

16) You know that Kalamazoo not only actually exists, but that it isn't very far from Hell.

17) Your favorite holiday are Christmas, Thanksgiving and the first day of deer season (for which schools are officially closed).

18 ) Your snowmobile and fishing boat have a big block Chevy engine.

19) At least one member in your family disowns you for the week of the Michigan vs. Michigan State football game.

20) Your year has two seasons, winter and construction.

21) You know what a millage is.

22) Travelling coast to coast means going from Port Huron to Muskegon.

23) Half the change in your pocket is Canadian.

24) You can identify an Ohio accent.

25) You show people where you grew up by pointing to your right hand.

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15) You expect Vernors when you order ginger ale.

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The Yoopers can get VERNORS??? I'm envious.

Have you ever seen "Escanaba in the Moonlight" ? ROFL

Dimitri · Super Member Joined: Nov 25, 2005 Posts: 5946

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23) Half the change in your pocket is Canadian.

Do you accept Canadian in stores down there too ?? Very Happy

On a little off topic "Canadian Tire Money" is accepted at some stores here like if it was Canadian money. wtf

Its great though Canadian Tire gives people it for buying stuff there kinda like a cupon you can use on anything. And with my spending there I have quite abit. Very Happy

1895 knows about it lol Very Happy

Half the money I keep/have in my wallet is Canadian Tire Money not Canadian! ROFL

Dimitri

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Dimitri wrote:

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23) Half the change in your pocket is Canadian.

Do you accept Canadian in stores down there too ?? Very Happy

No.....But as soon as we usually realize we have it we try to pass it off as quick as possible....or it just stays in the pocket because no stores want it Laughing

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Dimitri · Super Member Joined: Nov 25, 2005 Posts: 5946

LOL 10Ring,

Stores should accept it Wink

I mean 10Ring its 1.15$ Canadian for 1 American now Wink

Might have yourself a few extra bucks Laughing

Dimitri

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Exchange rate from here to there or there to here Confused

....I remember when it was about 1.50 (i think Wink

) going into Canada...but i haven't been there in very many years so i wouldn't know at all.