1. A trip to the islands means a trip
to Mackinac and Bois Blanc.
2. You use the Yooper Rule of
Apostrophes: dinty = didn't he; shounta = shouldn't have; and wounta
= wouldn't have. Gotta love the U.P. Language!
3. The word "Eh" seems to
find its way onto the end of every sentence.
4. You leave you beers outside to get
cold.
5. You break something and then fix it
with duct tape.
6. You drive to Traverse City to tan on
the beaches.
7. You know what they grow in dat dere
Garden Peninsula.
8. You've ever had a snow day after
Mother's Day.
9. Your county spends more time and
money on the snowmobile trails than they do the state highways.
10. The back door to your camp is a
fridge door. Bonus points if you stock that fridge.
11. The police backup in a high speed
chase is the DNR.
12. You only get channels 6 and 13, and
you don't mind.
13. Your camp lacks indoor plumbing and
electricity because it's not necessary, but has a stockpile of beer and pork
rinds.
14. You know the four spots in the UP
where you can't get "Da Bear".
15. You run outside barefoot to check
the mail - in February - and don't notice the cold.
16. Your first cousins marry, and it
doesn't seem out of the ordinary.
17. Your class valedictorian is a
logger.
18. You have four or more broken down
vehicles in your yard. Bonus points if they're snowmobiles.
19. Your basic vehicle survival kit
consists of blankets, pillows, a shovel, and rock salt.
21. You think fine dining is a pasty and
a Pabst.
22. You have a bumper sticker that says
"Say Ya To Da UP."
23. Your school has an 8th grade
graduation.
24. You pay the taxes on your camp from
the proceeds of beer can returns.
25. You check your bank balance to see
if you can afford to buy four pasties from the pasty sale this week.
26. You make your own pasties, because
who makes them better??? Nobody!!
27. You plan your vacation around deer
season.
28. You use venison hamburger to make
chili.
29. Going up north means a hunting trip
to Canada.
30. Your neighbor plows your driveway
and you pay him back with Yooper currency: a frozen lake trout from your
freezer.
31. You only own three spices - salt,
pepper and ketchup.
32. You design your Halloween costumes
to fit over a snowsuit.
33. You have more miles on your
snowblower than your car.
34. You have 10 favorite recipes for
venison.
35. Your TrueValue Hardware on any
Saturday is busier than the toy stores at Christmas.
36. You've taken your kids
trick-or-treating in a blizzard.
37. Driving is better in the winter
because the potholes get filled with snow.
38. You think everyone from the city has
an accent.
39. You think sexy lingerie is tube
socks and a flannel nightie with only 8 buttons.
40. You owe more money on your
snowmobile than your car... or
41. One of your cars is a Ski-Doo.
42. Your snowblower gets stuck on the
roof.
43. You think the start of deer hunting
season is a national holiday.
44. Summer takes place the second week
of July (and it still rains!!).
45. You know which leaves make good
toilet paper.
46. You find -20°F a little chilly.
47. The trunk of your car doubles as a
deep freezer.
48. You attended a formal event in your
best clothes, your finest jewelry and your snowmobile boots.
49. Shoveling the driveway constitutes a
great upper body workout.
50. You know the four seasons: Winter,
Still Winter, Almost Winter, and Construction.
51. The municipality buys a Zamboni
before a bus.
52. Your vocabulary includes the
following: da, dis, dat, dees, dem and deirs. Also included is the number
"tree."
53. You have a "camp," not a
"cottage."
54. You go "fishing out da
camp."
55. Your mosquito repellent doubles as
your aftershave.
56. You actually get these jokes,
and forward them to all your Yooper friends.
Don't know what a Yooper is, eh? Well, first you have to go back to your 4th grade
geography class and recall that Michigan is made up of two pennisulas connected
by the Mackinac Bridge: a Lower Peninsula that looks like a mitten and an Upper
Peninsula that kinda resembles a hunchback jumping rabbit.
No,
the Lower Peninsula is NOT called the L.P. for some reason, which means people
who hail from the Lower Peninsula are NOT called "Loopers." Instead,
they're called "Trolls." They live under the bridge. (Think about it
for a while if you don't get it at first. And if you still don't get it, ask
someone nearby, that way they'll get to not only laugh at the joke but also at
YOU for not getting it!) I'm also told that occasionally they're called
"Flatlanders" because much of the Lower Peninsula is as flat as the
Great Plains. But that's much more boring than being a Troll.
Source:
http://ryansimmons.net/michifun/yooper.html
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