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MIN-AH-SOTA
If you've ever lived in Minnesota (or if you still DO),
these will make perfectly good sense!
You just might be from Min-ah-sota
if:.....
You consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling
through l8 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping the food will swim
by.
You are proud that your state makes the national news
96 nights each year because International Falls is the coldest spot in the
nation.
You have ever refused to buy something because it's too
"spendy."
You think a basketball team consists of twelve white
boys.
Your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through
March.
You instinctively walk like a penguin for five months
out of the year.
Someone in a store offers you assistance, and they
don't work there.
Your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the
middle of his forehead.
You have apologized to a telemarketer.
You may not have actually eaten it, but you have heard
of Lutefisk.
You have worn shorts and a parka at the same
time.
You have either a pet or a child named
"Kirby."
Your town has an equal number of bars and
churches.
You have had an entire telephone conversation with
someone who dialed a wrong number.
You know how to say Wayzata, Mahtomedi, Edina and
Shakopee.
You grew up thinking rice was only for
dessert.
You think that ketchup is a little too
spicy.
Every time you see moonlight on a lake, you think of a
dancing bear, and sing, gently, "From the land of
sky-bluewaters..........Hamm's-the beer refreshing..."
Your daily meals are breakfast, dinner, and
supper.
Every January, from age 2 to l3, you let your older
siblings talk you into putting your tongue on the iron post.
You consider Lime Jell-O a highly versatile food: a
breakfast dish when it is filled with fruit, a salad when it has shredded
carrots and a dab of mayonnaise, and a dessert when topped with
Coolwhip.
You always believed that vacation meant "going up
north."
Your town has an annual festival honoring a fruit,
vegetable, or ethnic food.
The first time you saw "Grumpy Old Men," you thought it
was a documentary.
You can recite, from memory, more than a half-dozen
"Ole and Lena" jokes.
Your dog dies, your spouse leaves you, you lose your
job, and your car breaks down, all on the same day, and your first thought is,
"It could be worse."
You don't think it odd that there is a heater in the
outside Coke machine.
It's even 60 degrees warmer in your freezer than it is
outdoors.
You have eaten "Hot Dish" and Jell-O salad in the
basement of a Lutheran church.
You go to Starbucks, look at the menu, then say
"Umm...I'll just have some coffee, thanks."
Kevin
Rochester, MN
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