: Jeff Foxworthy on Manitoba!
: > >>
: > >>
: > >>If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through
: > >>36
: > >>inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will
: > >>swim by, you might live in Manitoba.
: > >>
: > >>If you're proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights
: > >>each year because Winnipeg is the coldest spot in the nation, you
: > >>might
: > >>live in Manitoba.
: > >>
: > >>If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May, you
: > >>might live in Manitoba.
: > >>
: > >>If you instinctively walk like a penguin for six months out of the
: > >>year, you might live in Manitoba.
: > >>
: > >>If your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of
: > >>his
: > >>forehead, you might live in Manitoba.
: > >>
: > >>If you have worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you might
: > >>live
: > >>in Manitoba.
: > >>
: > >>If you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who
: > >>dialed a wrong number, you might live in Manitoba.
: > >>
: > >>YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRUE MANITOBAN WHEN!
: > >>
: > >>1. "Vacation" means going South past Emerson for the weekend.
: > >>
: > >>2. You measure distance in hours.
: > >>
: > >>3. You know several people who have hit a deer more than once.
: > >>
: > >>4. You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in thesame day and back
: > >>again.
: > >>
: > >>5. You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging
: > >>blizzard, without flinching.
: > >>
: > >>6. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
: > >>
: > >>7. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled
: > >>with snow.
: > >>
: > >>8. You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and
: > >>road construction.
: > >>
: > >>9. Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to
: > >>your blue spruce.
: > >>
: > >>10. Down South to you means Grand Forks.
: > >>
: > >>11. Your 1st. of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.
: > >>
: > >>12. You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.
: > >>
: > >>13. You find 0 degrees "a little chilly." But it is still t-shirt
: > >>weather
: > >>
: > >>14. You actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to
: > >>all your Manitoba friends.
: > >>
: :)

• Re: MANITOBA View
    by sweet_surrender222 on March 14, 2006 at 00:27:53
  
  : Jeff Foxworthy on Manitoba!
  : > >>
  : > >>
  : > >>If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through
  : > >>36
  : > >>inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will
  : > >>swim by, you might live in Manitoba.
  : > >>
  : > >>If you're proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights
  : > >>each year because Winnipeg is the coldest spot in the nation, you
  : > >>might
  : > >>live in Manitoba.
  : > >>
  : > >>If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May, you
  : > >>might live in Manitoba.
  : > >>
  : > >>If you instinctively walk like a penguin for six months out of the
  : > >>year, you might live in Manitoba.
  : > >>
  : > >>If your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of
  : > >>his
  : > >>forehead, you might live in Manitoba.
  : > >>
  : > >>If you have worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you might
  : > >>live
  : > >>in Manitoba.
  : > >>
  : > >>If you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who
  : > >>dialed a wrong number, you might live in Manitoba.
  : > >>
  : > >>YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRUE MANITOBAN WHEN!
  : > >>
  : > >>1. "Vacation" means going South past Emerson for the weekend.
  : > >>
  : > >>2. You measure distance in hours.
  : > >>
  : > >>3. You know several people who have hit a deer more than once.
  : > >>
  : > >>4. You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in thesame day and back
  : > >>again.
  : > >>
  : > >>5. You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging
  : > >>blizzard, without flinching.
  : > >>
  : > >>6. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
  : > >>
  : > >>7. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled
  : > >>with snow.
  : > >>
  : > >>8. You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and
  : > >>road construction.
  : > >>
  : > >>9. Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to
  : > >>your blue spruce.
  : > >>
  : > >>10. Down South to you means Grand Forks.
  : > >>
  : > >>11. Your 1st. of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.
  : > >>
  : > >>12. You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.
  : > >>
  : > >>13. You find 0 degrees "a little chilly." But it is still t-shirt
  : > >>weather
  : > >>
  : > >>14. You actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to
  : > >>all your Manitoba friends.
  : > >>
  : :)

  Yep! That would make you a "Manitoban" ...lol Good one! Nancy....