YOU GREW UP IN RURAL MICHIGAN IF.....
You know how to polka but never tried it sober....
You know what knee-high by the Fourth of July means.
You know it is traditional for the bride and groom
to go bar hopping between the wedding and the reception.
You know the difference between "Green" and "Red"
farm machinery, and would fight with your friends on the
playground over which was better!
You buy Christmas presents at Farm & Fleet or Tractor Supply.
You spent more on beer and liquor than you did on food at your wedding.
You have ever tried to get your city cousins to pee on the electric fence.
You or someone you know was a "Bean/Sugar Queen" at the county fair.
You know that "combine" is a noun.
You let your older siblings talk you into putting your
tongue on a steel post in the middle of winter.
You think Lutheran and Catholic are THE major religions.
You know that "creek" rhymes with "pick".
Football schedules, hunting season and harvest are all taken into consideration before wedding dates are set.
A Friday night date is getting a six-pack and taking your
girl friend shining for deer.
There was at least one kid in your class who had to help
milk cows in the morning... phew.
You have driven your car on a lake.
You can make sense of "upnort" and "batree".
At every wedding reception you have ever been to the hokey pokey and the chicken dance have been played.
Your definition of a small town is one that only has one bar.
The local gas station sells live bait.
At least twice a year some part of your home doubles
as a meat processing plant.
You think that the start of deer season is a national holiday.
Pop is the only name for soda.
You actually understand these jokes and will forward
them to all your Michiganfriends!!!!!
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(Notre Dame did win in 89!) Did I say I was a Hoosier???
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