...to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free....

28 June, 2011

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If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 18 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by, 
You might live in Maine.
         
If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March, 
You might live in Maine 

If someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don't work there, 
You might live in Maine                             

If your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead,      
You might live in Maine 

If you know how to say...”Wicked”. ..”Up to camp”. .”Ayuh.”...”Can't get  they-ah from he-ah”,
 You might live in Maine 

If vacation means going "up north" for the weekend,                                                                     You might live in Maine 

If you measure distance in hours, 
You might live in Maine 

If you know several people who have hit deer more than once, 
You might live in Maine 

If you can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, and keep drinking coffee, 
You might live in Maine                                                                                  

If you are expected (by people from away) to wear hunting clothes at social events, 
You might live in Maine

If you install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked,
You might live in Maine 

If you think three of the major food groups are whoopie pies, smelts, and deer meat,   
You might live in Maine 

If you're a guy and you carry jumper cables in your car, and your wife or girlfriend knows how to use them,  
You might live in Maine  

If there are 7 empty unlocked cars running in the parking lot at Hannafords at any given time, 
You might live in Maine 

If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit,    
You might live in Maine

If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow,
You might live in Maine 

If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, mud season and (of course), road construction,  
You might live in Maine 

If you can identify a Massachusetts or a Southern accent,
You might live in Maine
                                                         
If your idea of creative landscaping is a plastic deer next to your blue spruce, 
You might live in Maine
         
If "Down South" to you means Boston,
You might live in Maine.

If you know "scat" is something you don't eat (or sing),
You might live in Maine 

If you find -15 degrees "a little chilly", 
You might live in Maine 

If you actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to all your ... [BLOGGING]  friends, 
You definitely live in Maine  



(I didn't make this up.  Jeff Foxworthy did.  But I had to share!)

(I also had to edit a bit for accuracy...forgive me Jeff!)


;o) 

  

5 comments:

  1. Wicked.

    And I know how to use jumper cables.

    Loved this.

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  2. the creative landscaping was my fave!

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  3. Golly gee I know I am a Mainer...
    I laughed at us Maine folk all the way through that.
    I love going "Up North" or to the County
    and I do have a security light that comes on when you pass by to the unlocked garage HAHA!!

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  4. Mike, LOL, great stuff! Most of those also apply to us north of the line, then again living in Maine is just like living in Caanada anyway, except we have an "Eh" instead of an "ayah"

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  5. Oh my goodness these are just too funny Mike! That's so cool that Foxworthy did this, wonder how he knows so much about us??! ~Lili

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