{"id":1545,"date":"2008-12-18T14:42:06","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T20:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=1545"},"modified":"2008-12-18T20:34:22","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T02:34:22","slug":"do-ya-live-in-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=1545","title":{"rendered":"Do Ya’ Live in Minnesota?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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Forwarded to me by a fellow Woolly Mammoth, Tom Crane.<\/p>\n

Jeff Foxworthy on Minnesota<\/span><\/p>\n

If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through <\/span>18 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by,<\/span>
\nYou might live in Minnesota.<\/span>
\nIf you’re proud that your state makes the national news 96 nights <\/span>each year because International Falls is the coldest spot in the nation,<\/span>
\nYou might live in Minnesota.<\/span>
\nIf you have ever refused to buy something because it’s “too spendy,”<\/span>
\nYou might live in Minnesota.<\/span>
\nIf your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March,<\/span>
\nYou might live in Minnesota.<\/span>
\nIf someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don’t work there,<\/span>
\nYou might live in Minnesota.<\/span>
\nIf your dad’s suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead,<\/span>
\nYou might live in Minnesota.<\/span>
\nIf you have worn shorts and a parka at the same time,<\/span>
\nYou might live in Minnesota.<\/span>
\nIf your town has an equal number of bars and churches,<\/span>
\nYou might live in Minnesota.<\/span>
\nIf you know how to\u00a0say …Wayzata…<\/span>
\nMahtomedi…Cloquet…Edina…and Shakopee,<\/span>
\nYou might live in Minnesota.<\/span>
\nIf you think that ketchup is a little too spicy,<\/span>
\nYou might live in Minnesota.<\/span>
\nIf vacation means going “up north” for the weekend,<\/span>
\nYou might live in Minnesota.<\/span>
\nYou measure distance in hours,<\/span>
\nYou might live in Minnesota.<\/span>
\nYou know several people who have hit deer more than once,<\/span>
\nYou might live in Minnesota.<\/span>
\nYou often switch from “Heat” to “A\/C” in the same day and back again,<\/span>
\nYou might live in Minnesota.<\/span>
\nYou can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow<\/span>
\nDuring a raging blizzard without flinching,<\/span>
\nYou might live in Minnesota.<\/span>
\nYou see people wearing hunting clothes at social events,<\/span>
\nYou might live in Minnesota.<\/span>
\nYou install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked,<\/span>
\nYou might live in Minnesota.<\/span>
\nYou think of the major food groups as beer, fish, and venison,<\/span>
\nYou might live in Minnesota.<\/span>
\nYou carry jumper cables in your car, and your girlfriend knows how to use them,<\/span>
\nYou might live in Minnesota.<\/span>
\nThere are 7 empty cars running in the parking lot at Mill’s Fleet Farm at any given time<\/span>,<\/span>
\nYou might live in Minnesota.<\/span>
\nYou design your kid’s Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit,<\/span>
\nYou might live in Minnesota.<\/span>
\nDriving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow,<\/span>
\nYou might live in Minnesota.<\/span>
\nYou know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter, and of course, road construction,<\/span>
\nYou might live in Minnesota.<\/span>
\nYou can identify a southern or eastern accent,<\/span>
\nYou might live in Minnesota.<\/span>
\nYour idea of creative landscaping is a plastic deer next to your blue spruce,<\/span>
\nYou might live in Minnesota.<\/span>
\nIf “Down South” to you means Iowa,<\/span>
\nYou might live in Minnesota.<\/span>
\nYou know “a brat” is something you eat,<\/span>
\nYou might live in Minnesota.<\/span>
\nYou find -10 degrees “a little chilly”,<\/span>
\nYou might live in Minnesota.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Forwarded to me by a fellow Woolly Mammoth, Tom Crane. Jeff Foxworthy on Minnesota 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 Minnesota. If you’re proud that your state makes … Continue reading Do Ya’ Live in Minnesota?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}