Apr 12, 2005 22:45
> Jeff Foxworthy on Pennsylvania:
>
> 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 Pennsylvania.
>
> If you're proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights each
> year because Bradford is the coldest spot in the nation, you might live in
> Pennsylvania.
>
> If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March, you might
> live in Pennsylvania.
>
> If you instinctively walk like a penguin for five months out of the year,
> you might live in Pennsylvania.
>
> If someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don't work there, you
> might live in Pennsylvania.
>
> If your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his
> forehead, you might live in Pennsylvania.
>
> If you have worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you might live in
> Pennsylvania.
>
> If your town has an equal number of bars and churches, you might live in
> Pennsylvania.
>
> If you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a
> wrong number, you might live in Pennsylvania.
>
>
> YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRUE Pennsylvanian WHEN:
>
> 1. "Vacation" means going up north past I-80 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 the same day and back again.
>
> 5. You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard,
> without flinching.
>
> 6. You see people wearing camouflage at social events (including weddings).
>
> 7. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave all the
> doors unlocked.
>
> 8. You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend knows how to use
> them.
>
> 9. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
>
> 10. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with
> snow.
>
> 11. You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road
> construction.
>
> 12. You can identify a southern or eastern accent.
>
> 13. Your idea of creative landscaping is a concrete statue of a deer next
> to your blue spruce.
>
> 14. You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.
>
> 15. Down South to you means Pittsburgh.
>
> 16. A critter is something you eat.
>
> 17. Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new pole shed.
>
> 18. You go out to fish fry every Friday.
>
> 19. YOUR 4TH OF JULY PICNIC WAS MOVED INDOORS DUE TO FROST.
>
> 20. You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.
>
> 21. You find 0 degrees "a little chilly."
>
> 22. You actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to all your
> Pennsylvania friends.