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Check this out! Are YOU a Michiganian?
Michigania dedicates the following pages to all of us who favor Michigan - whether you live here, used to live here, know someone who lives here or are just passing through.
We have enough Michiganianisms to fill several pages. Please click on the categories below to browse our extensive collection.
~ You may be from Michigan...
- If you think we got the best deal in the Great Border War because we got the Upper Penninsula and Ohio got the Toledo strip...
- If your birthday is in the summer and you get wool socks...
- If your definition of a small town is one that doesn't have a lake...
- If you point at the palm of your right hand when telling people where you grew up...
- If "Down South" to you means Ohio
- If traveling coast to coast means going from Port Huron to Muskegon...
- If the Big Mac is something you can drive across...
- If you have no problem spelling or pronouncing Mackinac Island
- If you think the phrases "going up north" and "on vacation" mean the same thing...
- If half the people you know say they are from Detroit, yet you don't personally know anyone who actually lives in Detroit...
- If the word 'Thumb' brings to mind a geographical rather than an anatomical definition...
- If the change in your pocket is part Canadian...
- If you have ever told someone that your move to Alpena was a move to a "big city"...
- If you know that Paradise is up north and is almost always colder than Hell...
- If you refer to Ann Arbor as A2...
- If you call Bad Axe "Nasty Hatchet"...
- If you refer to Hazel Park as Hazeltucky...
- If you know that a place called Kalamazoo not only exists, but isn't too far from Hell...
- If you have no problem spotting your state on satellite maps...
- If you have ever watched the sun rise and set on two different lakes in the same day...
- If you pronounce the city's name as "Char-Lot", not "Charlotte" like the lady's name
- If you know it's the River Raisin, not the other way around...
~ Sports...
- If your family breaks into violence during a MSU-UM game...
- If your favorite holidays are Christmas, Thansgiving and the first day of deer season...
- If you think Alkaline batteries were named after the great Tiger outfielder...
- If you think octopus and hockey go together as logically as hot dogs and baseball...
- If your snowmobile and fishing boat have big block Chevy engines for power...
- If you have totaled more than three cars "bagging a deer"...
- If you or any of your relatives have ever had to be airlifted off Saginaw Bay during ice fishing season...
- If you've ever gone swimming in water that was 50° F or less while on vacation...
- If you remember who Mark "The Bird" Fidrych was...
- If your wife believes you're going smelt fishing at 3 AM...
- If you have canoed the Pine, rafted in the Rifle, and marveled at the ancient rocks along the Grand...
- If you know the definition of a navigable river...
- If you've perch-fished from the Muskegon breakwall...
- If green and white (or maize and blue) are the colors decorating your home or body...
- If you are so proud of "Stevie Y" and the Wings it almost makes your buttons burst...
- If you cry when we win the Stanley Cup...
- If you feel that you helped earn Stanley...
- If you are proud to have your Wings car flag, or two or three...
~ Weather...
- If you define Summer as three months of bad sledding...
- If snow tires came standard on all your cars...
- If you have ever gotten frostbitten and sunburned in the same week...
- If Monday always follows two days of rain and snow...
- If your year has two seasons-winter and construction...
- If your favorite season is fall...
- If you have seen a double rainbow over Saginaw Bay...
~ Food...
- If you have ever convinced visiting relatives to smuggle more than 5 2-litre bottles of Vernor's into your present "dry state"...
- If you expect Vernors when you order ginger ale...
- If you bake with "soda" and drink "pop"...
- If you know what to do with a pasty...
- If your idea of a seven-course meal is a six-pack and a bucket of smelt...
- If you eat fried perch for breakfast, lunch and dinner...
- If the trees in your backyard have spiggots...
- If you have ever stood in line at the crack of dawn for a fresh, yummy "poonch-key" (paczki)...
- If you have ever had more than four pounds of fudge melt in your car's back seat and/or truck...
- If you know it's summer when you have fresh strawberry shortcake followed by sweet corn and black cherries...
~ People...
- If you can identify an Ohio accent...
- If you learned to pilot a boat before the training wheels came off your bike...
- If you know any "Yoopers"...
- If you refer to your relatives in southern Michigan as "Trolls" or "Lopers"...
- If you drive 75 in bumper to bumper traffic and always pass on the right...
- If you know how to play euchre...
- If at least one family on your block had a cottage on Houghton lake...
- If at least one of your great-grandparents arrived in Michigan via the Erie Canal, at least one of your grandparents farmed 80 to 100 Michigan acres and some of your family came north to work in the auto plants...
- You know the difference between Amish and Mennonites...
- You still get a thrill driving over the Big Mac...
~ You may be a Yooper...
- If the books on the season's snowfall aren't closed until Memorial Day...
- If more people claim to be Finnish that American...
- If you can drive 150 miles without finding a red, amber and green traffic light...
- If two break-ins are considered a crime wave...
- If a bartender or waitress says, "Hey, you forgot your change" when you leave a tip...
- If you could miss summer if you sleep in late...
- If a 10% unemployment rate is low...
- If people in 15 states, the nation's capital, a foreign country and a French-speaking province are closer to your state's major metropolitan area than you are...
- If it takes at least 20 years to qualify as a resident...
- If the water isn't warm enough for swimming until August, if then...
~ You are probably NOT a Yooper...
- If you think two feet of snow is deep...
- If you drive 80 m.p.h.when you're not in a hurry...
- If you will spend $150 on tennis shoes but only $9.95 on snowboots...
- If you constantly lock your car, even when you go in to pay for gas...
~ Miscellaneous...
- If you're a Michiganian for official occasions, but a Michigander in your heart...
- If at least 50% of your relatives work for the auto industry...
- If the "Big Three" can mean either Ford, Chrysler, and GM or Dominos, Little Caesar's and Hungry Howie's...
- If you remember the old bumper stickers replete with Canadian geese that proclaimed, "I am a Michigander!"...
- If your footwear of choice is hiking boots...
- If you've ever made the honk your horn sign to a freighter...
- If your state bird is the mosquito...
- If you knew there were three major Native American tribes in Michigan BEFORE there were any casinos...
- If you know where Bruce Catton was "Waiting for the Morning Train"...
- If you know the four flags over Niles...
~ You're probably from Western Michigan...
- If you picked blueberries for your first job...
- If you go to chuch twice on Sunday...
Our Favorite Michiganianism?
You may be a Michiganian if you have a sneaking suspicion God did put his hand down here during the creation...
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