Jeff Foxworthy on Upstate New York,"
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>>>> If you consider it a sport to gather your food by
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>>>> drilling through 36 inches of ice and sitting there
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>>>> all day hoping that the food will swim by, you might
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>>>> live in Upstate New York.
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>>>> If you're proud that your region makes the national
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>>>> news 96 nights a year because Saranac Lake is the
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>>>> coldest spot in the nation, and Syracuse gets more snow than
>>>>any other
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>>>> major
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>>>> city
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>>>> in the US, you might live in Upstate, NY.
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>>>>
>>>> If your local Dairy Queen is closed from October
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>>>> through May, you might live in Upstate New York
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>>>>
>>>> If you instinctively walk like a penguin for six
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>>>> months out of the year, you might live, bundled up, in
>>>>Upstate New
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>>>>
>>>> York.
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>>>>
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>>>> If someone in a Home Depot store offers you
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>>>> assistance, and they
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>>>> don't work there, you might live in Upstate NY.
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>>>>
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>>>> If you have worn shorts and a parka on the same day,
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>>>> you might live in Upstate New York.
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>>>> If you have had a lengthy phone conversation with
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>>>> someone who dialed a wrong number, you might live in
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>>>> Upstate New York.
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>>>>
>>>> YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRUE UPSTATE NEW YORKER WHEN:
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>>>>
>>>> "Vacation" means going South past Syracuse for ! the
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>>>> weekend.
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>>>> You measure distance in hours.
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>>>> You know several people who have hit a deer more than
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>>>> once.
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>>>> You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day
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>>>> and back again.
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>>>> You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a
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>>>> raging blizzard, without flinching.
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>>>> You install security lights on your house and garage
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>>>> and leave both unlocked.
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>>>> You carry jumper cables in your car and your
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>>>> girlfriend/wife knows how to use them.
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>>>> You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a
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>>>> snowsuit.
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>>>> Driving is better in the winter because the potholes
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>>>> are filled with snow.
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>>>> You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still
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>>>> winter, and road construction.
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>>>> You can identify a southern or eastern accent.
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>>>> Down South to you means Corning.
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>>>> Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new shed !
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>>>> You go out for a fish fry every Friday.
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>>>> Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to
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>>>> frost.
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>>>> You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.
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>>>> You find 10 degrees "a little chilly."
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>>>> You actually understand these jokes, and you forward
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>>>> them to all your Upstate New York friends and to those
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>>>> who used to live here and left. -- (chickens!)
>>>>
:)))
OMG its funny and i use to live in upstate New York :)))
I love it Foxworthy is so funny. But Ron White is my favorite
Sent them to my friend she lives in upstate !!