Friday, August 15, 2008

You might live in Nebraska IF....

Found this on Ray Carroll's facebook! Very cute!! I put the points in bold that I have actually done....just for kicks!
You might live in Nebraska…..


*If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May, you live in Nebraska.
*If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they don't work there, you live in Nebraska.

*If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you live in Nebraska.

*If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you live in Nebraska.

*If "Vacation" means going anywhere south of GRAND ISLAND for the weekend, you live in Nebraska.

*If you measure distance in squares of farm land, you live in Nebraska.

*If you have gone from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back again, you live in Nebraska.

*If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you live in Nebraska.

*If you install security lights on your house and garage, but leave both off, you live in Nebraska.

*If you carry jumpers in your car and your wife knows how to use them, you live in Nebraska.

*If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit, you live in Nebraska.

*If the I-80 speed limit is 75 mph -- you're going 90 and everybody is passing you, you live in Nebraska.

*If driving is better in the winter because the pot holes are filled with snow, you live in Nebraska.

*If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction, you live in Nebraska.

*If you have more hours on your snow blower than miles on your car, you live in Nebraska.

*If you find 10 degrees "a little chilly," you live in Nebraska.

*"Vacation" means going to Omaha for the weekend.

*You use your life savings to go to the Nebraska-Colorado game.

*You know the Woodmen Tower is not made of wood.

*You know you cannot tube upstream.

*You know what the "sea of red and white" is.

*You wake up when it's dark, and go to bed when it's still light.

*You can tell it's really a farmer working late in his field and not a UFO.

*You know the difference between field corn and sweet corn when it's still on the stalk.

*You can eat an ear of corn with no utensils in less than 20 seconds.

*You fly your American flag at half-mast when the Huskers loose a game.

*You know how to pronounce Beatrice, Norfolk, and Kearney.

*You don't have to be told what Askarben is or that it's Nebraksa spelled backward.

*You know that the statue on the dome of the state capital is actually sowing seed - not bowling.

*You know what Dorothy Lynch is .

*You actually get these jokes and pass them on to your other friends from Nebraska.

*You know all the words to There is No Place Like Nebraska

*You know THE game refers to that week's college football game

*You take pride in knowing that on Saturdays, Memorial stadium is the third largest city in the state.

*You know several people who have hit a deer.

*You can drive through towns like Wahoo with a straight face.

*Using the elevator involves a corn truck

*You can tell the smell of a skunk and the smell of a feed lot apart.

*You can actually locate Nebraska on the United States map.

*You laugh at people who drive under 50 on gravel roads

*You wonder what goes on in all those bicameral legislatures.

*You're proud that Nebraska isn't one of those square states, like Wyoming or Colorado.

*You can't figure out why Johnny Carson left in the first place.

*You know that cow pies aren't made of beef.

*You know what a "blackshirt" is.

*You know what "cow tipping is" and have done it.

*You get out of school for the heat and the cold.

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