You might live in Upstate New York

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If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 36 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by, you might live in Upstate New York.

If you're proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights each year because Saranac Lake is the coldest spot in the nation,you might live in Upstate New York.

If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May, you might live in Upstate New York

If you instinctively walk like a penguin for six months out of the year,! you might live in Upstate New York.

If someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don't work there, you might live in Upstate New York.

If your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead, you might live in Upstate New York.

If you have worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you might live in Upstate New York.

If your town has an equal number of bars and churches, you might live in Upstate New York.

If you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you might live in Upstate New York.

YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRUE UPSTATE NEW YORKER WHEN:

1. "Vacation" means going South past Albany 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 both unlocked.
8. You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend / wife 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 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 Albany.
16. A brat 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 Upstate New York friends.
 
Well, I visited and lived 1 year upstate New York. One of the most beautiful ares I've ever seen. Of course I've traveled alot and every area has it's own Unique beauty.. Yes even western Texas. :lol:
 
Originally posted by millermagic@Jun 25 2004, 06:00 PM
If your town has an equal number of bars and churches, you might live in Upstate New York.


YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRUE UPSTATE NEW YORKER WHEN:

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).
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.
21. You find 0 degrees "a little chilly."
22. You actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to all your Upstate New York friends.
its oh so sad but oh so true...

as a life long upstater, i can say that we dont have 4 seasons, we have 3. winter, summer, and neither.

0 is chilly, -15 is when it really starts to get cold...
 
If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May, you might live in Upstate New York

:p ours is closed oct-march
 
I used to go deer hunting in upstate New York several years ago.

The last time I went they got 23 inches of snow in 24 hours. That was the last time I went up there. :mellow:
 
Originally posted by 4xchampncountin@Jun 27 2004, 12:47 PM
I used to go deer hunting in upstate New York several years ago.

The last time I went they got 23 inches of snow in 24 hours. That was the last time I went up there. :mellow:
23 in 24 hours is nothing. this year we got 87 inches in 54 hours.
 
This is so true.. I had a friend stationed at Fort Drum and he told me that this is soooo true.
 
My last winter in NE (Vermont) we got 63" over the weekend and I decided that was it, I headed west. LOL
 
Of course I've traveled alot and every area has it's own Unique beauty.. Yes even western Texas.

I grew up in El Paso. I have found that people just don't appreciate the many shades that brown can come in. I've lived in the South now over 30 years and the humidity still gets to me. My wife, who has never lived outside of the county she was born in, finds the Southwest to be very beautiful as well. But, in the South things are green. Green everywhere. I have to mow grass. I didn't have to do that in West Texas. <_<
 
Originally posted by Lap3Forever@Jun 26 2004, 12:32 AM
If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May, you might live in Upstate New York

:p ours is closed oct-march
Ours never closes!
 
Originally posted by turtle3539+Jun 29 2004, 03:41 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (turtle3539 @ Jun 29 2004, 03:41 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--Lap3Forever@Jun 26 2004, 12:32 AM
If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May, you might live in Upstate New York

:p&nbsp; ours is closed oct-march
Ours never closes! [/b][/quote]
:p

Ours if the old ones, just ice cream, blizards, hotdogs......no burgers or any of that stuff....ohh yea you got to set outside or in your car, no inside dining. :lol:
 
Last year in W. TN.We got less that a 1/2 in of snow all winter. I can live with that. :bounce:
 
I lived in the Bershires of Ma. for 6 years before i moved to CO., we had 173" of snow the winter of 1996. I had to shovel my roof 3 times, my wifes' tullips didn't come up until July, and i couldn't see out of my kitchen window for 2 months because the snow was even with my roof. It was AWESOME !!! I can relate to that joke in a huge way.
 
Millermagic,

After spewing my coffee all over the keyboard in a fit of laughter, I find that you are soooo right!!! I am from Syracuse (and never miss the opportunity to remind others!)

My husband can't understand why, oh WHY do I always have to give directions in hours, not miles. Why, oh WHY do you insist on putting that "g" at the end of my words, (huntin"g", fishin"g", etc..)

The first deer I saw him bring home when he moved us to the other Albany (Georgia, yuk) I told him that was a dog, not a deer, I've seen deer in Syracuse, and that ain't no deer! (of course, my slang precedes me, "That is NOT a deer, dear, I have seen deer, and that is certainly no deer!"

The one thing I dearly miss are the pub crawls!!!!! :(
 
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