>Here's the Ohio version : ( notice the overlaps <s> )
>
>You might be from Ohio (pronounced O-hi-uh), if:
>
>You think all Pro football teams are supposed to wear orange!
>
>You know all the 4 seasons: winter, still winter, almost winter and construction.
The Canadian version is expressed as 'ten months of winter and two months of bad sledding.'

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>You live less than 30 miles from some college or university.
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>You know what a buckeye really is, and have a recipe for candied ones.
>
>Toward the lake means "north" and toward the river means "south."
>
>You know if other Ohioans are from southern or northern Ohio as soon as they open their mouths.
>
>You can spell words like Cuyahoga, Olentangy, Bellefontaine, Tuscarawas,
>Wapakoneta and you know which letter is doubled in Cincinnati.
>
>"Vacation!" means spending a day at Cedar Point in the summer and deer hunting in the fall.
>
>You measure distance in minutes and a 'traffic jam' is seeing brake lights on the freeway.
>
>Your school classes were cancelled because of cold.
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>Your school classes were cancelled because of heat.
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>You've had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
>
>You know what should be knee-high by the Fourth of July.
>
>You end your sentences with an unnecessary preposition. For example: "Where's my coat at?"
>
>You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
>
>You think of the major four food groups as corn, pork, beer, and Jell-O salad
> with marshmallows.
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>You carry jumper cables in your car.
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>You know what 'pop' is.
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>You bring home 'bakery' for breakfast.
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>You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
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>Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
>
>You think sexy lingerie is tube socks and a flannel nightgown.
>
>The local paper covers national and international headlines on one page but requires six pages for sports.
>
>
>
>
>>Thinking of the cold got me thinking of growing up in Wisconsin of course. Then I remembered Jeff Foxworthy's Wisconsinsite joke (what is funny is that it is true! :O) :
>>
>>You know you are a Wisconsonsite if:
>>
>> 1. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on
>> the highway.
>>
>> 2. "Vacation" means going up north past Hwy 8 for the weekend.
>>
>> 3. You measure distance in hours.
>>
>> 4. You know several people who have hit deer more than once.
>>
>> 5. You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back again.
>>
>> 6. Your whole family wears Packer Green to church on Sunday.
>>
>> 7. You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard,
>> without flinching.
>>
>> 8. You see people wearing camouflage at social events (including
>> weddings and funerals ).
>>
>> 9. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both
>> unlocked.
>>
>> 10. You think of the major food groups as beer, fish, and venison.
>>
>> 11. You carry jumper cables in your car and your wife or girlfriend
>> knows how to use them.
>>
>> 12. There are 7 empty cars running in the parking lot at Mill's Fleet
>> Farm at any given time.
>>
>> 13. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
>>
>> 14. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with
>> snow.
>>
>> 15. You refer to the Packers as "we."
>>
>> 16. You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road
>> construction.
>>
>> 17. You can identify a southern or eastern accent.
>>
>> 18. You have no problem pronouncing Lac Du Flambeau.
>>
>> 19. You consider Minneapolis exotic.
>>
>> 20. You know how to polka.
>>
>> 21. Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to your
>> blue spruce.
>>
>> 22. You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.
>>
>> 23. Down South to you means Illinois .
>>
>> 24. A brat is something you eat.
>>
>> 25. Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new pole shed.
>>
>> 26. You go out to fish fry every Friday.
>>
>> 27. Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.
>>
>> 28. You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.
>>
>> 29. You find minus twenty degrees "a little chilly."
>>
>> 30. You actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to all
>> your Wisconsin friends.
>>
>>What's especially funny about the list is not so much the humourous redneck items (although they are all true for many Wisconsinites) but that some of my relatives live(d) on the Lac du Flambeau Reservation. That is why many of my relatives sent me this list when it came out or started circling the web.
>>
>>Just had to add that many of our family get togethers were at Club 23 near Wisconsin Dells. Great home-style food back then. Of course, like most restaurants when I was young, it was primarily a bar!