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« on: July 20, 2006, 03:38:25 AM » |
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One of my friends in Texas sent me this so I thought I would send it on. Since all of us are going through a heat wave anyone want to add to it?
YOU KNOW YOU ARE IN TEXAS IN JULY WHEN. . . . The birds have to use potholders to pull worms out of the ground. The trees are whistling for the dogs. The best parking place is determined by shade instead of distance. Hot water now comes out of both taps. You can make sun tea instantly. You learn that a seat belt buckle makes a pretty good branding iron! The temperature drops below 95 and you feel a little chilly. You discover that in July it only takes 2 fingers to steer your car. You discover that you can get sunburned through your car window. You actually burn your hand opening the car door. You break into a sweat the instant you step outside at 7:30 a.m. Your biggest bicycle wreck fear is, "What if I get knocked out and end up lying on the pavement and cook to death?" You realize that asphalt has a liquid state. The potatoes cook underground, so all you have to do is pull one out and add butter, salt and pepper. Farmers are feeding their chickens crushed ice to keep them from laying boiled eggs. The cows are giving evaporated milk. Ah, what a place to call home. God Bless Our State of TEXAS !!
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« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2006, 04:00:33 AM » |
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:lol: Thanks for the chuckle Penny!
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« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2006, 07:17:30 AM » |
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that sounds like wher I live :shock: :twisted:
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« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2006, 03:00:09 PM » |
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Jeff Foxworthy on Wisconsin
If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 18 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by, you might live in Wisconsin.
If you have ever refused to buy something because it's "too spendy",you might live in Wisconsin.
If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March, you might live in Wisconsin.
If you instinctively walk like a penguin for five months out of the year, you might live in Wisconsin.
If someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don't work there, you might live in Wisconsin.
If your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead, you might live in Wisconsin.
If you may not have actually eaten it, but you have heard of Lutefisk, you might live in Wisconsin.
If you have worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you might live in Wisconsin.
If you have either a pet or a child named "Brett", you might live in Wisconsin.
If your town has an equal number of bars and churches, you might live in Wisconsin.
If you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you might live in Wisconsin.
If you know how to say Oconomowoc, Waukesha, Menomonie & Manitowoc, you might live in Wisconsin.
If you think that ketchup is a little too spicy, you might live in Wisconsin.
If every time you see moonlight on a lake, you think of a dancing bear,and you sing gently, "From the land of sky-blue waters, ....you might live in Wisconsin.
Series II. YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRUE WISCONSINITE WHEN:
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)
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 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 Iowa.
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 0 degrees "a little chilly."
30. You actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to all your Wisconsin friends.
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« Reply #4 on: July 20, 2006, 03:11:07 PM » |
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Diary Of Wisconsin & Arizona
Dear Diary:
August 2: Moved to our new home in Wisconsin. It is so beautiful here. The forests are so serene and picturesque. Can hardly wait to see them all covered with snow. God's Country. I love it here!
October 14: Wisconsin is the most beautiful place on Earth. The leaves are turning and beginning to color. I love the bright shades of red and orange. Went for a ride through a beautiful forest and spotted some deer. They are so graceful. They are certainly the most peaceful animals on earth. This must be paradise!
November 11: Deer Season will start soon. I can't imagine anyone wanting to kill such an elegant creature. The very symbol of peace and tranquillity. Hope it will snow soon. I really love it here!
December 2: It finally snowed last night. Woke up to find everything blanketed in white. It looks just like a postcard. We went outside and cleared the snow off the steps and shoveled the driveway. We had a snowball fight (I won) and when the snow plow came by, we had to shovel the driveway again. What a beautiful place. Mother Nature in perfect harmony. I love Wisconsin.
December 12: More snow last night. I love it. The snow-plow did his trick again (that rascal). A winter wonderland, but pretty cold!
December 19: More snow last night. Couldn't even get out of the driveway to get to work this time. I'm exhausted from shoveling this stuff. Darn that old snow-plow!
December 22: More of that white sh*t fell last night. I've got blisters from shoveling this nonsense. I think the snow plow man hides around the curve and waits until I'm done shoveling the darn driveway, then he plows the f**king street, the A**hole!
December 25: "White Christmas" my busted grits! More f**king snow. If I ever get my hands on the son-of-a-twitch who drives that snowplow, I swear I will castrate the stupid bastard. Why don't they use more salt on the roads to melt all this ice.
December 28: Guess what? More white sh*t fell last night. Been inside since Christmas f**king day except for shoveling out the driveway every time the "Snow Plow from Hell" comes by. Can't go anywhere, the car's buried in a mountain of frozen white sh*t. The weatherman says to expect another 10" tonight. Do you know how many shovels- full of white sh*t 10" is?
January 1: Happy F**king New Year! The weatherman was wrong. We got 34" of the white sh*t this time. At this rate, it won't melt until the 4th of July. The snow plow got stuck up the road and the sh*thead driver had the balls to come to the door and ask to borrow my shovel. I told him I'd already broken 6 shovels digging out from under all the white sh*t he pushes back into my driveway and broke my last shovel over his G-D head.
January 4: Finally got out of the house today. Went to the store to get food. On the way back a God damned deer ran in front of the car and I hit the f**ker. Did about $3000 damage to the car. Those worthless deer sh*t-dropping road hazards should be exterminated. Wish the f**king hunters had killed them all last November.
May 3: Took the new car to the garage in town. Would you believe the body is rusting out from all that f**king salt they dumped on the roads all winter. My car looks like a piece of sh*t!
July 1: Moved to Arizona! I can't imagine why anyone on their right mind would ever move to that God Forsaken State of Wisconsin.
July 2: Saw a wonderful sunset this evening. I now understand "Purple Mountains Majesty". Why do people live anywhere but here?
July 3: A lightning storm came last night. The sky was all lit. It was truly awesome! This morning the sky is "transparent". I can see into Mexico. Arizona is a phenomenal state!
July 4: Now this is a state that knows how to live. Beautiful sunny days and warm balmy evenings. Mountains and desert blended together, what a place. Watched the fireworks at the park laying out on a blanket. It was glorious! I've finally found my home.
July 5: Really heating up, got to 100 today, not a problem, live in an air conditioned home and drive an air conditioned car. Life's full of tradeoffs. What a pleasure to see the sun everyday like this. I'm turning into a real sun worshipper.
July 7: Had the back yard landscaped with western plants today. Lots of cactus and rocks. What a breeze to maintain. No more mowing for me. Another scorcher today but I love it here.
July 10: The temperature has not been below 100 all week. How do people get used to this kind of heat. At least it's a dry heat. Getting used to it is taking a little longer than I expected.
July 15: Fell asleep at poolside, got 3rd degree burns over 60% of my body. Missed two days work. What a dumb thing to do. I've learned my lesson! I really respect the old Sun in a climate like this.
July 20: I missed Tabby our cat sneaking into the car when I left this morning. By the time I got out to the hot car for lunch, Tabby had swollen to the size of a shopping bag and exploded over $2000 worth of leather upholstery. I told the kids she ran away. The car now smells like kibbles and sh*t. No more pets in this heat.
July 25: Dry dancing Heat my A**. Hot is hot! I'd be cooler living in my oven. The home air conditioner is on the fritz and the AC repairman wants $200 just to drive by and tell me he needs to order parts.
July 30: Been sleeping outside by the pool for three nights now. $1100 f**king dollar house payment and we can't even go inside. Why did I ever come here?
August 4: 117 degrees. Finally got the air conditioner fixed today. It cost $500 and can only cool the house down to 90. Stupid a** Mexican repairman pissed in my pool. I hate this f**king state.
August 8: If another sh*thead cracks, "Hot enough for ya today", I'm going to tear his f**king throat out. Arizona is hot! By the time I get to work, the radiator is boiling over, my clothes are dripping wet with sweat and I smell like roasted f**king Garfield.
August 10: The weather report might as well be a recording. Hot and sunny. It's been too hot to f**k for 2 stinking months. And the weatherman says it might really warm up this weekend. Doesn't it ever rain in the barren darn desert!
August 19: Welcome to Hell! Temperature got to 128 degrees today. Forgot to crack a window and blew the dancing windshield out of the Lincoln. The Mexican installer came to fix it, and said, "Hot enough for ya today." My wife had to spend the stinking $1100 house payment to bail me out of jail.
August 30: Hottest day of the G-D summer. I'm not even leaving the house. Water rationing has been in effect all summer so the $1700 worth of my "low maintenance" cactus in the yard just dried up and blew into the f**king pool Even a cactus can't live in this heat! I can't cool off in the pool now! The pool is full of f**king needles and every f**king time I f**king attempt to clean the f**king cactus needles out of the f**king pool filter I shred my f**king hands. That does it, we're moving back to Wisconsin in time for deer season!!!
Now....I Moved from Arizona to Wisconsin, Wisconsin to Texas, back to Wisconsin...so I know how this guy feels! LOL
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« Reply #5 on: July 20, 2006, 07:04:12 PM » |
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It is a very hot summer here in Arkansas! The daily temps have been around 103 here...for the last six days or so now. OMG...what's up with that nonsense? Have I told everyone that I hate hot weather? :evil:
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« Reply #6 on: July 21, 2006, 03:36:40 AM » |
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I hate the heat too. Fortunately we have only had a few hot spells this summer in the Northeast. Unfortunately we have drowned. Supposedly they are threatening more rain this weekend! :shock:
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« Reply #7 on: July 21, 2006, 06:03:23 AM » |
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Yeah, it's 1 PM 72 degrees today in KCMO.
Supposed to be in the mid 80's for the next few days.
My electric bill was going to be close to the national debt. :wink:
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« Reply #8 on: July 21, 2006, 07:12:11 AM » |
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Not for sure what the temp is here today. Last night I went outside, and I swear I was dripping sweat sitting still. My hubby was mowing and after working at his job all day was saying how much better it was feeling outside ~ huh???? After the sun went down, I almost froze :oops: Oh, the joys of having fibro!!! I was still outside, and wrapped up in a blanket :twisted: The kids were in the pool, so I had to stay outside and fight off the eagle sized mosquitos and my attack cats :shock: :D
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