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You think working at McDonalds' means making the big bucks...
For years and years, my husband's home town's city council wouldn't allow McDonald's to build a restaurant there. They were afraid it would attract the "wrong sort" to town ...!

Your snowmobile costs more than your kid's college education...
Your best clothes are reversible; Blaze Orange to Camouflage...
You know 37 ways to prepare meals from roadkill...
Your idea of deer hunting is driving down the logging roads in your 4 wheel drive WITHOUT your gun...
Your summer shirts are plaid wool (same as your winter shirts)...
You have more insurance on your snowmobile than your car...
My in-laws.

Your local record store still has brand new 8 track tapes for sale...
Not the record store --- Iron River is too small for a record store --- but I'll bet the Holiday has 8-tracks!

You think that Iron Mountain is a prime example of a big city in urban decay...
Yes! Da Bear thinks exactly that! Every time we drive through Iron Mountain, I always remark on the bustling retail district, and all he does is complain about the blight!

Being a "Red Wing fan" means you like their new line of hiking boots...
Reminds me of another brother-in-law; he works at Ace Hardware (not Pamida).

You think the phrase "It's all down hill from here" is an advertisement for the local Ski Lodge...
Caspian! Ski Brule!

Your telephone number has 3 digits...or less...
Da Bear says until the early Nineties his hometown only had to dial 5 digits: 5-xxxx. Nowadays, you have to dial the whole 265-xxxx. Bummer!

Your car phone is a rotary model with a loooooong cord...
My mother-in-law's main phone is still the black rotary phone!

You think the sign in every bar that says NO MINORS SERVED is occupationally biased...
Dina Mia pizzas and pasties!

Your local movie theater is offering "Gone With The Wind" as a first run feature presentation...
The Iron River theater (two screens) is habitually six weeks of releases behind Austin ... I don't know that they ever showed the Ring trilogy.

Your favorite band is Da Yoopers...
Oh, help me ... Da Yoopers are sooooo odd!

ROFL! Sounds like how it is by my Dad's parents, too :) By the way, on the theater thing, we fortunately got a second theater recently. It only has a few screens so it's sometimes behind on movies that aren't #1 at the box office, but they did manage to get ROTK on time. It was always sold out the three times I went, and it was still showing there through at least late January. One time I went it seemed like half the kids in town had to be there. When I went to the library recently there were two kids there aged about 5 and 7 talking about "Frodo and Sam", LOL!