Posted on 09/20/2008 7:16:54 AM PDT by Awgie
Top 10 Reasons to Live in Northern Michigan
* Your clothing budget is dramatically reduced! For 6 months of the year, you only need matching his and hers' snowmobile suits.
* Property values are certain to rise. According to Al Gore Northern Michigan will soon have temperatures similar to Southern Georgia.
* If you live in a really small town (that's Northern Michigan!) and you don't like your city Mayor...don't worry. There's a good chance they will soon be appointed to the Supreme Court or the United Nations or possibly...VP of the United States!
* You get to enjoy the annual purging of the gene pool as beer swilling drunken rifle toting auto workers perform the "Dick Cheney" on one another.
* You get the biggest and best Christmas presents...Being so close to the North Pole Santa saves a lot on fuel costs.
* Current scientific research shows that Northern Michigan females suffering from long winter "Cabin Fever" are much more likely to find their men sexually irresistible...in spite of the Grizzly Adams facial hair, mukluk’s and long johns evening wear, and buckshot scars on his butt. (Damn that Dick Cheney!)
* Places like Flint and Detroit are 200 miles to the south...and most of the people there can't afford the gas to get out!
* Sasquatch sightings are very common. Unfortunately it is often a case of mistaken identity and turns out to be Michael Moore.
A few years ago my wife and I ate at a small English-style restaurant run by a chef from London close to where we live. I ordered a pasty, and was surprised to see it come with gravy. It tasted delicious.
One of my co-workers is from the U.P., and her family had pasties every Sunday like other people have roast beef. She asked me one time what I ate it with. She said you have to eat it with catsup. I said that's what I eat it with. Yummy.
You should have listened to him...it could have been your million dollar widget! ;>0)
Yeah!!! Ketchup and chow-chow!
I guess for a change, gravy is acceptable, but I’d be skewered alive by my family if I did that to their dinner!
lol
What we dont have makes up for what we dont have....LOL...lived in the UP since 1986, been half way around the world and cant find anyplace better (as a whole). Now about those trolls...LOL
I'm a bit curious here - seein’ as I'm on the west coast in south Michigan right now - Are you describin’ the desperate females or the desperate males with this here wording ???
What is this “pasty” of which you speak?
Is it edible? Or is it describin’ the desperate females as they emerge from their igloos (er, houses) in spring? 8<)
By the way, the reason I started this little exercise is that I recently met a very attractive lady from Northern Michigan. We met at our 40th HS reunion in Flint.
We like each other a lot. So I'm trying to imagine what it would be like to live up there. I've been in Tampa for 30+ years.
Hint: You will probably wear more clothes in Green Bay, compared to Tampa Bay, at the same time of the football season.
8<)
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