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Jeff Foxworthy on Maine Residents

1 - If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through18 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swimby, you might live in Maine.
2 - If you're proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights each year because Bangor is the coldest spot in the nation, you might live in Maine.
3 - If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through April, you might live in Maine.
4 - If you instinctively walk like a penguin for five months out of the year, you might live in Maine.
5 - If someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don't work there,you might live in Maine.
6 - If your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead, you might live in Maine.
7 - If you have worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you might live in Maine.
8 - If your town has an equal number of bars and churches, you might live in Maine.
9 - If you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you might live in Maine.

YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRUE Mainer WHEN:

1. ";Vacation"means going up north past I-95 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 "AC" 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 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 New Hampshire.
16. A brat is something you eat.
17. Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new pole shed.
18. You go out to a 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 Maine friends.
 
Upper Enchanted Township. A township up by Jackman. We got us a camp up there about 7 miles off the road on a logging road. Those fellers that live up there got a way of saying things. One thing that always sticks in my craw is when they are describing an ugly girl. They say, "She's tighter'n a dead pig's eye." I ask myself... what the hell does that mean, exactly. Yes, I have lost sleep over it. :confused:
 
jhiggins said:
Upper Enchanted Township. A township up by Jackman. We got us a camp up there about 7 miles off the road on a logging road. Those fellers that live up there got a way of saying things. One thing that always sticks in my craw is when they are describing an ugly girl. They say, "She's tighter'n a dead pig's eye." I ask myself... what the hell does that mean, exactly. Yes, I have lost sleep over it. :confused:

tighter'n a dead pig's eye :eek:
they got to you didn't they :D

you got to remember too
that's on the Canada Board too Jeff :footinmou :D
 
Dan do you remember a comedy album called Bert and I? If I remember rightly it came out in the early '60s-downeast stories.

It was the first time I heard the You can't get there from here line.
 
It was so cold my cows wouldn't let me milk 'em lessen I was wearin' mittens.
 
shgeo said:
Dan do you remember a comedy album called Bert and I? If I remember rightly it came out in the early '60s-downeast stories.

It was the first time I heard the You can't get there from here line.
:)
nope I can't recall that one Steve..


Mete I like that one.

i'll post a good one for you guys it makes a lot of sence, we don't pay atention to..and should..
 
Maine is tropical!

When I lived in New Brunswick we would drive to Maine to get warm. ;)
 
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