A friend of mine in Manitoba sent this little list of "If this applies to you, you must live in Manitoba" in the stylings of Jeff Foxworthy. enjoy.

1) If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 36" of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by, you live in Manitoba.

2) If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May, you live in Manitoba.

3) If you have worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you live in Manitoba.

4) If you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you live in Manitoba.

5) If "Vacation" means going south past Grand Forks for the weekend, you live in Manitoba.

6) If you measure distance in hours, you live in Manitoba.

7) If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once, you live in Manitoba.

8) If you often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and then back again, you live in Manitoba.

9) If you can drive 110 KM/H through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinchin, you live in Manitoba.

10) If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit, you live in Manitoba.

11) If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow, you live in Manitoba.

12) If you know all 4 seasons by: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction, you live in Manitoba.

13) If your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to your blue spruce, you live in Manitoba.

14) If down south to you means the U.S. border, you live in Manitoba.

15) If your 1st of July bbq was moved indoors due to frost, you live in Manitoba.

16) If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car, you live in Manitoba.

17) If you find -20 degrees "a little chilly", you live in Manitoba.

18) If you actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to all your Manitoba friends, you live in Manitoba.