you live in NewEngland ?

[vineyardblues]

So true

VB


Forget Rednecks... here's what Jeff Foxworthy has to say on New Englanders: If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 36 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping it will swim by, you might live in New England .

If you're proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights each year because Mt. Washington is the coldest spot in the nation, and Boston gets more snow than any other major city in the US , you live in New England .

If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May, you live in New England

If you instinctively walk like a penguin for six months out of the year, you live in New England .

If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance, and they don't work there, you live in New England

If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you live in New England.

If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you live in New England .

YOU KNOW YOU ARE A NEW ENGLANDER WHEN: "Vacation" means going anywhere south of New York City for the weekend.
You measure distance in hours.
You know several people who have hit a deer more than once.
You have switched from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day, and back again.
You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching.
You in stall security lights on your house and garage, but leave both unlocked. You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend/wife knows how to use them
You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter, and road construction.
Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to your blue spruce. "
"Down South" to you means Philadelphia .
Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new shed.
Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.
You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.
You find 10 degrees "a little chilly."
You actually understand these jokes, and forward them to all your New England friends.

[chris L]

no I live in connecticut usa

is new england actually northern ireland ?

[afterhours]

i resemble those remarks

[The Dad Fisherman]

Love the Shorts and a Parka....just saw something resembling that last night

[Chris in Mass]

If you have ever cut the grass two more times after the first snowfall, you know you live in New England...

[RI Popper]

but consider this, you either drive 18 hours south or 2 hours north and hear the same accent!!!!!!

[Karl F]

Waaaay too close ta home VB ....

Try 65 in 2 feet of snow on 195.... prolly 20-25 years ago, Father-in-law in bad shape in Miriam hospital, rushing to get my wife there to see him...slipped, fishtailed, then did a nice slow spin... a perfect 360, came out of it at about 30 MPH, pointed it forward, and hit the gas...wife was white faced, didn't say a thing she just was white knuckled on the grab bar on the dash of my Old Bronco...... kept waiting for her to say something... Finally,after about 20 minutes, I said.... "Wanna see that again?" She being a good Rhody girl, broke right out in perfect Clammerese, and chewed me a new one

I dunno about the accent thing RI, I can tell a western Mass twang, a CT accent, Vermonters, NH, Maine, all have their different rythyms... Cape Code .. and RI... that's an entirely different thing altogether....
That almost has a New York influence, or LawnGuyLand thrown into the New England mix... That and all the terms that are exclusive to the Rhody/Providence area... Cabinet=Frappe, New York System, or Weenie=Hot Dog, etc.

[justplugit]

Originally Posted by Karl F

Waaaay too close ta home VB ....

Try 65 in 2 feet of snow on 195.... prolly 20-25 years ago, Father-in-law in bad shape in Miriam hospital, rushing to get my wife there to see him...slipped, fishtailed, then did a nice slow spin... a perfect 360, came out of it at about 30 MPH, pointed it forward, and hit the gas...

Did ya run over your spare.