> 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 install 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.

>

Good stuff Bradcore, good stuff.

Glad I am a Floridian.