You know you're from North Dakota................

[WeRQ4U]

Vacation means going to Medora.

You've seen all the biggest bands, 20 yrs after they were popular.

East means to Fargo.

You know several people who have hit a buffalo.

You've ridden the school bus for an hour each way.

You only lock your car in August, so it doesn't get filled with zucchini.

You think 4 major food groups are: beef, chokecherry wine, pork and Jell-O with marshmallows.

You carry a blizzard survival kit in your car 12 months a year.

You find 3 feet of snow a minor inconvenience.

You know if another North Dakotan is from southern, middle or northern ND as soon as they open their mouth.

There is a Dairy Queen in every town with a population of 1000 or more, but McDonalds are spread out every 100 miles.

You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.

You know Ole & Lena personally.

Though your not breaking the law, you break into a cold sweat when to game warden appears.

You owe more money on your snowmobile than your car.

You find it exciting to stare through a hole in the ice and look at the bottom.

You can tell the difference between a gopher and a chipmunk at 300 yards.

You think white rice is exotic and wild rice is hot dish.

Somewhere in the state is a piece of frozen metal with bits of your tongue stuck to it.

When you win the prize for the smallest fish, you're proud of it.

You hate "Fargo" but realize your entire family has the accent.

People borrow things to you.

You keep the snow tires on your truck all year because it isn't worth taking them off for only two months.

You are proud that your state makes the national news 96 nights each year because Bismarck is the coldest spot in the nation.

You think a basketball team consists of twelve white boys.

Someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don't work there.

You're polite to telemarketers.

You have a nickname for your chain saw and you pat it on the fuel tank at the end of a hard day's sawing.

You may not have actually eaten it, but you have heard of Lutefisk.

You go to a high school basketball game, the score is 12-8 at halftime... and you don't think there's anything strange about that.

You know how to say Fargo and Minot.

You never had to rewind any part of "Fargo" because you missed some of the dialogue.

Your town isn't trying to be ironic when it plans a "Winter Carnival."

Your bank has the name of your town included in its name.

You think that "UFF DA" is a standard English phrase.

You can recite, from memory, more than a half-dozen "Ole and Lena" jokes.

Every time you see moonlight on a lake you think of a dancing bear, and sing, gently, "From the land of sky-blue waters... Hamm's, the beer refreshing. Hamm's, the beer refreshing."

Your dog dies, you lose your job, and your car breaks down, all on the same day, and the first thought that comes to your mind is, "It could be worse!"

Your definition of a small town is one that has only one bar.

"Down south" means Aberdeen.

You have no problem spelling "Wahpeton".

You expect to be excused from school for deer hunting season and harvesting.

Your soup du jour at your hometown cafe is always beer cheese or knoephla.

You think of something other than the Bible when you hear the words "Great Flood".

You drive to town during a blizzard just to see if the weatherman knows what he's talking about.

You assume everyone has seen northern lights and sundogs.

You cry when a tree is cut down but complain when a new one is planted because it blocks the view.

You think cold weather gear is a bottle of schnapps.

After you discuss the weather, conversation declines.

You understand "AYH, y'betchyah" means either "I agree" or "You're full of it" and know the difference.

You grew up thinking rice was only for dessert.

You think that ketchup is a little too spicy.

You didn't know there was a Red River Valley in Texas

The band you choose for your wedding has to know rock, country, and polkas.

Young boys still get BB guns for Christmas.

You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from North Dakota.

[eyepaddle]

1. Hey, a lot of these are just as valid if you're from MN

Just sayin' :P :hi:

[WeRQ4U]

2. I don't doubt it.

The Kneophla soup one is my favorite.

[eyepaddle]

3. I'll admit Knoephla was a new one to me (a few years ago)

My office is one of the few in the world that can say North Dakota is a critical chunk of our business! We were doing a job somewhere North and East of Steele (stayed at the Lone Steer) and I remember havinng Knoephla at the little cafe. I remember it more for its name than anything else.

One thing I like about ND--there are almost ZERO Packer Fans there! Ya gotta like that! :shiteatinggrin:

[RC]

5. Stayed at the Lone Steer also, huh...?

That should rate a free T-shirt at least.

"I Survived the Lone Steer"
With a picture of

On the front.

[WeRQ4U]

12. I actually think knoephla is about as gross as it gets.

I can't eat it. Dumplings are gross. Especially wet soupy ones.

[XemaSab]

8. oh, yah

n/t

[CatholicEdHead]

9. Yes they are

espically west central and northwest MN. Of course I have spent 4 years in ND so many of those I have seen.

[yardwork]

4. Some of these are valid in Ohio

especially the food groups and the zucchini in the car in August.

[Jade Fox]

6. Never been to North Dakota.....

but due to my long term friendship with a Minot native, I get a lot of these!

[Dude_CalmDown]

7. New Joizy checking in here.

I can't remember a list like this where I was clueless on so many. I would have normally just closed the window after the first 7 or so but I read them all and I cannot explain why.

[eyepaddle]

10. Here, I'll get ya started

Minot is pronounced like Why Not

Uff Da (shortened from Uff Da meg, which is Norwegian and translates into Uff Da Me! ;)

Lutefisk=chemically, morally and physically abused fish. Start off with cod soaked in Lye--and it just gets worse from there!

[WeRQ4U]

11. Ask away man. I'll get you up to speed. LOL

I would imagine there are quite a few that don't make sense.

[LastKnight]

13. im a south dakotan, i go to school in MN, and i work in ND...

i spend enough time in each state to understand all these types of jokes from each. its sad, really.

[uppityperson]

14. Rice is for breakfast, with cinnamon, milk and sugar on it.

Went to a restaraunt here in pacific NW recently and they offered several micro-brewery beers and "PBR 40 oz on ice". Made me snort. And order a glass of the darkest beer they had. But then I moved away a long time ago.