You Know You’re From Northern New York When…

  • You only own three spices — salt, pepper and ketchup
  • You design your Halloween costumes to fit over a snowsuit
  • The mosquitoes have landing lights
  • You have more miles on your snow blower than your car
  • You have 10 favorite recipes for venison
  • True Value Hardware on any Saturday is busier than the toy stores at Christmas
  • You live in a house that has no front steps, yet the door is one yard above the ground
  • You’ve taken your kids trick-or-treating in a blizzard
  • Driving is better in the winter because the potholes get filled with snow
  • You think everyone from the city has an accent
  • You think sexy lingerie is tube socks and a flannel nightie with only 8 buttons
  • You owe more money on your snowmobile than your car
  • The local paper covers national and international headlines on 1/4 page, but requires 6 pages for sports
  • At least twice a year, the kitchen doubles as a meat processing plant
  • The most effective mosquito repellent is a shotgun
  • Your snow blower gets stuck on the roof
  • You think the start of deer season is a national holiday
  • You head south to go to your cottage
  • You frequently clean grease off your barbecue so the bears won’t prowl on your deck
  • You know which leaves make good toilet paper
  • The mayor greets you on the street by your first name
  • There is only one shopping plaza in town
  • The major parish fundraiser isn’t bingo — its sausage making
  • You find -20F a little chilly
  • The trunk of your car doubles as a deep freezer
  • You attended a formal event in your best clothes, your finest jewelry and your snowmobile boots
  • You can play road hockey on skates
  • Shoveling the driveway constitutes a great upper body workout
  • You know the 4 season: Winter, Still Winter, Almost Winter, and Construction
  • The municipality buys a zamboni before a bus
  • You actually ‘get’ these jokes, and forward them to all your Northern friends
  • The Young Punker

    A young punker gets on the cross-town bus. He’s got spiked,
    multicolored hair that’s green, purple, and orange. His clothes
    are a tattered mix of leather rags. His legs are bare and he’s
    without shoes. His entire face and body are riddled with pierced
    jewelry and his earrings are big, bright feathers. He sits down
    in the only vacant seat, directly across from an old man who
    just glares at him for the next ten miles.

    Finally, the punk gets self conscious and barks at the old man:
    “What are you looking at you old fart? Didn’t you ever do
    anything wild when you were young?”

    Without missing a beat, the old man replies: “Yeah. Back when I
    was young and in the Navy, I got really drunk one night and had
    sex with a parrot. I thought maybe you were my son.”

    She wants to be a bear

    In my next life….I want to be a bear. If you’re a bear, you get to hibernate. You do nothing but sleep for six months. I could deal with that. Before you hibernate, you’re supposed to eat yourself stupid. I could deal with that, too.

    If you’re a bear, you birth your children (who are the size of walnuts) while you’re sleeping and wake to partially grown, cute cuddly cubs. I could definitely deal with that. If you’re a mama bear, everyone knows you mean business. You swat anyone who bothers your cubs. If your cubs get out of line, you swat them too. I could deal with that.

    If you’re a bear, your mate EXPECTS you to wake up growling. He EXPECTS that you will have hairy legs and excess body fat.

    Yup….. Gonna be a bear

    The Raffle

    A woman arrives home from work and her husband notices she’s wearing a diamond
    necklace. He asks his wife, “Where did you get that necklace?”
    She replies, “I won it in a raffle at work. Go get my bath ready while I start
    dinner.”

    The next day, the women arrives home from work wearing a diamond bracelet. Her
    husband asks, “Where did you get the bracelet?”

    She replies, “I won it in a raffle at work. Go get my bath ready while I start
    dinner.”

    The next day, her husband notices she arrives home from work wearing a mink
    coat. He says, “I suppose you won that in a raffle at work?” She replies, “Yeah
    I did! How did you guess? Go get my bath ready while I start supper.”

    Later after supper, she goes to take her bath and she notices there is only
    one inch of water in the tub. She yells to her husband, “HEY! There’s only an
    inch of water in the tub.” He replies, “I didn’t want you to get your raffle
    ticket wet.”

    The Cop and the Speeder

    A young guy is speeding across a bridge in his fancy sports car.
    Sure enough, a cop with a radar gun is sitting on the other side
    of the bridge. The cop pulls him over, then walks up to the
    guy’s car and asks, “What’s the hurry?” The guy replies, “I’m
    late for work, officer.” “What do you do?” “Well, I’m a rectum
    stretcher.” “What? A rectum stretcher?” The guy explains, “Yeah.
    I start with a finger, then work my way up to two fingers…
    eventually I get a hand in, then both hands, and I slowly
    stretch it until it’s about six feet wide.” The curious cop
    asks, “What do you do with a six-foot asshole?” The guy answers,
    “Well, you give him a radar gun and park him at the end of a
    bridge.”

    Watch en’ Learn

    One night a guy is sitting at a bar and keeps glancing at his
    watch. A hot blonde girl walks up and sits at the bar. She
    says,”Is your watch broken?” he replies,”No, it’s a
    state-of-the-art watch that uses brain waves to talk to me
    telepathicly. Right now its telling me your not wearing any
    panties.” The girl giggled.”Your watch must be broken, because I
    am wearing panties right now.”she says.”Shit!”he says,”It must
    be an hour fast.”

    Big Game Mishap

    A big-game hunter went on safari with his wife and mother-in-law. One evening, while still deep in the jungle, the Mrs. awoke to find her mother gone. Rushing to her husband, she insisted on them both trying to find her mother. The hunter picked up his rifle, took a swig of whiskey, and started to look for her. In a clearing not far from the camp, they came upon a chilling sight: the mother-in-law was backed up against a thick, impenetrable bush, and a large male lion stood facing her.The wife said, ”What are we going to do?” ”Nothing,” said the hunter, ”The lion got himself into this mess, let him get himself out of it.”