You know you're from rural Minnesota when....

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Hey everyone! I grew up my whole life in Minnesota and just recently moved to California. Anyways, a friend back home sent this to me and I thought that it was pretty funny so I wanted to share it with you. I think many of them are true, what do you think?

1.The town you grew up in had a bar called Ma's Place.

2.You know how to polka, but never tried it sober.

3.FFA was the most popular club in high school.

4.You know what knee-high by the Fourth of July means.

5.You know it's traditional for the bride and groom to go bar

hopping between the ceremony and the reception.

6.You were delighted to get a miniature snow shovel for your

3rd birthday.

7.You can recognize someone from Iowa by their driving.

8.You buy Christmas presents at Fleet Farm.

9.You spent more on beer than you did on food at your wedding.

10.You hear someone use the word "oof-dah" and you don't

immediately break into uncontrollable laughter.

11.You think fast food is hitting a deer at 65 mph.

12.You or someone you know was a "Dairy Princess" at a county

fair

13.You know that "combine" is a noun.

14.You let your older siblings talk you into putting your

tongue on a steel post in the middle of winter.

15.You think Lutheran and Catholic are THE major religions.

16.You know that creek rhymes with pick.

17.Football schedules are checked before wedding dates are set.

18.A Friday night date is taking you girlfriend shining for

deer. Saturday you go the the local bowling ally.

19.There was at least one kid in your class who had to help

milk cows in the morning...phew!

20.You have driven your car on a lake.

21.You can make sense out of the word "upnort" and "batree."

22.You always believed that vacation meant "going up North."

23.At every wedding you have been to you have had to dance the

hokey poky & the chicken dance.

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

25.The local gas station sells live bait.

26.At least twice a year, the kitchen doubles as a meat

processing plant.

27.Your mom asks, "Were you born in a barn?" and you know

exactly what she means.

28.You think that the start of deer season is a national holiday.

29.Pop is not only what you call your dad, but is the ONLY

name for soda.

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my brother-in-law is from ND so I thought I heard all the Ole and Lena jokes there were but this is a new (but awesome) one!!!

My mom still lives in Minnesota and she e-mails me new Ole and Lena jokes from time-to-time.

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