Understanding the U.S. Midwest

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In an effort to help outsiders understand the U.S. Midwest, the
following list will be handed to each driver entering the area:
1. That farm boy standing next to the feed bin did more work before
breakfast than you do all week at the gym.
2. It's called a 'gravel road'. No matter how slow you drive, you're going
to get dust on your SUV. I have a four-wheel drive because I need it.
Drive it or get it out of the way.
3. We all started hunting and fishing when we were seven years old. Yeah,
we saw Bambi. We got over it.
4. Any references to "corn fed" when talking about our women will get you
whipped... by our women.
5. Go ahead and bring your $600 Orvis Fly Rod. Don't cry to us if a
flathead catfish breaks it off at the handle. We have a name for those
little trout you fish for...bait.
6. Pull your pants up. You look like an idiot.
7. If that cell phone rings while a bunch of mallards are making approach,
we will shoot it. You might hope you don't have it up to your ear at the
time.
8. That's right. Whiskey is only two bucks. We can buy a fifth for what
you paid in the airport for one drink.
9. No, there's no "Vegetarian Special" on the menu. Order a steak. Order
it rare. Or, you can order the Chef's Salad and pick off the two pounds of
ham and turkey.
10. You can bring Coke into my house but it better be brown, wet, and
served over ice.
11. So you have a sixty-thousand dollar car you drive on weekends. We're
real impressed. We have quarter of a million dollar combines that we use
two weeks a year.
12. Let's get this straight. We have one stoplight in town. We stop when
it's red. We may even stop when it's yellow.
13. Our women hunt, fish, and drive trucks - because they want to. So,
you're a feminist. Isn't that cute.
14. Yeah, we eat catfish. Carp, too - and turtle. You really want sushi
and caviar? It's available at the bait shop.
15. They are pigs. That's what they smell like. Get over it. Don't like
it? Interstate 70, 80 & 90 go two ways. Interstate 29, 35, & 75 go the
other two. Pick one and use it accordingly.
16. The "Opener" refers to the first day of deer season. It's a religious
holiday. You can get breakfast at the church.
17. So every person in every pickup waves. It's called being friendly.
Understand the concept?
18. Yeah, we have golf courses. Don't hit the ball into the water hazard.
It spooks the fish.
19. That Highway Patrol Officer that just pulled you over for driving like
an idiot, his name is, "Sir"... no matter how old he is.
Now, enjoy your visit and go home.
 
a U.S farmer did more work be4 breakfast than i do 1 week at the gym? LOL hell no...U.S farmers are high tech..you should see the "slave" fields in Asia..there u can talk about work..
 
I'm betting you can guess. :D
We have always had a pretty decent measure of farming in CT, and I have no reason to doubt anything on that list.
 
There are actually quite a few farmers up here in New York too. I don't doubt anything on your list either.
 
Haha, those are pretty in good. Here in MAryland all the farms are being devolped and turned into strip malls... and that's they way I like it! :)
 
hmmm, one thing i disagree with, that farm boy doing more work than i do all week at the gym.. laff at that. im in weightlifting class, and trust me, i do a LOT of work in a whole week. considerably more than a farm boy does before breakfast. that is just stupid and illogical.
 
Originally posted by creationist
hmmm, one thing i disagree with, that farm boy doing more work than i do all week at the gym.. laff at that. im in weightlifting class, and trust me, i do a LOT of work in a whole week. considerably more than a farm boy does before breakfast. that is just stupid and illogical.

never worked on a farm eh?
 
actually, yes, i know how hard farming is, but you cant say a farmboy does more work than i do in the gym in an entire week until you've seen me in the gym. my coach makes me work until i am about to cry, and then he makes me push harder until i am screaming while i struggle to get that last rep.
 
Originally posted by creationist
actually, yes, i know how hard farming is, but you cant say a farmboy does more work than i do in the gym in an entire week until you've seen me in the gym. my coach makes me work until i am about to cry, and then he makes me push harder until i am screaming while i struggle to get that last rep.

Farmhands are out in all weathers, up from 4/5am, often using machinary that could rip their arms off, depending on the type of farm, dealing with large animals, which isn't easy when its just the one, let alone a field full of them, and if they screw up anything it can be a disaster. Your coach might make you cry, but he'd stop if you were about to cause serious injury to yourself, and if he didn't then he's a lawsuit waiting to happen heh

Anyway you can blame the bad reputation gyms have these days on those types that go to the gym just to show off, make business deals, doing their work on laptops while on the treadmill or think five minutes hard work will make up for months of office work and stress and suddenly cure their stomach usler or prevent heart failure. And those who simply overdo it to try get noticed but usually end up as freak of the week on some late night talk show

speaking of heart failure, bloody TV just ran a trailer for Ring and I didn't expect it and did not want to see Sadako's eye at this time of night fullscreen on a big TV, in the dark, without warning!

*leaves stage left and quickly calls an ambulance*
 
The list also is aimed at the generic person, not you in particular.
 
I think this was the funniest one

"11. So you have a sixty-thousand dollar car you drive on weekends. We're real impressed. We have quarter of a million dollar combines that we use two weeks a year."

can't help but grin at that :)
 
hmmm...so does that mean that in hl2 the combine cost a quarter of a million dollars? me confused
 
hmmm, one thing i disagree with, that farm boy doing more work than i do all week at the gym.. laff at that. im in weightlifting class, and trust me, i do a LOT of work in a whole week. considerably more than a farm boy does before breakfast. that is just stupid and illogical.



WRONG!
 
Originally posted by creationist
hmmm, one thing i disagree with, that farm boy doing more work than i do all week at the gym.. laff at that. im in weightlifting class, and trust me, i do a LOT of work in a whole week. considerably more than a farm boy does before breakfast. that is just stupid and illogical.

As a non-American this must be a retarded question, but uhmm.. weigtlifting class? You have classes in how to lift weights :LOL:
 
Originally posted by =)PoLo(=
As a non-American this must be a retarded question, but uhmm.. weigtlifting class? You have classes in how to lift weights :LOL:

thats nothing, we had bowling in our school lol now that was a fun excuse to do sod all ;)


actually come to think of it, we had weightlifting classes too, though nobody ever took them seriously, people would rather play badminton and use blu-tak in the shuttlecocks then aiming for the windows of the old people's ballroom dancing classes

my old school was just jam packed with intelligent people ;)
 
Originally posted by Fenric1138
use blu-tak in the shuttlecocks then aiming for the windows of the old people's ballroom dancing classes

lol we did kinda the same thing - the badminton nets had really dense rubber caps on their feet to stop them scratching the floor. Conveniently they were exactly the right size to fit over shuttlecocks - i'm sure if someone hit it hard enough we could have knocked someone out. They stung like a bitch...
 
Originally posted by =)PoLo(=
As a non-American this must be a retarded question, but uhmm.. weigtlifting class? You have classes in how to lift weights :LOL:

Yeah .. I don't know why you find it strange though. It's called gym right?

I think you be more surprised that we have classes like "Sex Education" which is also classified as Phys Ed.
 
Originally posted by creationist
hmmm, one thing i disagree with, that farm boy doing more work than i do all week at the gym.. laff at that. im in weightlifting class, and trust me, i do a LOT of work in a whole week. considerably more than a farm boy does before breakfast. that is just stupid and illogical.

Maybe the world will ban together, for a few moments, and pass a law not allowing posts about gay ''weightlifting'' classes.
Sorry, but I haven't pissed anyone off in the last 24 hours; You just happened to wonder into my crosshair.
 
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