BA> Replying to a message of Richard Webb to Cindy Haglund:

 RW>> YOu know you're from Iowa if:

 RW>> Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on the
 BA> highway

 BA> Yep.  And sometimes in town.

 In Ireland it could be a flock of sheep crossing a main road.

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 RW>> You know several people who have hit a deer

 BA> Me, for instance.  She did a job on the front of the car,
 BA> and the front of the car did
 BA> a job on her.

 Or you look up in a tree and see a bear looking down on you.
 Oh.. that's Wisconsin.

 RW>> You have no problem spelling or pronouncing "Des Moines"
 RW>> You know the answer to the question "Is this Heaven?"
 RW>> Your school classes were cancelled because of cold
 RW>> Your school classes were cancelled because of heat

 Only times I remember school closed because of cold growing up
 outside Chicago, it was around -20 F.

 BA> Both of the preceding happen in this area, although it's
 BA> usually road conditions and
 BA> not 'cold.'  Most small town schools are not air
 BA> conditioned.

 They weren't when I was in school in the Chicago area. They just
 let us swelter. OTOH, we also barely kept out attention on what
 the teacher was saying. Then again, what was she saying?

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 RW>> You've had to switch from "heat" to "A/C"
in the same day

 I've done that here near Toledo.

 RW>> You think ethanol makes your truck "run a lot better"

 BA> Dunno if it makes it run better, but in the wintertime it's
 BA> safer - the alcohol prevents gas-line freeze ups in
 BA> severely cold weather.  You don't have to remember
 BA> to add a bottle of 'Heet' to the gas every fillup.  I've
 BA> run gasohol (10% ethanol) in
 BA> all my vehicles since 1979.

 Hadn't thought of that aspect.

 RW>> You know what's knee-high by the Fourth of July

 During the election season that has more to do with BS from
 politicians.

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 RW>> You carry jumper cables in your car

 BA> Doesn't everybody?

 I thought so.

 RW>> You drink "pop"

 BA> I don't drink anything stronger than pop.  Of course, pop
 BA> will drink just about anything...

 Now I was going to say we called it "pop" around Chicago, but
 you did one better.

 BA> (that courtesy of Ben Colder - better known as Sheb Wooley
 BA> - 45 or more years ago).

 Oh.

 RW>> You know what the numbers I-80, 280 and 380 mean

 I-80 runs from here to Chicago. Well, from the East Coast past
 Chicago, actually. To the West coast I believe. I-280 cuts
 around the East side of Toledo.

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 BA> Thanks for posting those.  I liked them even though I'm not
 BA> a native Iowegian (born and
 BA> raised in Oakland, CA - a great place to be FROM).

 I got most of them, but bib overhauls at a funeral kinda didn't
 connect.


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