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...per Jeff Foxworthy you know you live in Chicago.... If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they don't work there If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number If "Vacation" means going anywhere south of I-80 for the weekend If you measure distance in hours If you have switched from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back again If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching If you carry jumpers in your car and your wife knows how to use them If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit If the speed limit on the highway is 55 mph -- you're going 80 and everybody is passing you If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car If you find 10 degrees "a little chilly" Being a life long Chicago native, I find these all to be very true. 
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 5/25/2008 2:20 pm |
The heat to A/C and back again is popular in north missouri too. ] Ignore the duct tape. I am just trying to piece the site back together. 
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 5/25/2008 4:34 pm |
I've been south of I-80 and I would not go there for a vacation. I would go north into Wisconsin. Dan
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5/25/2008 5:43 pm |
Egads, no wonder my brother and his wife headed out to Florida as soon as his Navy assignment in Chicago was done. My sister in law, being a native Floridian, couldn't stand another winter shoveling snow out of their walkway. I'm dyslexic. I scream Ho Dog instead of Oh God in the throes of passion.
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5/26/2008 4:14 pm |
The heat to A/C and back again is popular in north missouri too.
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5/26/2008 4:15 pm |
I've been south of I-80 and I would not go there for a vacation. I would go north into Wisconsin. Dan
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5/26/2008 4:24 pm |
Egads, no wonder my brother and his wife headed out to Florida as soon as his Navy assignment in Chicago was done. My sister in law, being a native Floridian, couldn't stand another winter shoveling snow out of their walkway. Where in FL are they now? I now spend some quality time in Florida  You'll have to let me know next time you're there so I can come down to visit...it would be cool to meet you. 
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5/27/2008 7:23 am |
 Ya got that right! If you don't like the weather just wait a 1/2 hour is another true expression. THE JOURNEY CALLED LIFE!!
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5/27/2008 4:42 pm |
Ya got that right! If you don't like the weather just wait a 1/2 hour is another true expression.
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5/27/2008 5:27 pm |
Was your brother stationed at Grayslake? If so their winters are rougher than ours. I'm luckily in that zone that's south enough of Chicago to not get Lake effect, and west enough of Indiana to not be in the snow belt. Where in FL are they now? I now spend some quality time in Florida You'll have to let me know next time you're there so I can come down to visit...it would be cool to meet you. Sister in Gainesville, brother in Pensacola. Plotting to invade with my brood in 2010 (when youngest big enough to lug his own luggage and the Harry Potter ride's finished), so will give you a heads up. Would be so cool to meet you too. I'm dyslexic. I scream Ho Dog instead of Oh God in the throes of passion.
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5/27/2008 8:42 pm |
Yesterday I was thinking about puting the a/c back in the window tonight there are frost warnings here near the Illinios Wisconsin border.Iwas looking to see if it was snowing. where do you go for your vacation in Wisconsin? Dan
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5/28/2008 7:00 pm |
Hm, I don't recall where it was anymore, since it was in '93--but he's with the Navy, so it would be near the Navy compound. Sister in Gainesville, brother in Pensacola. Plotting to invade with my brood in 2010 (when youngest big enough to lug his own luggage and the Harry Potter ride's finished), so will give you a heads up. Would be so cool to meet you too. So with these siblings in the US, how come you haven't succumb to the pull of this country? Okay, I have to share this. I was going to go put the number in below so I could post my reply, and accidentally clicked on the number itself instead of the spot next to it. I got a Quicktime recording with a woman's voice reciting the number - eight eight five. I guess that's a help for those of us posting here who don't know how to read.
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5/28/2008 7:01 pm |
Yesterday I was thinking about puting the a/c back in the window tonight there are frost warnings here near the Illinios Wisconsin border.Iwas looking to see if it was snowing. where do you go for your vacation in Wisconsin? Dan I'll be taking my boys to the Dells in August.
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5/28/2008 8:25 pm |
These are very well suited for Saskatchewan too Askimyt....lol.... Michelle 
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5/28/2008 8:50 pm |
I remember going to the Dells as a kid in the early 60's. I think at that time there was just the boat rides, the Ducks and the water ski show. Not even close to what it is now
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5/30/2008 11:12 pm |
Stopped by to say HI !!! Kurt
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6/1/2008 5:52 pm |
Stopped by to say HI !!! Kurt  stranger!! Long time no see. Hope all is well with you.
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