If you can't start a conversation without mentioning the weather . . .
If you refer to hair as hairs . . .
If you say Uff-da and Fe-da . . .
If you understand ALL the uses of the word "Uff-Da" . . .
If your epitaph will include the words "yep" and "nope" . . .
If your dad repeated first grade because he only spoke Norwegian . . .
If you can't make it through a phone conversation without mentioning the weather . . .
If you think a bison is a buffalo . . .
If you think skis are "Norwegian timber" . . .
If you understand that "Yah y'betch yah" means either "I agree" or "You're full of it" and you know the difference . . .
If you never confuse "Yah," "Yep," and "Yah y'betch yah" . . .
If you think everyone from a different state has an accent . . .
If your answer to "How are you?", "How's the weather?", "How was your crop?", or "How's the ranchin' goin'?" is the same--"Not so bad."
If you can identify a Minnesota accent . . .
If you bake with soda and drink pop . . .
If you "manure the barn" . . .
If you hear "Yah, sure" not "Yes, sir" . . .
If you say, "Outside, zero is below" . . .
If you go to Arkansas for a visit and everyone tells you you have an accent . . .
If you go to the post office to mail a paggitch . . .
If you talk about electric tape and people don't look at you like they wonder just how many cards are left in your deck . . .
If you refer to a snack as a "bunny lunch" . . .
If being detained by snow is to be "snow-stayed" . . .
If you pronounce it Nor'Dakoda . . .
If you consider Spanish a foreign language . . .
If after you have discussed the weather, conversation declines . . .
If you end all of your sentences with either "ya know", "you betcha", or "okiedokie" . . .
If you hear "You betcha" and "Okey Dokey" in the same sentence . . .
If your e-mail address is uffda . . .
If you omit the noun or pronoun from the end of a sentence beginning, "I am coming (or going) with . . .
If you routinely end sentences with prepositions, i.e., "Do you want to come with?" . . .
If you think someone from northern Indiana has a southern accent and wouldn't really know what winter is.
If you say "uff-da" as an exclamation . . .
If you have ever said, "Cold weather keeps out the riff-raff" . . .
If the second question after "Where are you from?" is always "Do you know ----?" . . .
If you call the grass between the sidewalk and the curb a berm . . .
If you don't believe you sound like the actors in the movie Fargo . . .
If you cannot greet anyone without first mentioning the weather . . .
If you pronounce Greg and Craig the same, and people can tell the difference . . .
If you state the obvious--"Oh, I see you are in town today" . . .
If your speech becomes the main entertainment while outside of the state...
. . . then you must be from North Dakota.
7 comments:
Cute! BTW - what in the world is Uff-da?
Riff-raff? RIFF RAFF??? I'm hurt.
I didn't know Adriane was from North Dakota.....
Uff-da is a Norweigen expression
There are good people outside of North Dakota, there just aren't any bad IN North Dakota.
Or Canada. My cousins all say come with. Or I'll phone ya.
I love.
I say come with...and Bobbert's right--I'm not from North Dakota. Hmmm...
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