MICHIGANDERS - COOL WEATHER

[dullpain]

I know there are a lot of you Michiganders out there. Got this from a friend up there and thought I would share.

Official Michigan Temperature Conversion Chart

60 above
North Carolinians try to turn on the heat. People in Michigan plant gardens.

50 above
Californians shiver uncontrollably People in Michigan sunbathe.

40 above
Italian & English cars won't start.
People in Michigan drive with the windows down

32 above
Distilled water freezes.
Lake Superior's water gets thicker.

20 above
Oklahomans don coats, thermal underwear, gloves and woolly hats.
People in Michigan throw on a flannel shirt

15 above
Virginian landlords finally turn up the heat.
People in Michigan have the last cookout before it gets cold.

Zero degrees
People in Miami all die...
Michiganders lick the flagpole.

20 below
Californians fly away to Mexico.
People in Michigan get out their winter coats.

40 below
Hollywood disintegrates.
The Girl Scouts in Michigan are selling cookies door to door.

60 below
Polar bears begin to evacuate the Arctic. Michigan Boy Scouts postpone "Winter
Survival" classes until it gets cold enough.

80 below
Mt. St. Helens freezes.
People in Michigan rent some videos.

100 below
Santa Claus abandons the North Pole.
Michiganders get frustrated because they can't thaw the keg.

297 below
Microbial life no longer survives on dairy products.
Cows in Michigan complain about farmers with cold hands.

460 below
ALL atomic motion stops (absolute zero on the Kelvin scale). People in Michigan start saying, "Cold 'nuff for ya?"

500 below
Hell freezes over.
The Detroit Lions finally win the Super Bowl by default !

 

[bpence]

Sounds just about right to me. I'm about ready to start wearing a flannel shirt with a t-shirt.

Although, I do think it has to get just a bit colder than 500 below for the Lions to even win a playoff game, let alone make the Superbowl.

Bob Pence

 

[Thomas]

Whew...I'm glad us New Englanders weren't in that. /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[Mike H]

The other fun thing about Michigan in winter you don't have to worry about sunburn since it's always cloudy. Literally - during the winter a few hours of sun a week is a good week (unless Lake Michigan freezes over!).

 

[ERNIEB]

<font color=blue>Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams;
The islands and bays are for sportsmen.</font color=blue>
Trivia time. Anybody recognize this?

Ernie
"It will be appalling to you to learn, and see herewith inclosed our alarming weakness"
James C. Neill, Alamo commander Jan. 1836

 

[richh]

Mike i lived in new buffalo MI for 21 yrs. so i know! Then we moved up to the UP and live in the banna belt so we get a fair amount sun but this year has been a bit cloudy. We went to SW MI. for xmas and their was more snow their than in the southern UP. Thats a first!
Rich

 

[GrantMO]

Ernie,

Isn't that from the "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"?

Grant

 

[ERNIEB]

Grant, right you are. Gordon Lightfoot

Ernie
"It will be appalling to you to learn, and see herewith inclosed our alarming weakness"
James C. Neill, Alamo commander Jan. 1836