Re: Where's Don S?
You live in Ketchikan Alaska, if the following apply.<br />------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />"Vacation" means driving to Chitna to dip net<br /><br />You measure distance in hours.<br /><br />You know several people who have hit a moose.<br /><br />Your school classes aren't canceled because of cold.<br /><br />Your school classes were canceled because of ice.<br /><br />You think of the major four food groups as moose, caribou, beer, and squaw candy.<br /><br />You think that moose season is a national holiday.<br /><br />You know what a real sockeye is, and have a recipe for candy ones.<br /><br />You can spell words like Chatanika, Ninilchik, and Tuntutuliak.<br /><br />You've had cabin fever.<br /><br />You own moose nugget ear rings.<br /><br />Mosquito dope is a part of your daily attire.<br /><br />You think the song Breaking Up is Hard to Do is about spring time.<br /><br />Travel luggage consists of ice coolers (or fish boxes) wrapped with duct tape.<br /><br />When you answer the phone and it's a wrong number, but you know the number of the person they were trying to call off the top of your head.<br /><br />Someone mentions "super cub" and you do not envision a tiny bear wearing blue tights and a red cap.<br /><br />Your relatives/friends think you live too far away for them to come visit you, but keep asking you to come see them more often.<br /><br />October is the month of your highest income.<br /><br />The reason you don't own a poodle is because an eagle ate the last one.<br /><br />Kids catch the bus in the dark and get off it in the dark.<br /><br />You can't tell your kids to come home when it gets dark outside.<br /><br /><br />You know why they named it Chicken, Alaska.<br /><br />You know that road flares will start a nice bon fire.<br /><br />You take the door off the outhouse to see the aurora.<br /><br />Your idea of taking a load off is emptying the firewood out of the back <br />of the truck.<br /><br />You know a tail-dragger is an airplane, not a bad day at the office.<br /><br />You know that a Spenard Divorce involves a .357 magnum, not a lawyer.<br /><br />You like your neighbors.<br /><br />You know at least one pot grower.<br /><br />You put up with the pain of a toothache until the Permanent Fund <br />Dividend checks come out in October.<br /><br />You know going "outside" involves a whole lot more than opening a door <br />and walking into the yard.<br /><br />You know Bunny Boots aren't worn by bunnies or made out of bunnies.<br /><br />You know the meaning of the word "baleen" and it has nothing to do with<br />making hay into large cubes.<br /><br />You take off your shirt and your arms are as pale as your legs all the <br />way to your wrists.<br /><br />You don't know anyone who doesn't own a 4-wheeler.<br /><br />You've washed your car while there was still snow on the ground.<br /><br />You know a honey bucket is really a bucket, but it's not really full of<br />honey.<br /><br />You know that the Rat Net is not a rodent catching device.<br /><br />You learned to swim indoors.<br /><br />Your bedroom windows are covered in aluminum foil.<br /><br />Your monthly veterinarian bill is more than your own medical bill.<br /><br />You know a "white out" has to do with winter conditions not correcting<br />fluid for typos.<br /><br />You think it's normal for a town to put all the businesses on one side <br />of the road.<br /><br />Your local golf course has "happy hour" between 1:00 and 2:00 am<br /><br />The seat in your outhouse is lined with styrofoam so your butt won't<br />freeze to it when you have to sit down for a certain amount of time.<br /><br />You've had to set your alarm every three hours to go start you car and <br />let it run for 20 minutes so hopefully it will start in the morning so you <br />can go to work.<br /><br /><br />Your kids own rain gear and extra tuffs before they can walk.<br /><br /><br />Most of your friends have a black lab.<br /><br /><br />You open your freezer to take out something for dinner, and are faced <br />with many choices, Pink Salmon, Silver Salmon, Red Salmon, King Salmon, <br />Moose, or Halibut!<br /><br />You can play road hockey on skates.<br /><br />You see signs saying Do or do NOT _____ but you never see any law<br />enforcement people. <br /><br />You and the wife go out on Saturday Night to the local bar, and take the baby with you. <br /><br />Good to see you are back!!!!!!<br /><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>< ><><br />"Dazzle me with you brilliance, but don't baffle me with you B/S."
