On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 09:53 AM, Bruce Mitchell wrote: > on 1/31/03 7:25 AM, Hal at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> >> On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 06:06 PM, Dan Pennington wrote: >> >>> I use my Pismo, a Garmin Etrex GPS, and DeLorme Street Atlas for >>> navigation while my wife and I are traveling in our truck pulling a >>> 5th wheel trailer. Slicker than deer guts on a door knob - as we say >>> here in the almost Great White North of Michigan. >> Hmm, I lived in Michigan for over 10 years and never heard that one... >> > Yeah, but did you live in the GWN? I grew up in Michigan and it is a > common > expression up north, where you actually do see deer crossing the > Freeways > (excuse me -- Expressways). > > When I first got to California, people here laughed at what they > called my > "backwoods Michigan" expressions, like starting a story with "when I > was > knee-high to a grasshopper..." > Fair point. I actually went to high school in the Detroit area, then lived in East Lansing for almost 10 years as I finished undergrad and grad school.
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