- If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 36" of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by, you live in Manitoba
- If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May, you live in Manitoba.
- If you have worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you live in Manitoba.
- If you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you live in Manitoba.
- If "Vacation" means going south past Grand Forks for the weekend, you live in Manitoba.
- If you measure distance in hours, you live in Manitoba.
- If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once, you live in Manitoba.
- If you often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and then back again, you live in Manitoba.
- If you can drive 110 KM/H through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinchin, you live in Manitoba.
- If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit, You live in Manitoba.
- If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow, you live in Manitoba.
- If you know all 4 seasons by: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction, you live in Manitoba.
- If your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to your blue spruce, you live in Manitoba.
- If down south to you means the U.S. border, you live in Manitoba.
- If your 1st of July bbq was moved indoors due to frost, you live in Manitoba.
- If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car, you live in Manitoba.
- If you find -20 degrees "a little chilly", you live in Manitoba.
- If you actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to all your Manitoba friends, you live in Manitoba.
Bis die Tage!