Here is what Jeff Foxworthy has to say about Iowa...
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>> >> If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May, you
>> >> live in Iowa.
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>> >> If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they
>> >> don't work there, you live in Iowa.
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>> >> If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you live in
>> Iowa.
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>> >> If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who
>> >> dialed a wrong number, you live in Iowa.
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>> >> If "Vacation" means going anywhere south of DES MOINES for the
>> >> weekend, you live in Iowa.
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>> >> If you measure distance in squares of farm land, you live in Iowa.
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>> >> If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once, you
>> >> live in Iowa.
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>> >> If you have gone from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back
>> >> again, you live in Iowa.
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>> >> If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging
>> >> blizzard without flinching, you live in Iowa.
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>> >> If you install security lights on your house and garage, but leave
>> >> both unlocked, you live in Iowa.
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>> >> If you carry jumpers in your car and your wife knows how to use
>> >> them, you live in Iowa.
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>> >> If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit,
>> >> you live in Iowa.
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>> >> If the I-80 speed limit is 75 mph -- you're going 90 and everybody
>> >> is passing you, you live in Iowa.
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>> >> If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled
>> >> with snow, you live in Iowa.
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>> >> If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and
>> >> road construction, you live in Iowa.
>> >> OR the four seasons are DEER, DUCK/GOOSE, Pheasant, and Rabbit, you
>> >> live in Iowa.
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>> >> If you have more hours on your lawn mower, and snow blower than
>> >> miles on your car, you live in Iowa.
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>> >> If you find 10 degrees "a little chilly", you live in Iowa.