You Know You’re From Maine When…
by Greg Linscott
A lady in our church sent these to me. They are too good to keep to myself…
- You’ve had arguments over the comparative quality of Fried Dough.
- You call four inches of snow “a dusting.”
- You don’t understand why there aren’t fried clam shacks elsewhere in the country.
- You know what an Irving is and the location of 15 of them.
- You knew all the flavors at Perry’s Nut House.
- Your car is covered in yellow-green dust in May.
- You can drive the Augusta traffic circle without slowing down.
- You’ve hung out at a gravel pit.
- You think a mosquito could be a species of bird.
- You once skipped school and went to Bar Harbor, Old Orchard Beach or Reid State Park.
- Even your school cafeteria made good chowder.
- You’ve almost fallen asleep driving between Houlton and Presque Isle.
- You know how to pronounce Calais.
- You’ve gone to a Grange bean supper.
- In high school, you (or a friend) packed Deering Ice Cream cones.
- At least once in your life, a seagull pooped on your head.
- At least once in your life you’ve said, “It smells like the mill in here.”
- There’s a fruit and vegetable stand within 10 minutes of your house.
- You crave Italian sandwiches at least weekly.
- Your house converts to a B&B every July and August for people from away that you happen to know.
- All year long you’re tracking sand in the house-from the beach in the summer and the roads and sidewalks in the winter.
- You have to have the sand cleaned out of your brake system every spring.
- You do the majority of your shopping out of Uncle Henry’s.
- You’ve ditched the car on the side of the road somewhere because you thought you saw some good fiddleheads!
- You know a lobster pot is a trap, not a kettle.
- You know not to plant tender crops until the last full moon in May.
- You go to the dump and bring back more than you brought.
- You’ve watched “Murder she Wrote” and snickered at the stupid fake accents.
- You know how to find the rope swing at the quarry.
- You take the New Hampshire toll personally.
- You always wave when you see a Maine license plate in another state.
- When you’re supposed to dress up, you wear flannel with a tie.
- There’s too much “stuff” in your 2 “cah” garage to get either of your cars into it.
- You know what a frappe is.
- L.L. Bean’s not just a store, it’s a way of life.
- “The City” means exclusively Portland.
- You’ve made a meal out of a Jordan’s red dye hot-dog, a bag of Humpty Dumpty potato chips and a can of soda.
- “Salt damage” is a viable insurance claim.
- All of the traffic lights blink yellow at 10 o’clock at night.
- It’s not a storm – it’s a Nor’eastah.
- “Open 24/7” might as well be Greek.
- More stores have “Bienvenue” flags than “Welcome” flags.
- You eat ice cream with flavors like ‘Moose Tracks” and “Maine Black Bear”.
- You know that a chocolate doughnut is not a white doughnut with chocolate frosting.
- You wouldn’t eat beans in tomato sauce or Manhattan clam chowder if you were starving!
- As a child, you played outside in a snow storm without hat, mittens, scarf and with your jacket open because it was just a little cool.
- The area around your back door is referred to as “the dooryard”.
- You eat potato chips with flavors such as “clam dip”, “ketchup” and “dill pickle”.
- You call the basement “downcellah.”
- There is only one shopping plaza in town.
- You use “wicked” as a multipurpose part of speech.
- Your pickup has more mud on it then the ground around it for a 15 foot radius.
- More than 1/2 the meat in your freezer is moose.
- You enjoy a hot chocolate more than a margarita.
- If your “luxury vehicle” is a twelve-year-old rustbucket on wheels.
- If your dog eats better than you do, and more often too.
- If you never say what you paid for an item but how much you “give” for it.
- You know that “stove up” has nothing to do with cooking.
- You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Maine.
Yessuh!
How about claiming on your IRS form: Profession – Diggin’ worms or tippin’?
How about these?
– You choose your friends based on their weatherman preference.
– You think of meteorologist Steve Mckay as a celebrity.
– When relatives visit you are more concerned about what route they took than you are about actually seeing them.
– You have been through at least 2 church splits in your life.
– You have personally memorized the location of all the potholes on the way to work.
– You actually get Tim Sample.
– When you’re away you really do think that Maine is the Promised Land.
– You take pride in being called a ‘mainiac’.
Nice.
Excellent additions, Russ!
I’m obviously not from Maine. 🙂
Those are good. I must admit I was startled by the phrase when someone told me, “That was a wicked good sermon!” 😀
How about;
You keep 90 fathom of warp in the trunk just in case you have to lurch out a moose.
You tell the trooper that your pickup listed to starboard then back to port before it capsized in the middle of Rt. 1.
When the warden asks what are you hunting with the scoped 30-06 after you have already tagged your deer, you reply, “RABBITS”
Okay…. I AM from Maine, but please tell me, what is “90 fathom warp” and what does lurching out a Moose mean?
um…I know what a moose is.
90 fathom warp = to my knowledge 540 feet of rope
I believe he means you’d want to try to drag the moose off the road with the rope. He might also mean he then plans to hook it onto his truck (by, by gorrie, that would be pretty hahd to do! 😉
Could you translate some of this for us Sutherners? 😀
Sorry, Lyn- those of you “From Away” just wouldn’t understand… “You can’t get there from here.”
Wicked Good answer!
I just returned to exile after going back to Maine after 23 years and noticed three things
1) No one says goodbye they say see ya or just leave.
2) No one pees inside.
3) After 23 years you see your cousins and they act like the last time they saw you was the day before yesterday.
One more thing. I meet people “claiming” to be from New England “Mass” and ask them if they ever been to The County they all say… What County? I tell them they might as well be flying the rebel flag they are so far south!
Greg, I think its hilarious when I say…… “you can’t get there from here” and people form the South look at me like I’ve flipped! I love that saying……. thanks for sharing.
I don’t claim to be from ME, but after living for only 2 years up there, I’m surprised I actually understand most of those. Love the Moxie pic too, although, I’ll have to admit, I haven’t searched it out or really missed it since we moved, but the Dill chips…..ah, those, I miss! I don’t miss being called a “flatlandah” either. And we still look at who’s in the car when we pass a ME license plate!
It is “down maine”; one has to sail down wind in order to get to Bangor, Me form NYC ( New York city)
Born and raised in Maine. Have lived in in Boston for 20 years. Every car I see from Maine I nearly go off the road looking to see if I know them. Lmao. No lie I once saw someone I knew. I graduated high school with her and hadn’t seen her since then. Love it.
I’ve been away for 7 yrs now, but still visit. There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home!
Wow, sorry I’m late to this “pahti”, but I have to let you know, I have a friend who lives in Camden, ME. I get an updated e-mail from him about his hikes he takes every week. He’s writing a book about them.
While he was attending Ohio State, he would go “home” to visit on major holidays. When he returned, he always had a case of “Moxie”.
‘Nuff said! That stuff tastes like cough medicine! YUK! He sucks it down, while eating a bag of “Cape Cod – Sea Salt & Vinegar Potato Chips”!
Moxie started off as a cough medicine!!!
Ayuh.
The road to your house is better in winter because all of the potholes have been filled in with ice.
Fell off my chair laughing. That’s SO TRUE!
The driveway is how you get to your dooryard, where you pahk ya cah.
See some people like to pretend to be a true Mainer when they live in the big city ( Portland). But I was born and raised in Presque Isle, Me. Thats real Maine. Where if they don’t have it at Walmart then you would learn to live without it in high school they let school out for a few weeks so the kids can go pick potatoes on there daddies farms and there was absolutly no reason to be outside after 6pm cuz there was not a single thing open. I moved to Massachusetts 2 years ago and I miss muh home town wicked bad.
Especially True for Northern Mainers:
You’ve almost fallen asleep driving between Houlton and Presque Isle.
You know what an Irving is and the location of 15 of them.
More stores have “Bienvenue” flags than “Welcome” flags.
You’ve hung out at a gravel pit.
It’s been over 40 yrs since my DAD was stationed at Limestone, both my best friends from the Base I went to High School and Jr High live in ME. I gotta say the best yrs of my life were back home. I miss it everyday, California is like another planet. Those in ME don’t know how good they have it. Last time I visited I made Mexican food for my friends pretty much every nite, we ran out of hamburg on Sunday, I said no problem I will run to the “store”, Ann said oh no you can’t. Oh I said is there no meat in the counter because the butcher doesn’t work on Sunday? She said No it’s Sunday nothing is open…I was stunned, In CA stores rarely close…we went and got some clams and a couple of lobster salads.
Firends of mine from Alabama were taveling to New Brunswick and hauling down the airline at 60 or so when he spotted a sign that said “Bump” He said he turned to his wife and said “Bump” what do the mean by …at which point they were airbourne.
I went down to Maine a few weeks ago by motorcycle to see some friends. it had been raining and I was planning on staying at their “camp”. The damn clay in the road was some slippery, dumped the bike and laid in the field for quite some time. Later that night, after getting into camp we sat on the porch and watched several deer and turkeys in the fields. It has got to be the finest kind of place.
Well I was born and raised in Skowhegan, unfortunatly I have not had the opertunity to be back in Maine in over 5 years now as I have been in the Army. I still get it all..but for us from Skowhegan its not Deering ice cream its GIFFORDS.
Yeaaaaaa Giffords!!! So true!
I am from Maine and want to go back someday. I miss the falls and the snow is fun too. BRRRR! LOL! I remember the red (dyed) hot dogs and the Humpty Dumpty Clam Dip Chips. YUMMMM! I left Maine when I was 15. It has been over 20 years. I am in Oregon now, wish they sold that stuff out here too and LOWERED THE SEAFOOD COSTS…LOL! It is really high priced here. I remember when you went to a Seafood resteraunt and got the Seafood Platters and WHOLE Clams. Not here for under $25. There it was about $12.00 ALL YOU CAN EAT. Well nice reading all your entries. Tina. 36, Oregon.
All I have to say is, Red Hot dogs at a Big Apple Food Store!
Man I really miss home..Been gone now for 4 years now…I am now stuck out here in Kansas my husband got station ed here when he joined the Army.. All I can say is I sure do miss Whoopie Pies and Slush Puppies.That always seem to be my thing when I was pregnant.. As for the humpty dumpty chips my favorite was BBQ always had to have a “REAL” Itlian to go with it… I always thought I would be glad to get out of that state but nope I miss it more and more everyday..
I have a great recipe for Whoopie pies, and make them fairly often, going to Bangor in August! 2012
born and raised in Sanford Maine.. 20 minutes from new hampshire) for the southern mainers… Shains Ice Cream, Aroma Joes Coffee (the slogan: “its wicked good”) Wells Quarry… Ogunquit is the “homosexual capital” of maine. if you plan on going to the beach at anytime other than early august.. plan on FROSTBITE.
look out ANY window in your house, and there will be trees. lots of them.
FROST HEAVES.
starting a fire in your house with a space heater because youre just “so sick of buying heating oil”
LA KERMESSE.
hey, what year did you graduate high school?
Btw, there are two rotaries in Augusta, Cony Circle and Memorial Circle, and yes, I can drive them without slowing down. 🙂 But I know a few people who “stove up” their cars going through those things.
Uncle Henry is my favorite uncle by far! Especially that free for the taking section.
Never like Moxie though. It used to be sold as a medicine, they just added carbonation to it and sold it as a soda.
I’m 18 years old and I’ve lived in Maine my whole life. I live in Sullivan Maine…it’s near Bar Harbor and Ellsworth, and I understood pretty much all of those. Pretty funny too! 🙂
Hi Nicky I am from East Sullivan but now live in UGH Indiana.
After 33 years I still miss the old place. I do still visit to get my Lobsta, slaw and Fried Clam Fix.
Also prefer Maniac to mainer
I used to live in Maine, Bar Harbor to be exact. I went to Camp Beach Cliff. I miss it so much, i got most of these. I go back every summer. Its funny, most islanders never leave Mt. Desert. I still balk at the price of lobster elsewhere. I grew up on whoppie pies and peanut butter and fluff sandwiches. The Cah made me laugh, my mom’s been away for almost ten years and still says that.
Oh i so forgot Rick Cherett (sp?) and lobster rolls at McDonalds and picking my own bluberries
you know your from maine when talking to non-maine-iacs about swimmin in great pond and they acually think you mean a pond. or you get insane looks when you put maple syrup on you vanilla ice cream and talk about maple syrup day as if it were the best day invented. would pick the skowhegan fair over the big E anyday. when you’ve heard the ass-pirin joke at the fair atleast 15 times. when people (who don’t live in maine) think “fayah” is a name and going to a “pahty” means you have to go to the bathroom. when you try to pronounce car without maine accent in it comes out carrrrrr.when you can leave the house and pajamas and slippers to go grocery shopping and see atleast twenty other people wearing the same thing!
i lived in maine for a few years but i’ve been going up there my entire life. their really is no place like it i had to move but i’m coming back as soon as possible! i miss giffords and “george’s banana stand” eating dill pickle chips and seeing irvings and the big apples oh and you can’t forget hanafords! and seeing the stars at night. people think i’m crazy when i’m wearing nuthin but jeans and a t-shirt when its forty five degrees. they’re nuts if they think its cold.
Honest-to-God, the other day I bought a big jar of dill pickle chips, had been craving them and found a place where they have quart jars. Never even thought about the fact that it’s the way hamburgers are served in most Maine joints. Hmmm, you can take the girl out of the state, but she’ll still want those dill chips.
Thanks for jogging my memory!
I think she was referring to Humpty Dumpty Dill Pickle (Potato) Chips, and not the pickles themselves, although I agree with you that hamburgers aren’t quite the same without those corrugated pickle slices..
I grew up in Bangor but have been away for 30 yeahs. I still manage to drop an “r” every now and then. I remember all the fun during the summer when we were driving out the airline to visit our cousins in Eastport and seeing the people from away suddenly become airborne! And really, Northern Maine television really had only one star, Eddie Driscoll on WLBZ, where I worked the summer after I graduated from high school. Probably the best job I ever had!
I`m old enough to remember the hot dog stand in Farmington near the bridge over the Sandy river, on route 2. Does anyone else. And didn`t Rumford have a distinct odor in the old days, never thought I`d miss it, but I do. The portland waterfront at night used to be some exciting in the old days, before it got all citified. Stay warm.
Oh how I miss Maine…. Here are some more for ya (same may be the same or a little different!)
– you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction.
-your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May.
-someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they don’t work there.
-you use the word “wicked”
-you’ve worn shorts and a parka at the same time.
-you’ve had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number.
-if you hit deer on a regular basis.
-you know that the things you need to start a campfire are matches, newspaper, tinder, sticks, fuel logs, and spent motor oil.
-you find a snowmobile as a reasonable means of transportation for 4 months out of the year.
-you consider 65 degree ocean water “warm.”
-all of the potholes just add excitement to your driving experience.
-if your car is parked outside because your snowmobiles get parked in the garage.
-chocolate sprinkles will forever be known as “Jimmies.”
-“Vacation” means going anywhere south of New York City for the weekend.
-you’ve been to Cape Cod.
-stop signs mean slow down a little bit, but only if you feel like it.
-$15 to park is a bargain.
-you can go from one side of your hometown to the other in less than 15 minutes and see atleast 15 losers you graduated with doing the exact same thing they were doing the last time you saw them.
-you keep an ice scraper in your car year ’round.
-you’ve pulled out of a side street and used your car to block oncoming traffic so that you can make a left.
-you’ve been to Six Flags New England.
-if you know that its not really “Six Flags New England”… but “Riverside”.
-you know what a whoopie pie is.
-you measure distance in hours.
-you know what “Shaw’s” is.
-everyone in town over 50 goes to Florida between October and April.
-you know several people who have hit a deer more than once.
-you think Vermont has the best skiing in the World.
-you have switched from “heat” to “A/C” in the same day and back again.
-you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching.
-you know what a bubbler is and you drink soda and pop someone in the face.
-you stay on the same road long enough, the name will change atleast 3 times.
-someone has honked at you because you didn’t peel out as soon as the light turned green… Or you have honked at someone because they didn’t peel out as soon as the light turned green.
-you go to camp every year.
-you install security lights on your house and garage, but leave both unlocked.
-you carry jumpers in your car and your wife knows how to use them.
-you refer to 6 inches of snow as a “dusting.”
-you design your kid’s Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
-the speed limit on the highway is 55 mph — you’re going 80, and everybody is passing you.
-you could own a small town in Montana for the price of your house.
-there are 25 Dunkin’ Donuts within 20 minutes of your house.
-driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
-you have more miles on your snow blower than your car.
-you find 10 degrees “a little chilly.”
-you’ve ever gone candlepin bowling.
-you think 3 straight days of 90 degree weather is a heatwave.
-the transportation system is known as the “T,” subway is just a fast food place.
-your town or a neighboring one has a rotary/circle/roundabout.
-someone says “Patriot” and you immediately think of the football Team.
-you meant to go to cvs, but you miss the turn by five feet and wind up at walgreens; look across the street, and decide you’d better go to brooks instead.
-a Crown Victoria = undercover cop.
-you keep tire chains in your car at all times.
-your first motorized vehicle with four wheels was an ATV.
-you have ever put studded tires on your street racer.
-Sox-Yankees games are a life and death matter.
-there is a town green in the middle of your town.
-you refuse anything but real maple syrup.
-you regularly drive on roads that are as narrow and windy as a deer trail.
-you have ever missed school due to “Mud.”
-you can choose exactly where your Senator sits on a political party map… Democrats on the Left, Republicans on the right… and that one little white dot in the middle is where our Senator sits.
-you ever have been asked in a school hallway if you have Duct Tape on you.
-you think if somebody’s nice to you, they either want something or they are from out of town and probably lost.
-you know how to cross 4 lanes of traffic in 5 seconds.
-you know that a yellow light means that atleast 5 more cars can make it through before it turns red.
-you get pissed off when people assume New York is part of New England.
-you actually understand these jokes, and invite all of your New England friends
-you’ve skipped a day of school to go to the Big E, or… you’ve taken a field trip to the Big E
-a yellow light means “You can make it if you go a little faster”
-a red light/stop sign means STOP… but only if you want to
-the first day after winter that’s it sunny outside, you roll down all the windows of your car and pretend its summer, and even though its still 30 degrees, you refuse to roll up your windows.
I’m from Maine but my seasons are a little different. They are Winter, Mudding, Rafting, and Hunting!!
Seems like a lot of those are about Boston, not Maine.
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Im from Belfast maine YESSUH! right down heah on the coast line whera u see all the boahts come in to dock and unload theah cahgo. True mainah accent there but anyways Yeah im only 15 but i get all of it and I tell you nothin tatses better then moxie with cape cod with salt and vinegar chip!
You Know You’re From Maine When… your grandparents drive 50 miles on I-95 in a February blizzard, doing 75 mph, without seatbelts, just to visit for an hour before they head back.
Thank you for the trip back home. I was born in Houlton, raised in Bath, schooled in Farmington and lived in the “big city” of Portland for 8 years before moving to the Big Apple (New York City) 17 years ago. As I often say… “You can take the girl out of Maine, but you can’t take Maine out of the girl”. I travel quite a bit, and when people ask me where I am from I say “I live in New York City, and I grew up in Maine”. Even my husband, a born and raised New Yorker, considers Maine to be a kind of home too.
As a true Maniac, I never eat lobsta anywhere but at an outside picnic table,and of course, ONLY in Maine.
Thank goodness for my big family, most of whom still live in the state, and who are very gracious at letting us come “home” and stay often.
I’m from Maine but my seasons are a little different. They are Winter, Mudding, Rafting, and Hunting!!
I really like this blog good job.
Nice blog! My husband are in the process of buying a place in Amity! I over half my life in Maine. Returning for the rest of my life. Couldn’t bare having grandkkids who couldn’t pronounce chowda. Can’t wait to be back!
Okay. Let’s get something straight maniacs are out of staters who now live in Maine. Mainers are those people who have always lived in Maine except for Milatary deployment.
Those persons wearing new york yankees hats within our borders get three times the punishment for manslaughter!
Driving age: cars – 16 years Tractors,combines, and huge farm dump trucks – 5 years.
Using a scoped 30 06 to hunt rabbits is only stupid because the bullets cost so much.
Mainers eat ice cream when its about 900 below 0.
Listen to Matt, he knows what he is talking `bout
Except his first paragraph.
Yes, let’s get something straight right off the bat.. I have an idea I’m a bit older than you. I distinctly remember my fourth grade teacher telling our class that the correct term for a Maine native is a Maniac.
I notice the term Mainer didn’t start creeping into the vocabulary until large numbers of flatlanders started moving into our fine, outstanding state. I’m guessing Maniac offended their dear, oh so sensitive sensibilities so they seek to change the language.to something more pleasing to their ears. Are you one of those by any chance?
BTW. Visit the KC-135 101st Air Refueling Wing at BIA and you will find proudly emblazoned on the vertical stabilizers of their aircraft 101st Maniacs. Sounds to me like they’re proud of the moniker.
I absolutely hate Moxie soda. I love Moxie lake though. And the road (old traing track) that goes by it leading to Indian Pond, Harris Station, and put in for white water rafting down the Kennebec River! I grew up here my entire life but I can’t imagine not spending my summer in that area!
– You know that “Mainway,” “BlueCanoe,” and “Circle K” are all the same place.
– Your choice of gas station is based on which one has the best and/or least expensive coffee.
– You remember when Hannaford was Shop ‘n Save.
– You’d rather drive an additional 20 miles on back roads than pay the Turnpike toll.
– You remember when the Turnpike had toll tickets and the toll was paid when you exited.
– You think a seven-story building is a skyscraper.
– You’ve furnished your entire home exclusively with stuff bought from Marden’s.
– You think Reny’s is upscale compared to Marden’s.
– You like Joe Cupo, despite his “New Yawk” accent.
– You have a crush on Cindy Williams.
– Your idea of a night on the town is going to the high school football game.
– You know what a Ladyslipper is, and that it’s illegal to pick them.
Haha I’m from Maine and all these totally are true!
First of all “WICKED” is a Boston accent not Maine alone with not pronouncing “R” and a dooryard is ur front yard
Ayuh! Totally true!
Another one: The first day after winter is over that the temperatures get over 30 degrees, you have on shorts and refuse to take them off until at least October.
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My 100 % Irish heritage (boston born Great Grand Farther born KPT) BUT having grown up in since 5 months of age across the street from the Jewish Temple a Quarda of a maine mile away from the capitol building ( Augusta 4 those who missed that 5th grade class on capitols)
I Feel I’m pahrt French, pahrt Jewish and pahrt Mainer
50’s 60’s 70’s Whitest State in US
given the fact that Maine is 1 third French.
…the single best thing about Maine franco american ness
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…there are No french jokes and or great expressions in this article/comments & it is lacking
…n’est pas….
go ahead back da cahr up forward
thro da baby out the window a blanket
Most people in Maine knows what a ” Caca pond ” is !
btw even though it aint googlable or in the
Many definitions of ‘caca’ in the ” Urban Dictionary”
U will know it when you come to it! no sh*t
As far as “Winter” is concerned there is A Ski Trail on Sugarloaf MTn
called “Winter’s Way” and it has nothing to do with Winter as in
HAY that was a wicked Winta ! ….it google-able ( Amos Winter)
Most people in Maine don’t know
what the LL stands for in LL Bean. ( Leon Leonwood )
Maine’s Mt Agamenticus is the highest Point on Eastern US seaboard going north
and was eclipsed by the the Meadowlands dump/landfill in NJ
Hay is for horses betta for cows, pigs would eat it, but they don’t know how.
Don’t think —> Sour Pickles ” Piss ca tow A” (pisquatica river bridge)
Kennebec often confused with Kennebunk
Kennebunkport is NOT the Kennebunk don’t leave off the PORT
It is KenneBUSHport when Barbara & GHW are in town and @ walkers point
During the Election of W it briefly called KerryBushPort
“The Thing of it is” Great Maine Expression
The thing of it is about KennebunkPORT (KPT bumpa sticka) AND
the Bush’s George I & George II and the whole bush compound @ walkers point
hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world have been there to take pics
of the compound maybe less than 200 yahrds away and dont know that there is great natural wonder right there called ” Blowing Cave” @ half tide it shoots up like a whale spout……
you know you’re from maine when your teenager who wants to practice parallel parking for his test has to be driven 15 minutes to a town that has parking spaces, there is only one care parked on the street and you have to wait because someone else is practiciing their parallel parking.
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Wicked funny
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i am from connecticut but visit maine a lot have a camp in dexter/parkman area of maine and used to own and operate head of the harbor restaurant in southwest harbor maine
If you’ve eaten pork Cretons also known as head cheese, or blood sausage,ployes, the sauce blanche with boiled potatoes, or fried pork rinds you are definitely from Northern Maine
oh my gosh, laugh my butt off all the way thru this. its all so true and when I visit out of state I get so teased about the way we act and talk. lived here all my life and proud to be a Maineac. we sure talk funny but are the best hard workers, trust worthy and true to our family ties and heritage being it irish,scotch, French, English,jewish, American indian, African, etc. we treat each other with respect race,creed or religion. the only thing we fight over is our views as demo,republican or indepent thinking or our land rights. as a hwhole we care about each other as neighbors and friends. God bless maine,america, and what we stand for as a nation of people in a land baste on liberty and freedom for its citizens. thank you for the laughs. Dolly Hackett Kelliher. Hermon,Maine USA.
Lived in Maryland for the last 31 years, but born and raised in Maine (first 19+ years). A couple of these are probably past the time that I moved, but the vast majority of them made me laugh out loud. Most of you won’t consider me a “real” mainiac because I grew up in “the City” (actually, other side of the Million Dollar Bridge in South Portland), but I’ve been almost everywhere there is to go in the state. Still miss it to this day, been back a couple times with my wife and son, hope to go back again someday.
You forgot it’s a sideboard, not a counter top!
I was born and raised in Princeton Me, VERY small town about 2 hours north of Bangor. All of these are true and even though the navy took me out of Maine over twenty years ago I always look forward to going HOME. I always remembered listening to Burt and I records and laughing my butt off
If you know what BHOP and Damon’s is or if you’ve ever entered the Whatever race you are definitely a Maniac. Anyone remember the year Barney sank before the race even started? I miss that race. Also the Windsor fair!
I was wondering if you could contact me. My name is sandy and I have a store in Smithfield Maine and was looking chip to put in my store or you can call me at 207 362 5022 thank you
You know you are from Maine when your wife keeps a chainsaw in her truck…