Tis the season for the brave and the cold

A temperature scale graduated for people in the Great White North:

temperatures are in Farenheit

+50

  • New York tenants turn on the heat
  • Minnesotans plant gardens

    +40

  • Californians shiver uncontrollably
  • Minnesotans sunbathe

    +35

  • Italian cars don't start

    +32

  • Distilled water freezes

    +30

  • You can see your breath
  • You plan a vacation in Florida
  • Politicians begin to worry about the homeless
  • Minnesotans eat ice cream

    +25

  • Boston water freezes
  • Californians weep pitiably
  • Cat insists on sleeping on your bed with you

    +20

  • Cleveland water freezes
  • San Franciscans start thinking favorably of LA
  • Green Bay Packers fans put on T-shirts

    +15

  • You plan a vacation in CANCUN!!!!!
  • Minnesotans go swimming

    +10

  • Too cold to snow
  • You need jumper cables to get the car going

    0

  • New York landlords turn on the heat

    -5

  • You can hear your breath
  • You plan a vacation to Hawaii

    -10

  • American cars don't start
  • Too cold to skate

    -15

  • You can cut your breath and use it to build an igloo
  • Miamians cease to exist
  • Minnesotans lick flagpoles

    -20

  • Cat insists on sleeping in your pajamas with you
  • People in LaCrosse think about taking down screens

    -25

  • Too cold to kiss
  • You need jumper cables to get the driver going
  • Japanese cars don't start
  • Minnesota Twins head for spring training

    -30

  • You plan a two-week hot bath
  • Minnesotans shovel snow off roof

    -38

  • Mercury freezes
  • Too cold to think
  • Minnesotans button top button

    -40

  • Californians disappear
  • Car insists on sleeping in your bed with you
  • Minnesotans put on sweaters

    -50

  • Congressional hot air freezes
  • Alaskans close the bathroom window
  • Green Bay Packers practice indoors

    -60

  • Walruses abandon Aleutians
  • Minnesotans put gloves away, take out mittens
  • Boy Scouts in Eau Claire start Klondike Derby

    -70

  • Minneapolis residents replace diving boards with hockey nets
  • Ridgeway snowmobilers organize trans-river race to Buffalo,

    -80

  • Polar bears abandon Baffin Island
  • Girl Scouts in Eau Claire start Klondike Derby

    -90

  • Lawyers chase ambulances for no more than 10 miles
  • Wisconsinites migrate to Minnesota thinking it MUST be warmer

    -100

  • Santa Claus abandons North Pole
  • Minnesotans pull down earflaps

    -173

  • Ethyl alcohol freezes

    -445

  • Superconductivity

    -452

  • Helium becomes a liquid

    -454

  • Hell freezes over

    -456

  • Illinois drivers drop below 85 MPH on I-90

    -458

  • Incumbent politician renounces a campaign contribution

    -460 (Absolute Zero)

  • All atomic motion ceases
  • Minnesotans agree as to how it's getting a "mite nippy"
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