Posted on 03/14/2013 2:59:49 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Everyone's a white guy when you're walking on ice.
If you personally know more than one person named Tommy Thompson, you might be from Wisconsin.
Hmmmm....I guess I’ve been away for too long, too!
I am so grateful for Governor Scott Walker, a true Conservative, and I hope for the total destruction of socialism in Wisconsin. God bless you hard working Americans in Wisconsin who are fighting the good fight against socialism, from a FReeper from Illinois, who is also fighting the good fight.
Highway Y.
Wausau, from what I see, is another lost city to socialism.
I could be wrong.
>>Hate to disappoint you, but the Hamm’s beer bear is from Minnesota.<<
My late Uncle (God rest his soul) was a beer distributor and gave us a couple of those then state-of-the-art moving waterfall Hamm’s signs (this was probably 40 years ago).
I would give anything to have even one of them now.
I also had a “Tiger in the Tank” wall plaque that could probably pay cash for an entire house today.
Youth is wasted on the young...
DQ marketing is different up here. Most of them are open from Mid-April to Late-October. That creates a craving that comes with the excitement of spring. It is a treat to go for a DQ ice cream in the heat of summer, but most of us never eat their burgers. The few DQ's I've seen with seating areas never seem to last long.
I liked your list, aftr, 16-21 easily apply to me.
“If someone in a store offers assistance, and they don’t work there, you might live in Wisconsin.”
LOL! Happens at my shop all the time; my customers know their stuff! :)
Being a native Gnu Yakker but married to the Love of my Life who is from Antigo (and also being a life long Packer fan, now owner) this collection is right on the money, donchaknow...
Happens to me too. Plus the Post Office in the town where my business is located has the nicest people. I’ve had both men and women, teens to elderly, hold the door for me. This happened to me even before I started using a cane.
Yet, in the town where I live — just a few miles closer to Milwaukee — they’ll trample you to get a place in line just ahead of you. I blame it on all the people from Chicago who have moved here for “rural and residential” and want to urbanize the place now that they’re here.
There should be a special place in H*** for people who move next to a farm and then complain about the chickens, cows, or horses.
I used to work with a guy from Minnesota. He told me an Ole and Lena story.
Lena was a bartender in a small tavern in Minnesota. She fell in love with a customer, Ole. They married and moved to St. Paul. A few years later, they visited the home town and Lena went to her old place of employment. Lena had gained considerable heft.
The owner said, “Lena, you could play with the Green Bay Packers!” Lena replied, “Ole’s packer is all I want to play with.”
> *You know how to polka, but never tried it sober.
> *You know what knee-high by the Fourth of July means.
> *You know it is traditional for the bride and groom to go bar hopping between the church & reception.
> *You know the difference between “Green” and “Red” farm machinery, and would fight with your friends on the playground over which was better!
> *You buy Christmas presents at Farm & Fleet.
> *You spent more on beer and liquor than you did on food at your wedding.
> *You hear someone use the word “oof-dah” and you don’t break into uncontrollable laughter.
> *You or someone you know was a “Dairy Queen” at the county fair.
> *You know that “combine” is a noun. *You let your older siblings talk you into putting your tongue on a steelpost in the middle of winter.
> *You think Lutheran and Catholic are THE major religions.
> *You know that “creek” rhymes with “pick”.
> *Football schedules, hunting season and harvest are all taken into consideration before wedding dates are set.
> *A Friday night date is getting a six-pack and taking your girlfriend shining for deer and then out for Friday night fish.
> *Saturday you go to your local bowling alley.
> *There was at least one, if not several, in your class who had to help milk cows in the morning.
> *You have driven your car on the lake. *You can make sense of “upnort,” “bat-tree” and “warrssh.”
> *Every wedding dance you have ever been to has the hokey pokey and the chicken dance.
> *Your definition of a small town is one that only has one bar.
> *The local gas station sells live bait.
> *At least twice a year some part of your home doubles as a meat processing plant.
> *You think that the start of deer season or (the Packers going to the Super Bowl) is a national holiday!
> *You or somebody you know has transformed their pole shed into a second home and spends more time there then in their home.
> You actually understand these & will forward to your Wisconsin friends!!
They all make perfect sense to me!
But, if you live in Milwaukee, there is always Leon’s custard. I believe they are open daily other than being closed Christmas and from noon til 3:00 on Good Friday.
Their Super Sunday is like a meal.
Lutefisk? Can't tell you because I could never bring myself to eat the stuff.
Outstanding and all true!
How about: “If Midnight Mass starts at 9 PM, you know you’re in Wisconsin.”
That was the hardest thing I had to get used to when I moved here. Every other place I’d ever lived — Midnight meant 12:00 AM
Colder than Alaska?
I’ve been ASKED to assist at WalMart and Woodman’s a couple of times. I guess I just have an approachable face. :-)
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