You Know You're From Wisconsin When. . .

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[Enough_Deceit]

You know your from Wisconsin when:

Your whole family wears green and gold to church on Sunday.

Snow tires come standard on all your cars.

You refer to the Packers as "we."

You have gotten frost-bitten and sunburned in the same week.

You can identify and Illinois accent.

You know what cow-tipping is.

Down South to you means Chicago.

Travelling coast to coast means going from LaCrosse to Milwaukee.

A brat is something you eat.

You have no problem spelling Milwaukee.

You consider Madison exotic.

You don't have a coughing fit from one sip of Pabst Blue Ribbon.

You can actually pronounce Oconomowoc.

You know what a bubbler is.

You go out for fish fry every Friday.

You can recognize someone from Illinois from their driving.

You know how to polka.

You drink soda and refer to your dad as "pop."

Formal wear is blue jeans and a baseball cap.

Your 4th of July Family Picknic was moved indoors due to frost.

You know where Waukesha is AND can pronounce it.

You can visit Luxembourg, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Berlin, New London, and Poland all in one afternoon.

You design your Halloween costumes to fit over a snowsuit.

You've seen mosquitoes with landing lights.

You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.

You enjoy driving in the winter because the potholes fill in with snow.

Your sexy lingerie is tube socks and a flannel nightie.

You owe more money on your snowmobile than on your car.

At least twice a year, your kitchen doubles as a meat processing plant.

Your snow blower gets stuck on the roof.

You think the start of deer season is a national holiday.

You find 0 degrees a little chilly.

You know what to do with a Blatz.

You actually understand these jokes.

You forward them to all your Wisconsin friends.

[WhiteKnuckles]

Hey der, brewcrew!

Didja go to choir practice today? Make sur youse watch da game on Sunday.

I'm going to watch it ova down by dere. I just might have a couple two tree leines, too.

[Catspaw]

Come over by my house and whistle me out so my mudder can see who I hang by!

A classic! My office neighbor gave me another one (a direct quote from her father):

So I sez to the guy, say whatcha doing in dat yard? Come over by me once so I can tell you to stay da hell outta dere! Whadda tink you are? From Minnesota?

[WhiteKnuckles]

-456 / -271

Illinois drivers drop below 85 MPH on I-90

NEVER!

[Fred25]

You know you are in Arizona when the highway patrolman who stops you says, “Ya Ta Hey!” or “Buenas Dias, Amigo” or “Badges?! Badges?! I don’t got to show you no stinkin’ badges!!”.

You know you are in Arizona when your outdoor thermometer ruptures and bleeds red alcohol all over your brown adobe house.

You know you are in Arizona when you see a highway sign that says “Next Gas Station 500 Mile Ahead”.

You know you are in Arizona when you see a highway sign that says, “ALTO GRINGO”.

You know you are in Arizona when all highways heading north are closed in the winter.

You know you are in Arizona when you read a newspaper headline that reads, “KILLER BEES STRIKE AGAIN”.

You know you live in Northern Arizona when your wife says, “CHE-CHIL-BE-TAH-BESH-LEGAI, CHE-CHIL-BE-TAH-OLA” to you every morning.

You know you live in Southern Arizona when your wife says, “Despierte y tome por favor hacia fuera la basura,” to you every morning.

[Geezerette]

Ya!!! I lived on 72nd and Wisconsin Avenue, and on a summer day could hear the sounds from the race cars over by West Allis!

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[brewcrew]

It's WhiteKnuckles (aka Bob Swierski of SNL fame) - How's it goin', aina? Choir practice is tonight, and our Christmas concert is on - yous guessed it - Sunday. Den it's over to da preacher's house for a pot luck (lotsa "hot dish" served - "I don't know, Marge, it's sumpdin wit tuna in it. Just shuddup an' eat it. It's good for ya"). Gonna have to watch my language while da big game is on. Might even have two tree Leinie's at da preacher's.

[WhiteKnuckles]

Tanks for da bumps, brewcrews. I knew ya wouldn't of forgot me.

[Geezerette]

Oh ya! Dose Polish sisters, Stella, Wanda and Eugenia ... and dere brodder Stosh!!

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[Geezerette]

... aina?

I completely forgot about "aina?"! I haven't heard that out here in AZ!! I will have to spring that one on one my of unsuspecting friends!

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[tractorman]

Another famous Wisconsin saying:

"Hey honey, hold my beer and watch this!"

[WhiteKnuckles]

Ya brewcrew, it's goin. Howsit goin wit youse? I got some brats tawin in da fridge ova der. I'm gonna boil 'em in Point wit some onions and den grill 'em for da BIG GAME!

I'm goin ta watch da big game too! I just bought one of dem satellite wathjamacallits! Dat ting is perty cool. All I 'ave to do is put it on my roof! Hope I don't fall off ...

We'll (Bears Fans HAR!) see you Sunday, okiedoke?

[JoeMomma]

Actually, I've never been to Door county and have only seen the Dells passing through to Minneapolis.

My wife and I would drive up to Milwaukee just to get away from the big city of Chicago for a day -- we enjoyed biking out at the lakefront downtown. Madison is a pretty neat place, too. I'd been to the capitol and Lake Mendota out at UW Madison. And we always stopped at Taste of Wisconsin over in Kenosha.

Not all Chicagoans go to the Dells or Door county ... ;-)

[afraidfortherepublic]

South Milwaukee Whitefish Bay
Nothing sticks like Cudahy

And you know that it's pronounced "Cud-a-hay".

[brewcrew]

Okiedoke, den. Enjoy dem brats, aina?

[pankot]

You forgot "take one", "aahh sure", and "you betcha".

[brewcrew]

And you know that it's pronounced "Cud-a-hay".

I'll never forget, we were watching the channel 4 news one night shortly after their latest bimbette, Contessa Brewer (at least she's got a Milwaukee last name), started working here. She pronounced it "cuh-HAY-dee."

Da missus an me, we almost split a gut.

[Monitor]

'Aina?' is the question, and 'Ya, hey.' is the answer.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Barbara and Ted Olson spent their last summer in Door County at their cottage on Kangaroo Lake (I think it's Kangaroo Lake)?

I remember Barbara appearing on some show -- O'Reilly, Hannity, or Fox & Friends -- via sattelite from Green Bay (I think) while she was staying in Door County. She raved about Door County when the DC or NYC host asked her what she was doing there! I think the show aired in August. Who knew??? --As she wipes a tear from her cheek and murmurs a prayer for Barbara

[KLT]

MET A WOMAN FROM WISCONSIN LAST WEEK, WHEN I TOLD HER I WAS FROM NY....SHE SAID SHE WANTED TO GO TO HARLEM TO SEE BILL CLINTOOOOON. SO, I KNOW, THAT IT NOT INDICATIVE OF WISCONSIN CITIZENS, SO I TAKE IT SHE WAS A LOONY!

DID I HEAR SOMEONE SAY CHEESE? I LIKE CHEESE!