Posted on 12/04/2001 10:07:56 AM PST by 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.
Not any more.
Leroy Butler, on an interception against the Rams, 1993.
BTW, don't insult cheeseheads. Cheeseheads save lives. One man used it to protect himself in a plane crash. Others have been using them in addition to throw cushions on their boats--and think the cheeseheads float better.
You know you're from Wisconsin When...
You know that Kaukauna is not a Hawaiian island.
You understand the saying "When you're out of Point, you're out of town."
You know that Leinenkugels is not a brand of bagel.
You are aware that "Eau Claire" is not a filled and frosted pastry.
You know what kind of fish the ice fishermen are trying to spear on Lake Winnebago.
You recognize a Sheboygan accent.
You can brag about an alpine lake that's only a few hundred feet above sea level.
You can smell the difference between the emissions from a paper factory and the emissions from a cottage cheese factory.
You can't understand why speed-skating isn't on TV more often.
You know that "Fond du Lac" is not a Scandinivian form of dining where meat or cheese on long forks is dipped into various pots.
South Milwaukee Whitefish Bay
Nothing sticks like Cudahy
"Ok, what do you want"
"A Dr. Pepper"
"Yea, and make mine a Sprite..." lol
Can any of y'all tell me what this is?
(Although Kaukauna comes in a very close second)
Drunk Packer fans put on their t-shirts
No offense was intended. If offense was taken, I apologize.
Blatz is a beer. Some fry their brats in it.
She must've been from the South and you know how dey are. Dey can't drive in dat snow, nor on ice neither. Up here, we fire up dat snowblower first ting in da morning so's we can get to work. My neighbor snowblows all night to get rid of da snow, dontcha know, even does my sidewalk, but he's retired from da paper mill.
Just know they save lives. Not in the category of firefighters, of course, but they hold a revered place in WiscoLore.
I remember that story. Anyone know when it happened?
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