Wisconsin
Related: About this forumYOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRUE WISCONSINITE WHEN:
If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 38 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by, you might live in Wisconsin.
If youre proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights each year because Park Falls is the coldest spot in the nation, you might live in Wisconsin.
If you have ever refused to buy something because its too spendy, you might live in Wisconsin.
If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March, you might live in Wisconsin.
If you instinctively walk like a penguin for five months out of the year, you might live in Wisconsin.
If someone in a store offers you assistance, and they dont work there, you might live in Wisconsin.
If your dads suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead, you might live in Wisconsin.
If you may not have actually eaten it, but you have heard of Head Cheese, you might live in Wisconsin.
If you have worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you might live in Wisconsin.
If you have either a pet or a child named Brett, you might live in Wisconsin.
If your town has an equal number of bars and churches, you might live in Wisconsin.
If you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed wrong number, you might live in Wisconsin.
If you know how to say Oconomowoc, Waukesha, Menomonie & Manitowoc, you might live in Wisconsin.
If you think that ketchup is a little too spicy, you might live in Wisconsin.
If every time you see moonlight on a lake, you think of a dancing bear, and you sing gently, From the land of sky-blue waters,
.you might live in Wisconsin.
YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRUE WISCONSINITE WHEN:
Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway.
Vacation means going up north past Hwy 8 for the weekend.
You measure distance in hours.
You know several people who have hit deer more than once.
You often switch from heat to A/C in the same day and back again.
Your whole family wears Packer Green to church on Sunday.
You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.
You see people wearing camouflage at social events (including weddings and funerals).
You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
You think of the major food groups as beer, fish, and venison.
You carry jumper cables in your car and your wife or girlfriend knows how to use them.
There are 7 empty cars running in the parking lot at Mills Fleet Farm at any given time.
You design your kids Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
You refer to the Packers as we.
You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction.
You can identify a southern or eastern accent.
You have no problem pronouncing Lac Du Flambeau.
You consider Minneapolis exotic.
You know how to polka.
Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to your blue spruce.
You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.
Down South to you means Illinois.
A brat is something you eat.
Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new pole shed.
You go out to fish fry every Friday.
Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.
You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.
You find minus twenty degrees a little chilly.
You actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to all your Wisconsin friends.
I thought we could all use a laugh....
Tigress DEM
(7,887 posts)midnight
(26,624 posts)shraby
(21,946 posts)NBachers
(17,096 posts)midnight
(26,624 posts)mojowork_n
(2,354 posts)midnight
(26,624 posts)link.
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)when i take the back roads from northern illinois into southern wisconsin i know as soon as i see a packer flag i crossed the state line.....
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)Here are a couple about my home state:
You know you are a true Arkansan when:
You lead your fellow Arkansans in "calling the Hogs" at an out-of-state convention.
After you arrive at the football stadium, you start to panic when you realize you left your "Hog hat" at home.
midnight
(26,624 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Got that one beat. Up where I was, Cordova, it's a nice sheltered valley opening to Prince William Sound. However, the Cordova airport is twelve miles outside of town, out on the delta of the Copper River. My job was to help do the mail run; we go out to the airport to meet the plane, grab the bundles, and hurry them to the post office back in town.
This is fun in February, when the world basically bends at a 90 degree angle thanks to the wind coming off the glaciers. Visibility is four feet. The road is NOT plowed, you're counting on the wind and other drivers to keep it clear, so it's basically a sheet of muddy ice, thanks to the lowess.
And here i am, in the passenger side of a rickety old International, from like 1962 or something. There is nothing but white on all three visible sides, the box in the back is empty and rocking with each gust, and I can swear the truck is going down the road at a seven-degree angle.
Manning the wheel is Joe. Joe's this little Dominican guy who gained US citizenship through serving as a marine in Vietnam. Joe's sixty-something years old, and has the vision of a blind man in a dark room. In one hand is a cup of boiling-hot coffee. In the other is his cell phone. He's got his knee on the wheel, and is screaming at his wife, who lives in New York City.
The gauge says 75 MPH, which I think is ten miles faster than an old international can go.
It's 7:30 in the morning.
That was my work day. Every winter day. For three years.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)when there is no school because of Deer season.
How about Lutefisk dinners from Thanksgiving till New years every Tuesday at the Lutern Church.
Park falls isn't the Icebox,Grantsburg is the true Ice Box.
Having the TV set up in the Milking Parlor so you can watch the Packers.
More snowmobiles in the parking lot at school than cars.
knowing what a tank or block heater is and remembering to plug it in before hitting the sack ever night.
Carrying a blanket and scoop shovel in the car trunk and little warmer upper ta boot,you never know.
Chopper mitts and 5 buckle over shoes
pansypoo53219
(20,966 posts)all american girl
(1,788 posts)The traffic jam because of a tractor....know that way too well
undeterred
(34,658 posts)well I guess you could be from Wisconsin or Minnesota!
Callalily
(14,889 posts)Wisconsin when approaching an intersection . . . well, yellow means SPEED UP!
Scuba
(53,475 posts)... and I have worn a down parka and shorts together.
lutefisk
(3,974 posts)And not just at a Packer game. But either way, there is probably a beer in your hand and and you're not wearing a jacket.
JimWis
(1,751 posts)And they are all true too.
mysuzuki2
(3,521 posts)you have your kids birthday party in the corner tavern. Or maybe that's just in Milwaukee.
midnight
(26,624 posts)dembotoz
(16,796 posts)and guess pretty much where my older son and i took the birthday boy......