1. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway.
2. "Vacation" means going up north past Hwy. 8 for the weekend.
3. You measure distance in hours.
4. You know several people who have hit deer more than once.
5. You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back again.
6. Your whole family wears Packer Green to church on Sunday.
7. You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard,
without flinching.
8. You see people wearing camouflage at social events (including weddings
and funerals).
9. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both
unlocked.
10. You think of the major food groups as beer, fish, and venison.
11. You carry jumper cables in your car and your wife or girlfriend knows
how to use them.
12. There are 7 empty cars running in the parking lot at Mill's Fleet Farm
at any given time.
13. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
14. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with
snow.
15. You refer to the Packers as "we."
16. You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road
construction.
17. You can identify a southern or eastern accent.
18. You have no problem pronouncing Lac Du Flambeau.
19. You consider Minneapolis exotic.
20. You know how to polka.
21. Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to your
blue spruce.
22. You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.
23. Down South to you means Illinois.
24. A brat is something you eat.
25. Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new pole shed.
26. You go out to fish fry every Friday.
27. Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.
28. You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.
29. You find minus twenty degrees "a little chilly."
30. you have ever refused to buy something because it's "too spendy.
31. your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March.
32. you instinctively walk like a penguin for five months out of the year.
33. someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don't work there.
34. your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his
forehead.
35. you may not have actually eaten it, but you have heard of Head Cheese.
36. you have worn shorts and a parka at the same time.
37. you have either a pet or a child named "Brett".
38. your town has an equal number of bars and churches.
39. you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number.
40. you know how to say Oconomowoc, Waukesha, Menomonie & Manitowoc.
41. you think that ketchup is a little too spicy.
42. 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,...."
43. 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.
44. you're proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights each year
because Park Falls is the coldest spot in the nation.
45. You can taste a difference in cheese made somewhere else.
46. You own at least one tie with a or piece of jewelry with a Green Bay Packer theme.
47. You can find and pronounce : Eau Claire, Oconomowoc, Menomonee Falls, Waukesha, and La Crosse, Fond du Lac.
48. You know what "bubbler" means and can point quickly to the location of the closest one.
49. At least one of your family members works / worked in a cheese factory.
50. A Holstein cow outside of Wisconsin makes you miss home.
51. You can taste the difference between apples grown up north and the ones that you can buy in the south.
52. When talking about the Green Bay Packers you refer to them as "we".
53. When the weather hits "0" degrees you decide that maybe it's time to get out a jacket instead of a sweatshirt.
54. The family gets together every week for fish fry at the local pub.
55. You know what a brat is, and they're at every outdoor event that your family has ever had.
56. You know how to make a very good sled out of normal household items.
57. You love your outdoor pool because of how it doubles as an ice skating area during the winter.
58. You have watched Fargo and not noticed an accent.
59. You drive around with the air conditioning on until it hits 30 degrees, because it just was so darn hot outside.
60. The local paper needs 6 pages to cover the Packers... in July!
61. Your best shirt has a big letter G on it.
62. You think it's nice enough to swim when the temperature hits 50.
63. You family owns a "winter car" while the "good one" sits in the garage from Nov-Apr.
64. Your put ketchup on a charcoal grilled NY strip steak.
65. You think everyone from south of Madison has an accent.
66. You can identify a Michigan accent.
67. Down South to you means Chicago.
68. You can make sense out of the words "upnort" and "Trivers".
69. You consider Madison exotic.
70. You can visit Luxemburg, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Berlin, New London & Poland all in one afternoon.
71. You can recognize someone from Illinois from their driving.
72. You buy cat litter every winter, but you don't own a cat.
73. At least twice a year, the kitchen doubles as a meat processing plant or cannery.
74. You don't have a coughing fit from one sip of Pabst Blue Ribbon.
75. You're a member of the Polar Bear Club and proud of it.
76. You can use the word "ya der hey" easily in a sentence.
77. You hear someone use the words "uff-dah" and you don't immediately break into uncontrollable laughter.
78. Your whole family wears green and gold to church on Sunday.
79. Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a cow next to your blue spruce.
80. You know how to polka.
81. You know what a FIB is and can spot them a mile away.
82. You think of the major four food groups as cheese, beer, brats and Jell-O salad with marshmallows.
83. FFA was the most popular club in high school.
84. You have eaten a cow pie at the State Fair.
85. There was at least one kid in your class who had to help milk cows in the morning .
86. Country Kitchen is the place to meet after the party.
87. You have ever seen or played in a "broom ball" game.
88. You have ever partied at Summerfest, Festa Italiana, German Fest, Irish Fest, Oktoberfest, or all of the above.
89. You or someone you know was a "Dairy Princess" at a county fair.
90. You can't be friends with a Vikings fan.
91. Bucky the Badger hangs on your Christmas tree even if you didn't go to University of Wisconsin Madison.
92. If you refer to U-W Madison as Madison.
93. If you go to school even if there was a blizzard that morning because the buses can still go on the roads.
94. If you’ve considered voting Brett Favre for president.
95. If you start all your e-mails with the words "Howdy y'all".
96. "Vacation" means playing miniature golf at the Dells.
97. You've seen all the biggest bands 10 years after they were popular.
98. You know several people who have hit a deer.
99. You've ridden the school bus for an hour each way.
100. Stores don't have bags; they have sacks.
101. You "borrow" your neighbor you snow blower and hope he returns it before the next storm. (And you don't know why there are quotation marks around the word borrow in that sentence.)
102. You end your sentences with an unnecessary preposition. Example: "Where's my coat at?" or "If you go to town, I wanna go with."
103. All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain or animal.
104. You know what "cow tipping" and "snipe hunting" are.
105. You own just three spices: salt, pepper and ketchup.
106. You think everyone from a bigger city has an accent.
107. You consider opening day of deer season a holiday.
108. You find -20 degrees F "a little chilly."
109. If you define Summer as three months of bad sledding...
110. If your definition of a small town is one that only has one bar...
111. If snow tires come standard on all your cars...
112. If at least 50% of your relatives work on a dairy farm...
113. If you have ever gotten frostbitten and sunburned in the same week...
114. If you learned to drive a tractor before the training wheels were off your bike...
115. If traveling coast to coast means going from Superior to Milwaukee...
116. If the "Big Three" means Miller, Old Milwaukee & PBR
117. If you know that Eau Claire is not something you eat.....
118. If you have no problem spelling Milwaukee or Oconomowoc
119. If the snow on your roof in August weighs more than you do...
120. If you think there should be a "FIB go home" bumper sticker on every car north of Madison...
121. If a Friday night out is taking your girlfriend shining for deer...
122. If you go to work in a snowsuit in the morning and return home wearing shorts...
123. When you tell someone where you are from and they say: 'I thought that was part of Canada...
124. If you think that Lutheran and Catholics ARE the major religions.....
125. If formal wear is a flannel shirt, blue jeans and a baseball cap...
126. If you define "swimming season" as Labor Day weekend...
127. If you have more fishing poles than teeth...
128. If you decided to have a picnic this summer because it fell on a weekend
129. Every sweatshirt you own is either red and white or green and gold.
130. Cheese is an important staple in your diet.
131. There was at least one kid in your class who had to help milk cows in the morning...phew!
132. You loved it when the Brewers hit a home run so the lady would slide from the huge keg into the mug of beer.
133. Sunday morning at church involves lots of coffee, Jell-O molds and danish.
134. Your school lost half their student body during deer season.
135. At every wedding you have been to you have had to dance the hoky poky and the chicken dance.
136. You ever went to a wedding reception in a bowling alley.
137. You know it's traditional for the bride and groom to go bar hopping between the ceremony and the reception.
138. You own at least one cheese head.
139. Sunday afternoons are sacred for the Packer game!
140. You have ever been to State Street in Madison during a protest of something.
141. You get irritated at sports announcers that pronounce it "Wes-con-sin".
142. You have drank "white soda" (ie 7-Up, Sprite, etc).
143. You have experienced snow storms in April.
144. You know what a "flat-lander" is and you know all the "why Wisconsin is better than Illinois" jokes.
145. You get choked up when you hear the University Marching Band play "On Wisconsin".
146. You believe that Badgers will always beat Gophers.
147. The Packers will always be better than the Vikings, no matter what the standings are.
148. at least twice a year, the kitchen doubles as a meat processing plant or cannery.
149. you expect to have off of work when ever the Packers are playing.
150. you've ever said about the Packers, "Of course they'll win. They're God's team."
151. someone not from around here complains about the weather, you've told them to "Wait 5 minutes, it'll change."
152. you've worn your winter coat to watch the fire works on the 4th of July.
153. you've taken your kids trick-or-treating in a blizzard.
154. the mosquitoes have landing lights.
155. you have more miles on your snow blower than your car.
156. your snow blower gets stuck on the roof.
157. you owe more money on your snowmobile than your car.
158. you can make sense out of the words "upnort" and "Trivers".
159. you find -20F a little chilly.
160. you enjoy Popsicle's or fudgesicles in the dead of winter, although it is murder on your lips!
161. shoveling the driveway constitutes a great upper body workout.
162. you were unaware there is a legal drinking age.
163. you know what to do with a Blatz.
164. you've seen a hodag.
165. you know Gotham is a real city.
166. you ever fished with "leashes".
167. you walked to school across 3ft snowbanks and liked it.
168. You have been involved in a "drive-by hay bailing".
169. Cows dont faze your children past 1 year old
170. you hold morning business meetings at George Webb's.
171. no steak/cheese/milk in another state is good enough.
172. You actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to all your Wisconsin friends
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