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You Know You're From Wisconsin When...

You can taste a difference in cheese made somewhere else

You own at least one tie with a or peice of jewelry with a Green Bay Packer theme

You can find and pronounce : Eau Claire, Oconomowoc, Menomonee Falls, Waukesha, and La Crosse, Fond Du Lac. (I don't know why it's blanking out the d and u)

You can correctly spell Milwaukee.

You know what "bubbler" means.

At least one of your family members works / worked in a cheese factory.

A holstein cow outside of Wisconsin makes you miss home.

You can taste the difference between apples grown up north and the ones that you can buy in the south.

When talking about the Green Bay Packers you refer to them as "we".

When the weather hits 0 degrees you decide that maybe it's time to get out a jacket instead of a sweatshirt.

The family gets together every week for fish fry at the local pub.

You know what a brat is, and they're at every outdoor event that your family has ever had.

You know how to make a very good sled out of normal household items.

Your love you outdoor pool because of how it doubles as an ice skating area during the winter.

You can tell the difference between the smell of cow manure and pig manure.

You have watched Fargo and not noticed an accent. (watching Fargo GIVES me an accent!)

You drive around with the air conditioning on until it hits 30 degrees, because it just was so darn hot outside.

The local paper needs 6 pages to cover the Packers... in July!

Your best shirt has a big letter G on it.

You've said "Of course they'll win. They're God's team."

You think it's nice enough to swim when the temperature hits 50.

You family owns a "winter car" while the "good one" sits in the garage from Nov-Apr.

Your put ketchup on a charcoal grilled NY strip steak.

You live in a house that has no front steps, yet the door is one yard above the ground.

You think everyone from south of Madison has an accent.

You can identify a Michigan accent.

Down South to you means Chicago.

Traveling coast to coast means going from Superior to Milwaukee.

You can make sense out of the words "upnort" and "Trivers".

You have to go to Florida to get a tan in August.

You consider Madison exotic.

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

You can recognize someone from Illinois from their driving.

You buy cat litter every winter, but you don't own a cat.

At least twice a year, the kitchen doubles as a meat processing plant or cannery.

You know what to do with a Blatz.

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

Bucky the Badger hangs on your Christmas tree even if you didn't go to University of Wisconsinm Madison.

You're a member of the Polar Bear Club and proud of it.

You can use the word "ya der hey" easily in a sentence

You hear someone use the words "uff-dah" and you don't immediately break into uncontrollable laughter.

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

Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a cow next to your blue spruce.

You know how to polka

You own a cheesehead

You have cow pharaphenilia around your house, including your pajama pants

You know what a FIB is and can spot them a mile away.

You think of the major four food groups as cheese, beer, brats and Jell-O salad with marshmallows.

FFA was the most popular club in high school

You have eaten a cow pie at the State Fair.

There was at least one kid in your class who had to help milk cows in the morning

Country Kitchen is the place to meet after the party

You have ever seen or played in a "broom ball" game.

You have ever partied at Summerfest, Festa Italiana, German Fest, Irish Fest, Oktoberfest, or all of the above.

You or someone you know was a "Dairy Princess" at a county fair.

You can't be friends with a Vikings fan

Your idea of diversity is having black, white, and brown cows.

You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Wisconsin.

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blue9t3 · Admiral Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 1246 Location: oregon

Or when you say, "Im from wis-kan-sin, instead of wis-kawn-sin". just a little thing I picked up from my north-east bros! Wink

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ProudbrotherofUSSoldier · Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 5:18 pm Post subject:

LOL if I didnt resemble 90% of those I would be offended Laughing

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Somebunny · Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 5:50 pm Post subject:

Oh that is too funny! I was born in wisconsin, only lived there for the first year of my life, but my ENTIRE extended family lives there. I can see them in almost all of these! Especially my dear sweet grandma (God rest her soul).

Thanks for sharing!

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homesteader · PO3 Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 294 Location: wisconsin

Uff da and Uff a maee. Not one mention of lutefisk in all the above. Especially now as we enter the season of following our noses every weekend to all the country churches that are serving their annual dinners to help raise money for their steeple funds. We find an occasional Bohemian dinner of kraut, pork and potato(e) dumplings for some variety.

By the way. Wisconsin was mostly red except for the cities. Our county went blue but again if broken down by township it was mostly red except for the college town. Maybe next time.

blue9t3 · Admiral Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 1246 Location: oregon

I like people from Wis-kan-cahn-sin, why heck some of my friends migrated from there, and in most cases thier heads are not made of cheese! Wink

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TEWSPilot · Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 11:53 pm Post subject:

"You can find and pronounce : Eau Claire".... I learned that one the hard way checking in with Center once while passing through the area. I pronounced it the way most people pronounce the choclate goodie. --- WRONG!

...does "EAU" look like an "O" to YOU?

...it isn't in Wisconsin, but try Chappaquiddick if you like boat rides in your Oldsmobile.

blue9t3 · Admiral Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 1246 Location: oregon

Looks like a nice day to go fishin, heck- think i'll load up the olds behind the pickup and drown a few worms! Wink

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TEWSPilot · Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 1:43 am Post subject:

Strange things sometimes happen, but I'm sure you'll "cross that bridge" when you come to it. Rolling Eyes

JimRobson · Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 2:28 am Post subject:

.::geo::. You forgot a few.

You're from Wisconsin if you know how to play Euker and Sheepshead

You're from Wisconsin if you have a "Supper Club" in your town and it's not the Eagles.

You're from Wisconsin if you know what a "Snowshoe" is and you don't think it is for your feet.

You're from Wisconsin if you know that you don't get "Old Style" at an antique shop.

Spent a few years there myself...
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Nutso · PO3 Joined: 25 Aug 2004 Posts: 271 Location: Minnesota

The difference between a Wisconsin cheerleader and a prize pig is only 50 pounds.

But if ya force feed the pig it will catch up.

Go Vikings (Today is the annual whipping of the Packers)

Bystander · PO3 Joined: 25 Aug 2004 Posts: 271 Location: MI

Having spent many summers (the week of the Fourth of July Laughing

) in Michigan's Upper Penninsula, so many of these 'facts' can apply to that area. Heck, all the people up there are Packers and Cubbies fans. But then I guess anyone would be, what with the records of the Tigers and Lions! Only difference I could note is in the dialect. Michigan's UP is definitely Finnish influenced. Now--there's a language to be learned. Laughing

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