You might be from Wisconsin if. . .

[twyrch]

you have gotten frostbitten and sunburned all in the same week.

you have more miles on your snowblower than your car.

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

you refer to the Packers as "we."

your 4th of July Family Picnic was moved indoors due to frost.

snow tires come standard on all your cars.

you know what cowtipping is.

traveling coast to coast means going from La Crosse to Milwaukee.

you know what a bubbler is.

a brat is something you eat.

you only know three spices: salt, pepper, and ketchup.

you design your Halloween costumes to fit over a snowsuit.

your sexy lingerie is tube socks and a flannel nightshirt.

you know that Eau Claire is not 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 were unaware there is a legal drinking age.

you go out for fish fry every Friday.

you know what to do with a Blatz.

you can recognize someone from Illinois from their driving.

you know how to polka.

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

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

you know where Waukesha is AND can pronounce it.

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

you've seen mosquitoes with landing lights.

the local paper covers major headlines on 1 page, but requires 4 pages for sports.

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

formal wear is blue jeans & a baseball cap.

your snowblower gets stuck on the roof.

you find 0 degrees a little chilly.

you actually understand these jokes.

you forward them to all your Wisconsin friends.

“Down South" to you means Chicago...

your definition of a small town is one that only has one bar...

at least 50% of your relatives work on a dairy farm...

you can identify a Michigan accent...

you learned to drive a tractor before the training wheels were off your bike...

traveling coast to coast means going from Superior to Milwaukee...

the "Big Three" means Miller, Old Milwaukee & PBR

you used to think Deer Season was included as an official school holiday...

the snow on your roof in August weighs more than you do...

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

you think there should be a "FIB go home" bumper sticker on every car north of Madison...

a Friday night out is taking your girlfriend shining for deer...

you go to work in a snowsuit in the morning and return home wearing shorts...

when you tell someone where you are from and they say: 'I thought that was part of Canada...

your idea of the seasons is Winter, Spring and the 4th of July...

you think that Lutheran and Catholics ARE the major religions.....

every sweatshirt you own is either red and white or green and gold.

FFA was the most popular club in high school. (That's Future Farmers of America to the rest of you.)

you have eaten a cow pie at the State Fair.

the town you grew up in had a bar called Ma's Place.

cheese is an important staple in your diet.

there was at least one kid in your class who had to help milk cows in the morning...phew!

you have to drive thirty minutes to the nearest movie theater.

you know how to pronounce "brat".

you loved it when the Brewers hit a home run so the lady would slide from the huge keg into the mug of beer.

Sunday morning at church involves lots of coffee, JellO molds and danish.

Country Kitchen was the place to meet after the party. (or Perkins )

you know someone who can use "ja, der hey" in a sentence.

your school lost half their student body during deer season.

at every wedding you have been to you have had to dance the hokey pokey and the chicken dance.

you ever went to a wedding reception in a bowling alley.

you know it's traditional for the bride and groom to go bar hopping between the ceremony and the reception.

you own at least one cheese head.

Sunday afternoons are sacred for the Packer game!

you have ever been to State Street in Madison during a protest of something.

you have been to at least one house party on Johnson Street in Madison.

you get irritated at sports announcers that pronounce it "Wesconsin".

your high school class went to the Pabst Theater to see "A Christmas Carol".

you thought everyone drank from "bubblers".

you went to the local tavern on Friday night for Fish Fry.

you have drank "white soda" (ie 7Up, Sprite, etc).

you have experienced snow storms in April.

you have had school closed due to wind chills and frostbite warnings.

you know what a "flatlander" is and you know all the "why Wisconsin is better than Illinois" jokes.

you get choked up when you hear the University Marching Band play "On Wisconsin".

you believe that Badgers will always beat Gophers.

The Packers will always be better than the Vikings, no matter what the standings are.

you have been to a "BoDeans" concert.

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

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

you have gone out of your way to eat ice cream at Gilles' or Kopp's.

Goodyear Tire on any Saturday is busier than toy stores at Christmas

driving is better in the winter because the potholes fill in with snow

the most effective mosquito repellent is a shotgun.

you head south to go to your cottage.

the trunk of you car doubles as a deep freezer.

you play hockey outdoors 10 months a year.

you can make sense out the words upnort and Trivers.

you were offended by the movie Fargo.

your idea of foreign culture is listening to Da Yoopers .

you've seen a hodag.

you know that Gotham is a real city.

your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new machine shed.

Bernie Brewer is your idol because he gets to dive in a giant beer mug.

you tried to tap the Worlds Largest Six Pack.

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

you have caught a fish in Lake Michigan and it glowed in the dark.

you define swimming season as Labor Day weekend..

you know where the city of Waunakee is AND can pronounce it

you have more fishing poles than teeth.

you've taken your kids trickortreating in a blizzard

you know which leaves make good toilet paper

your hometown buys a Zamboni when they need a bus

you define Summer as three months of bad sledding...

you got a passport to go to Minnesota...

you decided to have a picnic this summer because it fell on a weekend...

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

you can identify an Illinois accent.

you know where Oconomowoc is AND can pronounce and spell it.

[DanTheMan]

Ha! Y'know a lot of those things can be said of Michiganders, too.

Except as regards the football team. The Lions are referred to as "them Lions" or "them losers". I try to keep my mouth shut about the grammatical errors because they usually don't like getting hit over the head with my dictionary.

[Daae]

A lot of these apply to Pennsylvania too. Especially the stuff about deer season (students get the first day of deer season off around here). It sometimes snows in April, I have friends in FFA, and not only do we have a Dairy Princess, but the fragrent aromas of dairy cows can often be smelt wafting through shopping centres and "down-town".

[twyrch]

dantheman said:

Ha! Y'know a lot of those things can be said of Michiganders, too.

Except as regards the football team. The Lions are referred to as "them Lions" or "them losers". I try to keep my mouth shut about the grammatical errors because they usually don't like getting hit over the head with my dictionary.

DanTheMan, I wondered how many of those would relate to you as well.

Although I lived in Illinois, I could see many of those things being true for that part of the country in general.

Daae, yeah so of those applied to me as well when we lived in Illinois. I used to go to a winter camp in Wisconsin called Snow Fest... I was thinking of that when I posted this.

[dgan]

Wow. Almost every single one of those is really true of us. That is sad. In Wisconsin, most churches set their worship schedules around the Packer games. No Monday night devotions if the Packers are playing, and Sunday services have to be over by 11:30 to give people time to drive home.

Also if:

you know LaCrosse is not a sport...it is a city.

you know there are motorcycles and there are Harleys...they are not the same thing.

you have a second car, used only for ice racing.

you think anyone who doesn't come to work when it snows is from California.

you think there are three legitimate definitions for tomato: toe - may - toe, toe - mah - toe, and ti - may - ter.

you name all your vehicles and only half your pets.

you consider fishing season from December to March if there is at least 4 inches of ice on the lake.

you have ever thrown cheese, either styrofoam or real, at the television during a game.

you can pronounce Gratiot without giggling. (Grash - it)

a good pub is judged by the size of the television rather than the quality of beer.

you thought Hooters was a taxidermist.

you still have a cb radio in at least one vehicle.

you refer to that NFL team from Minnesota as the ViQueens.

you consider Red Lobster a fancy restaurant.

at least one of your family members wears nothing but denim.

you use empty Folgers cans for target practice.

[twyrch]

Nice editions Dgan!!

When we used to live in Beren, WI, they used to close a really big lake (I think it was Rice Lake) and made it into a highway cut-through because they knew the ice would be frozen for a long time.

My mom freaked out when we go into a traffic jam in the middle of the lake....

[dgan]

Yeah, Rice Lake. My uncle used to go ice racing on that lake when he lived in Spooner. He actually cut the bottom off a snowplow blade and used it as a front bumper...it literally 'cut up' the competition.

I can't believe I'm admitting this......

[twyrch]

dgan said:

Yeah, Rice Lake. My uncle used to go ice racing on that lake when he lived in Spooner. He actually cut the bottom off a snowplow blade and used it as a front bumper...it literally 'cut up' the competition.

I can't believe I'm admitting this......

ROTFL!!!!!

My dad used to fish Rice Lake too, but in the thaw seasons. He had a cedar strip boat that he'd have to get in the water in the Spring to make the wood expand so it wouldn't sink.

So, what do you think of Northern? I was too young to remember what it tastes like.

While we're swapping stories... my dad took a snowplow blade and attached it to his riding mower... we have video of him plowing the sidewalk in a blizzard with his riding mower.

Before church, we used to put little colorful deals on our antenna so we could find our car after church because the snow would cover it during the service.

When I had pnuemonia, the doctor's office told my mom to strip me down to my diaper and put me in a snowbank until the fever broke.

Our church had to cancel the Mother's day picnic in 1978 because of snow...