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.
If you're proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights each year because Rice Lake is the coldest spot in the nation.
If you have ever refused to buy something because it's "too pricey."
If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March.
If you instinctively walk like a penguin for five months out of the year.
If someone in a store offers assistance, and they don't work there.
If you may not have actually eaten it, but you have heard of Head Cheese.
If you have worn shorts and a parka at the same time.
If you have either a pet or a child named “Brett” or "Aaron."
If your town has an equal number of bars and churches.
If you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number.
If you know how to pronounce Oconomowoc, Waukesha, Waunakee, Stoughton, Menomonie, & Manitowoc.
If you think that ketchup is a little too spicy.
*If every time you see moonlight on a lake, you think of a dancing bear, and you sing gently, "Frommmm the land of sky-blue waters,".....you might live in Wisconsin.*
*YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRUE WISCONSINITE WHEN:*
1. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on Highway Y.
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, more 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 Farm & 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 a fish fry every Friday night.
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 actually understand these jokes and you forward them to all your Wisconsin friends.
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, more 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 Farm & 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 a fish fry every Friday night.
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 actually understand these jokes and you forward them to all your Wisconsin friends.
Visitor's Guide to the State of Wisconsin
This sounds like a great place to be... well, except for the cold, but then, we are all about going down to 8 degrees here in West Tennessee, this Winter. :)
ReplyDeleteBrrr.... lol. Sometimes, I question my sanity of living here, but, it's quite nice in the summer.
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