dhazer
  • dhazer
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14 years ago
Jeff Foxworthy about Wisconsin

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 you're 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 it's 'too pricey,' 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 don't work there, you might live in Wisconsin .

If your dad's 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 Lutheran churches, you might live in Wisconsin .

If you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a 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:

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 a deer more than twice.

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...and are darn good at it.

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! Brandy Manhattans are the official state cocktail and you do know that.

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 single 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.'
Just Imagine this for the next 6-9 years. What a ride it will be 🙂 (PS, Zero should charge for this)
4PackGirl
14 years ago
sadly alot of these apply to living in illinois as well.
porky88
14 years ago
Those were pretty funny and true.
Pack93z
14 years ago
I can honestly say, I am guilty of speaking of travel in hours vs distance.. I think it is easier for people to quantify the distance in time.
"The oranges are dry; the apples are mealy; and the papayas... I don't know what's going on with the papayas!"
Wade
  • Wade
  • Veteran Member
14 years ago
i had no idea the "travel distance in hours" was unusual...been doing it all my life, too.
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Romans 12:2 (NKJV)
Zero2Cool
14 years ago
What the hell... whats wrong with saying I'm 15 minutes away, or they live an hour away?
Cheesey
14 years ago
Lac Du Flambeau......i vacationed there when i was a little kid.

Cheesey
14 years ago
How about......how did places in Wisconsin get their names?

"Fond Du Lac".............."Hey, does this cheese Fond Du Lac something?"

Or...."DePere"........."Hey youse guys, is the water DePere???" Or...."Did you dock da boat at DePere?"

Or "Mukwonago".......".Does Mukwongo hunting?"...."YES!!! Mukwonago!!!"

Or, for me "Algoma" (being names AL) "A bunch of da guys are going fishin',
can Algoma???"

"Racine"........."We got caught by da cops Racine down 27th street."

Feel free to make up your own to add to Cheesey's list!

longtimefan
14 years ago
I have heard/ or done pert near all of em
Cheesey
14 years ago
My wife added........"If it's 10 below zero, and you still are outsdie grilling, you are from Wisconsin!"

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