This is an old submission from around 10 years ago or more…
- 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
- sexy lingerie is tube socks and a flannel nightie.
- 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.
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