You Know You're From Wisconsin When...

[joanm53204]

Not sure if this has been posted somewhere else on the site, but I saw it, and thought of you guys. Enjoy!

You know you are from Wisconsin when...

Your whole family wears green and gold to church on Sunday.
You refer to the Packers as "we."
Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on
the highway.
"Vacation" means going up nort' to Crivitz for the weekend.
You measure distance in hours.
You know several people who have hit deer more than once.
You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back again.
You use a down comforter in the summer - and gloves.
You drive at 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard,
without flinching.
You see people wearing hunting clothes at social events.
You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both
unlocked.
You think of the major food groups as venison, fish, and berries.
There are 7 empty cars running in the parking lot at the Fleet Farm at
any given time.
You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road
construction.
It takes you 3 hours to go to the store for one item even when you're
in a rush because you have to stop and talk to everyone in town.
You buy your Christmas presents at Fleet Farm.
You know what cow-tipping is.
You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend knows how to
use them.
You define summer as three months of bad sledding.
Your definition of a small town is one that has only one bar.
Snow tires come standard on all your cars.
At least 50% of your relatives work on a dairy farm.
You have gotten frostbitten and sunburned in the same week.
You can identify an Illinois or Michigan accent.
You learned to drive a tractor before the training wheels were off
your bike.
Down South to you means Chicago.
Traveling coast to coast means going from La Crosse to Milwaukee.
The "Big Three" means Miller, Old Milwaukee & PBR.
You don't have a coughing fit from one sip of Pabst Blue Ribbon.
You know a brat is something you eat and Eau Claire is not.
You were offended by the movie "Fargo".
You have no problem spelling Milwaukee.
You can pronounce and spell Oconomowoc.
You know where Waukesha is and can pronounce it.
You consider Madison exotic.
You got a passport to go to Minnesota.
Your ides of foreign culture is listening to Da Yoopers.
You know what a bubbler is.
Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new machine shed.
A Friday night out is taking your girlfriend shining for deer.
Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a cow next to your
blue spruce.
You go out for fish fry every Friday.
You can recognize someone from Illinois from their driving.
You've seen a hodag.
You know how to polka.
Formal wear is a flannel shirt, blue jeans & a baseball cap.
You used to think Deer Season was a national holiday.
You know Gotham is a real city.
You can make sense out of the words upnort and Trivers.
You decided to have a picnic this summer because it fell on a weekend.
You can visit Luxemburg, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Berlin, New London
& Poland all in one afternoon.
You only know three spices: salt, pepper, and ketchup.
You design your Halloween costumes to fit over a snowsuit.
You go to work in a snowsuit in the morning and return home wearing
shorts.
You've seen mosquitoes with landing lights.
You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.
You enjoy driving in the winter because the potholes fill in with
snow.
Your sexy lingerie is tube socks and a flannel nightie.
The local paper covers major headlines on 1 page, but requires 4 pages
for sports.
At least twice a year, your kitchen doubles as a meat processing
plant.
Your children describe their summer vacation out of state as a "trip
to Door County."
You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.
You have caught a fish in Lake Michigan and it glowed in the dark.
You define swimming season as Labor Day weekend.
Your snow blower gets stuck on the roof.
You find 0 degrees a little chilly.
The snow on your roof in August weighs more than you do.
You have been involved in a "drive-by hay bailing".
You drink "soda" and refer to your dad as "pop".

[AlumniClub]

If you like these we've got more at http://www.thebubbler.com/wisconsinite.php. I'll see which of these aren't already posted there and add them when I get the chance.

[joanm53204]

Thanks, Crys! Some made me laugh, some I didn't "get", and some are sooo true!

[AlumniClub]

How about...you shovel / snowblow on thursday and friday youre cutting your lawn

[AJE]

A Wisconsin forklift operator for a Miller beer distributor was fired when a picture was published in a newspaper showing him drinking a Bud Light. :!: :wink:

[AJE]

Wisconsin: Come Cut The Cheese :P

Wisconsin: Come Smell our Dairy Air
:P

[AJE]

The "Dull Men's Hall of Fame" is located in Carroll, Wisconsin.

[BorderColliesRBest]

i love those!!!!!!!!!!!

gotta show my son, he is such a redneck at only 17! 8O :lol:

[AJE]

When you visit family or friends in other states at Christmas and their only request for gifts is the Wisconsin Cheese.

Sorry CA you may beat us in Quantity but not Quality!!!! Therefore we are the DAIRY HEARTLAND.
:wink:

[pk]

Can anyone think up some new ones to post here?

[Scarberry2003]

Kringle is something you eat with your coffee,,, not Santa's last name!!!!

[dgridley]

"You define swimming season as Labor Day weekend."

hehe.. that's a good one!

[_amber-sue]

Woah! This is SO true! I showed it to my mom, and we both bursted out laughing at most of it. Best read of my life! xD

[pahleh]

Originally Posted by pk

Can anyone think up some new ones to post here?

How about if you say Mantwok, Mwauke, Fonjulac, or Trivers?

[j10asen]

Originally Posted by pk

Can anyone think up some new ones to post here?

I think you are from Wisconsin you would pose the question as follows.

Can't anyone think up some new ones to post here?

So, Ax me a kwesshun and I'll chop away at it.

[dgridley]

Now that's funny

Originally Posted by pahleh

How about if you say Mantwok, Mwauke, Fonjulac, or Trivers?

[j10asen]

Originally Posted by dgridley

Now that's funny

Dave as funny as it is, it is also sad. People actually pronounce those cities like that. I even catch my self doing it.
In the Fox Valley (Kaukauna) a local pulp mill name is Thimany Pulp and Paper. Most people say Tilmany. I am not sure what happen to the H to make it silent!

[dgridley]

I hear ya.. odd how those things happen.. I find myself frustrated by a lot that is mispronounced around here as well but the two things I hate most are people who use "anymore" at the beginning of a sentence, such as, "Anymore, my brother drives the rest of the household crazy" or people who say "The car needs fixed", instead of saying "The car needs TO BE fixed"..

We have a town here spelled Duenweg that is pronounced Done-A-Weg.

Originally Posted by j10asen

Dave as funny as it is, it is also sad. People actually pronounce those cities like that. I even catch my self doing it.
In the Fox Valley (Kaukauna) a local pulp mill name is Thimany Pulp and Paper. Most people say Tilmany. I am not sure what happen to the H to make it silent!

[pahleh]

Looks like other parts of the country have their own idiosyncrasies:

(credit to an unnamed listener to radio KPRC)

Jawl-P? Hilarious.

THINGS I LEARNED LIVING IN TEXAS

A possum is a flat animal that sleeps in the middle of the road.

There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 of them live in Texas.

There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 of them live in Texas, plus a couple no one's seen before.

If it grows, it'll stick ya. If it crawls, it'll bite cha.

Onced and Twiced are words.

It is not a shopping cart, it is a buggy!

Jawl-P? means, Did you all go to the bathroom?

People actually grow, eat and like okra.

Fixinto is one word. It means I'm going to do that.

There is no such thing as lunch. There is only dinner and then there's supper.

Iced tea is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it when you're two. We do like a little tea with our sugar. It is referred to as the Wine of Texas.

Backwards and forwards means I know everything about you.

The word jeet is actually a question meaning, 'Did you eat?'

You don't have to wear a watch, because it doesn't matter what time it is, you work until you're done or it's too dark to see.

You don't PUSH buttons, you MASH em.

Ya'll is singular. All ya'll is plural.

All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect, or animal.

You carry jumper cables in your car - for your OWN car.

You only own five spices: salt, pepper, mustard, Tabasco and ketchup.

The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require 6 pages for local high school sports, the motor sports, and gossip.

You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.

You know what a hissy fit is and you don’t have em you pitch em

Fried catfish is the other white meat.

We don't need no dang Driver's Ed. If our mama says we can drive, we can drive!!!

You understand these jokes and forward them to your Texas friends and those who just wish they were from TEXAS.

[pk]

lol thanks pahlah for reminding us that we aren't the only ones (wi) that has some strange ways about us. lol

[pk]

Fonjulac

I hear this alot and I can't stand to listen to someone pronounce this incorrectly.

[pk]

Being from the city of KENOSHA I hear people stumble all the time on how to actually say...KENOSHA! LOL