You know you're from Wisconsin if:
- Your definition of a small town is one that
has only one bar
- Snow tires come standard on all your cars
- The local paper needs 6 pages to cover the
Packers... in July!
- You can make sense out the words "upnort" and
"Trivers"
- You can identify a Michigan accent
- You think it's nice enough to swim when the
temperature hits 50
- You hear someone use the words "uff-dah" and
you don't immediately break into uncontrollable laughter.
- You know what cow-tipping is
- "Down South" means Chicago
- You can tell the difference between the smell
of cow manure and pig manure.
- Traveling coast to coast means going from
LaCrosse to Milwaukee
- The Big Three means Miller, Old Milwaukee &
Pabst Blue Ribbon
- A brat is something you eat, and they're at
every outdoor event that your family has ever had.
- FFA was the most popular club in high school –
and you know what FFA is.
- You can taste a
difference in cheese made somewhere else
- You family owns a
"winter car" while the "good one" sits in the garage from Nov-Apr.
- You were offended by the movie Fargo –
furthermore, you did NOT notice an accent
- You know that Eau Claire is not something you
eat
- You have no problem spelling Milwaukee
- You got a passport to go to Minnesota
- You don't have a coughing fit from one sip of
Pabst Blue Ribbon
- You know that Gotham is a real city
- You can actually pronounce Oconomowoc,
Menomonee Falls, Waukesha, and La Crosse, Fond du Lac.
- You know what a bubbler is
- You have cow paraphernalia around your house,
including your pajama pants
- Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue
of a cow next to your blue spruce
- Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his
new machine shed
- A Friday night out is taking your girlfriend
shining for deer
- You go out for fish fry every Friday – at the
Corner Bar
- Your love you outdoor pool because of how it
doubles as an ice skating area during the winter
- You think of the major four food groups as
cheese, beer, brats and Jell-O salad with marshmallows.
- You or someone you know was a "Dairy Princess"
at a county fair.
- You have eaten a cow pie at the State Fair.
- You know what a FIB is and can spot them a
mile away.
- You can recognize someone from Illinois from
their driving
- Bernie Brewer is your idol because he gets to
dive in a giant beer mug.
- You know how to polka
- A Holstein cow outside of Wisconsin makes you
miss home
- You drink soda and refer to your dad as pop
- Formal wear is a flannel shirt, blue jeans & a
baseball cap
- You tried to tap the Worlds Largest Six Pack
- You were unaware there is a legal drinking age
- You define swimming season as Labor Day
weekend
- You know where the city of Waunakee is and can
pronounce it
- 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.
- There was at least one kid in your class who
had to help milk cows in the morning
- Your whole family wears green and gold to
church on Sunday.
- You have ever partied at Summerfest, Festa
Italiana, German Fest, Irish Fest, Oktoberfest, or all of the above.
- When the weather hits 0 degrees you decide
that maybe it's time to get out a jacket instead of a sweatshirt
- Bucky the Badger hangs on your Christmas tree
even if you didn't go to University of Wisconsin Madison.
- You think everyone from south of Madison has
an accent.
- Your three favorite spices are salt, pepper
and ketchup
- When talking about the Green Bay Packers you
refer to them as "we".
- You design you Halloween costumes to fit over
a snowsuit
- You own a cheesehead, but then doesn’t
everybody?
- You've seen mosquitoes with landing lights
- Your put ketchup on a charcoal grilled NY
strip steak
- You have more miles on your snowblower 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
- You know how to make a very good sled out of
normal household items.
- You owe more money on your snowmobile than on
your car
- The local paper covers major headlines on ¼
page but requires four pages for sports.
- At least twice a year, your kitchen doubles as
a meat processing plant
- You own at least one tie with a or piece of
jewelry with a Green Bay Packer theme
- At least one of your family members works /
worked in a cheese factory.
- You can use the word "ya der hey" easily in a
sentence
- Your snowblower gets stuck on the roof
- You drive around with the air conditioning on
until it hits 30 degrees, because it just was so darn hot outside.
- You think the start of deer season is a
national holiday
- You know which leaves make the best toilet
paper
- Country Kitchen is the place to meet after the
party
- You find 0 degrees a little chilly
- The trunk of you car doubles as a deep freezer
- You know what to do with a Blatz
- Your idea of diversity is having black, white,
and brown cows.
- You buy cat litter every winter, but you don't
own a cat.
- You don't know that Schlitz, Blatz, and Pabst
aren't brewed in Milwaukee anymore
- You know people who have tied dead animals to
the hoods of their cars.
- You know what a "Supper Club" is.
- Formal wear is a flannel shirt, blue jeans &
a Packers hat
- You were unaware there is a legal drinking age
- You actually understand these jokes
- You forward them to all your Wisconsin friends