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Subject: Ya know you're from
Wisconsin if......
It is common for the wedding
party to go home and do chores between the wedding service and the
reception.
The town you grew up in had a bar called Ma's Place.
Your
best shirt has a big letter G on it.
You know how to polka, but never tried
it sober.
FFA was the most popular club in high school.
You've seen a
Hodag, or, at least you think that's what it was.
You know what's knee-high
by the Fourth of July.
You know it's traditional for the bride and groom to
go bar hopping between the ceremony and the reception.
You know that there
is no 'r' in Wausau.
You were delighted to get a miniature snow shovel for
your 3rd birthday.
You buy your Christmas presents at Fleet
Farm.
You are a connoisseur of cheese curds, and find anyone unfamiliar
with them to be frighteningly foreign.
You own at least one cheese
head.
You immediately think of fishing when you hear the name
"Shakespeare."
You spent more on beer than you did on food at your
wedding.
You know that Kaukauna is NOT a Hawaiian Island.
You hear
someone use the word "oof-dah" and you don't immediately break
into uncontrollable laughter.
You think fast food is hitting a deer at
65 mph.
You or someone you know was a "Dairy Princess" at a county
fair.
You know that "combine" is a noun.
You know what a FIB is.
You
know that a pastie is not an article of clothing.
You let your older
siblings talk you into putting your tongue on a steel post.
You think
Lutheran and Catholic are THE major religions.
You can tell the difference
between "real Wisconsin cheese" and "that Illinois stuff."
You know that
creek rhymes with pick.
Your class took a field trip to a brewery.
. in second grade.
Football schedules are checked before wedding
dates are set.
You can visit Luxemburg, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Berlin,
and Poland all in one afternoon.
A Friday night date is taking your
girlfriend shining for deer.
There was at least one kid in your class who
had to help milk cows in the morning!
You have driven your car on a
lake.
You can make sense out of the words "upnort" and "batree."
The
Packers will always be better than the Vikings, no matter what
the standings are.
You know that De Pere is not a wooden structure
extending into "Da Lake."
You can leave your ice cream in the car while you
go into Fleet Farm to buy Christmas presents and it won't melt.
You
always believed that vacation meant "going up north."
You have more fishing
poles than teeth.
At every wedding you have been to you have had to dance
the hoky poky and the chicken dance.
You know what a bubbler
is.
Your definition of a small town is one that only has one bar.
The
local gas station sells live bait.
At least twice a year, the kitchen
doubles as a meat processing plant.
You laugh out loud every time you see a
news report about a blizzard shutting down the entire east coast.
Your
mom asks, "Were you born in a barn?" and you know exactly what
she means.
You include beer as one of the major food groups.
You know
which leaves make good toilet paper.
Your sexy lingerie is tube socks and a
flannel nightie.
You are a member of the Polar Bear Club and proud of
it.
You think the start of deer season is a national holiday.
You
learned to drive a tractor before the training wheels were off
your bike.
Your bank has the name of your town included in its
name.
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