Post something nice about WISCONSIN

[Guy Fawkes]

heres the catch: nothing about cheese!

[Endangered Specie]

1. well, shit... C*****e is my life.

[JVS]

2. Beer and Bratwursts!

[JohnLocke]

3. Oh, dammit!

[Lefty48197]

4. Packers, Old Milwaukee, Door Co.,

and it's only a short drive to the U.P.

[hippiechick]

5. HOCKEY !!!!!!!!!!

oh yeah
oh yeah
oh yeah
oh yeah
oh yeah
oh yeah

... and I grew up there ....

[SmileyBoy]

You gotta be kidding me...

Minnesota is HOCKEY STATE USA, baby!!!

Talk to us when you get an NHL team.

[hippiechick]

7. Junior and College hockey BABY

... they aren't born 6'2, 220 ... they gotta start SOMEWHERE.

[SmileyBoy]

11. Hell, we have that in North Dakota, too...

UND Fighting Sioux
Fargo-Moorhead Jets (NAHL)
Bismarck Bobcats (NAHL)

The difference is that we have a better college team.

(And even though I'm an NDSU student, and UND is our biggest rival, I like to root for UND hockey, because NDSU has no hockey team, and I need my college hockey fix)

[hippiechick]

17. Dare I start ?

U Wisconsin at Madison, how many NCAA D1 hockey titles ?
St Norbert College in DePere, 2nd in NCAA D3, second year running
U WI at River Falls, 5th in NCAA D3, second year running
U WI at Superior, NCAA D3 champions, 2000
Green Bay Gamblers, USHL - which kicks the Tier 2 NAHL's ASS
The Milwaukee Admirals (UHL ?)
hundreds and hundreds of high school and AAA leagues ....

Dude, you SO don't wanna argue hockey with me.
Trust me.

[SmileyBoy]

18. UND has hmmm... How many national hockey championships???

Oh yeah, SEVEN!!!

[fujiyama]

48. Ah

but Detroit is Hockey Town USA!!!

Unfortunately, we got our asses kicked by the Flames! Of all the teams...

[hippiechick]

6. Bob LaFollette, Orson Welles, Harrison Ford, Harry Houdini ...

lemme think, I'll remember some more ...

Frank Lloyd Wright
Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Violent Femmes
Eric Heiden

[TheMightyFavog]

27. Heather Graham, Les Paul,

Oprah Winfrey (Went to High School in Milwaukee)
Pee Wee King
The Bo'Deans

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

8. Rhinelander, Eagle River, Bayfield, Apostle Islands, Milwaulkee..

,,,and a great public radio station from the Cour Des Orellies indian reservation....

[Mattforclark]

9. Yon Yonson

lives there!

[Lefty48197]

10. I was born there

tops everything but Bob LaFollette, the Packers, and Old Milwaukee.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

12. My childhood best friend was from Wisconsin.........

Fond du Lac, to be exact.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

13. Lake Geneva..the quintessential Midwestern summer lake resort

complete with vintage excursion steamers cruising the Lake...

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

14. Madison, one of the most unique settings for a US capital......

,,,a city built on an isthmus between two large lakes, and that cruciform capital building...with the outdoor promenade on the dome so you can take in the very "Wisconsin" landscape....

[Lefty48197]

22. State St.

don't forget State St.

[NightTrain]

51. Not to mention the hometown of The Progressive magazine.

That's reason enough to love Wisconsin. Ya!

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

15. Oscar Myer Wienermobile and Evinrude Outboard Motors...

..both from Wisconsin.

[Bertha Venation]

16. badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger

badger badger badger badger
mushroom mushroom

[Guy Fawkes]

21. YAY!!! kick!

[bubba_fett]

19. 16 posts, and no one has yet mentioned Russ Feingold

For shame!

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

20. The Milwaulkee Road!...one of Americans great railroads..

The Chicago, Milwualkee, St Paul, & Pacific, CMStP&P, or Milwaulkee Road, was one of the great and unique US railroads...based in Milwaulkee it ran, ultimatly, to the west coast (via a partially electrified line),

and had one of the great streamliners, the Hiawathas

http://store4.yimg.com/I/singularselections_1789_184188...

[Lefty48197]

23. Harley Davison

How did it take this long?

[marigold20]

24. Dave Obey!

He does not suffer fools gladly.

[TheMightyFavog]

25. The Glarner Stube in New Glarus....

Home of the biggest urinal in the midwest.

It's like pissing in a large porcalien sarcophagus.


The food kicks ass, too. I reccomend the fondue and the Swiss vegetable soup.

[TheMightyFavog]

26. Leinenkugel's

End of Line.

[Rabrrrrrr]

35. Leine BOCK!

[Fenris]

28. WhitacreD_WI

It's nice that he's far, far away from me.

[CTLawGuy]

29. I'd rather live there than Iowa

NT

[Catshrink]

30. From the dairy state:

[Archae]

31. THE best part of WI

I live there!

[bobthedrummer]

32. Vernon County!

[Rabrrrrrr]

33. Birthplace of the Republican party - the real one, not this crappy

simulacrum of the republican party. We're talking Lincoln's republican party.

[Rabrrrrrr]

34. It's God's country!

and that's verifiable.

[Rabrrrrrr]

36. Very low liquor tax

As Lewis Black said, "What, do you people have some kind of federal grant for drinking? Hell, even after paying for airfare, if I come to Wisconsin and drink for three days it's still cheaper than staying in New York."

[ewagner]

37. Nice people

low crime rate.

Russ Feingold, Dave Obey, Ashland, Chequamegon Bay, Big Top Chetaqua, Oshkosh EAA Convention/Fly-In, Cool summer evenings on any inland lake, sailing on Lake Superior, Friday Night Fish Fry, and yeah, my son was born and raised here........

[Angelus]

38. They have a lot of cheese.

That's the only good thing about it. Don't say the Packers are good....this Vikings fan says they suck.

[LTR]

39. Me!

And Usingers sausage.

And the weather's not as cold as Minnesota.

[DemoTex]

40. Oshkosh

The USA answer to the great airshows (Paris, Farnbourgh, and Singapore).

[ScreamingMeemie]

41. MrsGrumpy was born there....

n/t

[IronLionZion]

42. 10,000 years, tidal wave free!

[Viking12]

44. But we did have that pesky glacier a while back ...

but it did leave some awfully nice lakes so I guess it was a good thing.

[TheMightyFavog]

47. Well, most of us had the glacier....

And then there's the Driftless area.... Really beautiful part of the state, have not been down there in ages.

[Viking12]

43. Me, my family, and salmon fishing on Lake Michigan!!

Yummmy!!!

I have lived here for less than a year but it is really growing on me. I've met a lot of really great people even though I live in the birthplace of Joe McCarthy and the john Birch Society (sorry to bring up bad things -- but, hey, they're both dead)

[fishnfla]

45. brats, booyah, summerfest

door county
rabrrrrr
archae
mrsgrumpy
bobthedrummer
hippiechick
door county
geese
nicolet national forest
lambeau field
state street
mifflin street
the union
saigon68
ewagner
jackpineradical
htuttle
the brewers
the badgers
donna shalala
the foxriver
the wolf river
kewaunee
smelt fishing
deer hunting
beer
jonathanchance
chilton truckers
milwaukee
eagle river
threelakes
my virginity
snow
ice
madison
brush run 101
bluegrass festival
oneida tribe
lac du flambeau tribe
mole lake
brett favre

[carols]

46. The most creative liberals in the country...

Also my husband is from Wisconsin...but I digress...
Carol

[AngryAmish]

49. I am going fishing there in six hours

[CO Liberal]

50. Miller High Life, "The Champaign of Bottled Beer"

At least that was their slogan back in the '50s when I was a kid.