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Archae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-12-04 02:55 PM
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You know you're from Wisconsin...
You can taste a difference in cheese made somewhere else

You own at least one tie with a or peice of jewelry with a Green Bay Packer theme

You can find and pronounce : Eau Claire, Oconomowoc, Menomonee Falls, Waukesha, and La Crosse, Fond du Lac.

You can correctly spell Milwaukee.

You know what "bubbler" means.

At least one of your family members works / worked in a cheese factory.

A holstein cow outside of Wisconsin makes you miss home.

You can taste the difference between apples grown up north and the ones that you can buy in the south.

When talking about the Green Bay Packers you refer to them as "we".

When the weather hits 0 degrees you decide that maybe it's time to get out a jacket instead of a sweatshirt.

The family gets together every week for fish fry at the local pub.

You know what a brat is, and they're at every outdoor event that your family has ever had.

You know how to make a very good sled out of normal household items.

Your love you outdoor pool because of how it doubles as an ice skating area during the winter.

You can tell the difference between the smell of cow manure and pig manure.

You have watched Fargo and not noticed an accent.

You drive around with the air conditioning on until it hits 30 degrees, because it just was so darn hot outside.

The local paper needs 6 pages to cover the Packers... in July!

Your best shirt has a big letter G on it.

You've said "Of course they'll win. They're God's team."

You think it's nice enough to swim when the temperature hits 50.

You family owns a "winter car" while the "good one" sits in the garage from Nov-Apr.

Your put ketchup on a charcoal grilled NY strip steak.

You live in a house that has no front steps, yet the door is one yard above the ground.

You think everyone from south of Madison has an accent.

You can identify a Michigan accent.

Down South to you means Chicago.

Traveling coast to coast means going from Superior to Milwaukee.

You can make sense out of the words "upnort" and "Trivers".

You have to go to Florida to get a tan in August.

You consider Madison exotic.

You can visit Luxemburg, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Berlin, New London & Poland all in one afternoon.

You can recognize someone from Illinois from their driving.

You buy cat litter every winter, but you don't own a cat.

At least twice a year, the kitchen doubles as a meat processing plant or cannery.

You know what to do with a Blatz.

You don't have a coughing fit from one sip of Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Bucky the Badger hangs on your Christmas tree even if you didn't go to University of Wisconsinm Madison.

You're a member of the Polar Bear Club and proud of it.

You can use the word "ya der hey" easily in a sentence

You hear someone use the words "uff-dah" and you don't immediately break into uncontrollable laughter.

Your whole family wears green and gold to church on Sunday.

Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a cow next to your blue spruce.

You know how to polka

You own a cheesehead

You have cow pharaphenilia around your house, including your pajama pants

You know what a FIB is and can spot them a mile away.

You think of the major four food groups as cheese, beer, brats and Jell-O salad with marshmallows.

FFA was the most popular club in high school

You have eaten a cow pie at the State Fair.

There was at least one kid in your class who had to help milk cows in the morning

Country Kitchen is the place to meet after the party

You have ever seen or played in a "broom ball" game.

You have ever partied at Summerfest, Festa Italiana, German Fest, Irish Fest, Oktoberfest, or all of the above.

You or someone you know was a "Dairy Princess" at a county fair.

You can't be friends with a Vikings fan

Your idea of diversity is having black, white, and brown cows.

You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Wisconsin.
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shaolinmonkey Donating Member (812 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-12-04 02:58 PM
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1. Madison *is* exotic.
I'm there right now. And only 30 miles from New Glarus, home of Spotted Cow beer. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-12-04 03:06 PM
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3. And we're only a few miles from the Mustard Museum in Mt Horeb, too
It's worth a visit sometime. Lots of different mustards! Just the thing to dip those pretzel sticks in!

You betcha.

:)

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fudge stripe cookays Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-12-04 03:10 PM
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6. reprehensor had to bring the bottle for that
back from Wisconsin cuz he liked it so much. Cute artwork.

First really good German food I had-- Essen Haus, Madison Wisconsin!

FSC
3/4 Kraut
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XNASA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-12-04 03:00 PM
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2. Yah hey dare, Arch.....
I'm a FIB, yah fer sure, but I have a soft place for Wisconsin.

I'll be up in Door next month, for the Fall Festival. My retirement plans include being a duck driver in the Dells. LOL!!!
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Racenut20 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-12-04 03:06 PM
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4. And you know where St Olaf is?
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fudge stripe cookays Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-12-04 03:09 PM
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5. And you know your roots in Wisconsin run deep....
when you've never lived there, have visited only once in your life, but know just about all of those on the list!

I got ancestors buried all over cemeteries in Rock & Calumet Counties.

I LOVED Wisconsin when we visited. Especially the Canterbury Inn in Madison. :D
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fishnfla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-12-04 03:11 PM
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7. yah der hey, Arch
Thanks for that, its a ripper!
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AngryAmish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-12-04 03:12 PM
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8. Anyone ever been to the Norske Nook?
I stopped by the one in Osseo twice earlier this summer. What awesome pies. The food is great, too.
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AlinPA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-12-04 03:18 PM
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9. We went there in late June. Nice people. Please, what's a "bubbler"?
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fishnfla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-12-04 03:21 PM
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10. water fountain nt
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Tardisian Donating Member (151 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-12-04 04:00 PM
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11. I've got nephews
that have grandparents in Tomah...ok, the only thing I didn't get was "FIB"....explain, please?

The grandparents in Tomah have a dairy farm...cows, of course, pigs, ect. 4H was the big thing for all their kids, with many blue ribbons won for livestock and homemade goods.
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Archae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-12-04 04:08 PM
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12. FIB
What we call the tourists from Illinois.

F***ing Illinois Bastards. :-)

The ones who drive like idiots on the highway, dump their crap (especially their ashtrays) anywhere they want, (like at gas stations on the ground, not in the garbage,) and vote GOP.
Oh, and are Bears fans. ;-)
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Tardisian Donating Member (151 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-12-04 04:25 PM
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13. Thanks...
Archae.
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Archae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-12-04 04:44 PM
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14. One they forgot
What a "troll" is in Wisconsin and Michigan. :-)
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Don_G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-12-04 04:46 PM
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15. You know what Cheese Curds are
The Kentucky Derby was serving cheese curds from Wisconsin and they sounded like something else :puke:.
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