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D&SYukonDenali Senior Enthusiast

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You know your from Wisconsin when:

 

Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway.

 

"Vacation" means going up north past Hwy 8 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.

 

Your whole family wears Packer Green to church on Sunday.

 

You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.

 

You see people wearing camouflage at social events (including weddings and funerals ).

 

You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.

 

You think of the major food groups as beer, more beer,fish and venison.

 

You carry jumper cables in your car and your wife or girlfriend knows how to use them.

There are 7 empty cars running in the parking lot at Mill's Fleet Farm at any given time.

 

You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.

Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.

 

You refer to the Packers as "we."

 

You know all 4 s easons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction.

 

You can identify a southern or eastern accent.

 

You have no problem pronouncing Lac Du Flambeau.

 

You consider Minneapolis exotic.

 

You know how to polka.

 

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

 

You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.

 

Down South to you means Illinois.

 

A brat is something you eat.

 

Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new pole shed.

 

You go out to a fish fry every Friday night.

 

Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.

 

You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.

 

You find minus twenty degrees "a little chilly."

pennzoil29 Senior Enthusiast

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I liked this one.You know all 4 s easons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction. It's almost as bad as Ohio's state tree. You've heard of it. It's called the orange barrel.

BuckFeverZ Senior Enthusiast

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Doesn't apply to me any more since I'm over 21 now, but this one is 100% accurate:

 

You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.

 

:(

D&SYukonDenali Senior Enthusiast

D&SYukonDenali

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More stuff:

 

Jeff Foxworthy on Wisconsin

 

 

If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 38 inches o f ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by, you might live in Wisconsin.

 

 

If you're proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights each year because Rice Lake is the coldest spot in the nation, you might live in Wisconsin.

 

 

If you have ever refused to buy something because it's "too pricey," you might live in Wisconsin.

 

 

If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March, you might live in Wisconsin.

 

 

If you instinctively walk like a penguin for five months out of the year, you might live in Wisconsin.

 

 

If someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don't work there, you might live in Wisconsin.

 

 

If your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead, you might live in Wisconsin.

 

 

If you may not have actually eaten it, but you have heard of Head Cheese, you might live in Wisconsin.

 

 

If you have worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you might live in Wisconsin.

 

 

If you have either a pet or a child named "Brett," you might live in Wisconsin.

 

 

If your town has an equal number of bars and churches, you might live in Wisconsin.

 

 

If you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you might live inWisconsin.

 

 

If you know how to say Oconomowoc, Waukesha, Waunakee, Stoughton, Menomonie & Manitowoc, you might live in Wisconsin.

 

 

If you think that ketchup is a little too spicy, you might live in Wisconsin.

 

 

If every time you see moonlight on a lake, you think of a dancing bear, and you sing gently, "From the land of sky-blue waters,"....you might live in Wisconsin.

takevin Senior Enthusiast

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Being from illinois here, friends are always saying the three best things from Wisconsin is cheese, firecrackers and porn. Traveling up the highway to Wi with all the cheese, firecracker and porn stores that are up there off the expressway!! :(:banghead::devil:

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<br />Being from illinois here, friends are always saying the three best things from Wisconsin is cheese, firecrackers and porn. Traveling up the highway to Wi with all the cheese, firecracker and porn stores that are up there off the expressway!! <img src="style_emoticons/default/lol.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="lol.gif" /> <img src="style_emoticons/default/lol.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":banghead:" border="0" alt="lol.gif" /> <img src="style_emoticons/default/lol.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":devil:" border="0" alt="lol.gif" /><br />
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I second that!

D&SYukonDenali Senior Enthusiast

D&SYukonDenali

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Being from illinois here, friends are always saying the three best things from Wisconsin is cheese, firecrackers and porn. Traveling up the highway to Wi with all the cheese, firecracker and porn stores that are up there off the expressway!! :banghead::devil::devil:

 

 

That's my stretch of road on I94.

 

The state needs to create a special route for IL plates when coming up here to spend money; that way you guys are not screwing up the rest of traffic around here :M16:

 

It's funny because everytime I see some get cut off, jolt across two lanes of traffic, make an illegal turn, or just turn out in front of someone it is 95% of the time an IL plate. I have to deal with IL crappy traffic every week day going to work, now I have to wage that battle on my home turf on the weekends :(

rvsahs Senior Enthusiast

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Doesn't apply to me any more since I'm over 21 now, but this one is 100% accurate:

 

You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.

 

:devil:

+1!! Visited the Univ of Wisconsin in Madison years ago, had several brewskis at the student union out on the back deck overlooking the lake... that is something you can't do down here in the "Bible belt". :banghead::(

L29er Senior Enthusiast

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Is going to the waukesha engine plant in waukesha wisconsin worth seing? i`ve seen some pictures and thought it would be really cool to see. In my line of work i service and repair their products, and possibly needing to get some training at the facility, i have great intrest to see it, has anyone been there? Is it really neat or what?

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