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Your
whole family wears green and gold to church on Sunday.
You define summer as three months
of bad sledding.
Snow tires come standard on all your cars.
You
refer to the Packers as "we."
You have gotten frostbitten and
sunburned in the same week.
You can identify an Illinois accent.
You
know what cow-tipping is.
You learned to drive a tractor
before the training wheels were off your bike.
Down South to you means Chicago.
Traveling
coast to coast means going from La Crosse to Milwaukee.
A brat is something you eat.
You know that Eau Claire is not something you
eat.
You
have no problem spelling Milwaukee.
You consider Madison exotic.
You got a passport to go to Minnesota.
You
don't have a coughing fit from one sip of Pabst Blue
Ribbon.
You can actually pronounce Oconomowoc.
You know what a bubbler is.
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.
You go out for fish fry every Friday.
You can recognize someone from
Illinois from their driving.
You
know how to polka.
You drink soda and refer to your
dad as "pop."
Formal
wear is blue jeans & a baseball cap.
You were unaware there is a legal
drinking age.
Your 4th of July Family Picnic was moved indoors due
to frost.
You
know where Waukesha is AND can pronounce it.
You decided to have a picnic this
summer because it fell on a weekend.
You only know three spices: salt,
pepper, and ketchup.
You
can visit Luxemburg, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Berlin,
New London,
& Poland all in one afternoon.
You
design your Halloween costumes to fit over a snowsuit.
You've seen mosquitoes with landing
lights.
You have more miles on your snowblower than your car.
You
enjoy driving in the winter because the potholes fill
in with snow.
You owe more money on your snowmobile
than on your car.
Your snowblower gets stuck on the roof.
The
local paper covers major headlines on 1 page, but requires
4 pages for sports.
At
least twice a year, your kitchen doubles as a meat processing
plant.
You
think the start of deer season is a national holiday.
You
find 0 degrees a little chilly.
You know what to do with a Blatz.
You've
never met any celebrities.
You
know the difference between a Badger and a Buckeye.
You know what a FIB is and can
spot them a mile away.
Your idea of a traffic jam is
10 cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway.
"Vacation"
means playing miniature golf at the Dells.
You've seen all the biggest bands in concert 10 years
after they were popular.
You
know several people who have hit a deer.
You've ridden the school bus for
an hour each way.
You think ethanol makes your truck "run a lot better."
You
know what's knee-high by the Fourth of July.
You hear someone use the word "oof-dah" and you don't
immediately break into uncontrollable laughter.
You see people wear bib overalls
at funerals.
A
clean bowling shirt is appropriate attire for a wedding.
You carry jumper cables in your
car.
You
see a car running in the parking lot at the store with
no one in it, no matter what time of the year.
All the festivals across the state
are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain or animal.
You install security lights on your house and garage
and then leave both unlocked.
You
think of the major four food groups as cheese, beer,
brats and Jell-O salad with marshmallows.
You know which leaves make good toilet paper.
You know all four seasons: Almost
Winter, Winter, Still Winter and Construction.
You actually understand these jokes.
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