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 Posted: 02/03/05 - 21:26 Post subject: Jeff Foxworthy's take on Wisconsin Folk
If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 18
inches of 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 it's the coldest spot in the nation, 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 have worn shorts and a parka at the same time, 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 in Wisconsin.
YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRUE WISCONSIN RESIDENT WHEN:
1. "Vacation" means going east or west on US-11 or north or south on US-90 for the week-end.
2. You measure distance in hours.
3. You know several people who have hit a deer more than once.
4. You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back again.
5. You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging
blizzard, without flinching.
6. You see people wearing camouflage & base ball caps at social events (including weddings).
7. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
8. You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend knows how to use them.
9. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
10. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled
with snow.
11. You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and
road construction.
12. Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to
your blue spruce.
13. You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.
14. Down South to you means Illinois.
15 A brat is something you eat.
16. Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new pole shed.
17. You go out to a tail gate party every Friday.
18. Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.
19. You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.
20. You find 0 degrees "a little chilly."
21. You actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to all
your Wisconsin friends.
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gretriever
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Posted: 02/03/05 - 21:33 Post subject:
Except for # 13 
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Posted: 02/03/05 - 21:47 Post subject:
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Posted: 02/03/05 - 22:31 Post subject:
The sad part is that most of that is true..............except it is Highway 10, not 11.................runs right next to my house. We always head east for the weekend.
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runaroundsue
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Posted: 02/04/05 - 14:13 Post subject:
13. you are aware that there is a drinking age, but that for when you are in a tavern, doesn't apply to graduation, wedding, funerals, or any other social gathering.
?highway 11? I knows not where that is???
?what is a pole shed vs a shed-shed??? (I'm thinking MN residensts might know that)
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gretriever
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Posted: 02/04/05 - 14:16 Post subject:
| runaroundsue wrote: | 13. you are aware that there is a drinking age, but that for when you are in a tavern, doesn't apply to graduation, wedding, funerals, or any other social gathering.
?highway 11? I knows not where that is???
?what is a pole shed vs a shed-shed??? (I'm thinking MN residensts might know that) |
I thought there was no Highway 11 either, Sue. But there is - it is east-west and is right near the southern border.
I thought a pole shed was another term for tool (heh-heh-heh) shed.
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runaroundsue
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Posted: 02/04/05 - 14:41 Post subject:
| gretriever wrote: | I thought there was no Highway 11 either, Sue. But there is - it is east-west and is right near the southern border.
I thought a pole shed was another term for tool (heh-heh-heh) shed. |
now toolshed....yep. I'm not allowed one in my neighborhood. Now in Madison, everyone on the block had one. I painted mine, the same color as my house 
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Posted: 02/04/05 - 15:01 Post subject:
| runaroundsue wrote: |
now toolshed....yep. I'm not allowed one in my neighborhood. Now in Madison, everyone on the block had one. I painted mine, the same color as my house |
But more important - did you have the Virgin Mary in the half-bathtub in your front yard?
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