Jeff Foxworthy on Wisconsin
If
you consider it a sport to gather your food by
drilling through 38 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 Park Falls 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 in
Wisconsin .
If
you know how to say Oconomowoc, Waukesha ,
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 .
YOU
KNOW YOU ARE A TRUE WISCONSINITE WHEN:
1.
Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to
pass a tractor on the highway.
2.
'Vacation' means going up north past Hwy 8 for the
weekend.
3.
You measure distance in hours.
4.
You know several people who have hit deer more than
once.
5.
You often switch from 'heat' to 'A/C' in the same
day and back again.
6.
Your whole family wears Packer Green to church on
Sunday.
7.
You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during
a raging blizzard, without flinching.
8.
You see people wearing camouflage at social events
(including weddings and funerals ).
9.
You install security lights on your house and garage
and leave both unlocked.
10.
You think of the major food groups as beer, fish,
and venison.
11.
You carry jumper cables in your car and your wife
or girlfriend knows how to use them.
12.
There are 7 empty cars running in the parking lot at
Mill's Fleet Farm at any given time.
13.
You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over
a snowsuit.
14.
Driving is better in the winter because the potholes
are filled with
snow.
15.
You refer to the Packers as 'we.'
16.
You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still
winter and road construction.
17.
You can identify a southern or eastern accent.
18.
You have no problem pronouncing Lac Du Flambeau.
19.
You consider Minneapolis exotic.
20.
You know how to polka.
21.
Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a
deer next to your blue spruce.
22.
You were unaware that there is a legal drinking
age.
23.
Down South to you means Illinois .
24. A
brat is something you eat.
25.
Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new
pole shed.
26.
You go out to fish fry every Friday
27.
Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to
frost.
28.
You have more miles on your snow blower than your
car.
29.
You find minus twenty degrees 'a little chilly.'
30.
You actually understand these jokes, and you forward
them to all your Wisconsin friends.