KaGee
Admiral
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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. <br /><br />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. <br /><br />If you have ever refused to buy something because it's "too spendy," you might live in Wisconsin. <br /><br />If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March, you might live in Wisconsin. <br /><br />If you instinctively walk like a penguin for five months out of the year, you might live in Wisconsin. <br /><br />If someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don't work there, you might live in Wisconsin. <br /><br />If your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead, you might live in Wisconsin.<br /><br />If you have worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you might live in Wisconsin. <br /><br />If you have either a pet or a child named "Brett," you might live in Wisconsin. <br /><br />If your town has an equal number of bars and churches, you might live in Wisconsin. <br /><br />If you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you might live in Wisconsin. <br /><br />If you know how to say Oconomowoc, Waukesha, Menomonie & Manitowoc, you might live in Wisconsin. <br /><br />If you think that ketchup is a little too spicy, you might live in Wisconsin. <br /><br />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. <br /><br />YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRUE WISCONSINITE WHEN: <br /><br />1. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway. <br /><br />2. "Vacation" means going up north past Hwy 8 for the weekend. <br /><br />3. You measure distance in hours. <br /><br />4. You know several people who have hit deer more than once. <br /><br />5. You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back again. <br /><br />6. Your whole family wears Packer Green to church on Sunday. <br /><br />7. You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching. <br /><br />8. You see people wearing camouflage at social events (including weddings and funerals ). <br /><br />9. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked. <br /><br />10. You think of the major food groups as beer, fish, and venison. <br /><br />11. You carry jumper cables in your car and your wife or girlfriend knows how to use them. <br /><br />12. There are 7 empty cars running in the parking lot at Mill's Fleet Farm at any given time. <br /><br />13. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit. <br /><br />14. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow. <br /><br />15. You refer to the Packers as "we." <br /><br />16. You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction. <br /><br />17. You can identify a southern or eastern accent. <br /><br />18. You have no problem pronouncing Lac Du Flambeau. <br /><br />19. You consider Minneapolis exotic. <br /><br />20. You know how to polka. <br /><br />21. Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to your blue spruce. <br /><br />22. You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age. <br /><br />23. Down South to you means Illinois. <br /><br />24. A brat is something you eat. <br /><br />25. Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new pole shed. <br /><br />26. You go out to fish fry every Friday <br /><br />27. Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost. <br /><br />28. You have more miles on your snow blower than your car. <br /><br />29. You find minus twenty degrees "a little chilly." <br /><br />30. You actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to all your Wisconsin friends.
