Now I have to do one for Wisconsinites

[Rhettsgreygal]

You know you are a true Wisconsinite when:

1. "Vacation" means going up north past Crivitz for the weekend.
2. You measure distance in hours.
3. You know several people who have hit deer more than once.
4. You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back again.
5. Your whole family wears green and gold to church on Sunday.
6. You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.
7. You see people wearing hunting clothes at social events.
8. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
9. You think of the major food groups as cheese, beer, fish, and venison.
10. You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend knows how to use them.
11. There are 7 empty cars running in the parking lot at the Farm and Fleet at any given time.
12. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
13. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
14. You refer to the Packers as "we."
15. You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction.
16. You can identify an Illinois accent.
17. You have no problem spelling Milwaukee.
18. You consider Madison exotic.
19. You don't have a coughing fit from one sip of Pabst Blue Ribbon.
20. Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a cow next to your blue spruce.
21. You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.
22. Down South to you means Chicago.
23. A brat is something you eat.
24. Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new machine shed.
25. You go out to fish fry every Friday.
26. You know how to polka.
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 know what to do with a Blatz.
30. You define Summer as three months of bad sledding...
31. Your definition of a small town is one that only has one bar...
32. Snow tires come standard on all your cars...
33. At least 50% of your relatives work on a dairy farm...
34. You can make sense out of the words upnort and Trivers...
35. You have ever gotten frostbitten and sunburned in the same week...
36. You can identify a Michigan accent...
37. You know what "cow-tipping" is.....
38. You learned to drive a tractor before the training wheels were off your bike...
39. Traveling coast to coast means going from Superior to Milwaukee...
40. The "Big Three" means Miller, Old Milwaukee & PBR...
41. You were offended by the movie "Fargo"...
42. You know that Eau Claire is not something you eat.....
43. You got a passport to go to Minnesota...
44. Your idea of foreign culture is listening to Da Yoopers...
45. Youve seen a hodag...
46. You used to think Deer Season was included as an official school holiday...
47. You know that Gotham is a real city...
48. You can actually pronounce and spell Oconomowoc...
49. You know what a bubbler is.....
50. The snow on your roof in August weighs more than you do...
51. You think there should be a "FIB go home" bumper sticker on every car north of Madison...
52. A Friday night out is taking your girlfriend shining for deer...
53. You go to work in a snowsuit in the morning and return home wearing shorts...
54. When you tell someone where you are from and they say: 'I thought that was part of Canada...
55. Bernie Brewer is your idol because he gets to dive in a giant beer mug...
56. Your idea of diversity is having black, white, and brown cows...
57. You drink "soda" and refer to your dad as "pop"...
58. Formal wear is a flannel shirt, blue jeans and a baseball cap...
59. You tried to tap the "World's Largest Six Pack"...
60. Your children describe their summer vacation out of state as a "trip to Door County..."
61. You have to go to Florida to get a tan in August...
62. You have caught a fish in Lake Michigan and it glowed in the dark...
63. You define "swimming season" as Labor Day weekend...
64. You know where the city of Waunakee is AND can pronounce it... (by the way, Waunakee is a village!)
65. You can visit Luxemburg, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, and Poland all in one afternoon...
66. You have more fishing poles than teeth...
67. You decided to have a picnic this summer because it fell on a weekend...
68. You have been involved in a "drive-by hay bailing".....
69. 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
70. Youre proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights each year because Park Falls is the coldest spot in the nation
71. You have ever refused to buy something because its too spendy
72. Your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March
73. You instinctively walk like a penguin for five months out of the year
74. Someone in a store offers you assistance, and they dont work there
75. Your dads suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead
76. You may not have actually eaten it, but you have heard of Head Cheese
77. You have worn shorts and a parka at the same time
78. Your town has an equal number of bars and churches
79. You have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed wrong number
80. You know how to say Oconomowoc, Waukesha, Menomonie & Manitowoc
81. You think that ketchup is a little too spicy
82. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway.
83. You have no problem pronouncing Lac Du Flambeau.
84. You find minus twenty degrees a little chilly.

 

[Wifezilla]

I considered Fargo to be a documentary! The rest are all true

 

[i_am2bz]

Since I grew up "across the Big Lake" from Milwaukee, I can appreciate these.

 

[calendula]

Too true!

 

[Leta]

You Know You're a Yooper When...

A trip to the islands means a trip to Mackinac or Bois Blanc.
You use the Yooper Rule of Apostrophes: dinty = didn't he; shounta = shouldn't have; and wounta = wouldn't have. Gotta love the U.P. Language!
The word "Eh" seems to find its way onto the end of every sentence.
You leave your beers outside to get cold.
You refer to downtown Iron Mountain as a classic example of urban decay.
You can pronounce names like "Koivisto" and "Bioneneimi" and you realize that no, they aren't Italian.
You can spell Ahmeek, know what Ahmeek means, and know where it is.
You drive to Traverse City to tan on the beaches.
You know what they grow in dat dere Garden Peninsula.
Your bitter family feud comes to a head over the annual Lions-Packers game.
You've ever had a snow day after Mother's Day.
Your county spends more time and money on the snowmobile trails than they do the state highways.
More businesses close in the summer than in the winter due to the season.
You've been to Holiday and ShopKo more times than you care to count, but you've never been to Dunkin Donuts or a 7-11.
The cops have ever pulled you over on a snowmobile.
The police backup in a high speed chase is the DNR.
You only get channels 6 and 13, and you don't mind.
"Jumping the border" means a beer run to Hurley.
Your class valedictorian is a logger.
You think fine dining is a pasty and a Pabst.
You have a bumper sticker that says "Say ya to da UP, eh!."
Your school has a 8th grade graduation. (Shoutout to Big Bay and Onota!)
You have a "camp", not a "cottage", and you can pay the taxes on your camp from the proceeds of beer can returns.
The smell of snowmobile exhaust reminds you of Christmas.
You plan your vacation around deer season.
You use venison hamburger to make chili.
Going up north means a hunting trip to Canada.
When your neighbor plows your driveway and you pay him with Yooper currency: a frozen lake trout from your freezer.
You jump out of the sauna (pronounced "SOW-nuh", not "sawnuh") and into the lake... and you do it January.
You've taken your kids trick-or-treating in a blizzard.
The local paper covers national and international headlines on l/4 page, but requires 6 pages for sports.
You think the start of deer hunting season is a national holiday.
You know which leaves make good toilet paper.
The trunk of your car doubles as a deep freezer.
You attended a formal event in your best clothes, your finest jewelry and your snowmobile boots.
Shoveling the driveway constitutes a great upper body workout.
The municipality buys a Zamboni before a bus.
You have two mailboxes, one that is normal for early winter, and one that is seven feet tall and already buried October 2.
You have a door upstairs so that you can go outside in the winter (to get the mail in your seven-foot tall mailbox!).
Your vocabulary includes the following: da, dis, dat, dees, dem and deirs. Also included is the number "tree."
You go "fishing out da camp."
You think that people who go camping at Michigamee Shores are taking a fancy vacation.
Soft drinks are called "pop", that white stuff you use in breads is called "soda".
"Road pop" is your name for beer.
You know which one they are talking about when someone says "The Bridge". (C'mon, there's only one!)
You know why non-Yooper Michiganders are called Trolls.
You not only get all these jokes, but you know that they are funny because they are true!

 

[Bimpnottin]

Is it sad that I can relate to most of these......

 

[i_am2bz]

Hey Leta: http://www.sufficientself.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=11058

 

[Leta]

Yeah, I caught that, and then I saw WI, too, and thought, geez, the UP deserves one all it's own... we may as well be a whole other country!

 

[Bimpnottin]

Yeah, I caught that, and then I saw WI, too, and thought, geez, the UP deserves one all it's own... we may as well be a whole other country!

Heck, I'm from by Green Bay and we'd rather associate with those Yoopers than those weirdos in Milwaukee and Madison - let Illinois have them both.

 

[calendula]

Yeah, I caught that, and then I saw WI, too, and thought, geez, the UP deserves one all it's own... we may as well be a whole other country!

Heck, I'm from by Green Bay and we'd rather associate with those Yoopers than those weirdos in Milwaukee and Madison - let Illinois have them both.

Yeah, Milwaukee is like a whole other world. I hate it when we get jobs down in that area!