You might be... From WISCONSIN

Kelemvor

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Not sure if he really made these up or not but they are pretty funny...


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 spendy," 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 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.
 

yobarman

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haha some of those are pretty funny.... i can't believe there's somewhere on the planet more cold and more boring than rochester NY
 

rmrf

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14. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.

lol, I can relate to that. but I'm not a cheesehead.
 

rmrf

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Originally posted by: xospec1alk
Originally posted by: wfbberzerker
wow, i actually found some of those true.

do dairy queens in other places stay open all year?

why would dairy queen close?

who's gonna buy ice cream when it's 0F out?
 

MrMaster

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That's cause there wasn't very much exxageration in them. The "from the land of sky blue waters" doesn't really happen but the rest do.

and not due to frost but because it was in the 40's we did move the 4th of july party into one the pole buildings on my uncle's farm.
 

MikeMike

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10. You think of the major food groups as beer, fish, and venison.

wtf? they forgot Cheese...
 

FlashG

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Originally posted by: MrMaster
That's cause there wasn't very much exxageration in them. The "from the land of sky blue waters" doesn't really happen but the rest do.

and not due to frost but because it was in the 40's we did move the 4th of july party into one the pole buildings on my uncle's farm.
What's a pole building?

 

SarcasticDwarf

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Originally posted by: Anubis
everyone i know measures distance in hours, and ive never even been to wisconsin

The OP is talking about measuring distances in hours for even "close" things. For instance, I live in Oshkosh which has 60k people. It is probably the 4th largest city in the state (Madison and Milwaukee make up the majority of the state's population). The nearest BB and CC are 25 miles away. I do have a staples about 2 miles away. The nearest airport is 30 miles away, and only flies to the major hubs.

And that is for a major city.
 
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They must make one of these lists for every state. The Alaska list is eerily similar:

YOU KNOW YOU LIVE IN ALASKA WHEN:
1. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a motorhome
on the highway.

2. "Vacation" means going to Valdez for the weekend.

3. You measure distance in hours.

4. You know several people who have hit a moose more than once.

5. You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back again.

6. Your Sunday best consists of denim and flannel.

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 the major food groups are beer, salmon, and moose.

11. You carry jumper cables in your car and your wife or girlfriend knows how to use them.

12. Half the cars in the grocery store parking lot are running... empty.

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 rest of the US as "Down there."

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 Lake Minchumina.

19. You consider Seattle exotic.

20. Your favorite gun has a name.

21. Your idea of creative landscaping is a wingless airplane next to your toilet flower planter.

22. You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.

23. You know at least three pot growers.

24. You have eaten several forms of wild game... and have preferences (and recipies).

25. Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to snow.

26. You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.

27. You find minus twenty degrees "a little chilly."

28. You actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to all your Alaskan friends.
 

Anubis

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Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
Originally posted by: Anubis
everyone i know measures distance in hours, and ive never even been to wisconsin

The OP is talking about measuring distances in hours for even "close" things. For instance, I live in Oshkosh which has 60k people. It is probably the 4th largest city in the state (Madison and Milwaukee make up the majority of the state's population). The nearest BB and CC are 25 miles away. I do have a staples about 2 miles away. The nearest airport is 30 miles away, and only flies to the major hubs.

And that is for a major city.

i live in boston and i refer to distances in Time measurements, my sister lives 2.8 miles away but it takes you 30 min to get there because of fing traffic, just giveing the distance means nothing because of any other factors involved, if you give it as a time, its mych more accurate
 

mercanucaribe

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Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
Originally posted by: Anubis
everyone i know measures distance in hours, and ive never even been to wisconsin

The OP is talking about measuring distances in hours for even "close" things. For instance, I live in Oshkosh which has 60k people. It is probably the 4th largest city in the state (Madison and Milwaukee make up the majority of the state's population). The nearest BB and CC are 25 miles away. I do have a staples about 2 miles away. The nearest airport is 30 miles away, and only flies to the major hubs.

And that is for a major city.

i live in boston and i refer to distances in Time measurements, my sister lives 2.8 miles away but it takes you 30 min to get there because of fing traffic, just giveing the distance means nothing because of any other factors involved, if you give it as a time, its mych more accurate

The joke is saying that you use hours instead of minutes.
 

IronWing

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Jul 20, 2001
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If you have ever refused to buy something because it's "too spendy," you might live in Wisconsin.

Youbetchchya I grew up in Wisconsin, but I never heard anyone use the term "spendy" dontchaknow. The rest were alright.