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CruxGNZ
11-13-2004, 01:01 AM
This is good! :thumbsup :rolf

Subject: 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 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!

theavenger333
11-13-2004, 03:01 AM
dear lord, like 1/2 those apply

3rdGen Princess
11-13-2004, 04:11 AM
Ok, what's really scary is that more of those apply to me than don't!!! yikes! :rolf

But I do have one question. . . . .

[quote]If your town has an equal number of bars and churches, you might live
in Wisconsin.[\quote]
But, what if the bars out number the churches?????
:alcoholic


Btw, I have to admitt that when I was a kid I didn't know that only the local Dairy Queens closed during winter. I thought that was standard practice for all the locations. Oh well, I was just a kid. lol. :goof

Al
11-13-2004, 11:38 AM
I like #23: down south means Illinois. :rolf

Anakonda69
11-13-2004, 11:45 AM
alot more then 1/2 of those apply to me.....guess that means i'm a wisconsonite....who'd of thought?....lol :headbang

Jake B. (Killer Quad)
11-13-2004, 11:36 PM
Ok, what's really scary is that more of those apply to me than don't!!! yikes! :rolf

But I do have one question. . . . .

[quote]If your town has an equal number of bars and churches, you might live
in Wisconsin.[\quote]
But, what if the bars out number the churches?????
:alcoholic


Then your town either has more than 2 streets or a population over 1,000

My town 3-5k pop. 3 churches, 6 bars 7 if ya count the country club would be 8 but the bowling alley burned down!
:wooo

Ya know your from wisconsin when ya dont leave the S silent in Illinois just to anoy the person from there your talking too!!! LOL but they are Illinoiseians!


Oh ya one last thing.............Bubler!

Scales
11-14-2004, 12:00 AM
Funny and tru $hit right thurr!!!

I heard another one...

"You might be from Wisconsin if:
You had a BBQ this summer cuz it fell on a weekend you had off work."

VroomPshhTsi
11-14-2004, 12:24 AM
# 1, 3, 4, 6, 15, 17, 22, 26 are the ones i can relate to :D

p.s. wtf happened to the badgers? i watched the whole game and everything, but still it's hard to accept what happened :rolleyes:

Scales
11-14-2004, 12:47 AM
I turned it off when it was 28-14... What else did I miss??

Anakonda69
11-14-2004, 01:01 AM
you missed some very bad defense is all....

Scales
11-14-2004, 03:05 AM
I had to hit up ESPN.com to get the recap... What a tobacle!!! (sp)

theavenger333
11-14-2004, 03:28 AM
Then your town either has more than 2 streets or a population over 1,000

My town 3-5k pop. 3 churches, 6 bars 7 if ya count the country club would be 8 but the bowling alley burned down!

waterford?

Jake B. (Killer Quad)
11-14-2004, 10:32 AM
yup yup thats my town! :alcoholic

Scales
11-14-2004, 01:31 PM
I never knew the bowling alley in Waterford burned down. I lived in Wind Lake for 23 years. When did that happen?

theavenger333
11-14-2004, 01:52 PM
last spring i think, i was at my grandpas house there. fox river went down yo.

Jake B. (Killer Quad)
11-14-2004, 10:54 PM
ya its been like 2 years or close too it, now its just a vacont lot the county mounties sit in waiting for me!

Al
11-15-2004, 03:37 AM
The bowling alley in theinsvill burned too.

theavenger333
11-15-2004, 12:06 PM
yeah, regatta, my 2nd job to close and or burn down in the last year

HITMAN
11-20-2004, 11:52 PM
waterford?


yup yup thats my town! :alcoholic

Howdy neighbor! :thumbsup