Posted on 12/04/2001 10:07:56 AM PST by Enough_Deceit
You know your from Wisconsin when:
Your whole family wears green and gold to church on Sunday.
Snow tires come standard on all your cars.
You refer to the Packers as "we."
You have gotten frost-bitten and sunburned in the same week.
You can identify and Illinois accent.
You know what cow-tipping is.
Down South to you means Chicago.
Travelling coast to coast means going from LaCrosse to Milwaukee.
A brat is something you eat.
You have no problem spelling Milwaukee.
You consider Madison exotic.
You don't have a coughing fit from one sip of Pabst Blue Ribbon.
You can actually pronounce Oconomowoc.
You know what a bubbler is.
You go out for fish fry every Friday.
You can recognize someone from Illinois from their driving.
You know how to polka.
You drink soda and refer to your dad as "pop."
Formal wear is blue jeans and a baseball cap.
Your 4th of July Family Picknic was moved indoors due to frost.
You know where Waukesha is AND can pronounce it.
You can visit Luxembourg, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Berlin, New London, and Poland all in one afternoon.
You design your Halloween costumes to fit over a snowsuit.
You've seen mosquitoes with landing lights.
You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.
You enjoy driving in the winter because the potholes fill in with snow.
Your sexy lingerie is tube socks and a flannel nightie.
You owe more money on your snowmobile than on your car.
At least twice a year, your kitchen doubles as a meat processing plant.
Your snow blower gets stuck on the roof.
You think the start of deer season is a national holiday.
You find 0 degrees a little chilly.
You know what to do with a Blatz.
You actually understand these jokes.
You forward them to all your Wisconsin friends.
Then victory over Da Packers will be so much sweeter. You will have the distinction of losing to a team that sucks. Da Bears are a team of destiny this year...get used to it.
Well I think you are overrating the Packers. While the Bears struggled against one of the worst teams in the NFL Sunday the Packers had to scramble last night to avoid being defeated by a mediocre team also. True, the Bears have got some lucky breaks this year (the ball seems to be going their way) making some of the most exciting football we have ever seen they also should have won their first game against Baltimore, it was a crime they lost. And in my opinion the Bears could have beat the Packers a few weeks ago if their offensive play calling was not so GD conservative. Should be a dogfight of a game next week. Worst of luck to you!
I am used to dealing with you cheeseheads in my extensive travels in your state and am a part-time resident. We all know you guys are terrified of Chicago. The very thought of Chicago scares a typical Milwaukee rube. All those people, all those buildings, all those expressways...LOL. I know you cats well. The Monsters Of Midway will be kicking butt and taking down names on Sunday....be prepared for DOOM.
Yes, there is something about those hardwood pine forests and the stillness they engender. I have a lakeside place in Hayward and those lakes there: Grindstone, Court Orielles, Round, the Chippewa Flowage are some of the finest waters anywhere in the country. The problem is that it is no longer a secret. The Minnesotans have invaded in a big way (why can't they go to their own lakes). Still, once the weekends are over you can go out on these large lakes and have the lake pretty much to yourself.
A few more
A couple of other ones...
Woosually = usually.
A guy could = you could try this.
Cheese and rice! = (WI expletive)
BTW, some of the women I work with got der first bucks when dey were 12.
Mrs. Genesis Defender...been living here 4 years, and I still can't understand the accent sometimes.
Ah, the personification of FIB.
p.s. GO PACK!!!!
....when the noon day sun disappears because of all the geese flying overhead.
Uh-huh. Yeah. Sure. Okay.
(wink-wink).
:^D
What accent?
But the best of luck to you, since it will run out sooner than you will be able to fathom. Not being a FIB or FISH myself, I can't stoop to the level of wishing you bad luck.
You're REALLY from Wisconsin if you know why Wisconsinites (and the University of Wisconsin mascot) are "Badgers".
This is ABSOLUTELY true. I took a business trip to Green Bay in February one year. The newspapers STILL had Packers news in it. I thought it was GREAT (I grew up in Pittsburgh as a Steeler fan, they do pretty much the same thing there). Green Bay is (and all the other towns I had to visit were) beautiful. I loved it and hope to make it back some day. Bump from E Texas.
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/local_1693169.shtml
Sunday’s Bears game is a hot ticket
By Terry Anderson
tanderso@greenbaypressgazette.com
The market for Bears tickets is bullish.
The Green Bay Packers’ come-from-behind victory Monday night ensured that a ticket for Sunday’s home game against the Chicago Bears may be difficult to snare.
First place in the NFC Central Division and perhaps a postseason playoff berth will be at stake when the longtime rivals square off at Lambeau Field. Consequently, ticket brokers are charging premium prices.
“Two hundred dollars and up,” Ryon Smith, manager of TicketKing, an Ashwaubenon-based ticket broker, said Tuesday morning. “It’s looking like a real hot ticket. And with the success the Packers are having, there’s definitely not as many in the market.”
Tell that to Doug Townsend of Marinette, who is trying to score three tickets for Chicago-area clients of his firm, Décor Porcelain.
“The number keeps increasing. Last night I was looking on eBay after the game and there was a feeding frenzy,” Townsend said. “There were three end-zone tickets going for $400 apiece. I’m hoping I can find someone willing to trade four tickets to the Cleveland Browns game (Dec. 23) for three tickets to the Bears game.
“Otherwise, we’ll probably pay what the market will bear,” he said.
A classified advertisement is the way Tina Grabig of Howard hopes to score two to four tickets.
“We don’t go with the scalpers. And the price that people are asking for is amazing,” she said “We’re willing to go a little over face value — $65 or $70 — but there are people asking for as much as $450 for a ticket. I mean this is not the Super Bowl game.”
Several ticket brokers stressed that there is an unpredictability to ticket prices.
On Tuesday, the ticket price changed throughout the day, said Michelle Tyo, market manager for Event USA of De Pere.
In the morning the price for an end-zone ticket was around $225, a seat on the 50-yard-line was around $325 and a club-seat ticket could be purchased for $375, she said. By late in the afternoon that end zone seat had fallen to $215.
But that doesn’t mean ticket prices will continue to decline. “We’re getting calls nationwide,” Tyo said. “And I think that this will only get better and better as the game approaches.”
Face value of a Lambeau ticket ranges from $46 for the end zone to $139 for a club seat.
Many of the people gobbling up the tickets that Tyo and other brokers are selling are Bears fans, ravenously hungry for football success.
In fact, the tickets Townsend hopes to snag would go to Bears fans.
“The Chicago people share a reverence for Lambeau Field and the mystique of the Packers,” he said. “And how long has it been since this rivalry meant something real.”
But for the record, four 50-yard line seats are already in his possession. He’s holding on to those. The clients will get the end-zone seats.
“In my research those are going for $500 apiece. I’m sitting in those primo seats. Besides, they’re Bear fans. They should be happy we’re letting them in,” he said.
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They don't even serve iced tea in the winter time at McDonalds.
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