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.
Ah, you must be speaking of the Bart Starr/Forrest Gregg/Lindy Infante years (you know they shot Lindy's dog), because there wasn't a Super Bowl during the Scooter McLean years.
Oh, and we get Packer news 365 days a year--unless it's leap year. Then it's 366 days a year. And if we are 2-11, the TV sports guys explain in detail what it's going to take to get us into the playoffs. Besides telling us in great detail the specifics of the Packer injuries ("he has a knee" or "he's got a groin pull" or "he's got a hip pointer").
Oh, people planning their vacations around Packers training camp and a trip to the Packers Hall of Fame.
(Now for some REAL inside Green Bay stuff)
Having YOUR kid's bike be selected by a Packer to ride from the practice field to the stadium.
And having your kid memorize the Packer training camp roster given to her by Howie Blindauer (we so miss Howie) and crossing out the names of the players cut, one by one or in batches.
BTW, my office is three blocks from the original City Stadium. They just put up a new sign commemorating place as a historical site.
The criteria for cheese curds: fresh AND room temperature. That's when they taste AND squeak the best.
Sigh....Ya, we know.....Door County or Wisconsin Dells?
By winning, the Packers (8-3) stayed one game behind the Chicago Bears (9-2) in the torrid NFC Central Division race. First place will be on the line Sunday at Lambeau Field in the most momentous Packers-Bears game in almost 40 years."We're in a lot better shape going into the Bears game than we would have if we had lost," Sherman said. "The way we won it, the way we hung in there and battled back, there's a lot of guys who believe in that locker room."
Here we go - it's Showdown Time!
This is the one that separates the men from the boys. I can hardly wait.
LOL! I DO remember the commercials & loved them. We still love going up to DC after Labor Day--and when we kept our little sailboat in Little Sturgeon, we looked forward to sailing at that time of year. It was gorgeous--and not overrun with idiots.
When my daughter was in college, she spent a summer as an intern at Peninsula Players. Besides all the theater tech work, they also had to park cars. Her triumph was parking six silver Audi Foxes (with Illinois plates) next to each other--and after the play, conveniently disappearing. She said (while she & a couple others hid in the bushes) that there was a lot of swearin' going on.
Oh, then there was the time we had sailed to Fish Creek over Labor Day and we went into the now defunct Kalwe's market to buy a Sunday paper. There was a long line. The hotshot in front of us (you KNOW where he was from) sneered and told the clerk, "I suppose the NATIVES are too busy hunting and fishing to get a job." My hubby literally had to hold me back while he hissed, "if you punch him, you'll end up in jail."
BTW, did you know that Barbara and Ted Olson spent their last summer in Door County at their cottage on Kangaroo Lake (I think it's Kangaroo Lake)? Ted's related to the Weborgs, the family that "owns" most of Gills Rock, an old fishing family.
I dunno, but my in-laws live in Colby. The brothers came first, then the cheese, then the town.
If we (LOL!) play the way we did in the first half, we're doomed. If we play the way we did in the second half, it's home field advantage on our way to the Super Bowl.
BTW, by 7:30 last night, the streets of Green Bay were silent. At half-time, there was a mad rush of cars (to & from the liquor stores), then we rolled the streets back up again. The water treatment plant knows when there's a commercial break by water useage.
We expect the first batch of folks coming in for the Packer game on Thursday, but the mad rush will come Friday. Most motels require a two day stay on Packer game weekends, and the people (who book the INSTANT the schedule is released) are more than willing to spend the weekend in Green Bay.
You can pronounce Oconomowoc.
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