You might be from Wisconsin if....

You might be from Wisconsin if .....

If you define Summer as three months of bad sledding...

If your definition of a small town is one that only has one bar...

If snow tires come standard on all your cars...

If at least 50% of your relatives work on a dairy farm...

If you have ever gotten frostbitten and sunburned in the same week...

If you can identify a Michigan accent...

If you know what "cow-tipping" is.....

If you learned to drive a tractor before the training wheels were off your bike...

If "Down South" to you means Chicago...

If traveling coast to coast means going from Superior to Milwaukee...

If the "Big Three" means Miller, Old Milwaukee & PBR

If a brat is something you eat ...

If you know that Eau Claire is not something you eat.....

If you have no problem spelling Milwaukee..

If you don't have a coughing fit from one sip of Pabst Blue Ribbon...

If you used to think Deer Season was included as an official school holiday...

If You can actually pronounce and spell Oconomowoc...

If you know what a bubbler is.....

If the snow on your roof in August weighs more than you do...

If your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a cow next to your blue spruce...

If you think there should be a "FIB go home" bumper sticker on every car north of Madison...

If a Friday night out is taking your girlfriend shining for deer...

IF you go out for fish fry on every Friday...

If you go to work in a snowsuit in the morning and return home wearing shorts...

When you tell someone where you are from and they say: 'I thought that was part of Canada...

If your idea of the seasons is Winter, Spring and the 4th of July...

If you know how to polka....

If you think that Lutheran and Catholics ARE the major religions.....

If formal wear is a flannel shirt, blue jeans and a baseball cap...

If you define "swimming season" as Labor Day weekend...

If you have more fishing poles than teeth...

If you decided to have a picnic this summer because it fell on a weekend

[Auspicious]

I grew up 20 miles from WI, so only about half of these apply to me .

The only one I had no clue about was "FIB go home" (???) but google soon explained why--cheeseheads probably wouldn't be saying that to our faces. I liked it better when I naively thought they just called us flatlanders.

(Link is not for sensitive viewers) http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=FIB

On a related note, I recently heard a debate about the pronunciation of Pabst Blue Ribbon--whether it was "paps" or "pabs." To which I say Huh? I'm pretty sure I've always pronounced every letter of that word--am I alone?

I didn't know what FIB was either!

I'm not a Wisconsinite (?), but seeing as how my MIL lives there now, I feel a certain kinship.

I've always heard Pabst with all the letters pronounced.

[Michele]

I thought it was "paps"

[SueC]

I always said it pronouncing all the consonants.
"Paps" reminds me too much of that lovely exam we get to have every year!

[migirl]

Re: You might be from Wisconsin if....



Just a wondering, though...

If you can identify a Michigan accent...

Do people really think there is a distinct Michigan accent? I think I (and most everyone I know around here) speak pretty 'normally,' but I've heard people make reference to the Michigan accent before.

[mommax3]

Yes, Jane, as a native on Indiana, I would say that there is DEFINITELY a Michigan accent. In fact, two of the doctors stationed here with my husband are from Michigan, and I totally called it from just hearing them talk, before I knew where they were from.

Sally

Re: You might be from Wisconsin if....

If your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a cow next to your blue spruce...

I think this one is great. I personally don't landscape with statues, but I enjoy very much riding past houses with cows, deer, squirrels or bears in the yard. I always wonder if these people just like the 'wildlife look' or if they are trying to keep other animals out, kind of using the statues like a scarecrow. And I wonder where you would go to get a statue. I've never seen them for sale anywhere. Then again I'm not out shopping around for them.

And as a native Wisconsinite, I will agree that yes, there is definately a Michigan accent. In fact, I believe people from the UP have a completely different accent, eh?

Maybe the Michigan accent varies by location? My friend who grew up in the Detroit suburbs does not have a noticable accent -- nor do his parents or brother. But what about the UP accent, eh?

I don't recall seeing any cow statues on our most recent trips to WI. Now I have something to look for next time.

[houseelf]

This list is hysterical! When we moved to Minnesota, we were talking about our trip from Ohio through "Ewe Claire" and how we wanted to go see WaBASH-a where Grumpy Old Men was filmed. People knew instantly that we weren't from these parts.

Kelly

Uh, excuse me, the one true beer is Leinenkugels. Those other beers may as well be from Illinois.


Another one...

You know that there is NO WAY Leo DeCaprio's character in Titanic fished on Lake Wissota and talked about it in 1912. The dam wasn't even built until 1918.

I had one of those (beer) when we were in Menomonie. It was good! :~

Guess where I'm from, LOL?

Are you from Menomonie?

LOL, no,but close. Chippewa Falls.