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Aoann
11-20-2008, 10:06 AM
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.

Wolvan
11-20-2008, 12:26 PM
An amazing amount of those are true. I lived in Wisconsin for a year and a half, now I live "down south" in Illinois.

Madison had so many snow plows I don't think the snow actually ever hit the roads.

LeMieux
11-20-2008, 03:12 PM
YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRUE CALIFORNIAN WHEN:

-REDUX-

1. Your idea of a parking lot is route 5.

2. 'Vacation' means going to the beach 10 miles away or skiing 10 miles the other way.

3. You measure distance in hours.

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

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

6. Your whole family wears San Diego colours to church on Sunday.

7. You can drive 100+ mph through the desert without getting stopped.

8. You see people wearing hawaiian shirts at social events (including weddings and funerals ).

9. You leave anything unlocked for 5 minutes and it's cleaned out.

10. You work out, do yoga, and still go to Del Taco for dinner.

11. You carry a gallon jug of water in your car.

12. There are 100 cars without wheels on cinder blocks at any given time.

13. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit if it's below 40 degrees.

14. The roads are completely empty after half an inch of snowfall.

15. You refer to San Diego as 'we.'

16. You know only two seasons; wet and dry.

17. You can identify a southern or northern Californian accent.

18. You have no problem pronouncing Bun Thit Nuon.

19. You consider Tijuana exotic.

20. You know how to do the Macarena.

21. Your idea of creative landscaping is painting your lawn.

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

23. Up North to you means San Fransisco.

24. A brat is something you beat in a parking lot in front of security cameras.

25. Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new permit to build a shed.

26. Catholics go out for sushi every Friday

27. Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to the weather dropping below 50.

28. Your car only goes 250 miles a week but somehow you seem to burn three tanks of gas in the same week.

29. You find 90 degrees 'a little balmy.'

30. You actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to all your Californian friends.

Aoann
11-20-2008, 04:29 PM
Haha :)

Sethial
11-22-2008, 09:32 AM
I miss I-5, beats I-465 here in Indy.