YOU KNOW YOU ARE A WISCONSINITE WHEN......
- you define summer as three months of bad sledding.
- your definition of a small town is one that has only one bar.
- snow tires come standard on all cars.
- at least 50% of your relative work on a dairy farm.
- you have ever gotten frostbitten and sunburned in the same week.
- you can identify a Michigan accent.
- you know what "cowtipping" is.
- you learned to drive a tractor before the training wheels were off your bike.
- "Down South" to you means Chicago.
- traveling from coast to coast means going from Superior to Milwaukee.
- the "Big Three" means Miller, Old Milwaukee and PBR.
- a brat is something that you eat.
- you know that Eau Claire is not something that you eat.
- you got a passport to go to Minnesota.
- you have no problem spelling Milwaukee.
- you don't have a coughing fit from one sip of Pabst Blue Ribbon.
- you used to think that deer season was included as an official school holiday.
- you know that Gotham is a real city.
- you can actually pronounce and spell Oconomowoc.
- you know what a bubbler is.
- the snow on your roof in August weighs more than you do.
- your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a cow next to your blue spruce.
- you think that there should be a "FIB go home" bumper sticker on every car north of Madison.
- a Friday night out is taking your girlfriend shining for deer.
- you go out for a fish fry on every Friday.
- 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".
- your idea of the seasons is Winter, Spring and the 4th of July.
- you know how to polka.
- you think Lutheran and Catholic ARE the major religions.
- formal wear is flannel shirt, blue jeans and a baseball cap.
your children describe their summer vacation out of state as a "trip to Door County."- you have to go to Florida to get tan in August.
- you define "swimming season" as Labor Day weekend.
- your 4th of July Family Picnic was moved indoors due to frost.
- you know where the city of Waunakee is AND can pronounce it (by the way, Waunakee is a village!)
- you have more fishing poles than teeth.
- you decide to have a picnic this summer because it fell on a weekend.