Thursday, November 1, 2012

You Know You Grew Up In Wisconsin If....

 *You know how to polka.
 *You know what knee-high by the Fourth of July means.
 *You know it is traditional for the bride and groom to go bar hopping between the reception and wedding dance.
 *You know the difference between "Green" and "Red" farm machinery, and would fight with your friends on the playground over which was better!
 *You buy Christmas presents at Fleet Farm.
 *You hear someone use the word "oof-dah" and you don't break into uncontrollable laughter.
 *You or someone you know was a "Dairy Princess" at the county fair.
 *You know that "combine" is a noun.
 *You let your older siblings talk you into putting your tongue on a steel post in the middle of winter.
 *You know that "creek" rhymes with "pick".
 *Football schedules, hunting season and harvest are all taken into consideration before wedding dates are set.
  *Saturday you go to your local bowling alley.
 *There was at least one, if not several, in your class who had to help milk cows in the morning.
 *You have driven your car on the lake.
 *You can make sense of "upnort," "bat-tree" and "warrssh."
 *Every wedding dance you have ever been to has the hokey pokey and the chicken dance.
 *The local gas station sells live bait.
 *At least twice a year some part of your home doubles as a meat processing plant.
 *You think that the start of deer season or (the Packers going to the Super Bowl) is a national holiday!
 *You know what a bubbler is.

You actually understand these jokes!!

I received this as an e~mail this week, and just had to share!  How many of you Wisconsin~ites were laughing and shaking your head in agreement with these?!

Blessings,

"So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God"
1 Corinthians 10:31

4 comments:

  1. haha, I am not from Wisconsin but a lot of those sound very familiar to here in WV. lol Love it!

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  2. Ha ha Jess. I'm not from your neck of the woods, but this is a funny post. It brought a smile to my face. :)
    Blessings to you, my friend!

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  4. being from England I have absolutely no idea what these mean, but it was a fun read :) Im intrigued to know what oof-dah and a bubbler is!

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