Are you from rural Wisconsin?

[Archae]

If You Grew Up In Rural Wisconsin .......
*You know how to polka, but never tried it sober.
*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 church & reception.
*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 spent more on beer and liquor than you did on food at your wedding.
*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 steelpost in the middle of winter.
*You think Lutheran and Catholic are THE major religions.
*You know that "creek" rhymes with "pick".
*Football schedules, hunting season and harvest are all taken into consideration before wedding dates are set.
*A Friday night date is getting a six-pack and taking your girlfriend shining for deer and then out for Friday night fish.
*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.
*Your definition of a small town is one that only has one bar.
*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 actually understand these jokes and will forward them to all your Wisconsin friends and family!!!!

[Ed Suspicious]

1. Every last one. Spot on.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Add this to the list.

Always two minor Super Bowls every year. When the Minnesota Vikings play the Packers.

Taking the Snow Mobile to School.

Driving the Tractor to School cause the Pick-up won't start.

School Vacation during Deer Season.

Wearing your Blaze Orange jacket to church on Sunday.

Five buckle Overshoes.

Old Mill at the fourth of July picnic.

[HereSince1628]

8. Dad wore his red rayon Janie's Pub jacket to your graduation

Because Mom grabbed the black one.

[Wellstone ruled]

9. Free shows at the Log Cabin Tavern on Friday nights

from Memorial Day till Labor Day.

Ice Fishing Contests in January

Fourth of July Family get together 's at the Lake.

Riding the Snow Plow to town for Groceries.

[HereSince1628]

11. Ice-fishing? The shanty is a front for marathon Euchre/Sheepshead games

As is Thanksgiving and Christmas afternoon and evening.

[Wellstone ruled]

12. Depending on who was playing on the Thanksgiving Game,

If the Pack was playing,Dinner and Cards would wait. Sure raised heck with the cows. Those old girls got a bit ornery standing there a couple hours late.


Got to love it.

[sybylla]

3. All but the first for me...

I learned to polka before second grade with my dad and grandpas. So I have danced many polkas sober.

[Wellstone ruled]

10. Scary to say the least.

[Scuba]

4. OK, first of all it's Fleet Farm or Farm & Fleet but never Fleet & Farm ...

Secondly, I believe the preferred spelling is "ufdah".

I was one of those who milked cows before (and after) school. I still get up early to milk them every day despite not milking a cow in over 40 years.


Great list Archae, thanks.

[beemer27]

5. You Betcha!

Done everyone of them.

[Itchinjim]

6. Except for the Packers and the ufdah,

this could be Iowa.

[OxQQme]

7. O x QQ me, but

wutsa ufdah plz?

[sybylla]

13. Uff da is a scandinavian expression that is a polite sub for words like damn and sometimes shit.

It's also used in place of "Jesus Christ that's stupid." YMMV

According to Wikipedia it has many spellings. They host the following description...

Uff da is often used in the Upper Midwest as a term for sensory overload. It can be used as an expression of surprise, astonishment, exhaustion, relief and sometimes dismay. For many, Uff da is an all-purpose expression with a variety of nuances, and covering a variety of situations. The expression has lost its original connotation, and it is increasingly difficult to specify in exact terms what it means in any given usage. Within Scandinavian-American culture, Uff da frequently translates into: I am overwhelmed. It has become a mark of Scandinavian roots, particularly for people from Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, northern Illinois, Minnesota, and Upper Peninsula of Michigan.[2] Uff da can often be used as an alternative for many common obscenities. [3]

[GusBob]

14. Cards at the bar

Cribbage, sheepshead, Euchre or Schmere

Stuffed animal heads and fish at the bar

total strangers buy you a beer.....at the bar

"Fish Fry Fri"

Had to leave the wedding reception to do chores (milking cows in ur Sunday best)