you might be from wisconsin if.....

1. You consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 18 inches
of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by.

2. You're proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights each year because International Falls is the coldest spot in the nation.

3. You have ever refused to buy something because it's "too spendy."

4. Your local Dairy Queen is closed from October through April.

5. You instinctively walk like a penguin for five months out of the year.

6. Someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don't work there.

7. Your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his
forehead.

8. You may not have actually eaten it, but you have heard of Lutefisk.

9. You have worn shorts and a parka at the same time.

10. Your town has an equal number of bars and churches.

11. You have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a
wrong number.

12. You know how to say Oconomowoc, Waukesha, Menomonie, Manitowoc.

13. You measure distance in hours.

14. You know several people who have hit deer more than once.

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

16. You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard,
without flinching.

17. You see people wearing camouflage at social events. (including weddings)

18. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both
unlocked.

19. You think of the major food groups as beer, fish, and venison.

20. You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend knows how to use
them.

21. There are 7 empty cars running in the parking lot at Mill's Fleet Farm
at any given time.

22. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.

23. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with
snow.

24. You refer to the Packers as "we."

25. You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road
construction.

26. You can identify a southern or eastern accent.

27. You have no problem pronouncing Lac Du Flambeau, Lac Courte Oreilles, Kawaguesaga, Shisibogema or Pokegama.

28. You consider Minneapolis exotic.

29. You know how to polka.

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

31. Down South to you means Iowa.

32. A brat is something you eat.

33. Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new pole shed.

34. You go out to fish fry every Friday

35. Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.

36. You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.

37. You find 0 degrees "a little chilly."