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You know you are from Wisconsin when:

* The town you grew up in had a bar called Ma's Place.

* Your best shirt has a big letter G on it.

* You know how to polka, but never tried it sober.

* FFA was the most popular club in high school.

* You've seen a Hodag, or, at least you think that's what it was.

* You know what's knee-high by the Fourth of July.

* You know it's traditional for the bride and groom to go bar hopping between ceremony and the reception.

* You know that there is no 'r' in Wausau.

* You were delighted to get a miniature snow shovel for your 3rd birthday.

* You can recognize someone from Illinois by their driving.

* You buy your Christmas presents at Fleet Farm.

* You are a connoisseur of cheese curds, and find anyone unfamiliar with them to be frighteningly foreign.

* You get irritated at sports announcers that pronounce it "Wes-con-sin".

* You own at least one cheese head.

* You immediately think of fishing when you hear the name "Shakespeare."

* You spent more on beer than you did on food at your wedding.

* You know that Kaukauna is NOT a Hawaiian Island.

* You hear someone use the word "oof-dah" and you don't immediately break into uncontrollable laughter.

* You think fast food is hitting a deer at 65 mph.

* You or someone you know was a "Dairy Princess" at a county fair.

* You know that "combine" is a noun.

* You know what a FIB is.

* You know that a pastie is not an article of clothing.

* You let your older siblings talk you into putting your tongue on a steel post.

* You think Lutheran and Catholic are THE major religions.

* You can tell the difference between "real Wisconsin cheese" and "that Illinois stuff."

* You know that creek rhymes with pick.

* Your class took a field trip to a brewery. . in second grade.

* Football schedules are checked before wedding dates are set.

* You can visit Luxemburg, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Berlin, and Poland all in one afternoon.

* A Friday night date is taking your girlfriend shining for deer.

* There was at least one kid in your class who had to help milk cows in the morning. ...phew!

* You have driven your car on a lake.

* You can make sense out of the words "upnort" and "batree."

* The Packers will always be better than the Vikings, no matter what the standings are.

* You know that De Pere is not a wooden structure extending into "Da Lake."

* You can leave your ice cream in the car while you go into Fleet Farm, and it won't melt.

* You always believed that vacation meant "going up north."

* You have more fishing poles than teeth.

* At every wedding you have been to you have had to dance the hoky poky & the chicken dance.

* You know what a bubbler is.

* 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, the kitchen doubles as a meat processing plant.

* You laugh out loud every time you see a news report about a blizzard shutting down the entire east coast.

* Your mom asks, "Were you born in a barn?" and you know exactly what she means.

* You include beer as one of the major food groups.

* You know which leaves make good toilet paper.

* Your sexy lingerie is tube socks and a flannel nightie.

* You are a member of the Polar Bear Club and proud of it.

* You think the start of deer season is a national holiday.

* You learned to drive a tractor before the training wheels were off your bike.

* Your bank has the name of your town included in its name.

* You actually understand these jokes and forward them to all your Wisconsin friends.