| You're From Rural Minnesota or Wisconsin if....... |
| You're from rural Minnesota or Wisconsin if ...... - Both the states are known as the hot-dish capital of America. - The town you grew up in had a bar called Pops or Ma's Place. - You know how to polka, but never tried it sober. - FFA was the most popular club in high school. - You know what knee-high by the Fourth of July means. - You know it's traditional for the bride and groom to go bar hopping between the wedding ceremony and the reception. - You were delighted to get a miniature snow shovel for your 3rd birthday. - You can recognize someone from Iowa by their driving on narrow roads - You bought Christmas presents at the 5 & dime store.. - You spent more on beer than you did on food at your wedding. - You hear someone use the word "oof-dah" and you don't immediately break into uncontrollable laughter. - You had to walk to school till you were in da fort grade-den you drove, and you had to shift it yourself. - Everyones first car was made in the 30's or 40's.And you know what brand a Model A or B or T is. - 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 let your older siblings talk you into putting your tongue on a steel post in the middle of winter. - You think Lut-ran and Catholic are THE major religions. - Football schedules,fishing opener and opening deer season are checked before wedding dates are set. - A Friday night date is taking your girlfriend bowling,fishing,dancing or shining for deer. [No money for movies and there were no McDonalds.] - There was at least one kid in your class who had to help milk cows this morning...phew! - You have driven a pickup or car on a lake. - You can make sense out of the words "upnort" and "batree" & "goot". - You always believed that vacation meant "going up Nort." Only rich folks got vacations. - At every wedding you have been to you have had to dance the hokey poky & the chicken dance. - Your definition of a small town is one that only has one bar. - As a kid you owned a pair of rusty clamp-on ice skates,but you could never find the key. - The local gas station sells live bait,bread and milk. - At least twice a year, the kitchen doubles as a meat processing plant. - Your mom asks, "Were you born in a barn?" and you know exactly what she means. - You think that the start of deer season is a national holiday. - Pop is not only what you call your dad, but is the ONLY name for soda. - You actually understand these jokes and forward them to all your friends -One of the traditional meals served at Family Reunions is Lutfisk or weens and beans. - yeseree--yer from Minniesota or Wisconsin! Ya U-betcha. Author unknown. Found on the Internet by a cousin-in-law from Eleva. Posted here 4 February 2006 Fred Matson |