You grew up in small-town Wisconsin if...

Okay, I feel the need to post a disclaimer at the top of this post. It's from a chain e-mail and I can only attest to about 99% of these. There's at least one that is not true in my case! LOL



* 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 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 or Farm and Fleet

* You spent more on beer & 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 steel post 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.

* 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. And/or smelled like it.

* You have driven your car on the lake.

* You can make sense of 'upnort' and 'baatree'.

* 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 is a national holiday.

* You actually understand these jokes!