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!!!!!