You know you have grown up in Wisconsin when:

* 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,TSC, 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 *youse guys*.

* 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 doubled as a meat
processing plant.

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

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