"MAIL BOX FINDS CHANGE ME TO A LOCAL FROM WISCONSIN"

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"MAIL BOX FINDS CHANGE ME TO A LOCAL FROM WISCONSIN"

Hi all,Big Thanks for sending us some awsome relics and things from Wisconsin,Gypsy.Once i opened the parcel ,i felt a change coming on.Know i really do feel like a local and look one too. .heres a few pic of finds and the all new "WISCONSIN TINCAN"


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[SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS]

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cheesehead


Cheesehead is a nickname (sometimes used derogatorily)
referring to a person from either Wisconsin or the Netherlands,
referring to the large volume of cheese production in those locales.



The Cheesehead was born from the rivalry between Wisconsin
and Illinois sports fans. Riding high from their only Super Bowl
victory, fans of Chicago sports began ridiculing citizens of the
Dairy State by calling them "Cheeseheads". Little did they know
that one Wisconsinite would take this "insult" and make the best
of it. Ralph Bruno carved-up his family's sofa to create the first
hat, which he proudly wore as a testament to his love for his state.




Ultra Orthodox Cheesehead




have a good un.....................
SHERMANVILLE

 

[Gypsy Heart]

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Hey You look great!I knew they would look good on you! Figured if you had decent bug spray and 1930's aviators glasses those rotten flies wouldnt "bug"you so bad....and you wouldnt have to wear your Corky hat! Hahaha
Glad you enjoyed the junque! LOL
Happy Hunting!
Your Cheezehead friend!

 

[Gypsy Heart]

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If you are going to look like a Cheesehead....you better learn to talk like one too!

Ain-a OR Ain-a-hey: placed at the end of a profound statement; as in "isn't It?"

Bart: a Green Bay institution who doesn't need a last name; (see "Vince").

Believe-you-me: attached to the beginning or end a statement makes it more credible; as in, "really!"

Big fatties: nightcrawlers for fishin'.

Blaze orange: what deer hunters and cold-weather Packers fans wear at Lambeau.

Born in a barn?: a sarcastic question which usually means you left the door open.

Borrow: used in place of "lend," as in, "could youse borrow me a couple two-tree bucks?"

Brat: a sausage; a Wisconsin tailgate favorite;doesn't have anything to do with a spoiled kid.

Bubbler: to the rest of the world outside Wisconsin's borders, it is known as a drinking fountain.

Budge: to merge without permission; cut in; as in "Don't you budge in line for a brat, I was here first!"

By: to; near; as in "Let's go by One Eyed Jack's,"or "She'll come by Froggers tonight." It has nothing to do with a purchase.

Cheddarhead: someone from Wisconsin; see, "Cheesehead."

Cheesehead: someone from Wisconsin; see, "Cheddarhead."

Cheese curd: small pieces of fresh cheese that squeak when you bite into them; a parish picnic favorite when deep fried.

Come-here-once: a beckoning call to another Cheddarhead.

Couple-two-tree: more than one; as in "Delmer and I drank a couple-two-tree beers."

Cripes: a Wisconsin expletive.

Cripes-sake: a mild Wisconsin expletive.

Cry-yiy!: a bit stronger expletive.

Cry-yiy-yiy!: a much stronger expletive.

Crymany-cripes-sake: a wild Wisconsin expletive.

D: a substitute for words beginning with "TH;" as in"Dat guy over dere in dah Bears shirt is a FIB."

Da OR Dah: used in place of "the", almost the same rules as D.

Davenport: what your mom called the sofa; a couch.

Dere: used in place of "there". Same rule applies to all "th" words - see D

Fair-to-midlin: not bad or great, just "O.K."

FIB: acronym (three words) for our neighbors sout of the state line - middle word is "Illinois".

Fish fry: a Friday night dining ritual in Wisconsin.

Farm & Fleet: a Cheddarhead's answer to Bloomingdales.

Frozen tundra: Lambeau Field.

Geeez!: Another Wisconsin expletive.

Gohead: proceed; as in, "gohead and back up your car."

Gots: used in place of "have;" as in, "I gots my tickets to watch da Packers play on da Frozen Tundra."

Guldarn: another Wisconsin expletive.

Hey: placed at the beginning or end of phrases for emphasis, as in "Hey, how 'bout them Packers?" or "How 'bout them Packers, hey?"

Holy-cry-yiy!: as in, "wow!"

How's-by-you?: a greeting; the same as, "How's everything?"

Humdinger: a beauty; as in "dat crappy youse caught upnort is a real humdinger."

John Deere: a Cheddarhead's other vehicle.

M'walkey: Wisconsin's largest city; located just down the lake from Trivers and Mantwoc.

N'so?: a word inserted at the end of a statement; used as a substitute for "right?" or "correct?"

Oh, yah: depending on emphasis, it's either used as acknowledgment (as "That's correct") or skepticism (That's bull!).

Parish picnics: social events of the summer upnort.

Pert-neer: near; in close proximity; just about.

Polka: what you do at parish picnics.

Rubbers: protection for your shoes; also known as "galoshes."

Sconsin: the state where Cheeseheads are from.

Schmear: when someone piles on points when playing Sheepshead.

Sheepshead: a card game.

Side-by-each: used instead of, "next to each other."

Skeeter: Wisconsin state bird.

Smelt: used in place of "smelled", also a fish that you catch in nets.

Soda: a non-alcoholic drink such as coke, pepsi, etc. Everywhere else it means club soda.

Sout: the direction you travel from Wisconsin to find lots of FIBs.

Start wit me last: to forfeit your turn, "go ahead of me", or "you go first".

Stop-and-go lights: what everyone else refers to as traffic signals.

Tirdy: same as "thirty", and used on all numbers from 30 thru 39. Exception to the "D"rule, similar to "tink" and "tousand"..

Uff-dah: affirmative; as in "that's right!"

Un-thaw: to defrost.

Where-bouts: locality; proximity; as in, "where-bouts are youse guys from?"

Upnort: where Wisconsinites go on vacation.

Up-side right: right side up.

Vince: the other Green Bay icon who doesn't need a last name for recognition; (see "Bart").

Whozitz: a thing.

Yah-hey: affirmative; as in "uff-dah."

You-betcha: affirmative; as in "Yah-hey."

Youse: pronounced "YOOS;" it means "you" as in "are youse guys goin' up nort?"

Youper: someone from ever further upnort than you.

 

[EDDE]

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chem lights how fitting for the night digging in the cool light for the cooler night

 

[Alchemy]

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Well ya sure you betcha, dem dere fellas are goin upnort, youse guys goin wit dem?
Uff-dah, it might get down to tirdy tanight doe

One could practice using some similar sentences…


Gypsy, that cracked me up. Made me miss WI even more though

 

[Gypsy Heart]

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Due to the popularity of the Survivor shows, Wisconsin
is planning to do its own, entitled
"Survivor-Wisconsin Style."
The contestants will start in Milwaukee, travel to
Oshkosh, Eau Claire, over to Wausau, and down to
Madison. They will then proceed up to Superior, on to
Rice Lake, then to Tomah, Wisconsin Rapids, Fond du
Lac, and Manitowoc. From there, they'll proceed to
Sheboygan, Racine, swirling through Kenosha, and
finally back to Milwaukee.
Each will be driving a pink Volvo with a bumper
sticker that reads: "I'm for gay marriage , I'm a vegetarian,
Bratwurst clogs your arteries, I voted for Al Gore,
Green Bay Packers suck, Cheese is high in
cholesterol, Hillary in 2007, and deer hunting
should be outlawed!!
The first one that makes it back to Milwaukee alive,
wins.

 

[Gypsy Heart]

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HOW TO SAVE YOUR Butt IF YOU PLAN TO VISIT WISCONSIN THIS SUMMER
ISSUED BY THE WISCONSIN BUREAU OF TOURISM TO ALL VISITORS:

1) Don't order Filet Mignon or Pasta Primavera at Al's Lodge. It's a diner. They serve breakfast 24 hours a day. Let them cook something they know. If
you upset the ladies in the kitchen, they'll kick your butt.

2) Don't laugh at the names of our little towns (Sheboygan, Menomonee, Nekoosa, Prairie du Chien, etc.) or we will just have to kick your butt.

3) Don't order a bottle or a can of pop here. Here it's called "soda." Accept it. Doing otherwise can lead to an butt kicking.

4) We know our heritage. Most of us are more literate than you are. We are also better educated and generally a lot nicer. Don't refer to us as a
bunch of hicks or we'll kick your butt.

5) We have plenty of business sense. You have to to make a living here. Naturally, we do sometimes have small lapses in judgment from time to
time, but we are not dumb enough to let someone move to our state in order to run for the Senate and let her win. If someone tried to do that, we would kick her butt.

6) Don't laugh at our giant fiberglass fish and cows. Anything that inspires tourists to buy 50,000 postcards can't be bad. And don't laugh at our love
and pride of cheese or we'll kick your butt.

7) We are fully aware of how cold it gets here in the winter, so shut up. Just spend your money and get the hell out of here or we'll kick your butt.

8) Don't order the vegetarian special at the local diner. Everyone will instantly know that you're a tourist. Eat your steak rare like God intended
and have some potatoes with that, for heaven's sake! Also, don't ask what a hot dish is or we'll kick your butt.

9) Don't try to fake a Wisconsin accent. We don't have an accent. That will incite a riot and you will get your butt kicked.

10) Don't talk about how much better things are at home because we know better. Many of us have visited big-city hell-holes , and we have the scars to prove it. If you don't like it here, interstate 90, 94 and 43 are ready when you are. Move your butt on home
before it gets kicked.

11) Don't complain that Wisconsin has too many mosquitoes and farmland. If you whine about OUR scenic beauty we'll kick your butt all the way back to
Chicago.

12) Don't ridicule our manners. We only speak when spoken to. We hold doors open for others. We offer our seats to old folks because such things are expected of civilized people. Behave yourselves around our sweet, little gray-haired grandmothers or they will kick some manners into your butt just like they did ours.

13) So you think we're quaint or losers because most of us live on the farm or in the woods? That's because we have enough sense to not live in
filthy, smelly, crime-infested cesspools big cities. Make fun of our fresh air and we'll kick your butt .

14) Oshkosh B'gosh is NOT a joke. Your butt will be kicked.

15) The Green Bay Packers are not a joke. God created the greatest football dynasty ever and placed it in Green Bay. Any jokes about the Packers or
Vince Lombardi will result in a severe and unrelenting butt kicking.

16) If you are from Atlanta, for your own safety, say you are from somewhere else, lest you get your butt kicked. (Take three sports franchises from
Milwaukee and we have a tendency to hold a grudge.)

17) If you are looking for a water fountain, you'll need to go to a park. Water comes out of bubblers here. Make a joke about it, and you guessed
it, another butt kicking.

18) Sausage Races are cool. Make fun of it, and one of the Sausages will come up from the field of Miller Park and lay down a 8 foot sausage butt
kicking on you.

19) The University of Wisconsin is the oldest, best school in the Big Ten. Any jokes about the quality of UW will result in Barry Alvarez, Ron Dayne,
Dick Bennett, Bo Ryan, Crazylegs Hirsch, Alan Ameche, Pat Richter, and any able bodied UW students assisting Bucky Badger in his class, Butt-Kicking 101.

20) Last, but not least, DO NOT DARE to come out here and tell us that hunting is cruelty to animals and venison is not edible meat. This will get your buttshot (after it is kicked). Say this twice and you will go home in a pine box. Minus your butt.

Now enjoy your visit and then go home!

 

[Gypsy Heart]

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Jeff Foxworthy on Wisconsin

If you consider it a sport to gather your food
by drilling through 18 inches of ice and sitting there all
day hoping that the food will swim by, you might live in
Wisconsin.

If you have ever refused to buy something
because it's "too spendy",you might live in Wisconsin.

If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through
March, you might live in Wisconsin.

If you instinctively walk like a penguin for five months out of
the year, you might live in Wisconsin.

If someone in a store offers you assistance, and
they don't work there, you might live in Wisconsin.


If your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the middle
of his forehead, you might live in Wisconsin.


If you may not have actually eaten it, but you
have heard of Lutefisk, you might live in Wisconsin.

If you have worn shorts and a parka at the same
time, you might live in Wisconsin.

If you have either a pet or a child named
"Brett", you might live in Wisconsin.

If your town has an equal number of bars and
churches, you might live in Wisconsin.

If you have had a lengthy telephone conversation
with someone who dialed a wrong number, you might live in
Wisconsin.

If you know how to say Oconomowoc, Waukesha,
Menomonie & Manitowoc, you might live in Wisconsin.


If every time you see moonlight on a lake, you think of a dancing
bear,and you sing gently, "From the land of sky-blue
waters, ....you might live in Wisconsin.

Series II. YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRUE WISCONSINITE WHEN:

1. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway.

2. "Vacation" means going up north past Hwy 8 for the weekend.

3. You measure distance in hours.

4. You know several people who have hit deer more than once.

5. You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and
back again.

6. Your whole family wears Packer Green to church on Sunday.

7. You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging
blizzard, without flinching.

8. You see people wearing camouflage at social events. (including
weddings)

9. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.

10. You think of the major food groups as beer, cheese,fish, and venison.

11. You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend
knows how to use them.

12. There are 7 empty cars running in the parking lot at Mill's
Fleet Farm at any given time.

13. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.

14. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled
with snow.

15. You refer to the Packers as "we."

16. You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and
road construction.

17. You can identify a southern or eastern accent.

18. You have no problem pronouncing Lac Du Flambeau.

19. You consider Minneapolis exotic.


20. You know how to polka.

21. Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to
your blue spruce.

22. You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.

23. Down South to you means Iowa.

24. A brat is something you eat.

25. Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new pole shed.

26. You go out to fish fry every Friday

27. Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.

28. You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.

29. You find -20 degrees "a little chilly."

 

[jorge del norte]

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did you get the skateboard too

 

[Arakronn]

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Love the lists, Gypsy...
However, I have to add 2 phrases/words that seem to be "wisconsin only"

Errno and with. Wanna come with, errno?

Another "you might live in Wisconsin"....you bring in the mail and you can't read the address through the envelope window because it's too frosted up.

 

[Tourezrick]

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Gypsy - just a few corrections. Yah, hey is spelled 'Ja, hey' and is followed at the end of the sentence by 'once'. 'Go down by' is always followed by 'Prange's" and 'hey once'. The only toilets, sinks, tubs, faucets, bidets worth having come from Kohler, hey once! Same goes for gen sets, once. There is a Johnsonville, it is between Sheboygan and Plymouth, and you can hear the race cars at Road America from the factory. Back to toilets - best toilet seats come from Bemis, the 'Comfy'. Who wouldn't wanna sit on that? Vollrath makes spiffy stuff outa stainless steel. Sheboygan had it's own navy docked in town - the U.S.S. ELY! Manitowoc made submarines, teflon coated them at the Mirro plant in between the pots and pans, for extra speed (my wife bit on that one, till I laughed!). The EAA fly-in at Oshkosh has more airplanes I wouldn't get in, or fit in than anywhere else. The Hodag lives! Augie Pabst still kicks butt driving his Meister Brauser Scarab at the BRIC Vintage Races at Road America. I should look that good when I'm that old - my mouth to G-D's ear! Sheboygan was known as the 'Chair City', because 'Toilet City' was taken by Kohler! BEER, COWS, BRATS, ROAD AMERICA - stuff of legends, memories.

Tourezrick
Kohler Co. Brass Warehouse'68, '69

 

[Harry_Morant]

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Australians must be decended from a lost tribe from Wisconsin -my kids refer to bubblers and not drinking fountains, my old man always used to say fair to middlin when asked how he was and I do too sometimes and we also have our giant fibreglass icons - the big prawn, trout, pineapple, banana, merino, potato, macadamia.... http://www.bigthings.com.au/home.htm - if you're run out of things to do on your list of most boring occupations there's even statistics on the amount of bug things.