We have a saying back home: God created Wisconsin

[Rabrrrrrr]

to train the faithful.

[Itascapark]

1. She created Minnesota

for respite and reflection on why she created Wisconsin. :evilgrin:

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. Ooh, that's gonna cost ya

Though I will say that MN would be my second choice. Love MN, both physically, and the people, and the politics. Excellent place, even if you ARE wrong on football. At least you have Garrison Keillor, the Twin Cities, and lots of nature left, too.

[Itascapark]

4. LOL!

O8) }(

[northernsoul]

24. yeah!

that take Cheddarheads!

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. Ouch - votes for "no" already well ahead!

scary.

Lots of anti-Wisconsin people out there, methinks...

:P :bounce: :P

[ScreamingMeemie]

5. On Wisconsin, On Wisconsin....

Oh how I miss ye...

[sasquatch]

20. Fight team acroos the field men of scarlet and gray

Buckeye's our invading Madtown

And god made Ohio to give us Dennis Kucinich.

[BeatleBoot]

6. My Arteries

Enjoy their cheese and brats

[On the Road]

7. I Thought the Motto Up There Was

"Come to Wisconsin and smell our dairy air."

:evilgrin:

[ScreamingMeemie]

8. No the motto is....Look how cute our women are...

I'm gonna be going crazy now that SoCalDem posted how to post pictures.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

12. Dios mio! Is that you???

[ScreamingMeemie]

22. Yes, it's me..The rest of the picture is a cardboard cut out

of Brett Favre that someone gave me as a joke. :hi:

[BlueJazz]

9. Wisconsin is a Parasite

Every morning you see the "bugs" infecting into Minnesota from Hudson, Wisconsin and then in the evening dashing home to their Republican state. If it wasn't for the states around Wisconsin that also support Wisconsin, the place would be a forest.

[Archae]

10. Try living where the FIB's go through!

Snarl... :mad:

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. Damn right.

Fuck the FIBS.

Wisconsin a parasite my ass.

How rude.

If they only knew the truth of the parasites of Michigan and especially Illinois. And sometimes Iowa. But never Minnesota. I like Minnesota.

But fuck the FIBS.

[Ellen Forradalom]

13. Well EXCUUUUSE me

I resemble that remark. And my family are all good Wisconsin liberals and leftists, I'll have you know.

[Archae]

14. FIB's

To be an FIB though, you need:

An SUV, van (not minivan), pickup truck or motor home with Illinois plates.

No gas cap, an old shirt or underwear stuffed into the filler tube.

Bumper stickers on one side that say something, anything to do with "Da Bears."

Bumper sticker on other side is half-worn off "Bush/Cheney 2000"

Faded, torn flag sticker in back window, which is so filthy it can't be seen through anyway.
(Little flags on plastic sticks optional)

Lots of tourist trap stickers on the rear of the vehicle.

The shocks on the vehicle are bad, so it leans to one side.

Vehicle windows periodically eject glowing cigarette butts and beer cans.

Ugly dog has it's head out the window into the breeze, barking at anything that moves.

(Hey, every year I see these!) :-)

[Ellen Forradalom]

15. How about Beemers with IL plates

that zip along I-43 at 90 MPH?

[Archae]

16. Those too!

ZOOOM!

Assholes.

And they usually are blabbing on a cell phone and/or have some ghawdawful "music" so loud the windows are vibrating.

[Ellen Forradalom]

17. I've driven that road many a time.

It's the road from Chicago to Door County. I've seen 'em all.

[Archae]

19. I live right next to it.

I-43 runs less than a mile from my place here in Sheboygan.

Remember that horrible pile up last year on I-43, in the fog?
That was only a few miles from my place.

I turn on CNN, and they show the accident, and when they say where it is I nearly fall out of my chair.

[Ellen Forradalom]

41. Yes, I remember

Someone from my mother's town was caught in that.

[ScreamingMeemie]

31. Why does everyone in Illinois seem to have vanity plate?

I have never seen a huger conglomeration of vanity plates than when we are passing through the tri state area.

[ScreamingMeemie]

30. Don't forget the deer insignia.

[northzax]

33. so basically poor people

nice.

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34. The FIBs that annoy me are the mercedes, BMW, and

House On Wheel drivers, the aggressive type-A idiots from Chicago, and the generally obnoxious clowns who think that all WI roads should be travelled at 90 mph, passing on the right on the shoulder, because "We only have the weekend, so we have a right to be there RIGHT NOW!"

And then they fill up Lake Geneva and Door County and the Dells with their idiocy, backing the roads up for miles and miles and miles...

Hey, Illinois FIBS: Wisconsin isn't your park. People live there. Show them some respect.

(and please note, I do not talk of all Illinois people - people from southern Illinois seem pretty cool, it's just all those Chicago-area "We're in a hurry, we have no respect for the land, sory I don't know the difference between a cow and a deer but I killed it fair and square" morans)

[northernsoul]

25. ok, who are the FIBs?

oh wait, think I might've jsut figured it out...
does it involve something about people from Illinois that I wouldn't want to repeat in front of my grandma?

[northernsoul]

28. correction: St. Croix county is a parasite

I agree that Hudson and surrounding communities should just be annexed by Minnesota so that their residents will have to start paying all MN taxes for the services and infrastructure they enjoy over here every single freakin' day.

Otherwise, I think WI is a great place and I really enjoy many of their consumable exports.

My ideal solution would be that MN and WI team up to secede from the US and become the The People's Northwoods Republic.

[Rabrrrrrr]

29. I love that idea

I think MN and WI would get along quite well as a separate republic.

Of course, might havet o get rid of the apostate football team,and just keep the Pcakers, but otherwise, all would be good.

I remember a number of years ago, a local DJ (I lived south of Madison at the time) called some places at random way up north in WI to ask if they knew who the gov. of WI is. Most of them did not, but they pretty much all knew who the gov. of MN was. Since most of their radio and TV up there comes from the twin cities.

I thought that was rather fascinating.

I also like that WI and MN have for so, so long enjoyed and shared "in-state" tuition for the universities of both states.

[northernsoul]

35. I'm afraid that the football issue may lead to civil war

in our fair People's Northwood Republic.

Can we somehow manage to co-exist with two teams? Granted, the Purple Squad will have to give that Texas Robber Baron owner the boot and sell shares of ownership to our citizens. Also, the "teflon terrarium" in Minneapolis has got to go. Maybe we'll just have UN peacekeepers out in force when the two teams play eachother.

[Rabrrrrrr]

38. Dual teams - why not?

That way, we can have football available over a much wider area, anyway. And we'll have them rotate using the teflon terrarium and God's House, so that neither team is any longer speicifcally located in one place. And then, when Da Bears (Satan's team) comes up to play, we'll just kill 'em. And it won't be illegal, cuz we'll be a separate country where it's okay to kill Da Bears.

[ScreamingMeemie]

32. And Michigan should give the UP back to it's rightful owners, because

they have just messed it up with a bunch of loony Freepers, and Wisconsin doesn't need a damned windy, blow your car over the edge, bridge to get to it.

[Catshrink]

18. Dunno -- but what's the excuse for the Packers?

Go Bears!!!

[nemo137]

21. we have a saying back home

God created Wisconsin so Illinoisans would know how good they've got it.
:D

[Loonman]

23. That still doesn't explain the silly accents, Ya?

LOL!

:)

[ScreamingMeemie]

26. Hey, I have no silly accent...

You do!;-)

[Loonman]

27. LOL

;)

[hippiechick]

36. One only appreciates WI once one has left ....

I moved to Indy about 5 years ago and OH MY do I MISS my home state !!

There is no 'real' water here,
No wildlife
No clean air
People have attitudes
Mostly nonthinking conservatives (except for my fellow Hoosier DU'ers)
and Bible thumpers

Freezing Rain, not snow that one can drive on
Tornadoes, but nobody has basements (duh ???)

The food sucks !
WTF good is Basketball anyway ?



Ok, I could go on.
But I truly DO get homesick.

:hippie:

[ScreamingMeemie]

37. Me too! Transplanted to Michigan 20 years ago....Blech

But I make frequent trips back as my whole family pretty much still lives there. I miss it. Plus the Detroit Lions are a piss poor substitute for real football.

[Rabrrrrrr]

39. I will never live in Michigan again

unless I had to, and it was in the UP.

I've never lived anywhere except MI that I had no respect for the state I was living in (except for the UP).

But that was also late 80s, when everything was truly gone to hell. I hope it is better now.

[ScreamingMeemie]

40. Nope, it's not...but we do have Granholm now...so maybe

But I still wish I was back in Wisconsin