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Old 11-03-2009, 07:02 PM
 
Location: Mokena, Illinois
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I thought I could figure it out on my own, but alas, it eludes me.
Is it profane? Sounds like something bad.

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Old 11-03-2009, 07:57 PM
 
Location: Mokena, Illinois
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Okay then.
My guess of Friendly Illinois Brothers/Brethren/businessmen must be wrong.:0)

Now, how would I know that?
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Old 11-03-2009, 08:11 PM
 
Location: Portland OR
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It is common amongst the cheese bretheren when referring to their fellow IL countrymen.
Since moving to IL, it is a good natured mockery we hear literally every time we go home to WI to visit friends or family.

Oh well, sticks and stones -------
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Old 11-04-2009, 11:02 AM
 
Location: A Place With REAL People
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Default Isn't it interesting

I used to travel across 17 States and nowhere else in the country is there such animosity as there is between Illinois and Wisconsin. From Ohio to the West Coast it does not exist except between those 2 States. Now why do you suppose that is the case? Well it's been documented in other threads so I won't bore you....but it DOES exist make NO mistake about it. Frankly, having grown up in Illinois but NOT relating to them as much as the Wisconsinites, I'd say they have a good point. Oh well......sorry...
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Old 11-04-2009, 12:40 PM
 
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The animosity is one-way. IL residents have no burning opinion about Wisconsoners one way or the other.

JMO, but this (one-way) animosity is thinly veiled excuse-making, for the Wisconsiners' paucity of accomplishment, fame, wealth, recognition/notoriety. (How many famous Wisconsoners can you think of?) Almost from birth, it serves as a readi-made vent for their frustrations. Think southern hatred of liberals, blacks, Federal gub'mint.. it's largely the same response. Demonization. But with added ingredient of 'inferiority complex'.

Again, JMO.
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Old 11-04-2009, 02:01 PM
 
Location: Mokena, Illinois
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Sorry i started another hate thread.
Wasn't my intention.
Just wanted to know, cuz I saw it mentioned dozens of times since I joined.

I can laugh at myself, as someone who has lived in Ilinois all my life, but wants to end it living among nature and beauty, somewhere outside my usual box.

I can live with that.

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Old 11-04-2009, 03:07 PM
 
Location: Where the real happy cows reside!
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Famous Wisconsinites I can think of :

Chris Farley
Frank Loyd Wright
William Defoe
Houdini
Liberace
Tom Snyder
Spencer Tracy

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Old 11-04-2009, 04:01 PM
 
Location: MERRILL,WISCONSIN
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Other famous peolpe from Wisconsin:
Les Paul
Steve Miller
William Defoe
Eric Heiden
Jackie Mason
Charles and John Ringling
Georgia O'Keefe
Orson Wells
Bob Uecker
And all the other non famous people that make Wisconsin the great state that it is. Now I'm not a Wisconsin native, I moved here at 37 years old. So I wasn't born into the atitude but I've lived here for about three years now and I can say that there is some real basis for that label and why it's lasted all these years, and it has nothing to do with jealousy.

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Old 11-04-2009, 06:26 PM
 
Location: west of Milwaukee, Wi
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[quote=tet tea;11483850]Famous Wisconsinites I can think of :

Chris Farley
Frank Loyd Wright
William Defoe
Houdini
Liberace
Tom Snyder
Spencer Tracy


and what about Harrison Ford and Henry Winkler (the Fonz)...I believe they too are from Wisconsin (but...I could be wrong!)

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Old 11-04-2009, 06:43 PM
 
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I
and what about Harrison Ford and Henry Winkler (the Fonz)...I believe they too are from Wisconsin (but...I could be wrong!)

Those two guys were born in Chicago and New York, respectively.

Other famous Wisconsinites either born or raised here....

Oprah Winfrey-millionaire talkshow host
Don Ameche actor, Kenosha
William Defoe actort, Appleton
Tyne Daly actress, Madison
Jeanne Dixon seer, Medford
Chris Farley actor, Madison
Eric Heiden speed skater, Madison
Woody Herman band leader, Milwaukee
Harry Houdini magician, Appleton
Pee Wee King singer, Abrams
George F. Kennan diplomat, Milwaukee
Liberace pianist, West Allis
Allen Ludden tv host, Mineral Point
Alfred Lunt actor, Milwaukee
Frederic March actor, Racine
Jackie Mason comedian, Sheboygan
Charles and John Ringling circus entrepreneurs, Baraboo
Pat O'Brien actor, Milwaukee
Georgia O'Keeffe painter, Sun Prairie
Amy Pietz actress, Oak Creek
Charlotte Rae actress, Milwaukee
William H. Rehnquist jurist, Milwaukee
Gena Rowlands actress, Cambria
Tom Snyder newscaster, Milwaukee
Spencer Tracy actor, Milwaukee
Thorstein Veblen economist, Cato Township
Orson Welles actor and producer, Kenosha
Laura Ingalls Wilder author, Pepin
Thornton Wilder author, Madison
Charles Winninger actor, Athen
Frank Lloyd Wright architect, Richland Center
Bob Uecker baseball player, Milwaukee
Les Paul musician, Waukesha

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