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Location: Sawyer County, WI | Good suggestions Steve. It can't really be the northwoods without the woods.
As an aside, has anybody noticed the recent improvement in Google maps resolution ? In addition to the awesome autumn colors in my neck of the woods, I see I left the net in the boat the night before they took the satellite photos...
sworrall - 12/12/2012 8:13 AM
True definition? Go to Google Earth and look for the timber line.
Edited by dfkiii 12/12/2012 9:57 AM
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Location: oswego, il | Aftrr being awake all night pondering my original thought of hwy 10, I am now torn between highways 2 and 11. I just cant be for certain. |
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | Isn't "up north" the same in Wisconsin as it is in any other state? I know you guys over there are a bit "different", but... 
"up north" anytime you move in the direction of the north pole from where you originally started.
Edited by VMS 12/12/2012 11:45 AM
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Location: Smith Creek | There's some farms just south of Ashland, I'd still consider it "up north"
Wisconsin outdoor writer Richard Yatzek described "Up North" as a state of mind. He referred to Highway 8 as the "noodle line" as everyone north of Highway 8 puts noodles in their chili. Grotesque I know, but that's how people in northern WI do it. |
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| Pointerpride102 - 12/11/2012 3:33 PM
esoxaddict - 12/11/2012 2:12 PM
Pointerpride102 - 12/11/2012 2:27 PM
I thought Madison belonged to Illinois?
We don't want it!
Crap.
All you have to do is look for the uneducated people who wear camo all the time who don't make any money. Usually that starts about 10 miles north of Madison. |
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Location: Smith Creek | Guest - 12/12/2012 2:37 PM
Pointerpride102 - 12/11/2012 3:33 PM
esoxaddict - 12/11/2012 2:12 PM
Pointerpride102 - 12/11/2012 2:27 PM
I thought Madison belonged to Illinois?
We don't want it!
Crap.
All you have to do is look for the uneducated people who wear camo all the time who don't make any money. Usually that starts about 10 miles north of Madison.
We wear hats indoors too. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Guest,
You the same citified idiot who thinks field dressed deer in a cold garage 'smell'?
#*^@ed happy I live up here where a man isn't judged by the price of his patent leather shoes, and speaking of shoes, doesn't wear 'stockings' under em, we wear socks. We even wear socks made from animal fur.
Hats, sometimes, too. But not inside, too warm.
I lived a fair portion of my life in New Mexico. One doesn't place noodles in chili.
That's soup no matter how thick one makes it. |
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| sworrall - 12/12/2012 3:32 PM
Guest,
You the same citified idiot who thinks field dressed deer in a cold garage 'smell'?
#*^@ed happy I live up here where a man isn't judged by the price of his patent leather shoes, and speaking of shoes, doesn't wear 'stockings' under em, we wear socks. We even wear socks made from animal fur.
Hats, sometimes, too. But not inside, too warm.
Sorry Sworrall but I can't even understand you. Did you make it past 7th grade English class? What does citified mean? Just because you sit around drinking pabst beer watching Faux news does not make you a man. Sorry!
BTW- I like everything about northern Wisconsin. Except for the ugly @$$ed women you have up there. Northern Wisconsin where the men are men and the women are men too. |
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| Guest - 12/12/2012 3:43 PM
sworrall - 12/12/2012 3:32 PM
Guest,
You the same citified idiot who thinks field dressed deer in a cold garage 'smell'?
#*^@ed happy I live up here where a man isn't judged by the price of his patent leather shoes, and speaking of shoes, doesn't wear 'stockings' under em, we wear socks. We even wear socks made from animal fur.
Hats, sometimes, too. But not inside, too warm.
Sorry Sworrall but I can't even understand you. Did you make it past 7th grade English class? What does citified mean? Just because you sit around drinking pabst beer watching Faux news does not make you a man. Sorry!
BTW- I like everything about northern Wisconsin. Except for the ugly @$$ed women you have up there. Northern Wisconsin where the men are men and the women are men too.
Cubs fan. Guaranteed. Book him, Danno ... |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I like Miller Lite and once in a while a Silver Bullet. I watch CBS and PBS News.
Sad. No clue what 'citified' means.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/citified
Any or all of the below:
It's slang for folks who think hamburger comes from McDonalds and chicken from KFC. Never raised a darn thing for food, cleaned a fish, gathered fresh eggs from the hen house, or butchered a deer. Thinks a Prius is the only way to ride, or worse, owns an SUV that's never had mud on the upper door panels. Never been ice fishing, or thinks it's too cold to when it's -20 degrees. Thinks guns are for personal protection or should be banned. Never been in the center of a mountain pass in a snow storm, or sat in a tree in minus 12 waiting for a buck to show himself. Never heard a pack of 'yotes closing in on a kill on a blistering cold winter night or watched a bobcat stalk a grouse from a deer stand.
And so on.
cit·i·fy
[sit-i-fahy] Show IPA
verb (used with object), cit·i·fied, cit·i·fy·ing.
1.
to make into a city; urbanize.
2.
to cause to conform to city habits, fashions, etc.
In your case, perhaps 2?
I personally don't have any ugly women, and although I'm sure there are some here in the North, you need to take a walk around a Milwaukee or Chicago Super Wal Mart on a Friday or Saturday late night before you get all judgmental.
It's not a problem with me if you are citified. Really, I don't care, that's a choice for most and as long as those who are don't look down their noses at us country based folk and us country based folk don't get all C&W on you, we get along pretty well.
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Location: Central WI | Entertaining thread. Years ago I had a girlfriend from Watertown who thought Wautoma was "up north". I vote for highway 8..
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Location: Smith Creek | I bet my "northern" wife is hotter than his. Post up the goods guest. We can have an online vote.
Sure, up north ain't Paris or Madrid, but I got news for ya, Mad Town ain't either. |
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Location: oswego, il | 7th grade was the hardest 4 years of my life. I bet Worrall, Sworrall if you prefer got it the first time around. I think that was the first time he had to use citified in a sentence. Wow now I just did! Progress. |
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | ToddM - 12/12/2012 4:34 PM
7th grade was the hardest 4 years of my life.
Now THAT's FUNNY right there, no doubt about it!!
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| Given my moniker, I guess I should say Hwy 8, but I think for each of us, "up north" means something a little different. Growing up in the 1960s my uncle had a rustic cabin in the Harrison Hills north of Merrill, on Bass lake. I could not wait for summer and a chance to go "up north". To me, "up north" is a state of mind, not something you can find on a map. |
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Location: milwaukee | sworrall - 12/12/2012 8:13 AM
True definition? Go to Google Earth and look for the timber line.
Amen. As a kid, and more so now, as I travel north I know I've 'arrived' when I see more pine than hardwood and farm field. |
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Location: Minocqua, WI | The infamous and legendary "T-Bird Country" bridge above 51 before entering Hazelhurst. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | North of 8 - 12/12/2012 7:37 PM
Given my moniker, I guess I should say Hwy 8, but I think for each of us, "up north" means something a little different. Growing up in the 1960s my uncle had a rustic cabin in the Harrison Hills north of Merrill, on Bass lake. I could not wait for summer and a chance to go "up north". To me, "up north" is a state of mind, not something you can find on a map.
Harrison Hills is a really unique area in Northern Wisconsin ... one of my favorite motorcycle loops. i can see where a tradition there would be a great one to have!!
one of my favorite unique "up north" feelings flies in the face of the citified guest. where else in the world could you have friends from 17 to 70 some making their way to the next paycheck and some with a legacy built with millions and not know who is who?? it is the reality where people are just that and pretense doesn't exist. it's the best part of my small town ... especially during the "off-season" when we all suffer because the touristas aren't here to support us ... LOL |
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Location: The desert | Guest - 12/12/2012 2:43 PM
sworrall - 12/12/2012 3:32 PM
Guest,
You the same citified idiot who thinks field dressed deer in a cold garage 'smell'?
#*^@ed happy I live up here where a man isn't judged by the price of his patent leather shoes, and speaking of shoes, doesn't wear 'stockings' under em, we wear socks. We even wear socks made from animal fur.
Hats, sometimes, too. But not inside, too warm.
Sorry Sworrall but I can't even understand you. Did you make it past 7th grade English class? What does citified mean? Just because you sit around drinking pabst beer watching Faux news does not make you a man. Sorry!
BTW- I like everything about northern Wisconsin. Except for the ugly @$$ed women you have up there. Northern Wisconsin where the men are men and the women are men too.
My guess is this guy lives alone, perhaps in his parents basement. Thinks of himself as a ladies man but hasn't been with an actual woman in well over a year. Weekend fun is a threesome with Aunt Jemima and Mrs. Butterworth. |
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Location: north central wisconsin | Hey man, I drink Pabst, with pretty women, and I live right near highway 10.
As a kid growing up, heading to our place in Conover each weekend, we were up north when we stopped below hat rapids to eat a sandwhich, take a leak, and catch a smallie.
Up north is further south, the further east you go. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | That is an absolute fact. |
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| "Up North" starts where you can walk into a bar, sit down, and have a conversation with anyone without wondering if it's going to end out in the parking lot. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | asphalt poisening ...
maybe something to do with parking lots made of compressed dirt or ice, pine needles and tree roots |
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| I have alot more issues with people when I'm up North then in the cities.... |
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Location: The desert | thescottith - 12/13/2012 11:40 AM
I have alot more issues with people when I'm up North then in the cities....
Maybe it is you.... |
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Location: Smith Creek | Issues with Northerners or Southerners up north?
Any issues with a Northerner can resolved by producing a dog. We Northerners love our canines and will almost immediately trust someone who has a dog. Be prepared to speak at length of your dogs and their habits.
If you don't have a dog than ask the Northerners how rifle season went. |
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| I grew up in Ashland, moved away in 96, I go back multiple times a year, My car, My dads truck and all the neighbors cars have been robbed mulitple times, multiple times up North I have caught people breaking into neighbors garages.
Once in Ashland at my parents the door bell rang, I answered it, Dude at the door, super drunk says...hey you have a big house, I'm sleeping here tonight, I say hell no, slam the door, he tries to open door and starts peeking in the windows....WTF? so here i am with my 10 year old son, having to call the police and load the gun....
Tons of up north stories.......
I've live in Richfield MN, a block out of mpls, Never has someone broke into my car, house, any neighbors. or just knocked on the door...looking for a room.
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Location: Smith Creek | Ashland is a town unto itself, as you probably know. Several factors make it what it is. Not typical. |
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| Ashland really is something else. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | My son and daughter in law have lived in Ashland for years. Good fishing, great deer hunting, and they haven't had a single issue far as I know. They DO have a hunting dog. Might be why. |
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