Random Photo from my Hard Drive: Frozen to an Aluminum Bench
Look at this photo I found on my hard drive. I’m the guy in the gray fur hat; the other guy, underneath the…skinned Pomeranian???…is my buddy Jeff. By looking at this photo you can hardly tell we are slowly dying of hypothermia.
The temperature that day was about 8 degrees F (-13 C) with a wind-chill factor roughly equal to that of the dark side of Pluto (the former planet—not the dog). We are braving these elements because it’s Sunday in Green Bay Wisconsin, the Packers are playing the Colts, and one of Jeff’s employees coughed up some free tickets.
If you live in Wisconsin and are offered free Green Bay Packers tickets, you MUST accept them and go to the game or else you will forever be known to all other Wisconsinites as THE BIGGEST IDIOT IN THE WORLD.
Everyone in Wisconsin is a Green Bay Packers fan: EVERYONE. A few people have attempted to move there from other places such as Minnesota and tried to remain true to their hometown team, but that would make them STUPID VIQUEENS FANS and there is NO WAY they are going to get their furnace repaired now—they’ll just have to huddle together in naked, manly fashion with DA’ STUPID BEARS FANS.
I miss Wisconsin a lot—especially fun times like we had that day—but I don’t miss the freezing temperatures. I also like the fact that, here in California, when I go to a football game and order a beer, it doesn’t come out of the cup in one solid block.
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Well, if you really, really really love football then I guess you are not that much of an idiot. I on the other hand, would have stayed home, crawled under the covers and watched it on TV. Oh yeah lame I know!
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William McCamment
reply on November 18th, 2008 8:07 am:
No, that’s not lame, I’ve done that MANY times. Green Bay Packers tickets are literally sold out 30 years in advance. I’m not kidding!
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The skinned Pomeranian is JUST TOO COOL. Only in Wisconsin could you possibly find a hat AS COOL as that one! My husband is from Minnesota (possibly the whitest white boy EVER) and his sister uses (phonetic spelling here) UFF DA as a swear word. When his favorite Grandpa died we drove up for the funeral from South Texas and drove back in a ground blizzard, which I thought would lead to US being the next ones buried. He drove 70mph in that fucking thing! You midwestern northern types are all a bunch of nutfudges, no matter where you may live now! Okay, now say ‘toes’ for me. Hahahahahahahahahaha!!
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William McCamment
reply on November 18th, 2008 8:35 am:
70mph is standard traveling speed for a blizzard. EVERYONE knows that! Haha!
I only have a VERY slight accent and can say “toes” like a proper American. What’s really fun, though, is getting someone with a thick Boston accent to say “fork”. LOL
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LMAO William I can’t believe your friend actually wore that — on his head — in public. And there is no way in Hades that I would ever go out, anywhere, when the temp is cold enough to freeze beer. Sometimes you just have to have priorities. Beer temp trumps football!
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William McCamment
reply on November 18th, 2008 8:48 am:
I’m almost embarrassed to admit this, but hats such as that are fairly common in Wisconsin during the winter. It’s not actually a Pomeranian, but some type of fox, and, yes, it’s real. There are a lot of hunters in Wisconsin: not me, I can’t kill anything–not even a spider (well, maybe a black widow). LOL
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I’m contacting PETA right now to liberate that poor hat.
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William McCamment
reply on November 18th, 2008 11:11 am:
I know! It really is kind of disturbing, isn’t it…
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I’m just a STUPID CALIFORNIAN then, there is no way you’d get me out in that weather….
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William McCamment
reply on November 18th, 2008 11:12 am:
When I first moved from California to Wisconsin and felt the cold I COULDN’T BELIEVE IT! I could not believe it got that cold…anywhere!
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There’s no way in hell you’d get a Steeler’s fan to convert. Hell would have to freeze over and even Green Bay doesn’t get that cold. On another note, the hats make for an excellent place to hide whiskey.
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William McCamment
reply on November 18th, 2008 2:09 pm:
No one ever converts; they just move away…eventually. LOL
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Got to admit Green Bay fans are dedicated. I’m a Giants fan, and I won’t get my ass off the couch to sit in the stands.
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William McCamment
reply on November 18th, 2008 7:57 pm:
…and, your guys won the Superbowl last year! If the Packers won a Superbowl, the whole state would be on fire for years!
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I was lookin fer that gotdam dawg all day…send it back to the trailer when you git done with it.
Eve
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William McCamment
reply on November 19th, 2008 5:16 am:
Um, it may not come to you when you call it anymore…
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hem.. where is winconsin?
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William McCamment
reply on November 19th, 2008 7:20 am:
WINconsin? Hmm, I’m not sure; WISconsin is in the USA near Lake Michigan.
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I thought that Packers fans wore the cheesehead! But the Pomeranian hat is cool! Here in Canada, we’re used to those temperatures (and colder) for most football games .. and anyone who goes to a CFL game is crazy because the football is second-rate compared to the NFL.
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William McCamment
reply on November 19th, 2008 7:24 am:
Usually, the cheesehead hats come out for AWAY games. At home it’s considered somewhat of a fashion faux pas.
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The hat… ohhhh… the hat!! It’s not the strangest football game gear I’ve seen (I am, after all, smack dab in the middle of the Steelers Nation), but it sure does have it’s own unique, er, style. Did it get its own beer? Or kibble?
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William McCamment
reply on November 20th, 2008 12:04 am:
Feeding the hat beer is a bad idea because of the…urination thing…
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surprised nobody took a pot shot at the hat ….
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My hubby is in Green Bay can someone tell me where he can get one of those hats he is not leaving till they find em and I really want him to come home….
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William McCamment
reply on December 28th, 2009 6:41 am:
They sell those hats almost everywhere! LOL
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