4. WE'RE NUMBER ONE-- WISCONSIN ranks #1 among states in high school graduation with 99.1%. But it is also #1 in drunken driving. That's what having teenagers will do to you.
5. Wisconsin rightfully boasts itself as being "America's Dairyland. In the late 1960s the state went one step further and put out bright yellow license plates which locals dubbed "butter plates." Regardless of what those Californy cows think and say.
6. As a result of an insult, Wisconsin has the fantastic HOUSE ON THE ROCK in Spring Green. A Madison architect named Alex Jordan, Sr., hoped to impress Frank Lloyd Wright with his building design for a woman's dormitory. Wright didn't like it and bluntly said, "I wouldn't hire you to design a cheese crate or a chicken coop."
Jordan vowed to build his own masterpiece, which he did, and close to Wright's Taliesin house. Today, Jordan's house, with its Infinity Room, draws more than 500,000 annually, ten times what Wright's place does.
We've been to the House on the Rock and I strongly recommend it. Jordan was quite a collector of things and there is also a huge collection of his stuff on display.
7. MADISON is know as the center of political correctness, but in 2000, the University of Wisconsin admissions office pulled a real big one when they digitally added a black student to a photo of white people at a football game. The virtual spectator, Diallo Shabazz said he'd never attended a UW football game.
Insults and Egg-in-the-Face in the Cheesehead State. --DaCoot
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