# We're number one! We're number one! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 24, 2000, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-number-one-were-number-one/15133 "2000-03-24T03:14:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-number-one-were-number-one/15133/1 "2000-03-24T03:14:00Z")
From an article on a just-released report from the CDC: > [@](#): > > Which state has the most drinkers? Wisconsin, where residents also confessed to the most binge drinking. Ha! In your face, losers! ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-number-one-were-number-one/15133/2 "2000-03-24T09:05:00Z")
Well, I’m not one to boast over my drinking abilities (and certainly not in my sig line!), but I bet you good money that mr. Larrigan will pop in here in a minute with some profound statictical data stating the Irish rule the world regarding this matter. * * * **Coldfire** _Voted **Poster Most Likely To Post Drunk** _ * * * _ **"You know how complex women are"** _ - Neil Peart, **Rush** (1993) ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-number-one-were-number-one/15133/3 "2000-03-24T09:21:00Z")
Oh Coldy… you know me so well!!! nah, I’ll leave this victory to otto!!! ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-number-one-were-number-one/15133/4 "2000-03-24T13:55:00Z")
Hm. So that’s why “treatment facilities” have become the largest cottage industry in Minnesota: to spin-dry sodden Cheeseheads. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cheese\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cheese\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheese_Head)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-number-one-were-number-one/15133/5 "2000-03-24T14:23:00Z")
Otto, I’m not sure we should be proud of that. Strangely, Wisconsin does not have a high rate of liver disease. Paradox. However, we are one of the most overweight states. No doubt from all that cheese, meat, beer, and cold-weather lifestyle. Fortunately, I am neither overweight or a big drinker. ---
**Author:** ![Cheese\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cheese\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheese_Head)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-number-one-were-number-one/15133/6 "2000-03-24T14:26:00Z")
Otto, I’m not sure we should be proud of that. Strangely, Wisconsin does not have a high rate of liver disease. Paradox. However, we are one of the most overweight states. No doubt from all that cheese, meat, beer, and cold-weather lifestyle. Fortunately, I am neither overweight or a big drinker. ---
**Author:** ![Cheese\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cheese\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheese_Head)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-number-one-were-number-one/15133/7 "2000-03-24T14:30:00Z")
Otto, I’m not sure we should be proud of that. Strangely, Wisconsin does not have a high rate of liver disease. Paradox. However, we are one of the most overweight states. No doubt from all that cheese, meat, beer, and cold-weather lifestyle. Fortunately, I am neither overweight or a big drinker. ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-number-one-were-number-one/15133/8 "2000-03-24T17:10:00Z")
[Cecil](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_039b.html) on alcohol (specifically brandy) consumption in Wisconsin. * * * [Change Your Password, Please](http://204.95.48.199/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getannounce&ForumNumber=3&Start=2451545.99&End=2451911&Session=2451598.1854) and don’t use HTML, as it has been disabled, but you can learn about superscripts [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000795.html) ---
**Author:** ![SqrlCub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SqrlCub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SqrlCub)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-number-one-were-number-one/15133/9 "2000-03-24T17:33:00Z")
Well it looks like I will have to go to Wisconsin if I ever want to find a new husbear (assuming I leave my current one) (EVIL EVIL GRIN). HUGS! Sqrl ## PS. I am not surprised that the state that supposedly featured Laverne and Shirly (the girls who worked in the brewery before moving) has a high drinking rate. [SqrlCub’s Arizona Adventure](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/005351.html) ---
**Author:** ![Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myron_Van_Horowitzski)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2000, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-number-one-were-number-one/15133/10 "2000-03-25T06:26:00Z")
Yes, I am from Wisconsin. Imbibo, ergo sum. ---
**Author:** ![Cheese\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cheese\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheese_Head)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-number-one-were-number-one/15133/11 "2000-03-24T21:43:00Z")
Excuse my triple posts. I was drunk. Actually, my computer was. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2000, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-number-one-were-number-one/15133/12 "2000-03-25T04:45:00Z")
The bars in Wisconsin are friendlier than elsewhere, IMHP. You guys in close-by in Chicago, with your neighborhood taverns have much the same blessing, but for most of the world the same welcoming atmosphere doesn’t exist. When a drinking establishment is a meat-market pick up joint, or has conversation-killing loud music or blaring wide-screen sports, or a phony Irish pub/Paris bistro ambiance that attracts only yuppies or, like here in Washington state, is required to serve crappy COOKED - NOT COLD food wherever hard liquor is served, it somehow spoils it. In a Wisconsin beer & shot joint you can drink, eat a stinky cheese sanwich or a landjagger (a cross between sausage & beef jerky), play euchre or sheepshead. You can shoot pool with the old guys or flirt with the young gal behind the bar or just talk shit with your buddies. The best thing about Wisconsin bar culture is that it’s an actual community. But hell, I’m the craziest cheesehead since Ed Gein, and I won’t be offended if someone post a parody of this gush with a “how I miss the crack houses of my youth.” * * * Your deep sea diving suit is ready, me brave lad. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Dave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Great\_Dave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Dave)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2000, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-number-one-were-number-one/15133/13 "2000-03-25T05:55:00Z")
Of, course, we all know why God created whiskey, right? To keep the Irish from ruling the world. * * * -Dave “Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.” -Albert Einstein ---
**Author:** ![Studi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Studi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Studi)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2000, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-number-one-were-number-one/15133/14 "2000-03-25T19:39:00Z")
The poll **did not** take Canadians into account. We can drink all of you swill-drinking people under the table in no time flat. Studi * * * When I grow up, I want to be the Minister of Silly Walks.