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100 new things not to do in Milwaukee
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You've most likely read the OnMilwaukee.com 100 Things To Do in Milwaukee as well as our 100 More things to do in Milwaukee.
We've put a new twist on the list. Here's our witty, somewhat sassy, laugh at ourselves list of 100 Things NOT to do in Milwaukee. Please enjoy them, and please don't take them too seriously -- we like to have fun around here. Use the talkback button to list any that we may have forgotten.
- Order a Coors Light
- Ride a Kawasaki
- Sass the pepperoni/cannoli guy
- Ring the buzzer at the Great Northern train bar
- Take a custard order from Deputy Police Chief Monica Ray
- Speed on Lincoln Memorial Dr.
- Drive a semi or other heavy vehicle across the Hoan Bridge
- Ask for turkey sausage at Usinger's
- Expect most folks to get dressed up for anything
- Tell Brewer ushers you don't have your ticket
- Drive less than 85 mph to Chicago
- Jaywalk
- Not complain about the weather
- Park during a snow emergency
- Bet on the Brewers winning the World Series
- Pay list price for anything
- Criticize the Packers when they're winning
- Give away the password to the Safe House
- Be pregnant and wear a bikini at Summerfest
- Spit off the Summerfest tram
- Shout, "Look at them mullets!" at State Fair
- Mistake sheep dung for Cream Puff at State Fair
- Enter pie-eating contest at State Fair activity dome
- Ask someone in Door County or Lake Geneva, "What's a FIB?"
- Use the TYME machine at Summerfest, when you're in a hurry
- Taste the greasy stain on the bus or taxi window
- Use a YMCA Stairmaster when someone else is signed up
- Feed bread to the geese (it expands in their stomachs, you know)
- Order a beer at Bryant's or At Random
- Light up at the Bong Rec Area
- Ride the Milwaukee Ducks without snorkeling gear
- Try to use a credit card at Ma Fischer's
- Decline a dance with Freeway at a Bucks game
- Make fun of Milwaukee accent in Packard Ave. bar
- Buy Brewers tickets from a scalper
- Wear "No Fat Chicks" shirt at local mall
- Go to Northridge and ask, "where'd all the stores go?"
- Order a hamburger on Friday at Serb Hall
- Wear Vikings hat to local Hooters
- Touch dancers at West Allis strip club
- Take "Touch TMJ4" slogan too literally and assault Mike Gousha ("the TV told me to")
- Suggest new building project designed by someone other than Santiago Calatrava
- Attempt to cut in on "Red and Fred" at Jazz in the Park or River Rhythms
- Suggest to George Watts that he move his store to the end of the Park East Freeway
- Attempt to fly anywhere directly from Mitchell Airport (Midwest Express excluded, of course)
- Go to Potawatomi without a pack of cigarettes
- Shout Bingo for fun in crowded casino
- Tell Scott Steele that Albert the Alleycat could kick Spunky's butt
- Call Mayor Norquist, shout, "sweet apple pie" or "light rail blows," then hang up
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- Stand on any Milwaukee street corner, attempt to hail a cab
- Take an afternoon swim in the Milwaukee River
- Ask about the clocks at George Webb
- Dial 414 when you should've dialed 262
- Be surprised when Brewers trade top talent for aging former unproven great
- Be surprised when Milwaukee sports failure becomes superstar after being traded
- Taste the paint from your County Stadium seat
- Trust the weatherman
- Ask for custard at Baskin-Robbins/31 Flavors
- Expect that renewing your drivers license will only take 10 minutes
- Don't pay your parking tickets
- Forget that property taxes increase each and every year
- Expect a great daily news paper
- Hail "God mobile" as it drives down Wisconsin Ave., attempt to confess sins to driver
- Expect Bo Black and the Mayor to kiss and make up
- Ask anyone in the Valley where that smell comes from
- Expect to hear good music on a commercial FM radio station
- Forget to wear sunglasses when looking at the huge Firstar sign
- Invite Mark Chmura to your teenage daughter's birthday party
- Try to convert your downtown bar into a strip club
- Park your RV and five junker cars on your Mequon lawn
- Ride your bike in a winter snowstorm
- Suggest a mandatory reduction in summertime fireworks displays
- Order a thick steak at Beans & Barley
- Throw rocks at the Domes
- Order a Guinness at the Milwaukee Ale House
- Make a right turn in front of the bus
- Try to recover your stolen possessions at the Seven Mile Fair
- Make Sopranos references at Giovanni's
- Expect to hear anything at Taylor's besides the same song over and over again
- Skip Opening Day because you have "too much work to do"
- Say "It's too cold to go to Lambeau"
- Wear "Cryptosporidium Rules" t-shirt to MMSD Christmas Party
- Call Charlie Sykes and try to get a word in edgewise
- Steal someone's roped-off spot at the Circus Parade
- Leave voice mail for Bob Reitman, asking "What's with the vest?"
- Expect the police chief to make a public statement
- Vote just once if you're a Marquette student
- Eat at Sizzler
- Sip from vials attached to lamp posts and telephone poles
- Eat that 1991 Ambrosia chocolate bar
- Eat more than a bowl of Real Chili shortly before a first date
- Say "Charge us whatever you think is fair" to your server at the 4th Base
- Go to Coerper's 5 O' Clock Club and say you want a fish fry
- Try to trade Geoff Jenkins and Jeromy Burnitz for Santiago Calatrava and two minor league prospects
- Go to Capitol Court to buy the new Dan Fogelberg Anthology boxed set
- Take your kids to the M&M Club because you think it is a candy store
- Open a health and fitness center for softball players
- Let your son cheer the Cardinals when they play the Brewers
- Wear sandals in the Summerfest men's room
- See Tom Green eating pizza at Filippo's, yell "Elvis sucks"
Recent Talkbacks ...
Posted by OMCreader on May 17, 2006 at 11:04 a.m. (report)
Carlos said: You gotta right!! Pretty much is true.
and I Love MKE .
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Posted by OMCreader on March 27, 2006 at 10:16 p.m. (report)
Daniel Fenelon said: First of all I love that fact that "your comment" is required.
I haven't had that good of a laugh in a long time... mostly because everything said here was SOOO true.
You gotta love Milwaukee!
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