I don't think there is anything wrong with it. (Grumpy) Mikey joe seemed to be making a sort of tongue in cheek, off the cuff remark is all. A bit of good natured slagging is all, nothing serious. Or at least that is the way I perceived it.
I'm a mud duck based in the Twin Cities. You all appear to be cheese eaters from Madison? Doesn't Mauston now qualify as a suburb of Madison? ;-)
And BTW, it isn't just Mauston that has all sorts of odd Irish connections--you find wierdly Irish connections in these here parts of western Wisconsin too!
Do any of you ever come to the Twin Cities to teach and perform?