Other great things about Minnesota . . .

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Posted By: Tom Lawrie 

1. The best tutors money can buy.

2. Free shoes.

3. Politically-astute governors

4. Genuine flying pteradactyls (sometimes mistaken for mosquitos)

5. Beer stays cold in your car 10 months a year.

6. Ferocious college mascots, striking fear in the hearts of Big 10 (or is it 11? - I forget with this new northern math) opponents.

7. Baseball Stadium that can double as a hot air balloon to escape the next sunami (oh wait, they're 4000 miles away from the nearest ocean, no need to fear sunamis).

8. Baseball stadium that can double as air bag for the next crash of a Russian space station.

9. Purple People Eater one day, Supreme Court justice the next.

10. At least it's not North Dakota.

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Posted By: Lee Behrens

I can't defend that 10 ten much, but I do know one thing I would not move from Minnesota unless I got paid good money. You get the four seaons, there's nothing better than spending the day out in a blizzard. This would be a better state if we could get rid of these damned mosquitos. I can go jump in a clean lake and go swimming. The cold is all in your head you can also put on more clothes.
I was in Florida for spring training once and it was hot, I asked a native what they did in the summer when it's hot and he said they have AC, oh the joy stay inside. I would rather have it cold than too hot.

What other state or city can have 5 major sports events in your city in one year, World Series, Super Bowl, Stanly Cup Finals, Final Four, and the U. S. Open in golf.

I love Minnesota

Lee

Twins in 2002!!!!!!!

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

and really appreciated the 4 seasons, which I srt of miss in California. Also the radical faculty, and ultra-conservative students (this is many years ago). There weren't enough Democrats, in an election year, to make a Democratic Club. Thank God for foreign students. One Dane in particular....

We were the class of 1957. A little more than 1/10th of us are dead already. GRAM.

If the As fold, I'll root for the Twins.

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Posted By: leon

and other Yanks....please stay where you are.....regards all

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Posted By: Kevin Cummings

Tom, Lee and all other natives of Minnesota:

No disrespect intended, but my brother-in-law (who lives in Minnesota) passed this on to me, so I had to share.

You know you're from Minnesota when.....

1. Your idea of a traffic jam is 10 cars waiting to pass a tractor.
2. "Vacation" means going to Brainerd for the weekend.
3. You measure distance in hours.
4. You know several people who have hit deer more than once.
5. You often switch from "heat" to "a/c" in the same day.
6. You use a down comforter in the summer.
7. Your grandparents drive 65 mph through 13 feet of snow during a blizzard, without flinching.
8. You see people wearing hunting clothes to social events.
9. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both doors unlocked.
10. You think of the major food groups as venison, walleye, and Leinenkugels.
11. You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend knows how to use them.
12. There are 7 empty cars running in the parking lot at the grocery storeat any given time.
13. You design your kids Halloween costume to fit over a snow suit.
14. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
15. You think sexy lingerie is tube socks and flannel p.j.'s.
16. You know all four seasons; almost winter, winter, still winter, and road construction.
17. It takes you 3 hours to go to the store for one item even when you're in a rush because you have to stop to talk to everyone in town.
18. You actually understand these jokes and forward them to all your friends from Minnesota.

I also have an application for Minnesotazenship if anyone is interested!

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Posted By: Tom Lawrie

I've met have all been great, but I'm a native of Seattle, transplanted to Maryland. I just thought TBob would appreciate my initial list of 10.

Tom

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Posted By: Todd (nolemmings)

You say you mean no disrespect-- there was none shown. Everything on that list is true (except #10- Leinenkugel's is a cheese-head beer, better to say Grain Belt, Hamm's or Schell's), and they all help define what makes Minnesota great.

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Posted By: Lee Behrens

You haven't driven until you drive through 2 ft. of snow. It's boring just driving on tar. And by the way are summers are better than most of the rest of the states. It's also great having girlfriends that know how to fix things.

Lee

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Posted By: Kevin Cummings

.....how people will react.

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

especially if you grew up in Chicago, with a mother from Selma, Alabama who didn't see the need for an airconditioner.

You can always come in and get warm, but when it's hot and muggy, all you can do is submerge.

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Posted By: TBob

With all the damn mosquitoes, Minnesota is probably the only state of the continental 48 which isn't getting the Nile mosquito-bred virus...
By the way, what's up with this board? Every time I try to post I get inundated with "pop-ups ads" it is worse than ever before....

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Posted By: jay behrens

How would you know? You need to have a GF to learn about this :-p

Jay