You know you're from Minnesota when.

Nov 14, 2005 14:04

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springiswrath November 14 2005, 19:56:10 UTC
Addendum to the WI one- or to get beer on Sundays. Go Hudson!

11) You assume a man wearing purple isn't effeminite, he's just a football fan.
12)Three words: Tater Tot Hotdish.
13) You don't get that song "I'm dreaming of a white christmas". It's always white.
14) You were surprised to find out that there's a Rochester in New York.
15) You think of the Mall of America as a place to avoid, not a place to go see.
16) You know that IOWA is really an acronym.
17) You own a -30 sleeping bag and know that you're weekend camper.
18) Crossing the Mississippi is just something you do on your way to work.

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tkitch November 14 2005, 20:46:16 UTC
"14) You were surprised to find out that there's a Rochester in New York."

grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.....

a lot more has happened there than in rochester mn!

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springiswrath November 14 2005, 21:03:44 UTC
Yes, but the Mayo Clinic is in Rochester, MN.

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tkitch November 14 2005, 22:04:56 UTC
Xerox, Kodak, Bausch and Lomb. :-P

(And for the scholarly types, RIT and UofR)

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Mayo clinic in the news: springiswrath November 14 2005, 22:33:21 UTC
King Hussein of Jordan, President Ronald Reagan, Billy Graham, George Harrison, Former Governor / WWE wrestler Jesse Ventura, Art Garfunkel, Benny Goodman, President John F. Kennedy,
Patrick Volkerding, (founder of Slackware Linux)
Larry Brown, (Coach of the New York Knicks), Ernest Hemingway, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, president of the United Arab Emirates . It was on the Simpsons, too.

Also, IBM has a campus there.

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Re: Mayo clinic in the news: sariel_t November 14 2005, 22:37:18 UTC
Exactamente, chiquito! *sticks tongue out at Kitch* So there!

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heh heh monty_mime November 15 2005, 16:00:13 UTC
11) Vikings! Yes! We're all proud of those idiots!
12) Tater Tot Hotdish is like the State Food,
13) Well, not lately, We get the cold more often than snow
14) There is? Well, do they have a Little Canada?
15) Yeah, okay.
16) Or that Minnesota is so cold for one reason: Iowa sucks!
17) I have two of those. I also have, somewhere, one of those tents to keep out the cold.
18) Out-of-Towner: Do you get your water from the Mississippi?
Me: Yeah, want to see the video of the lawsuit? It seems it's illegal to dump stuff in there...

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