MINNESOTA WILL WIN THIS POLL

I'm from Iowa and Minnesota is pretty cool. When did you guys get the impression we dislike you? :)

Sports rivalries, mostly

funny that ~literally~ all the above are true in my case

There we go, I don't pay much attention to college sports and we have no real pro sports teams.

I fondly remember driving to Minneapolis once every few months during college to go to a concert or two. The selection's gotten better around here since then, though. That and driving over three hours on a whim seems less fun.

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my dad taught me that trick!

what am i voting for

i love minnesota, but that doesn't change the fact that i'm from wisconsin and you suck, lol

I'm from Illinois but I've lived in MN for over 25 years, more than half my life, mostly in Mpls with a short sojourn in St. Paul. Anyway MN totally rules your face. And it was here that I first heard the acronym "FIBs" -- "Fucking Illinois Bastards" -- apparently in wide use across the Midwest's non-Illinois states.

God, now I don't know what to vote for.

I'm actually sort of from Iowa, in a manner of speaking.

And it was here that I first heard the acronym "FIBs" -- "Fucking Illinois Bastards" -- apparently in wide use across the Midwest's non-Illinois states.

I don't think I've ever heard this one.

more of a sconny thing

iowans couldn't give a fuck and they don't come to MN anyway

Actually the person who told me about "FIBs" was from Michigan.

I always heard the FIBs thing via people from Wisconsin.

Totally subbing "FIBs" for all the "MIBs" in the Will Smith song, in my mind.

Yeah, here in Madison there's an Italian beef cart called "FIBs" and the sign says it stands for "Fine Italian Beef." This is Sconnish of decades-old vintage.

The person who told me about FIBs came from Green Bay, WI. Her college roommate was from IL. Oh, the lolz.

WhAT thE COCK IS THIS

There are rivalries among various identical midwest states? And they single out Illinois, which by and large is also identical except for the greater Chicago area, which is also kind of (sadly, sometimes) not all that different?

Seriously. Take away everybody's guns. Right now. Seriously.

You fucking idiots couldn't be trusted not to shoot your own dick off if it stood up too straight. No guns for you, ever.

hey kenan: fuck you

Shoot me.

understanding the therapeutic value of a silent SB is like a really disturbing get-off-the-internet wakeup call moment

kenan the flaw in your argt is that the states aren't actually "virtually identical" like you think -- you're welcome

I did like the "shoot your own dick off" insult, tho. Made it up on the (ahem) fly.

I obviously have no dog in this fight. I just came here to spread my scent.

you're welcome

Surely by now everyone understand that excessive pride in one's state. country, sex, species, etc is something that bad people do on weekdays, and you only do on weekends? Amirite?

what are the differences between these states? (discounting sports rivalries)

Minnesota has this frozen waterfall:

front http://www.flickr.com/photos/sankax/4392195809/in/photostream/
back http://www.flickr.com/photos/sankax/4392990134/in/photostream/

It's at the end of the creek that flows next to my mother's house.

I kinda wanted to know more now you said that and expected it to be in some remote wilderness but that waterfall is in the middle of Minneapolis, less than a mile away from an airport! LOL.

This is a huge map, but the little heart-shaped lake along the creek is near where my family have lived for over 60 years.

http://www.melchert.org/map.gif

Haha, I live one mile away from that frozen minnehaha falls. Haven't ventured over there this year, tho.

http://i561.photobucket.com/albums/ss51/tr_fudge/64-15275-P.jpg

we thank you...so muuuch

Most of the streams people would call 'river' in Britain are in fact narrower and smaller than Minnehaha Creek. My aunt's acre of back yard bordered the creek (it had been the location of the 'swimming hole' when she was a kid growing up two blocks away, so my uncle bought her the house) and I spent most of my summers when small with a roaming pack of kids who ranged along the creek (trying to catch crayfish, mostly unsuccessfully) all the way to the marsh and lake just to the west.

Eric, I may have you confused with Matt here, but I thought you were near Linden Hills/Upton?

northern minnesota (boundary waters) is one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.

I did used to live in the Linden Hills area in 2006 or so. I made the big leap to the other side of Mpls about three years ago.

One of my cousins lives near Nokomis - since the light rail a lot of people have magically decided it's worth living over there.

I really like my little corner of near-Minneapolis.

Which is where again?

(Haha, you got my number on the LRT. It was the deciding factor. God knows it's not because there's a grocery store nearby.)

me:
downtown mpls
1/2 block from the guthrie (sorta yay)
2 1/2 blocks from the metrodome (boo)
new-condo hell zone (boo)
non-horrible, affordable rental apt (yay)

LOL Eric I was raised in the Edina borders part of St. Louis Park, just west of Excelsior Blvd. You should go to the hamburger thread, where I am dropping Convention Grill jpegs instead of talking about Coens etc the whole time.

parts of northern MN are gorgeous. there are some kinda swanky yuppie resort towns up there, and some towns that are not frequented by vacationers with $$$ and some of those can get to be pretty depressing and low down. then there are the giant open pit mines from the iron ore mining operations..

one of my college friends from the minneapolis area was trying to explain that.. let's say the rest of the state doesn't regard the rangers (eg ppl from the iron range) as the classiest people in the world.

Places I have been in MN, even though I am Iowan and apparently know nothing of the state:

Gunflint Lake (Way up on boundary waters area, was there in 1993 when we had the crazy floods in Iowa. I think they had satellite tv in the lodge thing, but my family was in a cabin without television, and by the time we checked back via phone, everything was underwater)

Lake of the Woods: Another family vacation, probably 89/91ish? These lakes bordering Canada are cold! And there are beavers and moose.

Duluth: Hey it's cold and there's a really big lake!

St. Cloud: I was under 10 years old? Dunno, family friends moved up there. A college friend who is trying to be a conservative radio commentator got fired from a radio station there after he grilled a local rep about the health program and whether it included abortion. Obv, his politics don't match mine, and we spent a good six months of college pranking him contantly.

Minneapolis/St. Paul (mostly the former) about one million times: gone there with pretty much every ex-girlfriend at some point, have seen shows at a few venues, hung out downtown, uptown, a few other places. Got an amazing food poisoning case on the way there once and passed out on the way back when my sister was driving. Never eat in a BK next to the interstate. Of all the things I've wandered around, I kind of want to go back to the eastern part of downtown and check out the Mill City Museum, if that's what it's called. Looked neat?

<3 u minnesota

Gunflint Lake (Way up on boundary waters area, was there in 1993 when we had the crazy floods in Iowa. I think they had satellite tv in the lodge thing, but my family was in a cabin without television, and by the time we checked back via phone, everything was underwater)

Lake of the Woods: Another family vacation, probably 89/91ish? These lakes bordering Canada are cold! And there are beavers and moose.

Duluth: Hey it's cold and there's a really big lake!

St. Cloud: I was under 10 years old? Dunno, family friends moved up there. A college friend who is trying to be a conservative radio commentator got fired from a radio station there after he grilled a local rep about the health program and whether it included abortion. Obv, his politics don't match mine, and we spent a good six months of college pranking him contantly.

Minneapolis/St. Paul (mostly the former) about one million times: gone there with pretty much every ex-girlfriend at some point, have seen shows at a few venues, hung out downtown, uptown, a few other places. Got an amazing food poisoning case on the way there once and passed out on the way back when my sister was driving. Never eat in a BK next to the interstate. Of all the things I've wandered around, I kind of want to go back to the eastern part of downtown and check out the Mill City Museum, if that's what it's called. Looked neat?

<3 u minnesota

Is that a more concise, relevant version of my experiences, or is it just yours?

ahaha totally

i took a course on the slave trade in college taught by a visiting scholar from ghana. at some pt he told us about this place:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edina,_Liberia

many lols in class, which kinda threw the guy off

Goole, they'll also look at you like it's YOUR PROBLEM if you somehow do not know where their magical preppy Brigadoon is.

i rep the nokomis area.

and southern minnesota. faribault county 4 lyfe. blue earth bucs reprezent.

i rep the nokomis area.

fuckin hilaire!!!

Wow, so much TC-area rivalry shit I just don't know about!

rrabies, i spent 5 years living in the mighty midway, its kind of awesome! whereabouts are you moving to?

Ah, on Sherburne right about where it intersects with....Briggs...Brage...I don't remember the street. Right across from that fucking Super Target.

Griggs!

oh yeah, in the thick of it then! i used to live just south of porkys.

also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfVZHpyx1OI

BITCHES

the alleys of midway are a beautiful and strange place

hot rods & the trend bar really explode all yuppiefied ideas of what constitutes a "dive" bar

Hilltop and Columbia Heights are good for juggalo spotting IMO

flameburger in the house!

trend bar. damn.

sigh, in these conversations I feel like I've wasted the past 15 years of my life by not moving back to the Twin Cities ;_;

i should probably go to st paul one of these days

You don't need to live there to have the conversation...

hahahaha OMG that video

yeah, but the infrequent times when I go back, my parents live so far away from the action that the only times I ever see folks is usually one night and usually at someone's house so I never know what anyone is talking about when talking about going out because I left before bars became an option and apparently no one goes to First Avenue or The Orpheum anymore (does The Orpheum even exist anymore???)

the orpheum theater? (if so, yes and it's still very nice)

people still go to first ave. we played the electric fetus tornado benefit and it was hella sold out.

Dan, it's not that they don't go to 1st Ave, it's that there are now *other places to go* SHOCKING.

wait, waht

also is Buns and Roses till around

http://www.yelp.com/biz/trend-bar-inc-saint-paul

lol @ "inc"

my experience with the trend bar:

overly friendly bartender really trying to sell me on "free" karate lessons....then invites me to a white power group meeting. i pay and leave.

my friend andy gets a job there after graduating from bartending school....on his first day he's serving one of the old lifer alkies who just throws a $20 down on the bar and lets andy make change out of the pile for every drink...dude comes in, bashes the old dudes head into the bar and runs off with the money

buns and roses is gone i think.

there is a new "high class" strip club in the old Blues Alley space called the Seville...it's owned by the old manager of the Jayhawks.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Even though I'm from Upper MI I'll rep for Duluth. Great town.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

ahahahaha

>:o

Hahahahaha

snap

lololol

Are there that many ILXrs from Wisconsin and Iowa?

with the thread title coupled with that poll option this was never in doubt

haaaaa

I luv u ILX, never change <3 <3 <3

I consider there's outside chance that MN, Minn., and Land of a 10,000 Lakes, will split the solid Minnesota bloc and u suck could win by a slender plurality.

― Aimless, Wednesday, March 3, 2010 7:24 PM (6 days ago)

Bows left and right.

uff da

I didn't even vote in this and we still won LOL ENJOY YR BRENT FAVRE YOU LAKELICKIN KEILLORZ

actually i love minnesota no lie, from the tc's to rochester to the border towns, haven't been in western/northern much but <3 it all

I knew this was going to happen but the one vote difference is just wow.

loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

ILX never change

pwnd

minnesowned

^^ wanna hear someone say that in a minnesotan accent

Poor Eric H.

Well, that's what we get for bragging.

Poor Eric H.

This is what I get for voting for Minnesota in the worst state poll.

Lol @ the grape salad controversy

creeping up on 15 years in minnesota and i still only have a vague idea where some of the inner/outer ring suburbs of the cities are, i love the free upswelling of contempt i get to feel for people when they say 'i'm from golden valley' or whatever and i'm all '… where is that… ??'

: )

http://tcmedianow.com/video/wcco-tv-this-must-be-the-place-disco-special-with-bill-carlson-and-cindy-osborne-1979/