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Sara Lorimer
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 5:52 am
Post subject: Re: Why Minnesota? |
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ray o'hara <roh@comcast.net> wrote:
| Quote: | "Pat Durkin" <durk183@sbcglobal.com> wrote in message
news:%q4bf.13005$tV6.11209@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net...
"My name is yon yonson I come from visconsin." I think there is
more to this chant, be I'll be damned if I can recall it. The melody is
like that in "My home's in Montana".
My name is Yon Yonson, I live in Visconsin ,I vork in a lumber mill dere.
As I valk down the street I tell all that I meet,My name is Yon Yonson I
live in Visconsin I vork in a lumber mill there...
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I know it as:
My name is Yon Yonson, I come from Visconsin, I work in the lumbermill
there
And the people I meet as I walk down the street say
"Hello, what is your name, and where do you come from?
And I saaay....
I like your version more.
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SML
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Sara Lorimer
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 5:54 am
Post subject: Re: Why Minnesota? |
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Don Phillipson <d.phillipson@ttrryytteell.com> wrote:
| Quote: | "JF" <jf@NOSPAMmarage.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:TZxbXjA$PLbDFw8d@marage.demon.co.uk...
I was sent a joke this morning that depends on misunderstood English by
people from rural Minnesota. Are those from Minnesota the butt of such
jokes in America? In England the joke could be rejigged to make Irishmen
the fall (sic) guys.
This general class of jokes used to be known in the
USA as Polish Jokes (and in Canada as Newfoundland
Jokes.)
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Polack jokes, as I recall. Maybe you moved in more refined circles than
I did.
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Charles Riggs
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 4:14 pm
Post subject: Re: Why Minnesota? |
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On 7 Nov 2005 10:57:42 -0800, "Richard R. Hershberger"
<rrhersh@acme.com> wrote:
| Quote: | I personally know two Finns, and they are both very very blond. I
don't mean blond in the sense of blonde jokes. They are both very
smart guys with wicked senses of humor.
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The one Finn I've known wasn't blonde, but he had a wonderful sense of
humour. He and I were shipmates back in my hippie days of travelling
to Europe with little to no money in my pocket.
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Charles Riggs
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Charles Riggs
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 4:14 pm
Post subject: Re: Why Minnesota? |
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On 7 Nov 2005 10:33:23 -0800, "Richard R. Hershberger"
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Charles Riggs wrote:
On Sun, 6 Nov 2005 10:28:30 -0500, "TakenEvent"
lightbulbsnickety@chartermi.net> wrote:
Cell phone reception in Fargo, North Dakota is excellent -- in case anyone
was thinking about visiting.
I would have thought that one of the primary virtues in visiting such
a place was to get away from mobile phones. Now you've taken that from
me, at least in the case of Fargo, North Dakota, formerly number one,
of course, on my list of towns I want to visit.
I was in Fargo last summer for a wedding. I didn't get to see much of
the town, but I didn't get the impression I was missing much. I drove
by the Fargodome, where the local university plays football. I find it
disappointing that they play in a dome. Sure, sub-zero temperatures
are routine, but this is North Dakota, where men are men! On the plus
side, the church had a nice organ and a spectacular bas-relief wall
with each brick individually sculpted.
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Bangor, Maine, where not only are the men men, so are the women, has
an excellent public library. That about covers Bangor, Maine should
anyone be interested.
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Charles Riggs |
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Charles Riggs
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 4:14 pm
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On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 05:53:31 GMT, Tony Cooper
<tony_cooper213@earthlink.net> wrote:
| Quote: | I was in Border's (bookstore) yesterday and checked three different
printings of "Ulysses". None of the three used "Chapter" or
"Episode". Just the number.
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Border's, like our Easons, sucks: dispensers of books for the unwashed
and largely unread, a favourite for the Danielle Steele reader. Get ye
to a good bookshop, although you'll have to travel out of pissant
Florida to find one. The two on Dawson Street in the Land of Saints
and Scholars would be hard to beat, so visit them, Coop, on your next
touristy visit here. Forget though that my flat is located on Pembroke
Road near Raglan Road, if you know Patrick Kavanagh's poems at all.
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Ross Howard
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 4:43 pm
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On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 09:14:27 +0000, Charles Riggs <chriggs@éircom.net>
wrought:
| Quote: | On 7 Nov 2005 10:33:23 -0800, "Richard R. Hershberger"
rrhersh@acme.com> wrote:
Charles Riggs wrote:
On Sun, 6 Nov 2005 10:28:30 -0500, "TakenEvent"
lightbulbsnickety@chartermi.net> wrote:
Cell phone reception in Fargo, North Dakota is excellent -- in case anyone
was thinking about visiting.
I would have thought that one of the primary virtues in visiting such
a place was to get away from mobile phones. Now you've taken that from
me, at least in the case of Fargo, North Dakota, formerly number one,
of course, on my list of towns I want to visit.
I was in Fargo last summer for a wedding. I didn't get to see much of
the town, but I didn't get the impression I was missing much. I drove
by the Fargodome, where the local university plays football. I find it
disappointing that they play in a dome. Sure, sub-zero temperatures
are routine, but this is North Dakota, where men are men! On the plus
side, the church had a nice organ and a spectacular bas-relief wall
with each brick individually sculpted.
Bangor, Maine, where not only are the men men, so are the women, has
an excellent public library. That about covers Bangor, Maine should
anyone be interested.
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Oy! It's where one of the best bootlegs of Bob Dylan's tragically
misguided n retrospect but sort of interesting at the time Rolling
Thunder Revue was recorded.
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Raymond S. Wise
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 5:07 pm
Post subject: Re: Why Minnesota? |
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Richard R. Hershberger wrote:
| Quote: | Charles Riggs wrote:
On Sun, 6 Nov 2005 10:28:30 -0500, "TakenEvent"
lightbulbsnickety@chartermi.net> wrote:
Cell phone reception in Fargo, North Dakota is excellent -- in case anyone
was thinking about visiting.
I would have thought that one of the primary virtues in visiting such
a place was to get away from mobile phones. Now you've taken that from
me, at least in the case of Fargo, North Dakota, formerly number one,
of course, on my list of towns I want to visit.
I was in Fargo last summer for a wedding. I didn't get to see much of
the town, but I didn't get the impression I was missing much. I drove
by the Fargodome, where the local university plays football. I find it
disappointing that they play in a dome. Sure, sub-zero temperatures
are routine, but this is North Dakota, where men are men! On the plus
side, the church had a nice organ and a spectacular bas-relief wall
with each brick individually sculpted.
Richard R. Hershberger
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Did they have a skyway system, of the type we have in Minneapolis and
St. Paul, that is, a system of enclosed pedestrian bridges joining
downtown buildings at the second floor (aka "skyway level")?
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Raymond S. Wise
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
E-mail: mplsray @ yahoo . com |
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Richard R. Hershberger
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 7:01 pm
Post subject: Re: Why Minnesota? |
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Raymond S. Wise wrote:
| Quote: | Richard R. Hershberger wrote:
Charles Riggs wrote:
On Sun, 6 Nov 2005 10:28:30 -0500, "TakenEvent"
lightbulbsnickety@chartermi.net> wrote:
Cell phone reception in Fargo, North Dakota is excellent -- in case anyone
was thinking about visiting.
I would have thought that one of the primary virtues in visiting such
a place was to get away from mobile phones. Now you've taken that from
me, at least in the case of Fargo, North Dakota, formerly number one,
of course, on my list of towns I want to visit.
I was in Fargo last summer for a wedding. I didn't get to see much of
the town, but I didn't get the impression I was missing much. I drove
by the Fargodome, where the local university plays football. I find it
disappointing that they play in a dome. Sure, sub-zero temperatures
are routine, but this is North Dakota, where men are men! On the plus
side, the church had a nice organ and a spectacular bas-relief wall
with each brick individually sculpted.
Did they have a skyway system, of the type we have in Minneapolis and
St. Paul, that is, a system of enclosed pedestrian bridges joining
downtown buildings at the second floor (aka "skyway level")?
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I didn't get downtown, so I can't help you there. I'm not even sure
that Fargo has a downtown in the sense of tall buildings spaced closely
together, but I am speculating. The parts of town that I saw were
newer developments. The land obviously is cheap, so the general effect
was of low-density sprawl, sort of like taking a chunk of New Jersey
and stretching it out. Tempting image, no? |
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sage
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| Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 12:18 am
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Charles Riggs wrote:
| Quote: | On 7 Nov 2005 10:57:42 -0800, "Richard R. Hershberger"
rrhersh@acme.com> wrote:
I personally know two Finns, and they are both very very blond. I
don't mean blond in the sense of blonde jokes. They are both very
smart guys with wicked senses of humor.
The one Finn I've known wasn't blonde, but he had a wonderful sense of
humour. He and I were shipmates back in my hippie days of travelling
to Europe with little to no money in my pocket.
My experience, too, ref the Finnish sense of humour. The same goes for |
Norwegians and Danes. Swedes always tend to look a bit stunned at
out-and-out laughter; a very self-contained lot.
Cheers, Sage |
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Charles Riggs
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| Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 3:59 pm
Post subject: Re: Why Minnesota? |
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On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 12:18:07 -0500, sage <sage@allstream.net> wrote:
| Quote: | Charles Riggs wrote:
On 7 Nov 2005 10:57:42 -0800, "Richard R. Hershberger"
rrhersh@acme.com> wrote:
I personally know two Finns, and they are both very very blond. I
don't mean blond in the sense of blonde jokes. They are both very
smart guys with wicked senses of humor.
The one Finn I've known wasn't blonde, but he had a wonderful sense of
humour. He and I were shipmates back in my hippie days of travelling
to Europe with little to no money in my pocket.
My experience, too, ref the Finnish sense of humour. The same goes for
Norwegians and Danes.
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That's also been my experience with two of those groups. I haven't
known nearly enough Finns to be able to comment on their behaviour in
general, but I'll take your word on how good their sense of humour is.
| Quote: | Swedes always tend to look a bit stunned at
out-and-out laughter; a very self-contained lot.
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Yup, and I'd add that the source of the laughter would almost have to
come from a foreign visitor.
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Skitt
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| Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 2:03 am
Post subject: Re: Why Minnesota? |
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Pat Durkin wrote:
| Quote: | "sage" wrote:
Pat Durkin wrote:
(Snip)
Wisconsin has a goodly number of
Swedes, Norwegians, Danes and Finns. (I don't really know if the
Finns are considered Scandinavian, though.)
(Snip) In reply to Pat Durkin's post (your signature and stuff
disappeared):
Generally, in my experience, they consider themselves Nordic rather
than Scandinavian.
The Finns? I wonder about the Danes. I suppose the Baltic Sea makes
some difference in terms of separation. The Norwegians I know
frequently refer to themselves as Norskies, or as Scandihoovians.
Now, my niece married a Lithuanian, (I think the lad is first
generation US), and he is definitely Nordic in appearance. I don't
know how the Lithuanians compare (or regard themselves) in comparison
with the Letts or Estonians, or even Western Russians.
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Lithuanians and Latvians are very similar, but Latvians joke about the
Lithuanians.
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Skitt
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| Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 2:09 am
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Tony Cooper wrote:
| Quote: | I liked jokes better before we had the internet. There were people
who seemed to always know a new joke and were good at telling them.
Some people were good at dialect jokes, some with shaggy dog stories,
and some could just fire off one joke after another.
Now, jokes go around the world with the speed of light and you can't
tell a joke that most people haven't read in e-mail.
How ya doin', Skitt?
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Struggling -- we went down to Santa Clarita for a couple of days, and when
we returned I had about 1400 AUE messages to look over (about 730 still
remaining).
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Skitt (in Hayward, California)
www.geocities.com/opus731/ |
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Maria Conlon
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| Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 3:20 am
Post subject: Re: Why Minnesota? |
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Skitt wrote:
| Quote: | Tony Cooper wrote:
I liked jokes better before we had the internet. There were people
who seemed to always know a new joke and were good at telling them.
Some people were good at dialect jokes, some with shaggy dog stories,
and some could just fire off one joke after another.
Now, jokes go around the world with the speed of light and you can't
tell a joke that most people haven't read in e-mail.
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Belated response to TC: Absolutely right. My joke-telling brother-in-law
isn't taking it too well, either. (He doesn't do the Internet.)
| Quote: | How ya doin', Skitt?
Struggling -- we went down to Santa Clarita for a couple of days, and
when we returned I had about 1400 AUE messages to look over (about
730 still remaining).
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We'll be going out of town late Saturday for a few days, and I almost
dread the number of emails and posts that will be waiting when we
return. The email, fortunately, is easy to deal with: I can tell the
spam from the good stuff. The posts, however, require more than a quick
look. So many gems pop up, sometimes in the most unexpected places, that
one doesn't want to be hasty.
Even so, I've been known to tire of looking, and that's when I mark
threads "read" on a wholesale basis, as they say.
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Maria Conlon |
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TakenEvent
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| Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 3:33 am
Post subject: Re: Why Minnesota? |
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"Charles Riggs" <chriggs@éircom.net> wrote in message
news:quotm15cit1p7r1g3h55ep9gfao26bml0i@4ax.com...
| Quote: | On Sun, 6 Nov 2005 10:28:30 -0500, "TakenEvent"
lightbulbsnickety@chartermi.net> wrote:
Cell phone reception in Fargo, North Dakota is excellent -- in case
anyone
was thinking about visiting.
I would have thought that one of the primary virtues in visiting such
a place was to get away from mobile phones. Now you've taken that from
me, at least in the case of Fargo, North Dakota, formerly number one,
of course, on my list of towns I want to visit.
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Just think of how disappointed you would have been had you simply shown up.
Southwestern North Dakota had terrible, if any, signal for the average cell
phone. Some analog car phones with their amplified antennas were barely
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TakenEvent
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| Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 3:35 am
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"Ross Howard" <gguiri@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 09:14:27 +0000, Charles Riggs <chriggs@éircom.net
wrought:
On 7 Nov 2005 10:33:23 -0800, "Richard R. Hershberger"
rrhersh@acme.com> wrote:
Charles Riggs wrote:
On Sun, 6 Nov 2005 10:28:30 -0500, "TakenEvent"
lightbulbsnickety@chartermi.net> wrote:
Cell phone reception in Fargo, North Dakota is excellent -- in case
anyone
was thinking about visiting.
I would have thought that one of the primary virtues in visiting such
a place was to get away from mobile phones. Now you've taken that from
me, at least in the case of Fargo, North Dakota, formerly number one,
of course, on my list of towns I want to visit.
I was in Fargo last summer for a wedding. I didn't get to see much of
the town, but I didn't get the impression I was missing much. I drove
by the Fargodome, where the local university plays football. I find it
disappointing that they play in a dome. Sure, sub-zero temperatures
are routine, but this is North Dakota, where men are men! On the plus
side, the church had a nice organ and a spectacular bas-relief wall
with each brick individually sculpted.
Bangor, Maine, where not only are the men men, so are the women, has
an excellent public library. That about covers Bangor, Maine should
anyone be interested.
Oy! It's where one of the best bootlegs of Bob Dylan's tragically
misguided n retrospect but sort of interesting at the time Rolling
Thunder Revue was recorded.
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Also, it's mentioned in the lyrics of Roger Miller's "King of the Road" as
the destination. |
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