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― don weiner (don weiner), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 19:48 (twenty years ago)

Wait a second -- is it phys ed or phy ed? In Ohio we had billfolds, phys ed and prom too.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 19:53 (twenty years ago)

PHY

― don weiner (don weiner), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 19:55 (twenty years ago)

It's PHY ED in Minnewegia.

OMG, Don, that place is Leisure Suit Larry with BOATS. Wayzata has such hilarious Hamptons pretensions sometimes.

I had a great time around there with my dad at New Year. He grew up in Deephaven/Excelsior, where he delivered his Minneapolis Stars in the late '50s ON HORSEBACK and gave tourists rides on Excelsior beach on the weekends. He said that in the '50s/'60s there was an amazing club next to the amusement park (gawn 1975, I remember it, carousel is in Valleyfair) where Stones/Beach Boys played.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 19:55 (twenty years ago)

that and "borrow" for both "borrow" and "lend." that just makes nooo sense, i'd love to know the reason.

...i'd also love to knock-out every person that has ever made this mistake in conversation with me.

Yeah, I'll borrow you my bike
We're having EYE-talian food for dinner!
Have you tried expresso before? It's a delicious drink from Italy!

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 19:56 (twenty years ago)

haha how about SUNSETS?? now there's a bar.

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 19:57 (twenty years ago)

PHY = because it's, in syllable form, phy*si*cal.

Bring and take do, I admit, cause problems when Britishers decide to get pedantic.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 19:58 (twenty years ago)

(Minnesota character trait: we're right. It's just like that. Just deal *smiles aggressively*)

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 19:59 (twenty years ago)

We're also really nice! Want to stay for dinner? Barb made EYE-talian food!

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 20:00 (twenty years ago)

dammit i kinda want to go to sunsets now, good lord.

actually has anyone ever been to DAVID FONG'S in richfield?

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 20:04 (twenty years ago)

If you say EYE-talian, do you also say AY-rab? I guess I just associate that with rural, uneducated dialects -- not Minnesota or even Midwest specifically.

I'm trying to deal with the "prom" thing here: definite articles

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 20:04 (twenty years ago)

OMG, Don, that place is Leisure Suit Larry with BOATS

and it's been that way since at least the mid-70s when I lived out on Halstead's Bay. We've got family photos from Fletcher's to prove it...luckily I probably had no idea how drunk my parents were.

Wayzata's snobby, but I always thought that Excelsior gave it a good run for the money.

― don weiner (don weiner), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 20:08 (twenty years ago)

i think i hear some people say eye-raq and eye-ran, so it might just be that phoneme.

AY-rab is a little dated, and i don't know if anyone used it non-perjoritavely.

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 20:08 (twenty years ago)

JUMP FOR THE TOWEL, JUSTEN.

Oh look, scars from my childhood ripped open for all the world to see.

― Dan (Did He Ever Really Do That To Anyone? Like, That You Actually Saw?) Perry (, Wednesday, 22 March 2006 20:09 (twenty years ago)

(I have only ever heard "AY-rab" used in the context of "West Side Story".)

― Dan (Crazy! Cool!) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 20:10 (twenty years ago)

Definite articles, nothing. You Stars of the North need to learn to pluralize.

I got so drunk last night, only on like eight beer!

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 20:16 (twenty years ago)

haha dan otm!

speaking of which, how about that kid getting shot in uptown? jeez.

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 20:19 (twenty years ago)

Did He Ever Really Do That To Anyone? Like, That You Actually Saw?

...like, once. I didn't shower that day.

xp ??? I'll have to ask my sister about that.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 20:20 (twenty years ago)

(I have only ever heard "AY-rab" used in the context of "West Side Story".)

You don't have relatives in central Illinois, then. :)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 20:20 (twenty years ago)

Phy ed? You people are freaks. It's 'P. E.'

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 20:21 (twenty years ago)

BTW, Dan, Andy V4n Vl33t says hello...

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 20:22 (twenty years ago)

yeah like in front of his mother!! really really awful

http://www.startribune.com/467/story/322376.html

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 20:23 (twenty years ago)

phy ed...i didn't know that wasn't universal. hmm.

i hadn't thought of billfold in years.

The other day I tripped on the stairs and let out a genuine "Uff da!"

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 20:27 (twenty years ago)

yeah that uptown story is bad, but it's a little creepy how the press is covering it...sort of like "BUT THIS STUFF IS ONLY SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN TO BLACK PEOPLE IN NORTH" vibe about it, there's like a shooting a day that never gets that much coverage.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 20:28 (twenty years ago)

Wow, John! What's he up to? Tell him hi if you see him again!

Matt: Oh no you didn't.

― Dan ("Uff Da"!!!!!) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 20:30 (twenty years ago)

Now "Uff da!" I know about thanks to Astronomy magazine -- and its cool 70s kids version, Odyssey -- having a hero robot in a comic that once said it in an early issue in the late seventies. The next issue all these letters were published from my fellow post-rugrats going "What in the world is 'uff da'?" The editors informed us all, and a little bit of Minnesota entered all our lives.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 20:32 (twenty years ago)

This early encounter eventually lead to Prince, MST3K and confounding Matt with references to "Toolmaster of Brainerd."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 20:33 (twenty years ago)

Minnesotans believe that not only are their ways universal, everything ever was invented there.

Please understand that my mother *may* have the ability to kill with a dirty look. This may explain why my otherwise non-academic sister pronounces NUCLEAR correctly. But says 'ompen' intstead of 'open'. However that is just The Betsy.

Good grief. Uptown shootings = one gazillion speeches from above parental unit about don't go out on one's own there, like ever.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 20:33 (twenty years ago)

"Ompen"??????

― Dan (???????) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 20:37 (twenty years ago)

ompen lompen

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 20:37 (twenty years ago)

confounding Matt with references to "Toolmaster of Brainerd."

haha then you were referencing all these bands from that Du Huskers comp and really fucking w/ my head...

I've never heard "ompen" in my whole life.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 20:39 (twenty years ago)

I still can't believe you said "uff da"!

― Dan (Mind Blown) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 20:40 (twenty years ago)

dude it surprised me! non-ironic "uff das" are a rare breed in the wild these days.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 20:53 (twenty years ago)

oh man i said "phone" as FOOOONE the other day. I almost just clapped my hand over my mouth.

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 21:22 (twenty years ago)

haha yeah i have those moments too! esp. when i visit my hometown and i'm talking with someone and all of a sudden i'm all "Yah dat shoour is a bad deal dere"

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 23:53 (twenty years ago)

I don't recognize 90% of the cake-eater nonsense in this thread anymore. ironic uses of uff da!? begone from my state

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 23 March 2006 01:01 (twenty years ago)

Seriously though I've probably used that phrase in earnest several times a week throughout my entire life!

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 23 March 2006 01:02 (twenty years ago)

ironic uses of uff da!? begone from my state

actually maybe nobody actually does that! i'm inventing imaginary norsk hipsters.

Seriously though I've probably used that phrase in earnest several times a week throughout my entire life!

that's awesome!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 23 March 2006 01:06 (twenty years ago)

We need a shot in the arm in the form of more roadside attractions:
http://www.mile43.com/peterson/NorthRoad/NorthBigFish.jpg
My mom still lives within 15 miles of this thing

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 23 March 2006 01:08 (twenty years ago)

oh man guys i didn't even mention i went up to dulooooth for the first time last weekend!! totally loved it!

i'd love to have seen a big mining operation in effect but i think those are further west. anyone ever seen one of the pits?

― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 23 March 2006 01:22 (twenty years ago)

Yeah we went to the mine up there for a school trip...

Dan where is that fish thing from?

(Hey geoff i really liked yr article on the dude that does the hip hop show on the current...excellent!...that part about that lost jheri curl box Run DMC song I was like woah!)

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:29 (twenty years ago)

(thx matt!! glad you liked it, i had a good time talking to the dude and i'm happy how it turned out. now to get a real job...)

― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:34 (twenty years ago)

We decided to go for a mini-break to Duluth only once. The most exciting thing that happened was that while I was there, Ronald Reagan got shot.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:54 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

hey john justen! that was you going in an out of fine grind the other day, wasn't it? with your gf?

how we doin, mn?

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 01:51 (twenty years ago)

the hot women came out of hibernation!

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 01:58 (twenty years ago)

The Big Fish diner is right off lake Winnibigoshish between Bena and Deer River.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 02:02 (twenty years ago)

Oh wait no it's the "Big Fish Supper Club" lol

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 02:03 (twenty years ago)

I was just talking about the Minnesota Nice tonight, in regard to how customers treated the deliveryperson after receiving their luke-warm pizza on a cold February night.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 03:02 (twenty years ago)

the hot women came out of hibernation!

this is maybe the best thing about the entire state

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 04:18 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, that was me. I knew you looked familiar, guy-with-a-laptop-whom-I-can't-quite-place. Belated hello.

Are people still thinking of going to the Turf Club Freedom From/Boredoms etc. thing? Perhaps a pre, post, or during fap? Also, if out-of towners need couch space, I live close, and rarely get the urge to kill house guests.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 17:01 (twenty years ago)

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