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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)

i'm going to try and come back from Montana for the show, yeah. it lines up perfectly with a short break i get from school.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 17:21 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

I AM BACK IN MINNESOTA, WHAT GIVES?

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Drink? Show? Drinking at shows?

― John Justen (johnjusten), Thursday, 4 May 2006 01:11 (twenty years ago)

http://www.brownielocks.com/image_files/sturhoPHOTO.jpg

St, Uhro

― St. Uhro gives and gives and gives, but do you ever notice, you ungrateful basta, Thursday, 4 May 2006 01:38 (twenty years ago)

(pssst....image size is why.)

St. Uhro has a fancy theme song.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Thursday, 4 May 2006 01:48 (twenty years ago)

I am down for drinking and/or shows. Who's playing? Anyone know? I am out in the sticks, at my parent's house (YR HOME TOWN, JJ).

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 4 May 2006 02:13 (twenty years ago)

Fuzzy El Jeffe Bear's home town, too! And Sara Robinson-Coolidge, not that she's on this thread.

― Dan (WE ARE TAKING OVAH) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 4 May 2006 02:23 (twenty years ago)

i'm proud to have a mom from stewartville, minnesota (10 minutes south of rochester). stewartville is home to richard sears, founder of SEARS-ROEBUCK! i've been there a couple of times myself and i can assure you it is a fantastic smelling town. easily one of the most pleasant smelling towns i've ever been to.

― ath (ath), Thursday, 4 May 2006 04:53 (twenty years ago)

I will determine shows of great import. How long are you in town, gbx?

Also, I will hold down for my collegiate alma-mater town, Northfield, as the most odd-smelling town in MN, due to the MALT-O-MEAL factory.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Thursday, 4 May 2006 05:48 (twenty years ago)

My great-great aunt Arlene worked for Sears, Roebuck (the Lake Street store) for something like 35 years. She had a cool little leather-bound memento corporate history book on the company that I used to read all the time. I wish I had it now; maybe I should look for it on eBay.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:20 (twenty years ago)

Is the Lake Street store still standing? Memphis had one that big, too, but I think they've torn it down.

Austin has an interesting aroma, being SPAMTOWN USA and all.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 4 May 2006 16:33 (twenty years ago)

Hey guys, go look up "douchebag" on urbandictionary.com.

lol.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Sunday, 7 May 2006 06:37 (twenty years ago)

(no seriously, I'm not insulting you, go look it up you'll see)

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Sunday, 7 May 2006 06:38 (twenty years ago)

OH my god, that is the greatest thing EVER. Dan, you are a king among men.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Sunday, 7 May 2006 12:19 (twenty years ago)

haha

― gbx (skowly), Sunday, 7 May 2006 12:38 (twenty years ago)

I was singing "Get Low" to my co-worker this morning when I turned a corner and R.T. Rybak was standing there. Luckily, I was only to the window and to the wall.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 7 May 2006 13:55 (twenty years ago)

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

DEER RIVER! 56636!

I grew up on Hwy 6, 3 miles north of Deer River. I went to Cyrus King Elementary. I went ice spear fishing on Winnibigoshish.

For a school field trip we went to the planetarium in Hibbing where I threw up orange soda as my classmates watched. Another time we went to the Soudan iron ore mines where we went 1/2 mile underground (IN A STEEL CAGE).

My family and I moved away in 1987 when I was in the 6th grade and I haven't been back since.

That's what I have to say about MN for now.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Sunday, 7 May 2006 14:20 (twenty years ago)

Bemidji, Coleraine, Cohasset, Pokegema Lake, Taconite, Duluth!

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Sunday, 7 May 2006 14:32 (twenty years ago)

I knew three Eric J0hnsons growing up in Minnesota.

Eric was my best friend in grade school. Tell him I said hi.

― Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Sunday, 7 May 2006 14:56 (twenty years ago)

FLUFFY BEAR SATURDAY FAP? Y/N?

― John Justen (johnjusten), Friday, 12 May 2006 07:25 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

Somebody please tell me what is up with Skyline, Minnesota, the town located completely inside Mankato?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 5 October 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

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