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A Reddit user’s Mexican wife filled this out. I’ll take it despite the small spelling issue! Realistically, she must have some tie to MN. 75% chance it’s totally fake, too. 
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Reminds me of this: (Americans asked to label European counties on a map.) Good stuff davescharf
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Found out our eldest (Fr at UM) got s paid internship with Abbot this summer, and they will put him up at a Marriott for the entire duration. I guess brilliance does skip a generation.
Whoa the housing is great. Locally or where is it?
Yes it will be at their Plymouth location. I was really floored by the offer especially for a first year student. I don’t think I knew anyone when I was that age getting something like that.
Yeah a freshman Roland housing provided for someone local. What are they working in? Like what’s their degree?
He’s in engineering and per the offer letter: “
We are pleased to offer you the position of Summer Associate-Minnesota Medical Device. We will placeyou with our Electrophysiology Operations team (EP Ops)
“. @davescharf I believe it’s located on Nathan Lane if that’s the same one you’re referring to.
His brother will attend UM School of Biological sciences in the fall and is already telling the elder to find him connections.
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That’s the place. It’s a mile from my house
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Norm wrote:
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I just finished the most recent John Sanford “Prey” book; Ocean Prey. I’ve now read the entire series, or at least so far. Now I’ve started his Virgil Flowers series. Flowers is a minor character in the Prey books, a small town Southern Minnesota police officer. All through the Prey series the repeating comment by scores of other characters is “ that f’ing Flowers”.:lol: It’s a mantra. I’m looking forward to more of a deep dive into him.
I’d started reading the Virgil Flowers books before he started appearing in the Prey series. I’m up to either # 22 or #23 of the Prey series now so it’s less of an issue, but I’ve enjoyed that angle of the stories taking place in small-town MN.
We need to resurrect the Books thread at some point. I’m starting to be in need of some new things to read again outside of the Mitch Rapp, Scot Harvath, Gabriel Allon type stuff.
Have you tried the Allen Eskens books? He’s a relatively new MN author. I met him at a discussion of his first book “The Life We Bury.” Interesting guy. His stories are mystery/human interest and take place in MN. He’s up to six books now.
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davescharf wrote:
For years my Uncle wanted to get onto Wheel of Fortune. For years I thought his IQ was about 40 points higher than the maximum they’d allow.
My Mom is a whiz at WoF. She gets super pissed when they keep buying vowels when it is obvious what the word is. Its comical to listen to. But she also solves it with very few letters showing more often than not.- Posts: 1096
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MNGophers29 wrote:
davescharf wrote:
For years my Uncle wanted to get onto Wheel of Fortune. For years I thought his IQ was about 40 points higher than the maximum they’d allow.
My Mom is a whiz at WoF. She gets super pissed when they keep buying vowels when it is obvious what the word is. Its comical to listen to. But she also solves it with very few letters showing more often than not.
My uncle is/was too at the time. I haven’t watched it in years in part because every episode seems the same with the vowel buying
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Posting just one but this channel (Mike Myers of Decatur) has a few dozen of videos like this one. Pretty funny. 
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Finding that Amazon has all the Night Court series for free (w/ads). Love it.
I did like that show. Not sure why, but I did. I think…Harry was the judges name I believe and I liked him. Maybe that’s why.
It was silly sitcom fun. John Laroquette was awesome in it.
And Markie didn’t show up until season 2, and even then it was spotty. I think she was permanent starting in season 3.
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This twitter thread has a ton of throwback mascots. It ranges from creepy, to racist, to truly terrifying. Someone sent the creepy old Goldy as well. https://twitter.com/PFTCommenter/status/1505333502971162624?s=20&t=aClEuM_Sny8LGZLaDuAviQ Cowgirl- Posts: 1392
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Got a kick out of this one. https://mobile.twitter.com/Dan_Zinski/status/1505334991051534341 And yeah, some of those could cause nightmares.
😳 Bigbeer
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Slap Shot wrote:
My monthly 3-hour manicure/pedicure/facial/massage.:dance:
My my aren’t you fancy!
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Karlsson wrote:
Just saw a Grumman Albatross fly over St. Louis Park/Golden Valley. Cool looking plane.
I saw a V-22 Osprey flying overhead in San Diego when I was there. I lived in Army and Air Force towns for 25 years and never had seen one other than at air shows. This one was in helicopter mode too which was cool
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davescharf wrote:
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Just saw a Grumman Albatross fly over St. Louis Park/Golden Valley. Cool looking plane.
I saw a V-22 Osprey flying overhead in San Diego when I was there. I lived in Army and Air Force towns for 25 years and never had seen one other than at air shows. This one was in helicopter mode too which was cool
I flew into Newark JUST after Obama arrived for a quick speech. Our flight was delayed as they diverted all air traffic from the airport while Air Force One landed. We finally get on the ground and park just across from AF1. I get into my rental car and hit complete gridlock, just outside the airport because they blocked traffic for Obama’s motorcade, which is now returning from said speech (it was that quick).
Just as the motorcade passes by on the opposite side of the freeway, two ospreys take off from just behind the fence next to my car. The sudden volume of noise scared the crap out of me. They took off fast in helicopter mode and quickly transitioned into airplane mode.
It was super bad ass.
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Cowgirl wrote:
Glad it’s cold out. Cuz it’s a great day for lounging:Twins are on at noon
My high school boys bball plays in the championship today at 1pm (everyone cheer for Annandale!)
Two college hockey games
The Wild play tonight too!
Yay sports! And adult beverages.
Go Annandale!
I’m going Bud Light today, you may be venturing a step or two higher
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Bertogliat wrote:
Just found out my kid’s hockey coach was the Maroon Loon mascot from UMD. He was the guy who squirted us with his super soaker. And he was involved in the fight for the “chicken head.”Holy $h!t!
Weren’t you in the middle of one of those tussles?
I think that series is when I met the POI crew at tSportsgarden and Donnie69 (RIP) & Skip.
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Bladepuller wrote:
Bertogliat wrote:
Just found out my kid’s hockey coach was the Maroon Loon mascot from UMD. He was the guy who squirted us with his super soaker. And he was involved in the fight for the “chicken head.”Holy $h!t!
Weren’t you in the middle of one of those tussles?
I think that series is when I met the POI crew at tSportsgarden and Donnie69 (RIP) & Skip.
I was there that night! Was sitting way up high off to the side and saw the whole thing happen. Great memories.
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Cowgirl wrote:
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Just found out my kid’s hockey coach was the Maroon Loon mascot from UMD. He was the guy who squirted us with his super soaker. And he was involved in the fight for the “chicken head.”Holy $h!t!
Hopefully he doesn’t remember you…..
Not me specifically. But he remembers all of the event.I don’t think he liked that I referred to the costume as a chicken.
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Bertogliat wrote:
Cowgirl wrote:
Bertogliat wrote:
Just found out my kid’s hockey coach was the Maroon Loon mascot from UMD. He was the guy who squirted us with his super soaker. And he was involved in the fight for the “chicken head.”Holy $h!t!
Hopefully he doesn’t remember you…..
Not me specifically. But he remembers all of the event.I don’t think he liked that I referred to the costume as a chicken.
Then you must use chicken at least once in a sentence every time tou see him. Much easier than the ‘meow’ challenge.
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Bladepuller wrote:
Bertogliat wrote:
Just found out my kid’s hockey coach was the Maroon Loon mascot from UMD. He was the guy who squirted us with his super soaker. And he was involved in the fight for the “chicken head.”Holy $h!t!
Weren’t you in the middle of one of those tussles?
I think that series is when I met the POI crew at tSportsgarden and Donnie69 (RIP) & Skip.
No. But I started the bounty. I put up the first $20 for the person who was able to get the head off the chicken. And several others added to the pot.
A few groups went to collect the head. One group eventually got to him and tried to tear it off. It was firmly strapped on and the chicken fought back hard and got some good licks in. He was a former marine with combat experience. Fists were thrown. People were kicked out.
It made for quite a story then, and again tonight when we made the connection.
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Bertogliat wrote:
Just found out my kid’s hockey coach was the Maroon Loon mascot from UMD. He was the guy who squirted us with his super soaker. And he was involved in the fight for the “chicken head.”Holy $h!t!
The good ole days when Gopher fans would take over the one end of DECC. Years of it. Until some alum from UMD finally rubbed more than two brain cells together and made it stop… lol!!!The Rube- Posts: 2390
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Stopped by LTD today, sat at the bar. Noticed the footrail was loose. “Hey [name redacted], you have a drill and/or screwdriver?” “Yeah.” “I need ’em.”Fixed the footrail, it was driving me crazy.
[Name redacted] “Huh, didn’t notice that before. Well, your bill is taken care of.”
In all seriousness why would he notice since he’s on the opposite side of the bar?
Many, many, many years ago when I was training a new janitor the kid thought he had cleaned the bathroom. Told him to go into each stall and get down to eye level as if you were doing your bidness and then tell me if you still think it’s clean. Ahhhh……maybe not….
Perspective is powerful.
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Greyeagle wrote:
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Stopped by LTD today, sat at the bar. Noticed the footrail was loose. “Hey [name redacted], you have a drill and/or screwdriver?” “Yeah.” “I need ’em.”Fixed the footrail, it was driving me crazy.
[Name redacted] “Huh, didn’t notice that before. Well, your bill is taken care of.”
In all seriousness why would he notice since he’s on the opposite side of the bar?
Many, many, many years ago when I was training a new janitor the kid thought he had cleaned the bathroom. Told him to go into each stall and get down to eye level as if you were doing your bidness and then tell me if you still think it’s clean. Ahhhh……maybe not….
Perspective is powerful.
They usually notice anything and everything, to be honest. Between being told to look for anything like that, and customer’s feedback on things, they run a tight ship.
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Mick Foley ran into a guy at MOA wearing a replica WWE 24/7 belt…and proceeded to win the title for himself gator- Posts: 1012
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Stopped by LTD today, sat at the bar. Noticed the footrail was loose. “Hey [name redacted], you have a drill and/or screwdriver?” “Yeah.” “I need ’em.”Fixed the footrail, it was driving me crazy.
[Name redacted] “Huh, didn’t notice that before. Well, your bill is taken care of.”
A couple years ago OC Roseville asked me to fix part of the countertop at the end of the bar. I told them it would be a band aid fix. Cause the previous person who attempted to fix it, did not damage then good. In all reality they need a new counter top on that end of the bar. Though it was cheaper for me to band aid fix it. It’s interesting during the pre pandemic days and years when I was a regular at OC and drank how much stuff I noticed that goes and went unfixed. I would fix little things from time to time for them. And wouldn’t expect anything in return. Though I was comped more times than not for helping out. Personally I think some customers just complain and nit pick just because they have nothing better to do. And they wouldn’t do the same if it was theirs.Greyeagle- Posts: 1212
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One of my wife’s HS classmates had a successful commute home today. While this doesn’t sound like a big deal it was from the ISS so there were some significant obstacles beyond snow…..
https://twitter.com/space_station/status/1509134525791580161?s=21&t=NtcruW_BJ12JecjQnslBjg https://twitter.com/space_station/status/1509139984221044738?s=21&t=NtcruW_BJ12JecjQnslBjg - Posts: 1544
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Greyeagle wrote:
One of my wife’s HS classmates had a successful commute home today.While this doesn’t sound like a big deal it was from the ISS so there were some significant obstacles beyond snow…..
https://twitter.com/space_station/status/1509134525791580161?s=21&t=NtcruW_BJ12JecjQnslBjg https://twitter.com/space_station/status/1509139984221044738?s=21&t=NtcruW_BJ12JecjQnslBjg
His parents named him Astro? How prescient.
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Slap Shot wrote:
Greyeagle wrote:
One of my wife’s HS classmates had a successful commute home today.While this doesn’t sound like a big deal it was from the ISS so there were some significant obstacles beyond snow…..
https://twitter.com/space_station/status/1509134525791580161?s=21&t=NtcruW_BJ12JecjQnslBjg https://twitter.com/space_station/status/1509139984221044738?s=21&t=NtcruW_BJ12JecjQnslBjg
His parents named him Astro? How prescient.
I was over here wondering which cosmonaut she went to high school with.
Reading is hard.
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Karlsson wrote:
Slap Shot wrote:
Greyeagle wrote:
One of my wife’s HS classmates had a successful commute home today.While this doesn’t sound like a big deal it was from the ISS so there were some significant obstacles beyond snow…..
https://twitter.com/space_station/status/1509134525791580161?s=21&t=NtcruW_BJ12JecjQnslBjg https://twitter.com/space_station/status/1509139984221044738?s=21&t=NtcruW_BJ12JecjQnslBjg
His parents named him Astro? How prescient.
I was over here wondering which cosmonaut she went to high school with.
[strike]Reading[/strike] Comprehendingis hard.
FTFY
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@Karlsson Mrs. GE grew up in Capital City, MN but went to HS west of Minneapolis (her dad taught at BSM), which might as well be Siberia for many on this side of the river.:lol:
I originally laughed when I heard the ‘one of us’ angle on MPR this morning. After I laughed I then focused on how cool it is
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“NHL refs an inspiration to millions who would love to get paid for not doing their job”
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Steve MN wrote:“NHL refs an inspiration to millions who would love to get paid for not doing their job”
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Stopped into Pub 819 today for Sunday lunch/brunch, as usual. Was going to cash in my reward points for Pappy Van Winkle 15YO. Bartender grabbed the bottle, and said, we only have 1/4-1/3 oz left, not really saleable. I asked if they could pro-rate the cost. She checked with the mgr, mgr saw who was ordering it, and said, “It’s on the house.” Yes, it was as delicious as I remember it.
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The Rube wrote:
Stopped into Pub 819 today for Sunday lunch/brunch, as usual. Was going to cash in my reward points for Pappy Van Winkle 15YO. Bartender grabbed the bottle, and said, we only have 1/4-1/3 oz left, not really saleable. I asked if they could pro-rate the cost. She checked with the mgr, mgr saw who was ordering it, and said, “It’s on the house.”Yes, it was as delicious as I remember it.
That’s worth about a $42-43. Yikes!!
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JWG wrote:
A split king bed… glorious.My wife and I just upgraded from a queen to a split king and we love it. If one is rolling around the other doesn’t notice, it has separate adjustable bases, so one can elevate their head if desired.
Plus, when we get mad at each other we can push them apart
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We don’t have room for a king even though we’d love it, one reason I adore staying at hotels! But another marital bed tip, each of you gets a separate blanket or duvet. I learned this in Europe, there’s always 2 separate duvets on a shared bed. Not having to wrestle coverings has saved many a night
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JWG wrote:
A split king bed… glorious.My wife and I just upgraded from a queen to a split king and we love it. If one is rolling around the other doesn’t notice, it has separate adjustable bases, so one can elevate their head if desired.
Plus, when we get mad at each other we can push them apart
:lol:
We also went with the split king adjustable sleep number. Love it and know we’re spoiled. When we share a normal bed in a hotel we wake each other up if we turn over.
:lol: 
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JWG wrote:
A split king bed… glorious.My wife and I just upgraded from a queen to a split king and we love it. If one is rolling around the other doesn’t notice, it has separate adjustable bases, so one can elevate their head if desired.
Plus, when we get mad at each other we can push them apart
:lol:
lol
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