Minnesota Gurls

Hello, darling bloggers! I know this is old, but I have to repost! Minnesota pride!

FYI, in case you can’t make it out, here are the lyrics:

I know a place
With summer, winter, spring and autumn
Ten thousands lakes
Finding a beach is not a problem

Chewing lutefisk (no we don’t)
Lying underneath the pine trees
Lumberjacks bust their axe
Trying to creep a little sneak peek at us

You could travel the world
But nothing comes close to a Grain Belt tall
Once you angle with us
You’ll be falling in love…

Minnesota girls
We’re unforgettable
Waterproof boots and flannel on top
Wind-chaffed skin will turn your legs to popsicles
Oooooh, Oh, Oooooh

Minnesota girls
Our Spam in fry-able (we don’t eat Spam)
Farm fresh fun we’re workin’ every plot
Midwest represent
Now zip your jackets up
Oooooh, Oh, Oooooh

Stars in the sky
Instead of only on the sidewalks
We jam in my van
Prince is on the stereo

You could travel the world
But nothing comes close to a Grain Belt tall
Once you angle with us
You’ll be falling in love…

Minnesota girls
We’re unforgettable
Waterproof boots and flannel on top
Wind-chaffed skin will turn your legs to popsicles
Oooooh, Oh, Oooooh

Minnesota girls
Our Spam in fry-able
Farm fresh fun we’re workin’ every plot
Midwest represent
Now zip your jackets up
Oooooh Oh Oooooh

Spray-on tan now we ready
Need a shovel this snow is heavy (yes, it is!)
Oof-oof-da, Mid-Midwest
These are the girls I love the best

I met her at Lake Wobegon
34 degrees but no coat was on
She’s a hometown girl we went to ValleyFair did the tilt-A-Whirl
And then under Mall of America
California dude would you please stop starin’ bra’

Keep on starin’ on to Target Field
Ask Joe Mauer these burns are real
Outside ball we’re hanging out
We’ll play through hail without a doubt

You’ve got the Lakers we’ve got the Wolves
That comparison was terrible
I regret that line I’ll take it back
I’m Paul Bunyan check out my axe

I’m a real man’s man I just wanna show ya
cuz representin’ in Minnesota

Minnesota girls
We’re unforgettable
Waterproof boots and flannel on top
Wind-chaffed skin will turn your legs to popsicles
Oooooh, Oh, Oooooh

Minnesota girls
Our Spam in fry-able
Farm fresh fun we’re workin’ every plot
Midwest represent
Now zip your jackets up
Oooooh, Oh, Oooooh

Minnesota
Minnesota girls
Minnesota
Minnesota girls

Jeff Foxworthy & Minnesota

If there is one thing Minnesotans like to do, it’s laugh. We like telling stories, hearing stories, and sharing jokes, perhaps especially when those jokes are about Minnesotans. You think we don’t know that it’s insane to live in a place that has seven months of winter so cold you can freeze an egg to the sidewalk in under a minute? We know. And we’re secretly proud to be tough enough to live here. LOL.

So, in honor of Minnesotans and our self-deprecating sense of humor, let me share this list by comedian Jeff Foxworthy. Enjoy!

You Might Be From Minnesota if…

• If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 18 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by, you might live in Minnesota.
• If you're proud that your state makes the national news 96 nights each year because International Falls is the coldest spot in the nation, you might live in Minnesota. 
• If you have ever refused to buy something because it's “too spendy,” you might live in Minnesota.
• If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March, you might live in Minnesota.
• If someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don't work there, you might live in Minnesota.
• If your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead, you might live in Minnesota.
• If you have worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you might live in Minnesota .
• If your town has an equal number of bars and churches, you might live in Minnesota.
• If you know how to say ... Wayzata ... Mahtomedi ... Cloquet … Edina ... and Shakopee, you might live in Minnesota.
• If you think that ketchup is a little too spicy, you might live in Minnesota.
• If vacation means going “up north” for the weekend, you might live in Minnesota.
• If you measure distance in hours, you might live in Minnesota.
• If you know several people who have hit deer more than once, you might live in Minnesota.
• If you often switch from “Heat” to “A/C” in the same day and back again, you might live in Minnesota.
• If you can drive 65 mph through two feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you might live in Minnesota.
• If you see people wearing hunting clothes at social events, you might live in Minnesota.
• If you install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked, you might live in Minnesota.
• If you think of the major food groups as beer, fish, and venison, you might live in Minnesota.
• If you carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend knows how to use them, you might live in Minnesota. 
• If there are seven empty cars running in the parking lot at Mill's Fleet Farm at any given time, you might live in Minnesota.
• If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit, you might live in Minnesota.
• If you think driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow, you might live in Minnesota.
• If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter, and of course, road construction, you might live in Minnesota.
• If you can identify a southern or eastern accent, you might live in Minnesota.
• If your idea of creative landscaping is a plastic deer next to your blue spruce, you might live in Minnesota.
• If “Down South” to you means Iowa, you might live in Minnesota.
• If you know “a brat” is something you eat, you might live in Minnesota.
• If you find -10 degrees “a little chilly,” you might live in Minnesota.

Minnesota is the Center of the Earth.

Okay, so that’s not exactly true, at least for people that don’t live here. But it sounds good. :o)

Like a lot of people from Minnesota—from the Midwest really—I have a love/hate relationship with my state. There are a lot of great things about Minnesota: it’s beautiful, the natives are nice, there’s a good mix of city and country, etc. There are also a lot of crappy things about Minnesota: unpredictable weather, a southern conservative streak that can lead to politicians like Batshit Bachmann and Dim Tim Pawlenty, and roads that are either under construction or completely fucked. I’m sure there’ll be more Minnesota Love and some angry ranting coming out on this blog over the next few weeks, but for now it’s enough to get us established.

There are a lot of misconceptions out there about Minnesotans. People seem to think we’re all either Eskimo farmers or conservative soccer moms living in cookie-cutter subdivisions.

I’m here to set the record straight.

Stick around and see what we’re really like.