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I just wanted a place to post this stupid picture:

http://scrubberbum.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/granholm.jpg

WAY TO GO GOVERNOR GRANHOLM, YOU GOT HALF YOUR STATE BACKWARDS

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 22 December 2006 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

She's totally a Canadian.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 22 December 2006 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Dan, you know I can't resist! Esp since I am having rural-cred war w/ JW.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 22 December 2006 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Well what's she supposed to do, make her U.P. thumb point backwards?

(Note: "Use opposite hands for the two parts" is not an acceptable answer. So far as I can tell, it's actually a violation of state law to use the back of your left hand as a Michigan-pointing device.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 22 December 2006 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I suppose you can get both palms facing forward in Michigan-configuration, but it looks a little too squinched and awkward to try in a photo shoot.

I wonder if, when you ask people where stuff is in the U.P., they point at their left palms with their right index fingers?

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 22 December 2006 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

The way I always do it:

left hand, palm out, thumb up = UP
right hand, palm out thumb to the right = Troll Land

And WTF about the rest of her family? Are they all amputees? My self-righteous indignation at this image knows no bounds.

xpost: yup!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 22 December 2006 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I've never used my hand as a visual impression of the U.P.

But that's because south of Traverse City nobody actually cares about the U.P.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 22 December 2006 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

LP: Left hand, palm in
UP: Right hand, palm in, fingers 4 and 5 curled up to make silhouette skinnier, thump pointing up for the Keweenaw

XP: Controversy!

XXP: JAYMC PREPARE TO DIE

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 22 December 2006 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link

HAHAHAH You suck at trolling John, especially when it's just for me!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 22 December 2006 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link

But Danno I'm finding it's impossible to realistically do both parts of Michigan at once -- with palms facing forward -- without contorting or pretzeling up your arms. Hence the forgivenness.

Laurel I already said you will be shot for using the back of your left hand as the lower peninsula! It's just not done!!!

My favorite thing about the U.P. is how people always say "We love the winters, because ... well, we have no choice." They're honest about that. I appreciate it. It's either learn to love the winter, kill yourself, or move.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 22 December 2006 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link

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― clevo lk (clevo lk), Friday, 22 December 2006 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link

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― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 22 December 2006 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Who's going to shoot me? You, city boy?

Haha, I love how when I come home I turn country-proud in about two days. It's so insane, I hated every gun owner in this township when I actually lived here.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 22 December 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

It's either learn to love the winter, kill yourself, or move.

Or drink. A lot.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 22 December 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

And my mother made fudge for Christmas: chocolate-walnut, chocolate-pecan-cherry, and something else I forget.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 22 December 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I kid, I'm friends with several Yoopers -- but I seriously have never seen anyone use more than one hand for Michigan. If both hands are in use, how would you ever indicate anything? I mean, when I wanted to tell people where Kalamazoo was, I used my left hand as the state and my right index finger to point. More to the point, why would you ever need to show the whole state at once?

Of course, I may still be bitter: the only thing that stopped me from getting a perfect score on my "label the U.S. states" quiz in 4th grade was writing "Michigan" on the lower peninsula only instead of stretching it across both parts.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 22 December 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I would say both hands for reference, then use one for pointing at your location on a specific peninsula.

J, you should have written "Cloverland" on the UP (one of the names that the craziod secessionists wanted to give it as the 51st state), just to see what would happen.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 22 December 2006 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

when I wanted to tell people where Kalamazoo was, I used my left hand as the state and my right index finger to point

OMG, you too? I can't believe so many people are backhanding the state like that.

(P.S. I've probably mentioned this before, but one of the things that tempers my distasted for the White Stripes -- distaste partly built on the fact that they are so visibly, obviously from Michigan -- is the one video where Jack sings "I'm going to Michigan" and does a hand-indication. In the proper style.) (I think I lived at the big knuckle on the ring finger? I'll have to scale and measure.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 22 December 2006 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Big Rapids, yeah?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 22 December 2006 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah. None of those overblown pretentious "Grand" Rapids for us.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 22 December 2006 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link

What is that, Mt. Pleasant? I'm sorry.

xpost: Oh, not quite as bad.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 22 December 2006 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Bad Axe is a great name.

― clevo lk (clevo lk), Friday, 22 December 2006 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I am so not going to defend Grand Rapids. I hate that place and ALL THIS COLLEGES.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 22 December 2006 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost Shit, I missed "ring" finger...

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 22 December 2006 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link

2x on Grand Rapids hate. Let's not forget the DeVos empire in that, either.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 22 December 2006 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link

my sis went to Grand Valley!

― clevo lk (clevo lk), Friday, 22 December 2006 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I think Mt. Pleasant would be more middle finger.

WAIT what's wrong with Grand Rapids??

I saw julien donkey-boy there and did karaoke for the first time ever at a cute coffee shop called Discussions. It was a great get-away during senior year when Kalamazoo started to get boring.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 22 December 2006 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link

You guys are just anti-Dutch, right?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 22 December 2006 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Jaymc: I AM Dutch. Don't talk to me about Dutch, I went to CALVIN.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 22 December 2006 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link

holy shit calvin

― clevo lk (clevo lk), Friday, 22 December 2006 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm not anti-Dutch, I'm anti-Republican-fundamentalist/born again-AMWAY SALESMEN.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 22 December 2006 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

(so much so that I'll happily accept our current governor, be she manuo-geographically challenged and from Canada)

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 22 December 2006 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link

THANK YOU DAN BUT YOU FORGOT JOHN CALVIN.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 22 December 2006 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link

...I don't know who that is :)

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 22 December 2006 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Keep it that way.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 22 December 2006 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Laurel, I did not know you were Dutch. Your surname does not end in -enga.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 22 December 2006 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, teenage years in Big Rapids are totally preferable to Grand Rapids -- not much happening in either, but at least in a small town you know everything, have your run of the whole space. But it's a little creepy to find yourself sneaking 45 minutes down to the "city" so you can, I dunno, see Pulp Fiction, or buy better records. (Although Big Rapids had four different record stores during my couple years living there!)

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 22 December 2006 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Do straight people in Kalamazoo avoid dating as much as possible just so no one has an excuse to sing that "I've got a girl in Kalamazoo-zoo-zoo-zoo" song?

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 22 December 2006 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm Dutch on my mother's side, J. Father's side is English & Scottish. Why yes, I am the whitest girl in the world!

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 22 December 2006 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link

did you look at other colleges or were you predestined to go to Calvin?

― clevo lk (clevo lk), Friday, 22 December 2006 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh that's high-larious. No, I was orig bio-chem and they had excellent funding/class sizes/etc for hard sciences. (NO THANKS TO AMWAY COS OLD COLLEGE PRES REFUSED TO ACCEPT THEIR $$$.) Of course I promptly switched to English.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 22 December 2006 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link

have any of you been to the Maya Lin skating rink in Grand Rapids? It looks so beautiful.

― jergins (jergins), Friday, 22 December 2006 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link

How many COOL CITIES have you lived in?

I have lived in THREE.

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Friday, 22 December 2006 23:13 (seventeen years ago) link

This is the COOL CITIES yak. I have never seen it IRL, despite having lived in three COOL CITIES:

http://www.alpena.mi.us/dept/MIS/Cool%20Cities%20Yak%20003.jpg

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Friday, 22 December 2006 23:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh shit.

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Friday, 22 December 2006 23:16 (seventeen years ago) link

yak is hueg

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Saturday, 23 December 2006 05:54 (seventeen years ago) link

lol

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Saturday, 23 December 2006 06:33 (seventeen years ago) link

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