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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 (nineteen years ago)

She's totally a Canadian.

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

fudge.jpg

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

trillium.jpg

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

Big Rapids, yeah?

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

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

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

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

xpost: Oh, not quite as bad.

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

Bad Axe is a great name.

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

my sis went to Grand Valley!

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

You guys are just anti-Dutch, right?

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

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

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

holy shit calvin

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

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

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

(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 (nineteen years ago)

THANK YOU DAN BUT YOU FORGOT JOHN CALVIN.

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

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

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

Keep it that way.

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

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

How many COOL CITIES have you lived in?

I have lived in THREE.

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

Oh shit.

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

yak is hueg

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

lol

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

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