It's Just the State I'm in
Minnesota facts with a little humor29 total reviews
Comment from patcelaw
This is the delightful story you have written and shared with us. I enjoyed very much listening to it. Especially enjoyed your facts about the weather in your notes. In Arizona when it gets to be 45° the people are all bundled up with a heavy jacket, a stocking cap, gloves, and earmuffs. While people in Minnesota are probably getting ready to go out to the lake for a short swim. Patricia.
reply by the author on 20-Dec-2024
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This is the delightful story you have written and shared with us. I enjoyed very much listening to it. Especially enjoyed your facts about the weather in your notes. In Arizona when it gets to be 45° the people are all bundled up with a heavy jacket, a stocking cap, gloves, and earmuffs. While people in Minnesota are probably getting ready to go out to the lake for a short swim. Patricia.
Comment Written 16-Dec-2024
reply by the author on 20-Dec-2024
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Thanks so very much, Patricia, for the kindest and such a special review for my MN story. I sure appreciate you and the sweet comments. I love it!
Sorry it is so late; this is what happens when she has too many in a row and many thank you's to do. I appreciate it very much. Love, Debi
Comment from Janet Foor
A fun romp through Minnesota with you. I raised my family in Northwest PA. My son loved those winters so much, he's raising his family in Alaska. Brrrrr
We have heard from 2 friends this year that had moved south and have now moved back to the great north. Me, I'm staying in the south but I loved your fun poem.
Blessings
Janet
reply by the author on 20-Dec-2024
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A fun romp through Minnesota with you. I raised my family in Northwest PA. My son loved those winters so much, he's raising his family in Alaska. Brrrrr
We have heard from 2 friends this year that had moved south and have now moved back to the great north. Me, I'm staying in the south but I loved your fun poem.
Blessings
Janet
Comment Written 16-Dec-2024
reply by the author on 20-Dec-2024
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Thanks so very much, Janet, for the kindest and such a special review for my MN story. I sure appreciate you and the sweet comments. I love it!
Sorry it is so late; this is what happens when she has too many in a row and many thank you's to do. I appreciate it very much. Love, Debi
Comment from Jacob1395
That is a lot of money someone paid for the ruby slippers. This is a fascinating piece about Minnesota, Debi and I thought you pulled all the facts together really well and you made it really engaging. I enjoyed reading it.
reply by the author on 19-Dec-2024
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That is a lot of money someone paid for the ruby slippers. This is a fascinating piece about Minnesota, Debi and I thought you pulled all the facts together really well and you made it really engaging. I enjoyed reading it.
Comment Written 16-Dec-2024
reply by the author on 19-Dec-2024
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Hi Jacob, it was a big price to pay for those slippers, but just think of how legendary they are.
This is a little from a facebook post a friend posted and a little from me, but mostly from me. Thanks so much for the kind words for it and for the fun too.
Love ya, Debi
Comment from Carol Hillebrenner
This is great fun. The smile it gives its reader is a lot like the lovely smile you have in your picture. If you had written them all yourself, instead of being honest about getting a few elsewhere, I would have to have given you a six. I really enjoyed this. Thanks for the smile just before I have to head for bed.
reply by the author on 19-Dec-2024
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This is great fun. The smile it gives its reader is a lot like the lovely smile you have in your picture. If you had written them all yourself, instead of being honest about getting a few elsewhere, I would have to have given you a six. I really enjoyed this. Thanks for the smile just before I have to head for bed.
Comment Written 16-Dec-2024
reply by the author on 19-Dec-2024
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Dear Carol, this is a little from a facebook post a friend posted and a little from me, but mostly from me. Thanks so much for the kind words for it and for the fun too.
Love ya, Debi
Comment from lyenochka
This was so much fun, Debi! I didn't know a lot of those fun facts that you wove into your tourism post! And yes, I'm glad you know how to live in those cold temps! We cancel school here if it snows even one inch!
reply by the author on 16-Dec-2024
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This was so much fun, Debi! I didn't know a lot of those fun facts that you wove into your tourism post! And yes, I'm glad you know how to live in those cold temps! We cancel school here if it snows even one inch!
Comment Written 15-Dec-2024
reply by the author on 16-Dec-2024
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Hi Helen, this is a little from a facebook post a friend posted and a little from me, but mostly from me, I guess. Thanks so much for the kind words for it and for the fun too. Love ya lots. Debi
Comment from Karen Cherry Threadgill
This was cute. This work of yours is good of course. I hope you are able to enjoy your holidays. The weather has gotten warmer here for a few days. Family and friends will keep you warm. Love to you and yours this season. Karen
reply by the author on 16-Dec-2024
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This was cute. This work of yours is good of course. I hope you are able to enjoy your holidays. The weather has gotten warmer here for a few days. Family and friends will keep you warm. Love to you and yours this season. Karen
Comment Written 15-Dec-2024
reply by the author on 16-Dec-2024
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Hi Karen, this is a little from a facebook post a friend posted and a little from me, but mostly from me, I guess. Thanks so much for the kind words for it and for the fun too. Love ya lots. Debi
Comment from Carol Clark2
I enjoyed reading this. The older Swedes said, "Uffda" and "you betcha." When there was a lull in the conversation, they said, "Ya sure" until conversation flowed again. I remember walking two blocks from the parking lot to my office in Minneapolis in 20 below windchills. Uffda! More than once I dug out our car from the snow, ran in to get dressed for work, and had to dig it out again before I could drive. Thanks for the memories! Fun post. Blessings. Carol
reply by the author on 16-Dec-2024
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I enjoyed reading this. The older Swedes said, "Uffda" and "you betcha." When there was a lull in the conversation, they said, "Ya sure" until conversation flowed again. I remember walking two blocks from the parking lot to my office in Minneapolis in 20 below windchills. Uffda! More than once I dug out our car from the snow, ran in to get dressed for work, and had to dig it out again before I could drive. Thanks for the memories! Fun post. Blessings. Carol
Comment Written 15-Dec-2024
reply by the author on 16-Dec-2024
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I love this review, Carol. You have nailed it all on things that I didn't even know. I did know that the Norwegians and Swedes talk like that and us finlanders do too a little, but Uffda, I had no idea my friend Carol knew that language. I just get so tired of people thinking all the time that Minnesota people talk like that. It's fun here and there to make a little fun of it, but you know?
You told me a little more about you spending time here before. I have been here all my life so it was fun to hear you talk about getting digging out from it.
Thanks again, my dear friend, and for the six stars too. I appreciate you so much. Love, Debi
Comment from karenina
Hey there! I'm sure you had a lot of fun mixing in some "real" facts with a lot of humorous takes found on Facebook, etc. I'd loke to go on record as saying I grew up on SPAM... my dad loved it and we had SPAM and eggs quite often, as it stretched out budget and we needed that. My son loves fried SPAM sandwiches to this day, so SOMEBODY eats it! (LOL) So, the Native American in me has to point out that Minnesota is derived from the Dakotan Tribe of Native American:
"There are different interpretations about what those words mean, according to Šišókaduta, a Dakota language instructor at the University of Minnesota whose English name is Joe Bendickson. "Mní" (also spelled "miní") means water, a common theme of Minnesota place names. But the meaning of "sota" depends on how it is pronounced, he said.
When Mní Sota is pronounced with a hard "s" sound -- the way the state's name is typically spoken -- it means clear.
"A literal translation would be clear water," Šišókaduta said. "But what it ... really refers to is where the waters reflect the skies, because the water is clear and still."
By contrast, the word šota -- pronounced "show-ta" -- means cloudy or smoky, he said.
Mní Šota "means cloudy waters, referring to how -- at certain times of the year -- there's a fog on the lakes and rivers," Šišókaduta said."
SO it's really quite poetic that Minnesota means "Clear Blue Waters" --
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(Okay, I can't help myself!)
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You did a lot of research and I loved the little personal touch of your best friends being first cousins with TJ Hockinson -- Tight End!
I'm a huge football fan...and my first cousin played on the Denver Broncos back in the late eighties....
(That's about as close to "famous" as I'll ever get)
--The idea of needing a snowmobile for a 4th of July picnic doesn't settle well with me. I'm cold when it's fifty!
This was a fun read. I wonder how many whacky facts I could come up with for stodgy old Massachusetts.
Hmmmm.
Not nearly as many or as funny as yours!
Karenina
reply by the author on 15-Dec-2024
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Hey there! I'm sure you had a lot of fun mixing in some "real" facts with a lot of humorous takes found on Facebook, etc. I'd loke to go on record as saying I grew up on SPAM... my dad loved it and we had SPAM and eggs quite often, as it stretched out budget and we needed that. My son loves fried SPAM sandwiches to this day, so SOMEBODY eats it! (LOL) So, the Native American in me has to point out that Minnesota is derived from the Dakotan Tribe of Native American:
"There are different interpretations about what those words mean, according to Šišókaduta, a Dakota language instructor at the University of Minnesota whose English name is Joe Bendickson. "Mní" (also spelled "miní") means water, a common theme of Minnesota place names. But the meaning of "sota" depends on how it is pronounced, he said.
When Mní Sota is pronounced with a hard "s" sound -- the way the state's name is typically spoken -- it means clear.
"A literal translation would be clear water," Šišókaduta said. "But what it ... really refers to is where the waters reflect the skies, because the water is clear and still."
By contrast, the word šota -- pronounced "show-ta" -- means cloudy or smoky, he said.
Mní Šota "means cloudy waters, referring to how -- at certain times of the year -- there's a fog on the lakes and rivers," Šišókaduta said."
SO it's really quite poetic that Minnesota means "Clear Blue Waters" --
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(Okay, I can't help myself!)
~~~~~
You did a lot of research and I loved the little personal touch of your best friends being first cousins with TJ Hockinson -- Tight End!
I'm a huge football fan...and my first cousin played on the Denver Broncos back in the late eighties....
(That's about as close to "famous" as I'll ever get)
--The idea of needing a snowmobile for a 4th of July picnic doesn't settle well with me. I'm cold when it's fifty!
This was a fun read. I wonder how many whacky facts I could come up with for stodgy old Massachusetts.
Hmmmm.
Not nearly as many or as funny as yours!
Karenina
Comment Written 15-Dec-2024
reply by the author on 15-Dec-2024
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I love that you loved spam, and I actually had to eat it a lot in my life too because of being so poor. I didn't hate it as I was happy to have something to eat. However I think it is just a joke that most people hate it. That wasn't a part that I wrote.
The only article that I got this from was a facebook post that a friend had posted. I thought it was so cute that I was going to repost it and then I thought, huh, maybe I could add a little of my own humor and knowledge and make a story.
Unfortunately most of what the other person posted were all humor and half truth to it. For instance, the meaning of Minnesota, we all know from 6th grade Minnesota history what the real meaning of the word and all about the water etc, but just like their facts about Spam, they were incorrect about a few other things. Most of what I told about is true, but the comical stuff was mostly from the facebook article. I did tell the story about Prince. I heard it years ago and I loved it so much that Oprah got told off a little bit I thought was funny.
Anyway, thanks for the awesome review and I can't wait till I see you do this on your state. I will be your voice of encouragement
Except I did call the twin cities our own tale of two cities and also about Prince and Judy Garland. And also that wasn't true about blizzards at Fourth of July time too. By June we always have heat and are swimming before the end of June. LOL. However, way up north might be a different story tho. But that is why in the beginning I wrote some were fun, some were funny and some were far fetched. LOL...
I wish I could take credit for the really funny. I had written that the guy who hoped to be the vice president wanted to send all the prisoners to an eel pout festival and that should teach them not to break the law. But I decided not to get political in any way.
So it was a fun story to write, but I don't know where all the person got their info from on FB, but I copied the article so I would have every bit of it in case I had to prove where I got it from.
Thanks again, and I think I tried to explain too much here, but thought you might find who's was who's interesting. Love, Debi
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It was a great read! You made it super clear it was a mix of Facebook "humorous facts" and your own insight...which I appreciated!
I mentioned your post to Michael and he said (like a typical son)--
"Maybe a case of SPAM would be an awesome Christmas gift!"
Costco has it... I just may call his bluff and have his sister go in on that with me!)
(BTW I was not correcting you about where "Minnesota" came from and what it mean so started Googling and loved the Dakotan meaning!)
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I knew that but you sparked some memories and I had forgotten all about sixth grade Minnesota history. I could even see the book and me sitting in the back of the room teaching the other six graders. Would you believe I used to have to do that because I was so far ahead of my class and the teacher would get behind that she would have me work with them. There were six grades in our country school back then. Then she could teach another class at that time.
Comment from royowen
I was born in a cold place, Liverpool, England, a poor place, (the reason we left for Australia) but great talent comes from there, and the easiest going people. It doesn't surprise me, your place breeds great talent, look at you Debi. I've been to the states 4 times, but never Minnesota, blessings dear girl, blessings Roy
reply by the author on 19-Dec-2024
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I was born in a cold place, Liverpool, England, a poor place, (the reason we left for Australia) but great talent comes from there, and the easiest going people. It doesn't surprise me, your place breeds great talent, look at you Debi. I've been to the states 4 times, but never Minnesota, blessings dear girl, blessings Roy
Comment Written 15-Dec-2024
reply by the author on 19-Dec-2024
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Thanks Roy, I take that as a compliment about the talent comes from cold places. And totally believable that you also do.
This is a little from a facebook post a friend posted and a little from me, but mostly from me. Thanks so much for the kind words for it and for the fun too.
Love ya, Debi
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i was talking of the beatles and of course you debi
Comment from Marilyn Hamilton
The most inventive and industrious people come from the coldest states. They are bred tougher with more fortitude. You've listed so many fun interesting facts. Very enjoyable read.
reply by the author on 19-Dec-2024
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The most inventive and industrious people come from the coldest states. They are bred tougher with more fortitude. You've listed so many fun interesting facts. Very enjoyable read.
Comment Written 15-Dec-2024
reply by the author on 19-Dec-2024
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Hey girlfriend, this is why I haven't been your way for a few days. I am like a hundred behind. But after the first I hope I can stop posting as much. My eyes can't take it. And I was at the eye doctor today and they are getting the ball rolling on finding a donor for the transplant.
Thanks for all the sweet words comments and for the fun. Love ya. Debi
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I'm so sorry that your eyes are still giving you so much trouble. I hope they can find a transplant for you soon. I haven't been around for a few weeks either. Still getting over the pneumonia and other issues. Hopefully back to normal soon.
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You didn't tell me you had pneumonia. Please take care of yourself and I will be saying prayers for you.
