Minneapolis
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| - | [[Category:Glossary]][[Image:ColdShipWreck.png|thumb|The Lakes District]] | + | [[Category:Glossary]]__NOTOC__ |
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| - | "If an America City could wield a knife -- Minneapolis would stab a guy." | + | <tr><td width="*" align="left" valign="top">"If an American City could wield a knife -- Minneapolis would stab a guy." |
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| - | So said William F. Bucklye in his famous offhand remark to a darker than usual porter. Like Whitman, Minneapolis is many things to many people - even many things unto itself. Even St. Paul (aka [[Pig]]s Eye) will tell you that Minneapolis is the: | + | |
| + | So said William F. Buckley in his famous offhand remark to a darker-than-usual porter. Like Whitman, Minneapolis is many things to many people -- even many things unto itself. Even St. Paul (aka [[Pig]]s Eye) will tell you that Minneapolis is the: | ||
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| *Austere capital of the Great North Woods | *Austere capital of the Great North Woods | ||
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| *Inspiration for Superman's Polar Palace | *Inspiration for Superman's Polar Palace | ||
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| *Smugly superior antithesis to [[Tampa]] | *Smugly superior antithesis to [[Tampa]] | ||
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| *The great hoary beard on a wizened Uncle Sam | *The great hoary beard on a wizened Uncle Sam | ||
| - | + | *South of Winnipeg, you cold mother fuckers | |
| - | *South of Duluth, you cold mother fuckers | + | |
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| *Favorite spot for an aging [[Nevid Kessar]]'s benders | *Favorite spot for an aging [[Nevid Kessar]]'s benders | ||
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| *Home to: | *Home to: | ||
| **Prince, Jesse Ventura, & JFK | **Prince, Jesse Ventura, & JFK | ||
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| **Paul Bunyan (or is he from Maine?) | **Paul Bunyan (or is he from Maine?) | ||
| **[[Glasspants]], [[David Payne|Payne]], & ''The Whittier Globe'' | **[[Glasspants]], [[David Payne|Payne]], & ''The Whittier Globe'' | ||
| - | **Norwiegns, Swedes, Fins, and the best goddamn [[pancakes|flapjacks]] in the world | + | **Norwegians, Swedes, Finns, and the best goddamn [[pancakes|flapjacks]] in the world |
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| *Still crazy, after all these years | *Still crazy, after all these years | ||
| - | [[Image:DowntownMpls.jpg|thumb|left|Downtown, July 4, 1982]] | + | |
| - | == Also See == | + | == See Also == |
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| - | *[[Bicycle]] | + | * [[Bicycle]] |
| + | * [[Buer]] | ||
| + | * [[Cold]] | ||
| + | * [[Opened Head]] | ||
| - | *[[Buer]] | + | </td> |
| + | <td width="180px" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" style="margin: 0 0 1em 1em; background: #E0E0E0; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 100%;"> | ||
| + | [[Image:DowntownMpls.jpg|thumb|center|Downtown, [[July]] 4, 1982]] | ||
| + | == Desiderata == | ||
| - | *[[Cold]] | + | ---- |
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| - | *[[Opened Head]] | + | </font> |
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| "If an American City could wield a knife -- Minneapolis would stab a guy."
So said William F. Buckley in his famous offhand remark to a darker-than-usual porter. Like Whitman, Minneapolis is many things to many people -- even many things unto itself. Even St. Paul (aka Pigs Eye) will tell you that Minneapolis is the:
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