# Fuck you, Michigan!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-michigan/166611>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [April 5, 2003, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-michigan/166611 "2003-04-05T01:56:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![chorizo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@chorizo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorizo)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-michigan/166611/61 "2003-04-08T20:01:02Z")

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For once, I live too far north to have gotten any snow in the past few days - although we got about two or three feet a week ago. Seriously. The Free Press said Metro Detroit got 3-5 inches the other day, and everything shut down? Wimps. We didn’t even shovel, just plowed through the bank to get out of the driveway.

And I live in NORTHERN Michigan, the REAL part - I’m about forty miles south of the very northernmost point in the state, if that tells you anything. The Lower Penninsula people who refer to anything north of Gaylord as “Northern Michigan” sound like they think the whole state ends at the bridge.

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**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-michigan/166611/62 "2003-04-08T20:24:11Z")

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> \*Originally posted by chorizo \*  
> \*\* The Lower Penninsula people who refer to anything north of Gaylord as “Northern Michigan” sound like they think the whole state ends at the bridge. \*\*

It doesn’t???  
😕

(d & r)

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**Author:** ![Velma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/85e7bf/32.png) [@Velma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velma)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-michigan/166611/63 "2003-04-08T21:04:37Z")

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3-5 inches wouldn’t shut down anything here. The Eastern side just isn’t used to the [lake effect snow](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mlakeeffectsnow.html).

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**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-michigan/166611/64 "2003-04-11T01:03:20Z")

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Okay. This is seriously honking me off.

Two days ago, it was so cold I needed mittens and a hat. There was snow and ice everywhere.

Today, the kids were outside, no coats, riding their bikes, happy as little clams. Then, I heard it. That sound…that sound that is the true herald of warm days…the ice cream man.

_What the fucking fuck???_

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**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-michigan/166611/65 "2003-04-11T01:09:35Z")

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\*You \* had an ice cream man in your area.  
Oh, what I wouldn’t give to hear the tinkle of little bells go down my street…

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