If you are so lucky as to know a Michigander, and you ask him/her where they’re from, be prepared to start looking at anatomy with some possible contortions. In a delightful trick, God (or Slartibartfast?) made our dear state in the shape of a mitten, w/ some odd dangly bits above it called the U.P., which we went to war w/ Ohio over quite some time ago. (We lost, they got Toledo in exchange for the U.P. - hee hee hee!) People from the U.P. are known as Yoopers, obviously.
I’m calling on my fellow MItten-dwellers to come together and Dopefest before you load up your shotguns, hunter’s blaze orange vests, spray bottles of doe urine, and buy-one-get-one-free coupon’s for Tony’s (Your Weight On A Plate!) at Birch Run. Sometime in October, maybe, preferably in Southeastern or Mid-MI.
Thoughts? I think it would be great to invite Ontario and Ohio dopers as well, in a spirit of bon homme and sort of to apologize for the lack of endless lumber and copper mines in Toledo.
My own personal hijack - there’s a hardware shop in Waterford that sells hunting licenses, and last year they had a sign out that said, ‘Doe Dough Due’. 