If it disqualifies Michele Bachmann from running for President, I am strongly tempted to let you go. And with Garrison Keillor retiring from radio you could make him ambassador to the USA.
Since YouTube hadn’t been invented yet when this thread was started back in 2001, I figure it’s fair to improve this quote with a link.
An ass is a burro. A hole in the ground is a burrow.
– Nashville Yahoo
(I’ve always thought I would like Minnesota, but now you’ve hurt my delicate feelings.)
You know, I was going to mention in the Rick Perry thread how we had quite a few posters here, on the left, who advocated secession when GWB was president. But I didn’t, because I wanted to make sure elucidator didn’t think I was talking about him. Funny thing about zombies.
Ahhh, Zoe: you’re quoting Elucidator, not me. No wonder I was 
for a bit.
I’ll watch and see where this secessionist movement leads to. I’ve already hedged my bets with Wisconsin property right across the river, like a true middle of the road independent. Perhaps I’ll invest in a fireworks store in advance of the big secessionist celebration.
ETA: No vote for Tnetennba and that dang wall!
If you close the borders, make sure Bachmann is inside before you do. She belongs to you.
If so, then secession is hereby granted.
:mad: You mean, “Freedom Barf”!
I think you’re lying eludidator. I suspect your women are the hottest in the U.S. and you’re advocating secession to keep them from the rest of us. Therefore I am moving to Minnesota and joining the revolution. 
I had a talk with the Canuckistani ambassador. They’ll go for it if we’ll change the size of all our football fields and make FBI agents wear Mountie uniforms. Oh, and the Happy Meal is now poutine.
Or, you could cut out the middle and move to Sweden.
There used to be a female comedian from Minnesota. She said her family was from Norway. She said, “what kind of people move from Norway to a new country and find a place just as cold and miserable as the one they left”. Then she ate her lutefisk and left.
No no no. As she is so fond of saying, she’s from Waterloo, IA. It’s time to send her back.
I had a few customers in the Minneapolis area. Both had to post signs on the doors asking employees not to carry their guns to work with them. Apparently it was a problem.
Er, I’m not sure it’s THAT compassionate a place.
All that practice, they’ve gotten quite good at it…
We do not negociate with terrorists.
Huh. All these years, and I never realized Minnesota was an actual State. I just thought it was the name for the western half of Wisconsin.
Minnesota (from DNR web page)
Number of lakes:
11,842 (10+ acres)
Michigan
11,037 “inland” Lakes, but does not define the minimum size that I can see.
The DNR web page says “over 11,000 lakes and ponds”
Hell, the city of Eagan MN where I live says;
“Eagan has about 200 natural lakes and wetlands an acre or larger in size, and virtually all are part of a stormwater drainage system that includes over 1,200 natural and constructed waterbodies”
Minnesota: The American Canada
I want to have your babies.
Well, elucidator, I’m afraid the existence of this thread could seriously damage your prospects of being elected President of the United States.