You yoopers are a peculiar bunch

“ When no vehicle is available to haul that deer home...use the bike.”

“lol”

“Thats nice!

8P”

“I heard about that! Too funny!”

“That can't be easy--i had a vision of the kid on the trike on laugh-in”

“Hey! I posted that the other day! Well, not the actual pic (since I don't know how to do that!)

Anyway, pasty.com is a very cool website, lots of pretty pics every day. Gonna order my 2003 calendar and some fresh pasties soon!”

“I was hesitant to go to the site and look at the pic because of the name, lol....”

“I am hesitant to ask, since it may be that I am one, but what is a yooper?”

“Im sure you'd look GREAT in pasties...could you send some photos my way???”

“A past-ie (like something that happened in the past!) is a Finnish creation - like a meat pie. Duh!

Sunshine is a yooper. I'm a yooper wanna-be.”

“I bet you'd look pretty good in one of those too, SG...


j/k...lol.......”

“LMAO guys!


http://pasty.com/discuss/messages/994/1706.html#PN”

“While the U.P. (hence Yooper, hyway) Finns have embraced the pasty (pasties, plural), the origin is Cornish, arriving with Cornish miners who immigrated to the mining communities of America -- such as the copper and iron mines of the U.P. and the lead mines of SW Wisconsin.

Reino, who has a wonderful pasty recipe via her aunt, and I were able to attend a session on ethnic foods at the 2002 FinnFest in Minneapolis this past August, where the ins-and-outs of the pasty were among topics hashed out by the presenter/scholar and the audience. Reino baked and sold pasties for a bit at a friend's deli in Ann Arbor back in the early 80s, which caused a brief flurry of debate about what constituted a proper pasty -- including a piece in the Ann Arbor News -- and when this was mentioned at the seminar, the scholar noted she had been at U-M then and said to Reino, "So that was you!"

Who'd think that a simple meat and potatoe pie could be so controversial.

BTW, don't be too quick to assume that deer being carried by the bicyclist is dead. There are many weird and wonderful relationships in the U.P. hinterlands and who are we to judge.”

“So Pekka, the deer on the guy's shoulders is alive? Then that's the calmest deer I've ever seen!”

“You just have to know how to talk to them...can't be any harder than riding the bike once you've got em on your shoulders.

The stiff legs are just a touch of arthritis aggravated by the cold weather. Just needed a little help getting from one illegal feeding station to another.

On the other hand, the bike rider should be aware that without his blaze orange, he is one tempting moving target for the out-of-state hunters just stepping out of their motel rooms.”

“Too funny! roflmfao~ u all making me laugh!”

“perhaps the deer is alive and the bike rider, unable to find the local sorority house, slipped it a roofie








that would be Rohypnol”

“hey, don't you start making generalizations about us sorority girls...we're not all like that!”

“so are you saying you don't need a roofie to have sex with freaks?”

“http://www.dayoopers.com/thetrap.html



anyone else see "da yoopers"? that play by Jeff Daniels?”

“I wish ya'll quit pickin' on then thar Yoopers.
They cant help ifn's they talk funny.”

“...Why dontcha quit dat der pickin' on dem der Yoopers. Dey can't help der talkin' dat way, ya know, eh?

Smiley, are you talking about "Escanaba in Da Moonlight" (that got made into a movie) or did he write another play?

In other U.P. news, talked to my daughter up in Marquette early this morning -- they got another 6" of snow overnight on top of the pile that had come down yesterday. And it was still snowing -- the wonders of "lake effect."”

“Yeah, Pekka, that's exactly what I was talking about. My brain thought Escanaba, my fingers typed da yoopers. Its just been such a bad day, I think my brain has shut down. Unfortunatly, I have to work until about 10PM tonight. :(

Wonder how much snow the Keewenaw has. Wish we had some snow here, would make the cold air worth it.”

“Smiley, I think they were talking a foot or so for the west end of U.P. and Keeweenaw.”