Are you from Michigan?

[MrScorpio]

Have you ever even been to Michigan?

Are you bordered on Michigan?

Have you ever flew over Michigan?

Do you have any Michigan connection whatsoever?

If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then you're cool.

If not, you've got some 'splainin to do.

[Az]

1. Yes! How did you guess

Thats amazing. You just knew didn't you?

[MrScorpio]

3. Because you're one of the cool kids

It's the only explanation

[benburch]

2. I married a girl from K'zoo

Does that count?

[MrScorpio]

5. Sure does

Coolness by association

[Left Is Write]

4. I've been to Michigan.

My aunt and uncle lived in Kalamazoo in the 70s. I was in Lancaster on business in '96.

I've also had more than one irritating experience with the Detroit airport.

[MrScorpio]

7. I knew you were cool

Now I know why

[Jokinomx]

6. Michigan Rocks.....

I am a native Michigander and proud to be one....

:toast: to all those the live and work in this Great Lake State.

The Water and Winter Wonderland...:-)

[davsand]

8. I'm coming back in June for FunDay. Will you be there?

I'm coming back in June for FunDay, and I'm hoping to see a BUNCH of DUers. Will you be there?


Laura

[MrScorpio]

11. Probably not

Make sure you spill a little wine for this homey who won't be there

[GirlinContempt]

9. I was 'attached'

to a boy from Michigan

[jeanarrett]

10. Yes, sirreee. . . born and raised outside Reed City!

Now living just 10 miles north of Ann Arbor. But I married a yooper and lived up there for 10 years. Bee-yoo-ti-ful country. To visit.

[Jokinomx]

53. Married a Yooper Eh?

Good choice... I hope. I am a Yooper that married a Greenville girl.... What part of the U.P. does your hubby come from? I am from the Ishpeming/Negaunee area.

Say Ya To Da U.P. Eh?

:toast:

[xmas74]

70. I miss the UP!

[Scout]

77. Say Ya To Da U.P. Eh?

I have that bumper sticker! I want to live there, or at least retire there someday.

I'm a troll ... from Ann Arbor, still live there ... lived in East Lansing for 4 years while I went to MSU.

[xmas74]

123. My parents are planning to retire back to the U.P. too!

They have been looking at some land. They think, for now, they will just get an old trailer and fix it up so that there is something on the land. Within a year or so of retirement they plan on building a log cabin on the land.

[underpants]

12. God NO, Unfortuneately yes, I was, no, not really thank GOD

[Pacifist Patriot]

13. *hanging head in shame*

I answered no to all and I have no explanation whatsoever. An egregious error I intend to rectify some day.

[MrScorpio]

17. Fix it

That's all I've got to say

[Pacifist Patriot]

19. I'll try....

as long as the weather is balmy and not snowy.

[ComerPerro]

14. no, yes, no, yes, and, I hate the Redwings, does that count as a conection

[MrScorpio]

20. I don't understand your hate of the greatest hockey team in the land

Where's the love?

[ComerPerro]

23. Apparently its somewhere else

;)

[Zuni]

60. Hey, there is a Michigan connection for me after all!!!!!!

The Red Wings are my all time favorite Sports Franchise! Steve Yzerman rocks!

[Madrone]

15. Yes.

Never lived anywhere else - until 6ish years ago when I moved to WA.

I'll be back. I'm a Kalamazooan. It's in my blood.

[progmom]

16. i live in michigan

am i ok?
:loveya:

[MrScorpio]

22. You're always okay by me, Sugar Pop

You know you are

[RevolutionaryActs]

29. And you have such a strong michigan accent...

:evilgrin:

[progmom]

31. hey rev?

i was gonna say bite me...but :loveya:

[RevolutionaryActs]

34. Awww now I feel bad for teasing you...

:P


:loveya:

[UrbScotty]

18. I'm in Kentwood!

:D

[noonwitch]

130. EKHS class of 1982! I live in Warren, now

I love Michigan and even if I won the Lotto, I'd stay here. I buy a big house on Grand Traverse Bay (hopefully on the Old Mission Penninsula) and keep a place in metro-Detroit.

Michigan is a beautiful place, with a lot of cool places to visit. There's the natural beauty places like Up North and the lake shores. There's the fun of a big city like Detroit and it's suburbs, where there are professional sport teams and a great music scene. There's small town America, like most of West Michigan, including Grand Rapids, a pretty big city with a small-town feel and some great restaurants. I'm partial to Yesterdog, Russ (dutch version of Big Boy) and the Arnie's chain.

[Abelman]

21. Born and raised in Muskegon

Went to College in Marquette.

Michigan is my true home and after another year in Alaska, I'm going to return there. The plan is to jumpstart Michigan's non-existant film industry.

We've got a West Coast, too!

[jeanarrett]

24. The west coast is the best! n/t

[MrScorpio]

26. Tell that to the LA Lakers

[Abelman]

35. LA Lakers?

More like LA LOSERS! HA HAHAAA!

[ScreamingMeemie]

25. Currently I live on the shores of the once beautiful Lake St. Clair...

a feeder lake for Lakes Huron and Erie. :hi:

[MrScorpio]

28. You get a hug from me, Snuggy Poo

:hug:

[ScreamingMeemie]

72. Right back at you buggy Boo!

:hug:

[xmas74]

27. Used to live in Iron River, MI

Escanaba and Crystal Falls.

Yes, I was a Yooper.

[Abelman]

30. I went to college in the UP

and on my return my friends swore that I picked up the accent.

I don't know what they're talking about, eh.

[MrScorpio]

32. What are you talkin' aboot, eh?

What Yoopurr accent?

[xmas74]

74. I love the Yooper accent!

[xmas74]

33. I still use "eh"-especially when I have been drinking.

And I really miss going to the pasty stands.
When I get homesick, I watch my copy of Escanaba in Da Moonlight. Then I remember that they were all freaks.

[Jokinomx]

63. MMMMMmmmm Pasties......

Hey watch out who your calling freaks.....:-) I make pasties once or twice a year. As with all foods.... the homemade kind puts restraunts food to shame.

"Escanaba in Da Moonlight" is the greatest film to come out of the U.P. since "Anatomy of a Murder".

:toast:

[xmas74]

71. I have Anatomy of a Murder too.

And I do make pasties a couple times a year. It's just easier to pick them up.
My dad graduated from West Iron County-yep, he's a Wykon.

[Jokinomx]

80. There is another great U.P film... do you know what it is?

...

Somewhere in Time... with Christopher Reeves.... it was filmed on Mackinac Island. It was a wonderful film. You don't realize that it is an island ...but it really shows the beauty of Michigan.

[Ann Arbor Dem]

85. Some of my friends were extras in that movie...

My neighbor's aunt's house was used in the filming too. It is beautiful, isn't it?

[Jokinomx]

88. I agree...

Of all the films produced in Michigan... Somewhere in Time captures the beauty of the Great Lakes the best. :toast:

[Ann Arbor Dem]

90. Riding a snowmobile from St. Ignace to the island in Feb. with xmas trees

as trail markers is an adventure, let me tell you. I've only done it a few times, but that was enough for me.

:toast:

[Jokinomx]

93. Never had the opportunity to do that....

Winters up there used to be brutal. In the seventies... the winters were much colder than they have been the last few years.

I was raised in west Marquette county on a small family farm. I remember twice the temperature being minus 50 degrees. Forty below was fairly common.... in the last couple of decades 30 below is a rarity.

But... I will retire up there someday....the U.P. will always be my home. We (wife and two daughters) are currently planning our trips up there this summer.....first on the list...

The Hiawatha Music Festival in Marquette.... what a great time that is...

[Ann Arbor Dem]

95. Where in w. mqt. county?

My sis and bil used to live in suomi, just near palmer. They are both metalsmiths and named their company after the Empire Mine...Empire Metal Works. They have a studio on Washington St. and both teach at NMU.

Hiawatha...a blast! I might be there too. Art On The Rocks is a great art fair/festival.

Damn....that's cold!!

[Jokinomx]

109. My Grandmother lived in Suomi for thirty years or more.....

after the Empire mine buried her home in Bellevue location just north of Palmer. Also I have several relatives that have worked for CCI.

My Parents and Grandparents are from Negaunee and I lived there until 8th grade when we moved to Humboldt. I then went to school in Champion until they consolidated with National Mine to form Westwood High School.

[xmas74]

124. Did they live in Marquette?

I lived there at one point but I remember Iron River better. I knew that the courthouse was used in the movie. But I am pretty sure that they also filmed in Ishpeming.

[xmas74]

108. I have watched it before but I

never think about where it is actually at. I have been there only once, as a very young child (there are pics somewhere at my parents house). The scenery is breathtaking.

There was supposedly a movie filmed in the last couple of years in the UP about a high school reunion. I have found it mentioned online but cannot find the actual movie anywhere.

[Scout]

78. good film...

the play was even better! Saw it at the Purple Rose in Chelsea, and at the Gem in Detroit.

Jimmer Nagamanee from Menomenee ... say that five times real fast!

[xmas74]

125. Say it five times real fast while drunk!

Can't be done.

[Ann Arbor Dem]

86. My mom went to stage version of Anatomy of a Murder not long ago

It was staged in the old courthouse (in Marquette) used in the film. She said it was very cool.

[Jokinomx]

94. Awesome...I would love to see that....n/t

[madmom]

36. I'm in NW Ohio we call it lower, lower Michigan

[MrScorpio]

37. We have a big footprint

Glad to have you on the cool bus

[northzax]

59. where in the 419?

I grew up in Perrysburg...

[madmom]

67. not far from there actually...Defiance n/t

[northzax]

115. I have a t shirt that says

"i'm here in Defiance, where the hell are you?"

[madmom]

119. That's funny cuz I always thought ....

if I'm in Defiance I'm totally lost.

[TOhioLiberal]

113. Another NW Ohioan here...

...or as I like to call it, South Michigan :P ;)

[madmom]

118. Hi neighbor!

:hi:

[Ann Arbor Dem]

38. Born and raised in Petoskey.

Spent most of my life in Michigan.

[northzax]

57. I went to camp in Petoskeey

I have a petoskey stone on my coffee table...

[Ann Arbor Dem]

82. Camp Daggett?

On beautiful Walloon Lake....I went there.

[StaggerLee]

39. Yes

Although I was born in Texas my family moved to Michigan before I started elementary school. I grew up and work in Lansing but I live in East Lansing now.

BTW- I just got back from downtown - It's gorgeous here today!

:hi:

[maddezmom]

40. my folks live in MI

just visited me here in TX, but returned in time for the wonderful spring snow. :D

[gizmo1979]

41. Ya hay I'm from up dar hay you know.?

[Jokinomx]

65. Allright!! A nudder Yooper!!

Vat part of da Mudderland do you call home? :beer:

[AlienGirl]

99. I'm from Dickinson County

Down in da banana belt.

Currently, I live in Seattle.

Tucker

[iconoclastic cat]

42. My band played a party at MSU and I woke up naked behind a couch.

Does that count?

[MrScorpio]

43. Sure does

I bet you left with a little Michigan in ya!

[iconoclastic cat]

44. It still itches sometimes.

[donheld]

45. I'm about 1000 miles from Michigan

i hope this is "splainin" enough

[EstimatedProphet]

46. I can locate Michigan on a map

I can also spell Michigan.
I can also pronounce Michigan.
Oh, and I've been to Michigan.

[Zuni]

62. I just learned that "Michigan" actually exists and is not just theoretical

wow! I learn something everyday here!

[Gemini Cat]

47. Yes to all of the questions.

And I'm damned cool! B-)

[Dave Reynolds]

48. Born in Michigan,

lived many years here, moved away a few times, now back to stay (for a few more years, anyway).



Dave Reynolds,
Professional Migrator

[Blue Diadem]

49. I Love Michigan! We lived there for 4 years but had to move back

here to NW Ohio after hubby's plant closed. We still owned this house and it was better to be unemployed with one mortgage instead of unemployed with two. We lived in the Grand Rapids burbs, loved Michigan's beautiful trees, sand dunes and going to Lake Michigan.

:hi:

[gollygee]

50. Born, raised, and lived my whole life in Kalamazoo!

love it :D

[bridgit]

51. hubby's people are = flint & lake st clair...

by way of arkansas :thumbsup: dad's side

[Speck Tater]

52. Born in Grand Rapids, raised in Los Angeles

[indy_azcat]

54. I hate spelling Ypsilanti

but I don't mind living here.

:D

[indy_azcat]

55. and I hate hitting the wrong reply button

bad newbie

:cry:

[Zuni]

56. no, no, no, no

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

58. My husband was born in Michigan

and he lived there for a while as a kid. A lot of his family still lives there. I've never been there.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

61. Wow, a lot of the zoo, zoo, zoo gang in here!

Raised in Kazoo, raised my kids there. Now live in the Florida Keys. Wanted to keep the water, ditch the winter!

[all.of.me]

64. i am cool.

i went to ann arbor for a dead show about 20 years ago.

[oneighty]

66. Yes Army Corps Of Engineers

Great Lakes Survey hired me on for a diving job in Lake Superior (1963). My wife and I drove in our VW Bug full of diving gear and one dog, from Buffalo to Detroit. In Detroit I had an employment physical and paper work. Then we drove from there across the Great Bridge (WOW!) to Whitefish Point Coast Guard station where I met the crew I was to work with.

We traveled West to Newberry Mich where we rented living quarters.

The water was clear and cold and immense. Much of our work was done at and in the area of Little Lake. The waves crashing on the beach resembled those one might see in the ocean. It was October and it was snowing on and off.

On off times my wife and I spent many an hour searching the rocky shores for Agates. We visited Minonomee Falls(sp). The wilderness was/is beautiful. Along the lake shore were many abandoned Coast Guard Stations.

I earned a lot of money.

My cousin was an MD/Professor in Ann Arbor.

180

[Abelman]

68. I smell Michigan meetup

or Funday. Whatever.

[redqueen]

69. I'm so not cool.

:cry:

[vince3]

79. Don't feel bad

I live in MI, and I'm way not cool. And I just found out that I'm not DU elite, either. No justice.

[two gun sid]

73. I'm in a Michigan state of mind....

Live right here in the Birthplace of the Republican Party and Home of the Largest Walled Prison in the World. Throw in the World Famous Cascades and you can understand why I say: HELP!

[MisterP]

75. I've thought enthusiastically about Michigan

does that count?

[Scout]

76. yes, born and bred a Michigander

I love our great lakes, the UP, the thumb... I want to retire to the UP, preferable right on Lake Superior.

[Ann Arbor Dem]

83. Most of immediate family now lives in Marquette.

Great town!

[JVS]

81. Mom is from Detroit

[Goathead]

84. Check out the UP

It is like friggin' Alaska up there.

[erinlough]

87. I answer yes to all of the questions...I'm cool!

[hickman1937]

89. Born in Detroit, raised in Orchard Lake, and live in Macomb Co.

I've always wanted to travel the country, and the world, but I can't seem to get out of Michigan. I haven't been to Mackinaw Island in 10 years, so that's next. Haven't been in the UP for 6 years, so thats after. Maybe after I get to Sleeping Bear one more time I'll try another state. Or even Ireland. It's so hard to leave this state.
edit for crappy spelling

[PassingFair]

91. I grew up on Detroit's East Side...

and have moved a little more north, St. Clair Shores.
Muuuoooovvvvin on up!
Maybe we're neighbors!

[hickman1937]

97. Probably. I'm off Scheonherr, north of 16.

The only place I know in St.Clair Shores is Roy O'Brien, at 9 mile and Mack. I've known that since I was a kid growing up way out in the country. "Get on the Right Track, to Nine Mile and Mack."

[PassingFair]

98. 'Cause Roy O'Brien, has the best deal in tooowwwwnnnn!

I drove right past your block today on my way home from "upper Macomb County"....

[hickman1937]

101. I was probably at work, I work afternoons,

But next time you drive by Plumbrook, :hi: :hi: :hi:

[PassingFair]

103. I always blow by Plumbrook whilst whizzing my way down

Utica to M59! Will now salute as my Dean for President bumperstickered bumper cruises by.

[hickman1937]

106. You can't blow by plumbrook on utica.

They're parallel roads, 1/2 mile apart. Come clean, you're dodging thru neighborhoods, to avoid traffic right? I won't tell the approximately one million cops we have in Sterling heights.:P

[PassingFair]

122. I DO SO blow by Plumbrook!

Did it again today. It dead-ends at the eerily named "Carpathian Club".
It must pick-up again somewhere else. I DID notice that when I turned down 17 mile from Utica, I passed Plumbrook AGAIN on my way to M53!
Plumbrook is EVERYWHERE!

[hickman1937]

128. Oh jeez, I'm so embarrassed!

You are absolutely right.:blush: Right by the daycare center.:hi:

[PassingFair]

131. Thank you for the verification of my sanity!

:hi:

[Strawman]

117. Me too

My MI connections

Grew up in Detroit around State Fair and Gratiot.
Moved to Sterling Heights in 9th grade (went to Davis & Stevenson).
Went to MSU and lived in East Lansing. Met my wife there who is also from MI.
Go to grad school at Wayne State.
Lived in Harrison Township and Royal Oak.
Now I live in Sterling Heights again.

What a trip to see "Plumbrook and 16" and "Schoenherr" on here. I'm right by there. I'll drive down Plumbrook to pick up pizza slices from Nona's every now and then and that street turns into my parents' street on the other side of 17 Mile.

[hickman1937]

129. I've been ordering from Nona's for 24 years.

Are you going to Saginaw in June? I'm going to try.

[sasquatch]

92. F*ck Michigan

:evilgrin:
I loved watching Ohio State give them an ass beating last year in the old Horseshoe.

[Ann Arbor Dem]

96. Relish it while it lasts.......it won't happen this year!

:evilgrin:

[Dastard Stepchild]

100. I lived in Berkley...

My parents still live there. :hi:

[hickman1937]

102. Berkley, the place no one talks about because they don't

want the house prices to go up.:P

[Dastard Stepchild]

110. No kidding :)

We'll go ahead and let Royal Oak get all nice and expensive, and enjoy our little bungalows for considerably less. :)

[auntAgonist]

104. I live in MI

but i still have a LOT of 'splainin to do.

:hi:

[Montauk6]

105. Inkster originally

I've been in NYC since 96.

[5thGenDemocrat]

107. Damn right I'm from Michigan

43'25.573N 83'57.296W. Saginaw, the Center of the Universe.
John
It is now 52 days, ten hours and 34 minutes to FUNDAY. Y'all should come and pay us a visit.
Did I mention the free beer? If not, let me note that there's free beer at FUNDAY.

[tjwmason]

111. No, no, no, no, and no.

:cry:

My only excuse is that I'm English, and I've only travelled within Europe.

What if I promise to visit Michigan when I make my planned celebratory tour to mark the departure of king george and arrival of a real President?

[MrScorpio]

112. Sure thing

Come to Detroit and pop over the river to visit Windsor.

Nice town

[xmas74]

126. I would say that many Yoopers here, past and present,

would love to show you how beautiful the U.P. can be if you ever make it over.
Hell, I'd make a return trip for that(I try to get up there every couple of years anyhow).

[Skinner]

114. Strong Michigan connection here.

My wife is from Michigan! We met on a political campaign in Michigan. We go visit her family in Michigan all the time.

[Burma Jones]

116. I used to drive to Ann Arbor to score weed

All the way from Illinois.........

Two of my Brothers were born in Detroit
I really like camping in the UP.
I admire Michael Moore
I was at the New Orleans Saints vs. Detroit Lions Game at which Tom Dempsey kicked a 63 yard field goal.

About the only thing I don't like about Michigan is the Detroit Tigers - I was a very young St. Louis Cardinals fan back in the late 60's..........

[Jokinomx]

121. Cool Memories...

Yes I can see why you wouldn't like the Tigers after they beat the Cardinals in the 68 World Series. I remember listening to a game with my new transister radio during recess in 6th grade...:-)

Seeing the "kick" would have been awesome. :-)

:toast:

[fishnfla]

120. Yooper by birth. Cheesehead by nature. Floridian by design

I was born in Menomenee, Mich. Lived in Iron Mountain, Mich for awhile.

The UP is beautiful country. When I get heartsick, I read Hemingway's "Big Two-Hearted River"

[MrScorpio]

127. You know what I miss about Michigan? GREEKTOWN!

OPA!!!