Comments on: Yes, he’s a DEMOCRAT.

By: Terry WAlter

Terry WAlter — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:49:52 +0000

Speaking of WisconSIN honeys. With the GM truck plant being built here, we had an influx (infestation?) of WisconSINites. My son was friends with 2 brothers down the street. In their house resided a man & his wife, & her somewhat less unattractive sister. One day,I was getting ready to head out to the race track. One brother came down & my son thought it would be good if he could come along. So he went back home to seek approval. He came back, with initial approval, but he still had to ask “his real mom”. It turns out, the younger sister was his biological mother. Very cozy arrangement, wouldn’t you say?

By: Dexter

Dexter — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:26:41 +0000

Big Beaver Road? I-69? Exit 69?
I guess for me, who is more “in touch” with happenings in Michigan than what goes on in Ohio, where I live, and who drinks Vernor’s and shows where I live by pointing at the bottom of my hand , just below that last line, it’s not surprising that all humor associated with those names and road designations left me years ago. I watched I-69 being built and liked to sing “Get your kicks on Route 66
I’ll get mine on I-69.”
My fave Michigan oddity is the story of how Novi was named.
It’s so simple it’s a forehead slapper.
Number 6 stop on the Pony Express. No kidding.

By: sue

sue — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:01:08 +0000

The only thing I heard was that some carnival owner bought his car and displayed it as the deathmobile for awhile. I know his house was burned shortly after he was arrested - arson. In the 25 years I’ve lived in WI, I’ve never seen an ad for any Ed Gein displays. Yet everyone knows who he is. Apparently he died a few years back, with the reputation at the hospital where he lived as a sweet old guy. Huh.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:20:25 +0000

Hey Sue, maybe you can shed light on a rural myth for me.
I had a coworker from Manawa, and one time we talked about Ed Gein, and he told me when he was a kid the state fair had an exhibit on Ed, including a recreation of his house - if that’s true I’m so pissed I missed it!

By: basset

basset — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:24:04 +0000

some years ago I worked with a Bay Mills Chippewa from Detour Village, right at the eastern tip of the UP. Asked him once what they called the big lake, he said as far as anyone he knew was concerned it was Superior and he’d never heard of Gitchee-Gumee.

By: Jeff (the mild-mannered one)

Jeff (the mild-mannered one) — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:31:17 +0000

Ah, Wikipedia (insert standard qualification here). Under Lake Superior, wotcher lookin’ fer:

Shipwrecks

The last major shipwreck on Lake Superior was that of SS Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975.

According to an old sailor’s tale, Lake Superior never gives up her dead. This is because of the low temperature of the water, estimated at under 36 °F (2 °C) on average around 1970.[6] Normally bacteria feeding off a sunken decaying body will generate gas inside the body, causing it to float to the surface after a few days. The water in Lake Superior, however, is cold enough year-round to inhibit bacterial growth, meaning bodies tend to sink and never surface.[13] This is alluded to poetically in Gordon Lightfoot’s famous ballad, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”.

If you’re more geek than ghoul, then try: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limnology

By: Jeff (the mild-mannered one)

Jeff (the mild-mannered one) — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:27:02 +0000

Lake temp in ten feet of water, ten feet down, tends to be pretty stable — dunno, 39 doesn’t sound unlikely. The shallows by the shore fluctuate (see marine limnology for details), not only by air temp but sun angle, cloudiness, and wind direction.

Reading this, re: my comment on the previous thread — i don’t feel judgmental at all, just sad. For both of them . . . well, the three of them. Assuming Ms. Stabenow has a voting interest other than by status.

By: MichaelG

MichaelG — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:12:20 +0000

That was fifteen minutes portal to portal. No stand by time, no nuthin. He paid the fifteen minute rate and left a $50 dollar tip. Wonder if there is any possibility of them bonding.

What do you say to your wife? “Umm, honey…”

By: del

del — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:50:28 +0000

When we took a ferry off the Keewenaw peninsula into Lake Superior they told us that the water in the lake stays pretty much at 39 degrees year round. That can’t be right though can it? The bay we waded into was shallow and warmer than that.

>>But maybe now we know why Air America has such financial troubles. Poor management.

That’s what AM talk radio wants us to believe. The more obvious answer is that AM radio reaches Red State America as its signals travel farther. If you want to reach rural America advertise on Paul Harvey’s syndicated show. Blue state sympathizers are in urban areas where FM radio is dominant. So its a business model thing.

By: brian stouder

brian stouder — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:11:12 +0000

Superior would be the one you never messed with.

Say whatever you want to about Gordon Lightfoot, but all I think I know about ‘the big lake’, I learned from him!

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down

Of the big lake they called ‘Gitche Gumee’

The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead

When the skies of November turn gloomy