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To: TexasCajun
Your Yooper map is bit out of scale. Actually the Lower peninsula is twice the size of the Upper - not the other way around.

The Upper Peninsula contains almost one-third of the land area of Michigan but just 3% of the total population. Residents are frequently called Yoopers (derived from "U.P.-ers"), and have a strong regional identity. It includes the only counties in the United States where a plurality of residents state their ancestry as Finnish.

The Upper Peninsula IS beautiful, with over 100 waterfalls and the fabulous Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. Not to mention Cornish Pasties and the wildberry jams made by a monastery on the Keneenaw Peninsula.

83 posted on 06/18/2007 8:59:34 AM PDT by Tokra (I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
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To: Tokra
Cornish Pasties

Really?

Is this a big business?

85 posted on 06/18/2007 9:04:04 AM PDT by Osage Orange (Ever feel like chewed twine?)
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To: Tokra
Your Yooper map is bit out of scale. Actually the Lower peninsula is twice the size of the Upper - not the other way around.

Global Warming? :)

89 posted on 06/18/2007 9:22:00 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Tokra

I think it’s out of scale because it was made by a Yooper.


94 posted on 06/18/2007 10:40:07 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Duncan Hunter 2008 (or Fred Thompson if he ever makes up his mind))
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