Posted on 02/08/2008 6:46:37 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
On a balmy, 28-degree day on the Canadian border, the bigwigs of International Falls gathered Friday to celebrate at the Elks Lodge. Earlier this week, the city attorney opened an envelope containing Reg. No. 3,375,139 from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Despite legal challenges from tiny Fraser, Colo., the document confirmed that International Falls is legally, rightfully and officially the Icebox of the Nation.
“I ran over to the attorney’s office and kissed the certificate,” International Falls Mayor Shawn Mason said Friday afternoon, when reached on her cell phone at the Elks Lodge. “Fraser’s actions had sent a chill down my spine.”
From an adjacent bar stool, City Administrator Rod Otterness said: “We’re celebrating first because we’re just thrilled the title has been confirmed. We’ll wait until next week to notify them of their copyright infringement. If Fraser wants to call itself the Icebox of Colorado, we have no problem.”
Out in Fraser, a ski-area town of 1,000 people 70 miles northwest of Denver, both a city welcome sign and the city’s web site call itself the Icebox of the Nation.
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I thought was declared the coldest spot in the nation years ago.....
Global warming, eh Al? Go take a trip to Minnesooooota.
28 degrees, presently, in the Twin Towns.
Minus 2 for the morning wake up.....
And then it’s supposed to get REAL cold.....
Where's Al Goreleone and the other disciples of global warming?
It was a tough weekend, all around....
Remember, it’s “Global Climate Change”. It causes BOTH warming AND cooling. And it is caused by Chevy Suburbans and cheap light bulbs.
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