Mankato, Minn., laughs its way to No. 1

Hallmark Press Room ^ | 8-2-04 | hallmark

[Rakkasan1]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Aug. 2, 2004) — Which American city had the greatest guffaws or the choicest chuckles? Research commissioned by Shoebox, Hallmark’s irreverent greeting card line, set out to find the hotbeds of humor in America. And coming in at No. 1 … Mankato, Minn. Seriously.

[Rakkasan1]

Three factors make up this ranking: this is # 3 • The average sales of Shoebox cards in their communities known as the "Humor Transmitter Score”) ....about as fair and balanced as the Boston Globe and NY Times!

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

The only thing I know about Mankato, MN is that it is the site of the largest mass hanging in American history. In 1862 the federal government hung 38 Sioux Indians, all at the same time from a huge gallows.

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/dakota/dakota.html

[Rakkasan1]

Lincoln's response to the Sioux Uprising.

[headsonpikes]

I believe that Mankato was the scene of a big James Gang bank robbery that went sideways.

[Taxachusan]

It was also near to Walnut Grove on 'Little House on the Prairie' :-).

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

"I believe that Mankato was the scene of a big James Gang bank robbery that went sideways."

Nope, that was Northfield MN where the citizens damn near wiped out the James and Younger's gang.

[headsonpikes]

Thanks.

My Alberta rancher grandfather was neighbours with a skedaddled Coffey branch back before WWI.