Ahhh, Minnesota!

Ahhh, Minnesota!
I came, I thawed, I transferred!
Survive Minnesota and the rest of the World is easy.
If you love Minnesota, raise your right ski.
Minnesota -- where visitors turn blue with envy.
Save a Minnesotan. Eat a mosquito.
One day, it's warm; the rest of the year, it's cold.
Minnesota -- home of the blonde hair and blue ears.
Minnesota -- mosquito supplier to the free world.
Minnesota -- come fall in love with a loon.
Land of many cultures -- mostly throat.
Where the elite meet sleet.
Minnesota: Closed for glacier repairs.
Land of two seasons: Winter is coming and Winter is here.
Minnesota -- glove it or leave it.
Minnesota -- have you jump started your kid today?
There are only three things you can grow in Minnesota:
Colder, Older and Fatter.
Many are cold, but few are frozen.
Why Minnesota? To protect Manitoba from Iowa!
Warning: You are entering Minnesota. Please use an alternate route!
Minnesota: Theater of sneezes.
Jack Frost must like Minnesota, he spends half his life here.
Land of 10,000 Petersons.
Land of ski and home of the crazed.
Minnesota, home of the Mispi -
Mispp -Missipsp
(Where the river starts!)
10,000 lakes and no sharks!
Originally published December 17, 2002.