After reading this post last night, I happened to talk to my friend Curt, in the Twin Cities area. Hearing him say “Yeah” almost made me crack up a few times. Another source of weird Minnesotanism is Little House on the Prairie, especially when they have some particularly stereotypic Scandanavian person on there. I can give you my take on Little House and Minnesota in person, because I don’t want to offend anyone with my commentary.
Eden Prairie!! I have lots of friends out in the EP!! Or at least they come from EP. (Also, you wrote “outside Minnesota”, where you mean “outside Minneapolis”.)
I loved your description of Jerry/the guy sitting next to you. You find so many of these guys out there, and it is infuriating/hilarious.
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