Minnesota
About Minnesota
Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the north and east and by the U.S. states of Wisconsin to the east, Iowa to the south, and North Dakota and South Dakota to the west. The northeast corner has a water boundary with Michigan. It is the 12th-largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd-most populous, with about 5.8 million residents. Minnesota is known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes"; it has 14,420 bodies of fresh water covering at least ten acres each. Roughly a third of the state is forested. Much of the remainder is prairie and farmland. More than 60% of Minnesotans live in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area, known as the "Twin Cities", which is Minnesota's main political, economic, and cultural hub and the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the U.S. Other minor metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas include Duluth, Mankato, Moorhead, Rochester, and St. Cloud.
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In 2007, smoking was banned in bars in Minnesota. There was a bar called Barnacles Bar, which found out it was losing a lot of custom on account of that, and it found a loophole in the law which said that smoking is banned in indoor places unless you are an actor in a play who's playing a character that smokes.
from No Such Thing As A Useless Condom, 2015-08-07 at 00:31:07 · read transcript
Other times Minnesota came up
Oh, yeah. That's a huge thing. On Wikipedia, there's one entry about the World's Largest Ball of Twine and this is what it says. It says, the world's largest ball of twine in Corka City was built as a response to the Minnesota town of Darwin's efforts to grab the title. That reads very much like someone from Corka City. Sir, is unhappy with Darwin. They usually, the ball of twine is it usually just one person really, isn't it?
160: No Such Thing As A Sausage Jacuzzi, 2017-04-13 · listen
On Wikipedia, there's one entry about the world's largest ball of twine. This is what it says. It says, the world's largest ball of twine in Corker City was built as a response to the Minnesota town of Darwin's efforts to grab the title. That reads very much like someone from Corka City is unhappy with Darwin. They're usually, the bowl of twine is it usually just one person really, isn't it?
No Such Thing As A Sausage Jacuzzi, 2017-04-13 · listen
It spread as well. It wasn't just in Boston. I read that 10 years later in Minnesota there was a curfew. and the police had motorized boats with spotlights, so they would be shining them around on the water, looking for lovers. Also, in 1930, in the following year, the Minneapolis Parks Board vetoed all the names. How these days you get a car license plates that are banned because they look like rude words.
No Such Thing As A Brie Sculpture, 2018-09-28 · listen
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Coordinates: 46.0000, -94.0000