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Yep. A friend in grad school had a family cabin on Horseshoe Bay and introduced me to the rest. I still have a "Sven and Olle's" t-shirt around somewhere...

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One of 10,000 Minnesota lakes, you might point out.

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hahahaha get a grip, Carol!

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Are those real places?

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First they will over-run "Sven and Olle's" in Grand Marais. Next thing you know they'll be swarming the shores of Horseshoe Bay in Hovland. From there it's a short stroll along Highway 61 to Thunder Bay in Canuckistan, where only a stout line of taciturn Finns will stay the caravan from its appointed round to Sudbury. In the end, only Nain will remain.

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I'd say Muslim terrorists squatting in Minnesota is still a lot more likely than them lurking in the Mesoamerican failed states, if only because there's probably more Muslims in Michigan and Ontario than anywhere else in this hemisphere.

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Boy howdy, I get to actually say "well, actually . . . " Well, actually, Evan, winter in Minnesota begins along about late August. I should know. I was an actual Minnesotan. I really enjoyed the three weeks of summer we had when I was a kid. A neighbor lady kept her ice cream in her mail box. Some guy who helped my dad with a dead battery when it was about 600 below didn't have a coat on and didn't mind the cold. JFC, I sound like Garrison Keillor. Time to leave this post.

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Thanks, Sardonicus! Whew! I thought we were going to to through a whole Minnesota lake cabin thread without a Fargo reference!

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Hint: That is not Lake Superior. It's not even Lake Inferior. It's just another damm lake.

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George Soros is waiting down in Albert Lea with a trailer full of snowmobiles (or sleds, but NOT SNOW MACHINES MRS PALIN), four wheelers and snow throwers so these folks from tropical climes can get all the way down the snowed in private roads and driveways and then dig their way into the drifted-shut lake homes and proceed to freeze their asses off because the utilities are all turned off. They'd be much better off occupying the ice fishing shacks that have heat, TV and water, and they could eat walleye or whatever all winter.

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Actumally, 21,871 lakes if you count them down to 2.5 acres, which I do. And we have two spare bedrooms that I'm considering offering to any migrants that come up to Minnesota. No MI-13 moms or toddlers, please!

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The nicknames have to be both alliterative and refer to the issue at hand...Cottage Carol? Cabin Carol? I dunno.

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I like to sleep on the back porch during the summer. Does that count?

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I hope Carol finds a couple of taco trucks parked in the driveway next June.

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My DOG!!!1 The stupidity gets thicker every fucking day!!!11 What the fuck happened to my fucking country?????

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Carol's https://uploads.disquscdn.c... lake house is gonna be the new thunderdome.

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