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XVP - Michigan (was "Advice from the group")

#1

Tackling three recent comments about my home state:

ryasuda writes:

Your best bet I think is to move to Michigan. I think they offer
10 cents per pop can redemption. As long as you can collect 80 cans
per hour, you're likely to come out ahead.

Absolutely correct, it's a 10-cent deposit here. There was a cottage
industry about 25 years ago of people bringing in cans from neighboring states and
turning them in, it worked fairly well until someone figured out how to make
the UPC codes tell the difference.

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worksforthemoney writes:

Michigan has NO jobs and you can't deduct gambling losses from taxes!

You got that right on both counts. This state is circling the drain.

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mickeycrimm writes:

This goes back to the early nineties. Michigan had one of the best
football teams in the land. Colorado had a pretty good football team
too. I was sitting in a bar in Mount Pleasant, Michigan watching
Michigan play Colorado. It was late in the season and Michigan was
undefeated. The Michigan fans were rabid. Absolutely rabid. The game
was pretty close but Michigan had Colorado nutted. But the Colorado
boys threw up a hail mary pass on the last play and won the game.
<snip>
I think I was right about you Michiganers. My assessment of you was
correct. You boys are some pretty sore losers.

A correction, Mickey - U of Mich football fans are sore losers. I grew up
in Ann Arbor, two miles from the stadium, got to experience being a "local"
through the Bo Schembechler days and beyond. And still HATE Michigan football
- the only team I ever root for is the one playing them. I remember that
game well as I was sitting in a bar in Ann Arbor and almost got my a** kicked
for expressing my joy a little too vehemently after that last game-winning
pass.

Michigan football's arrogant fans seem to think that the whole world should
stop because there's a G.D. football game to be played. The cops will close
freeway exits & turn major roads into 5-lane one-way streets. Can't get into
your favorite restaurant or watering hole. And God forbid you should
accidentally go out in public wearing the wrong color on game day.
One of my favorite little pleasures is the local newspaper on a Sunday
morning after Michigan loses a football game. You would think somebody murdered
their mothers.
Better than the comics section.

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#2

Marksalot300 wrote:

Michigan football's arrogant fans seem to think that the whole world
should stop because there's a G.D. football game to be played ...
One of my favorite little pleasures is the local newspaper on a
Sunday morning after Michigan loses a football game. You would
think somebody murdered their mothers.
Better than the comics section.

I recommend you not consider a sleep over in our home on game day. A
loss means stepping on egg shells Sunday am.

(Bev's an alumna ... well, technically not; I enticed her to Penn when
she was a Jr. But home is definitely where the heart is -- with a
vengeance. She's taken a particularly sadistic pleasure ever since
Penn State joined the Big 10.)

- H.

#3

(snip)

MI is great. Was also the best place in the world for VP in 98-99
(about the time I switched over from tables). Detroit is a great
sports town, and you gotta love a blue collar town where topless
dancing and professional wrestling are respected professions. Best
people, too.

The gambling there now sucks, there's still a play or two, but nothing
spectacular, and going to Windsor is becoming a bigger and bigger
hassle due to our faux War on Terror.

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Tackling three recent comments about my home state:

#4

A correction, Mickey - U of Mich football fans are sore losers. I

grew up

in Ann Arbor, two miles from the stadium, got to experience being

a "local"

through the Bo Schembechler days and beyond. And still HATE

Michigan football

- the only team I ever root for is the one playing them. I

remember that

game well as I was sitting in a bar in Ann Arbor and almost got my

a** kicked

for expressing my joy a little too vehemently after that last game-

winning

pass.

Michigan football's arrogant fans seem to think that the whole

world should

stop because there's a G.D. football game to be played. The cops

will close

freeway exits & turn major roads into 5-lane one-way streets.

Can't get into

your favorite restaurant or watering hole. And God forbid you

should

accidentally go out in public wearing the wrong color on game day.
One of my favorite little pleasures is the local newspaper on a

Sunday

morning after Michigan loses a football game. You would think

somebody murdered

their mothers.
Better than the comics section.

ROFLMAO!!!

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#5

I recommend you not consider a sleep over in our home on game day. A
loss means stepping on egg shells Sunday am.

(Bev's an alumna ... well, technically not; I enticed her to Penn

when

she was a Jr. But home is definitely where the heart is -- with a
vengeance. She's taken a particularly sadistic pleasure ever since
Penn State joined the Big 10.)

- H.

My son is currently a student a Ohio State. He shares
the following bit of wisdom about Michigan. How do you
get a Michigan alum off your porch? Pay her for the pizza
and she'll leave on her own. :slight_smile:

#6

worldbefree22001 wrote:

My son is currently a student a Ohio State. He shares
the following bit of wisdom about Michigan. How do you
get a Michigan alum off your porch? Pay her for the pizza
and she'll leave on her own. :slight_smile:

Ok ... for every such joke, I guarantee we've heard a Buckeye slotted
in instead :wink:

You know, Michigan football Saturdays are a little sacred in this
household. It was gut wrenching to hear of Carr leaving Michigan,
notwithstanding the dour record against Ohio since Tressel turned the
Buckeye program around in '01.

The following has been among Bev and my favorites:

Jim Tressel and Lloyd Carr are walking down the beach talking about
the rivalry between Ohio State and Michigan. As they walk, Lloyd trips
over something in the sand. Upon closer inspection it turns out to be
a genie's lamp.

"Who disturbs me?" asked the genie.
Jim and Lloyd both say they did.
"You will each get one wish," said the genie.

Jim offers to go first: "I want an impenetrable wall built around the
entire state of Ohio so that none of those stupid Michiganders can
ever get in. I want it as far down into the ground as it is high and I
want it to be completely sealed in so that we can finally have our
peace!"

The genie grants the wish to Jim and he's instantly whisked away to
his new paradise.

The genie now tells Lloyd he'll grant him one wish. Lloyd says, "Fill
it with water."

- H.

#7

Michigan is still a beautiful state to visit:)

Marksalot300@aol.com wrote: Tackling three recent comments about my home state:
  
ryasuda writes:

Your best bet I think is to move to Michigan. I think they offer
10 cents per pop can redemption. As long as you can collect 80 cans
per hour, you're likely to come out ahead.
  
Absolutely correct, it's a 10-cent deposit here. There was a cottage
industry about 25 years ago of people bringing in cans from neighboring states and
turning them in, it worked fairly well until someone figured out how to make
the UPC codes tell the difference.

···

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worksforthemoney writes:
  
Michigan has NO jobs and you can't deduct gambling losses from taxes!
  
You got that right on both counts. This state is circling the drain.

______________________________________________________
  
mickeycrimm writes:
  
This goes back to the early nineties. Michigan had one of the best
football teams in the land. Colorado had a pretty good football team
too. I was sitting in a bar in Mount Pleasant, Michigan watching
Michigan play Colorado. It was late in the season and Michigan was
undefeated. The Michigan fans were rabid. Absolutely rabid. The game
was pretty close but Michigan had Colorado nutted. But the Colorado
boys threw up a hail mary pass on the last play and won the game.
<snip>
I think I was right about you Michiganers. My assessment of you was
correct. You boys are some pretty sore losers.
  
A correction, Mickey - U of Mich football fans are sore losers. I grew up
in Ann Arbor, two miles from the stadium, got to experience being a "local"
through the Bo Schembechler days and beyond. And still HATE Michigan football
- the only team I ever root for is the one playing them. I remember that
game well as I was sitting in a bar in Ann Arbor and almost got my a** kicked
for expressing my joy a little too vehemently after that last game-winning
pass.

Michigan football's arrogant fans seem to think that the whole world should
stop because there's a G.D. football game to be played. The cops will close
freeway exits & turn major roads into 5-lane one-way streets. Can't get into
your favorite restaurant or watering hole. And God forbid you should
accidentally go out in public wearing the wrong color on game day.
One of my favorite little pleasures is the local newspaper on a Sunday
morning after Michigan loses a football game. You would think somebody murdered
their mothers.
Better than the comics section.

**************Need a new ride? Check out the largest site for U.S. used car
listings at AOL Autos.
(http://autos.aol.com/used?NCID=aolcmp00300000002851)

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