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lydamorehouse Yesterday, when I was out driving around, I came across our neighborhood gang of wild turkeys. I sent a video to rachelmanija who failed to be suitably impressed with Minnesota's mega fauna (because APPARENTLY California *has* wild turkeys, because California has everything as it is nearly the length of the entire United States and has like a zillion biomes in it,) I started to think, okay, does Minnesota have something that is so truly unique that a jaded, world-traveling Californian* would be impressed?
Do you know what I found?
The grey tree frog, whose salient feature is that it can survive being PARTIALLY FROZEN.
OMG, Minnesota. You're a walking stereotype!!
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*I don't actually think of Rachel this way, I was just very grumpy that Minnesota doesn't appear to be as inherently (and easily photographed) unique the way that California certainly seems to be.
rachelmanija who failed to be suitably impressed with Minnesota's mega fauna (because APPARENTLY California *has* wild turkeys, because California has everything as it is nearly the length of the entire United States and has like a zillion biomes in it,) I started to think, okay, does Minnesota have something that is so truly unique that a jaded, world-traveling Californian* would be impressed? Do you know what I found?
The grey tree frog, whose salient feature is that it can survive being PARTIALLY FROZEN.
OMG, Minnesota. You're a walking stereotype!!
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*I don't actually think of Rachel this way, I was just very grumpy that Minnesota doesn't appear to be as inherently (and easily photographed) unique the way that California certainly seems to be.
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Date: 2019-11-21 05:05 pm (UTC)If your main concern is competing with your California friend (and what Minnesotan does not suffer from that urge) - what about moose? They aren't unique to Minnesota, but I don't think they live in California. And wild rice, if you're not restricting this event just to biological forms that can walk around and obstruct traffic.
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Date: 2019-11-21 05:08 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2019-11-21 05:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-11-21 05:24 pm (UTC)Hahaha. True but I am very impressed by snow.
The grey tree frog, whose salient feature is that it can survive being PARTIALLY FROZEN.
What the actual fuck.
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Date: 2019-11-21 05:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-11-21 05:30 pm (UTC)a different fowl
Date: 2019-11-22 01:29 am (UTC)Re: a different fowl
Date: 2019-11-22 07:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-11-22 05:00 am (UTC)Personally, I like to tell people the [true] story of learning to drive on Spring Park Bay, Lake Minnetonka, in the depths of winter, in the boyfriend's '66 Charger. You want to learn to do a burnout? A few hundred acres of ice and muscle car is a nice place to start. We may not be unique in pizza delivery to ice (fishing) houses, but California doesn't have that, either.
I used to have a pinback that read, "We don't care how they do it in New York." The sentiment is broadly applicable.
K.