Need tidbits about Anoka
AnnE
got some funny stories to tell about Anoka. Don't get personal now!!!
<g>
Thanks for any help you can give me. I'll pass them on to my FL friend.
AnnE
catpandaddy
"AnnE" <An...@spam.proof.com> wrote in message
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Hmm... Stories About Anoka.
A noka walks into a bar. Two other nokas follow him.
Aw, forget it.
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catpandaddy =^..^=
AnnE
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Thanks for trying but that ain'ta gonna do it. <g>
AnnE guess there isn't any one on here that knows
anything funny about Anoka
catpandaddy
>
> "catpandaddy" <c...@cat.pan.net> wrote in message
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>> "AnnE" <An...@spam.proof.com> wrote in message
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>>> for a guy in FL who is going to roast a guy from Anoka. Anybody here
>>> got some funny stories to tell about Anoka. Don't get personal now!!!
>>> <g>
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help you can give me. I'll pass them on to my FL friend.
>>>
>>> AnnE
>>>
>>
>> Hmm... Stories About Anoka.
>>
>> A noka walks into a bar. Two other nokas follow him.
>>
>> Aw, forget it.
>>
>> --
>> catpandaddy =^..^=
>
> Thanks for trying but that ain'ta gonna do it. <g>
Terribly sorry about that. Have you tried calling in for a trouble ticket?
I hear they get back to you eventually if you get a name and ticket number.
AnnE
Are you being sarcastic? I love Comcast trouble tickets, it gives me
strength and always a way to followup. What do you have against them?
And to keep on subject.......if you don't have any tidbits re: Anoka,
buzz off. <g>
AnnE
Alex B.,
The city of Anoka is the Halloween capital.
The county of Anoka is nothing special. :-)
GrampaHugs,
Alex,
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If there is a community center or someplace old people hang out up
there, you could probably stop in and get all sorts of stories. Not
so certain they would be funny, but you could give it a shot.
Sully
Sully
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AnnE
FL tho! <G>
AnnE
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AnnE
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You're being too sensible, fella. I want behind the scene stuff.
AnnE
AnnE
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I will do a lot for this friend in FL but I do draw the line somewhere.
;-)
We old people do have stories to tell tho.
AnnE You are being too practical--and not too smart
what with the cost of gas these days!
Mike O'Brien
first to volunteer for the Civil War. Part of the Minnesota First Regiment
(I believe) who although being heavily outnumbered saved the day at the
battle of Gettysburg. And you can tell your friend that the Yankees beat the
Rebels because of that!
During the 1980's when Anoka was the largest high school in Minnesota some
of their interior linemen were bigger than their counterparts at the
University of Minnesota.
As part of the Halloween city celebration guided tours are given by ghosts
who only return on Halloween.
Regards,
Mike O'Brien
life is full of choices; choices have consequences
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AnnE
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Thanks for this, Mike. I've forwarded it on to FL.
AnnE
Mike O'Brien
> Thanks for this, Mike. I've forwarded it on to FL.
you're welcome!
Doc O'Leary
"AnnE" <An...@spam.proof.com> wrote:
> You're being too sensible, fella. I want behind the scene stuff.
Just make stuff up; who in FL is going to know? Besides, the whole
point of a roast is to humorously insult someone, not to historically
inform them.
Anoka has an interesting naming story. When one early settler was too
weak to keep moving West, he begged the group to stop and start their
city right there. Everyone else responded clearly: Ah, NO, 'kay? The
feeble descendants of that man burden us to this very day.
People in Anoka like to boast that they have the lowest STD rate in the
entire state of Minnesota. If they could, the livestock in Anoka would
tell the other side of the story.
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AnnE
"Doc O'Leary" <drolear...@3q2008.subsume.com> wrote in message
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> In article <efSdnWInEYPNUeLV...@comcast.com>,
> "AnnE" <An...@spam.proof.com> wrote:
>
>> You're being too sensible, fella. I want behind the scene stuff.
>
> Just make stuff up; who in FL is going to know? Besides, the whole
> point of a roast is to humorously insult someone, not to historically
> inform them.
>
> Anoka has an interesting naming story. When one early settler was too
> weak to keep moving West, he begged the group to stop and start their
> city right there. Everyone else responded clearly: Ah, NO, 'kay? The
> feeble descendants of that man burden us to this very day.
>
> People in Anoka like to boast that they have the lowest STD rate in
> the
> entire state of Minnesota. If they could, the livestock in Anoka
> would
> tell the other side of the story.
Oh, Doc!!! I have forwarded this post on to FL. He will do
whatever he pleases with that info you so "elegantly" passed on. lol
AnnE
catpandaddy
>>>
>>> AnnE guess there isn't any one on here that knows
>>> anything funny about Anoka
>>>
>> Sully
>>
> FL tho! <G>
>
> AnnE
He can tune into the programming though, if he streams the broadcast from
the radio station's website; also, where available, previously aired
programming is sometimes kept in the form of mp3 files on their webpages.
(order of messages fixed after two top-posts in a row made it impossible for
me to follow.)
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Michael Stemper
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>> "Sully" <msu...@tcq.net> wrote in message news:g5oft...@enews2.newsguy.com...
>>> "AnnE" <An...@spam.proof.com> wrote in message news:gfKdnVF88pRy8-PV...@comcast.com...
>>>> AnnE guess there isn't any one on here that knows
>>>> anything funny about Anoka
>>>>
>>> Well, Garrison Keillor is from Anoka. How's that for humor?
>>>
>> Yep, I think I told him that. Not sure he can get that radio station in
>> FL tho! <G>
>
>He can tune into the programming though, if he streams the broadcast from
>the radio station's website;
I'd be willing to bet that even Florida has public radio stations. PHC is
broadcast all over the world these days.
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mste...@walkabout.empros.com (Michael Stemper) wrote:
> In article <qumdneC6Z_Xaex3V...@comcast.com>, "catpandaddy"
> <c...@cat.pan.net> writes:
> >"AnnE" <An...@spam.proof.com> wrote in message
> >> Yep, I think I told him that. Not sure he can get that radio station in
> >> FL tho! <G>
> >
> >He can tune into the programming though, if he streams the broadcast from
> >the radio station's website;
>
> I'd be willing to bet that even Florida has public radio stations. PHC is
> broadcast all over the world these days.
It's also available online: http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/
My all-time favorite is Molly Ivins in the second segment here:
http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/2006/06/10/
She's got a couple hilarious stories.
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TheZombie
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An Anokan listens to Garrison Keillor on the radio, maybe went to
school with him but has never stayed awake long enough to finish any
book he has written.
If you are twelve years old in Anoka, you will love the free swimming
lessons..... and exploring the underground drain sewers... in July
...and playing tennis on some of the best asphalt courts in the state,
or...canoeing from Princeton to Anoka on the Rum River, or catching
small mouth bass in the Mississippi north of Champlin, or catching
walleye at night at the Champlin- Two Rivers Boat Club landing, or
entering the annual carp fishing contest below the Anoka dam in
August,
If your name is Weaver, you can automatically get elected in Anoka
If you are a Republican teacher and join the Republican Party, you
can automatically get a teaching job in the Anoka-Hennepin district.
If you work for Federal Cartridge in Anoka, you have an almost
unlimited supply of 22 caliber "seconds"...at your disposal for
shooting beer cans.
Most Anokans know first hand what a tornado is. Old Anokans played
"war" in the wreckage of the US Army Reserve building destroyed by a
tornado in 1939.
Real Anokans learn to play poker in the Greenhaven Golf clubhouse.
Once upon a time the "new" Anoka dam was renowned as only one of three
in the world that were flawed so that they vibrated like a bass
guitar string when water rushed over them. ,,,making the whole
downtown "shake".
The last local, renowned Anoka whorehouse disappeared in about
1977...Sadly, the Frank Lloyd Wright designed home on Ferry St
disappeared for a non-descript apartment development for seniors.
Because of it's infamous occupant(s), the Anoka Historical Society
was unable to buy the place and restore it, although it was an
architectural masterpiece.
Anoka tore down two other world class architectural structures,,, the
"original" stone library at 3rd and Jackson and the "original"
stone county courthouse...across 3rd Avenue, east of the libary. No
one has taken responsibility for that huge error in judgment.
Hastings and Red Wing and Aitkin and some other communities were much
wiser.
The real stories in Anoka are like many small towns and only partly
illuminated in books like Peyton Place and Twin Peaks. Such books do
not come close to enumerating the very pervasive extramarital sex
and debauchery, and swingers parties. .. in the old rivertowns, that
still goes on today. Like New Orleans... you can hear in Minnesota's
rivertowns, comments like."....(let's face it, we are a hedonistic
community).."....and the Right Wing zealots and religious are the
biggest participants in the debauchery. The hypocrisy never ends.
Mike O'Brien
author of the first 12 paragraphs which I was not. Today I am thankful that
I am not you
Regards,
Mike O'Brien
life is full of choices. choices have consequences
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