NY Times continues its MN obsession
May 1 2008 — 2:00am
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Two words. PR Stunt.
taulpaul
Mar 18 2010 - 1:10 am →
This thread has come a long way from genital licking.<i>oh, and maz (and kwatt).. it’s mnblrmkr. Not marklar.</i>You really want to be ...
kwatt
Mar 17 2010 - 9:21 pm →
Yeah, I don't think things have changed much since Maz wore the dolphins. But maybe standards were different in the Navy? The US Army is relaxing i...
noodleman
Mar 17 2010 - 9:14 pm →
Actually, my experience was the opposite. Very few athletes in HS were interested in military service. The few people that were interes...
mnblrmkr
Mar 17 2010 - 8:57 pm →
"75% of military age Americans would fail that physical." That means that 25% of the military age kids would pass the physical. That's ...
Not to turn my personal experience into anything wider: but I fail to understand the logic of those who say people are choosing bottled water OVER ...
Jason DeRusha
Mar 17 2010 - 8:03 pm →
" A recruit has to undergo a physical before he even gets on the train to go to boot camp"And that is my point. 75% of military age Americans ...
mnblrmkr
Mar 17 2010 - 7:05 pm →
When I enlisted, I wanted to be a SEAL. So I ran wind sprints, jogged for 3-4 miles and lifted weights every day for weeks before I reported ...
"for boot camp: you still need recruits arriving within an acceptable range of fitness. someone 200 pounds overweight isn’t going to be abel to ach...
Have you always been a dick, or were you just born that way, rat?
mnblrmkr
Mar 17 2010 - 6:52 pm →
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2:24 pm
NYT + MPLS
4EVA
2:25 pm
I miss that large warehouse-style liquor store. Sigh.
2:25 pm
OMGWTFNYTMSP.
2:37 pm
“OMGWTFNYTMSP.“
It took me an embarrassingly long time to get that.
2:49 pm
Joyride: Isn’t the Liquor Depot kinda sorta back as Sorella Wines or something like that? Smaller, but I think still owned by the same family.
Definitely not the same LD flair.
2:50 pm
And no omnipresent cop looking for kids from the U with fake IDs.
3:05 pm
I fondly remember buying a large box full of mix&matched Mad Dog bottles from the Liquor Depot. Later in the day I heard a friend exclaim “Peach?! I didn’t know there was Peach!”
Good days…
3:08 pm
Mad Dog.
Oh God, I just had a bad flashback to my rugby playing days.
3:19 pm
Mad Dog, Bixby? Which team were you on? There aren’t a whole lot of rugby clubs that down malt liquor…
3:20 pm
It was on my college team.
3:29 pm
Ah, ok. I played for the U and then for the Banshees. Beer and Jameson tended to be the order of the day.
3:47 pm
I really liked the sidebar ad for the beautiful new condo on Riverside and 64th. That’s like Richfield, isn’t it?
7:55 pm
i was just saying the nyt had an obsession w/ minnesota, and there it is AGAIN.
i don’t get why that is…
8:09 pm
i don’t get why that is…
Either millions of New Yorkers are considering a sudden migration West or it’s the fact Minnesota kicks serious ass.
11:19 am
The NYT is stalking us.