Since everybody at the station gives me a hard time for being from MINNESOTA and being a VIKINGS fan...I decided to throw a little self-depricating humor your way about my great home state of Minnesota:

MINNESOTA BECAME THE 32ND STATE ON MAY 11, 1858 AND WAS ORIGINALLY SETTLED BY A LOST TRIBE OF NORWEGIANS SEEKING REFUGE FROM THE SEARING HEAT OF WISCONSIN'S WINTERS.

MINNESOTA GETS IT'S NAME FROM THE SIOUX INDIAN WORD "MAH-NEE-SOO-TAH", MEANING "NO, REALLY... THEY EAT FISH SOAKED IN LYE".

THE MALL OF AMERICA IN  BLOOMINGTON, MINNESOTA COVERS 9.5 MILLION SQUARE FEET AND HAS ENOUGH SPACE TO HOLD 185,000 IDIOT TEENAGERS YAPPING AWAY ON CELL PHONES.

CARTOONIST CHARLES M. SHULTZ WAS BORN IN MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA AND GREW  UP IN ST. PAUL. HE WAS THE ONLY ARTIST TO ACCURATELY DEPICT THE PERFECTLY CIRCULAR HEADS OF  MINNESOTA NATIVES.

THE FIRST FULLY AUTOMATIC POP-UP TOASTER WAS INVENTED IN  MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA IN 1926.  MINNESOTA'S STRINGENT BREAD - CONTROL LAWS CURRENTLY ONLY ALLOW RESIDENTS TO OWN -- SEMI-AUTOMATIC TOASTERS.

WATER SKIS WERE INVENTED IN 1922 IN  LAKE CITY,  MINNESOTA BY RALPH SAMUELSON.  SADLY, HE DROWNED SHORTLY AFTERWARDS, AS THE MOTORBOAT HADN'T BEEN INVENTED YET.

THE STAPLER WAS INVENTED IN SWINGLINE, MINNESOTA BY A CHUBBY, MUMBLING MAN NAMED  MILTON IN 1899. THE CITY WAS MYSTERIOUSLY DESTROYED BY FIRE LATER THAT YEAR.

and finally...for all you Packers fans:

THE STATE SONG OF MINNESOTA IS "SOMEDAY THE VIKINGS WILL... AW, NEVER MIND".