LCB001 from Canada, and JGarcia from Portugal, are you reading this thread?
Or are you just resting like migrant birds?
Or do you wait for me to talk?
Well, I do talk, cannot help it.
But I'm not sure why you don't. Why?

JGarcia comes from Portugal as Falconet who was here earlier.
From the land of great football players.
One of the best matches I ever saw was some European tournament game,
where FC Oporto beat the other team (which never made enough of an impression to be remembered),
but the memorable thing was that each and every player played like an artist that evening. Never seen it repeated.
In which part of Portugal do you live?

LCB001, Canada is a big country.
You crunch with "Hardware Canucks". Gotta love that word. Canucks.
I would like to be able to talk with you about hockey - ice hockey - which I believe is your #1 sport,
but I' m afraid I'm rather lost.
Have never been able to spot the itty-bitty "puck" they play with. I admire the way they skate and push, though. Do you like hockey?
Which province do you come from, LCB001?

I have looked at this thread a number of times and enjoyed reading it. Yes it is true many Swedes, Norwegians and Finns settled here in Minnesota. However to my surprise the biggest group from Europe were the Germans. The area around St. Cloud is still very heavily of German origin, but it is slowly changing. In Stearns County, where St. Cloud is the county seat, quite a number of people grew up speaking German as their first language rather than English. St. Cloud is named after the suburb of Paris, France - St. Cloud who was, I believe, a bishop there long ago. St. Cloud is known as the Granite City because of the large number of granite quarries in the area. In fact I live next to an abandoned quarry. Stearns county is the largest dairy county in the State of Minnesota with twice as much milk and butter produced as the next county in line. Cold winters yes and short hot summers.

Thanks for starting the thread.

Cheers

Sgt. Joe, thank you very much for your kind words. You have taken time out to educate me on the origins of Minnesota's population. Hardy and hardworking folks, they were. I think the Danes kind of wandered a little further to the Dakotas. (Lloyd Bentsen's dad started out in a sod cabin there, remember?).

I have never been to Minnesota - just passing on an Amtrak, and I'm afraid it was by night.

Dairy, that's Denmark. Wisconsin is, I think to some degree impacted by Danish dairymen. Funny, how the immigrants tend to have sought out climates and sceneries similar to what they left. Have been reading your team thread some tonight. You are a bunch of very smart guys. I notice you have a Finn on board (I know a lot of Finns settled Michigan's Upper Peninsula - birch trees and ice cold weather). Ultima Thule is probably aware of Snackbar Finland in the DCZone where they talk his impossible (just joking, but you cann't learn it!) mother tongue.

Once again, thank you for supporting my intensions. When you are about to give up, a tailwind like your words helps a lot.

GeraldRube, you need something fixed in your siggy between a rattler and a biting Fox.

Do you keep a broke pet ant?