| Yoopanese |
| babysitt - dat stuff in babys diapers. big mac - da mackinac bridge. bush call - road side or rest area. chiquito - a large bloodsucking insect: cross between a mosquito and a chicken. chiquito repellent - twelve-gauge shotgun. cow - what Yoopers write on their livestock so that city slickers don't mistake dem for deer. deer track stew - a favorite meal of unseccessful deer hunters. digger - a flying dive, usually landing on ones face. head troll - governor granholm. highway - any road without a grass strip in da middle. junker - yooper lawn ornament. mud - camp coffee. nine-o-six (906) - God's area code. no hunting sign - shoot this sign. no trespassing - hunting and fishing are great here. one-holer - private restroom. partly cloudy - six foot snow drifts. pasty - yooper soul food. ralph - small community in da U.P., or toss your cookies. rest stop - public bathroom by da highway, rare in Yooperland. shining - violating. sitt - manure. snotrag - in winter a mitten, in summer a shirt sleeve. stump bear - a bear that closely resembles a large burned out stump. Usually seen by trolls. stump jumper - a bush buggy or a yooper who works in a woods. summer - the warm season in Yooperland, the last one happened in 1990. tinking - yooper mental process. Usually done with the aid of pasties and coffee. tot - past tense to tink. two-holer - public restroom. yogi - a controlled 360 degree skid on icy roads. |