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08-30-2011, 10:15 AM

#51

Kellie G

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Join Date: Nov 2008

Location: Northern Michigan

Posts: 1,672

Welcome from another Michigan "troll" quilter!!! You will love it here.

08-30-2011, 10:24 AM

#52

Abby'smom

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Join Date: Oct 2010

Location: Oak Ridge North, TX

Posts: 7,172

welcome from se TX

08-30-2011, 11:02 AM

#53

anniesews

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Join Date: Apr 2010

Location: Middle of Michigan

Posts: 1,401

Welcome from CMU territory. The kids are back and so one better try driving after 10:00 in the morning on the main streets.
Annie

08-30-2011, 11:15 AM

#54

Patchworkmarion

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Join Date: Oct 2010

Location: Ipswich, Queensland, Australia

Posts: 1,741

G'day from Australia

08-30-2011, 11:19 AM

#55

mayme

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Join Date: Jul 2010

Location: West Michigan

Posts: 220

Welcome from West Michigan

08-30-2011, 12:16 PM

#56

Janis

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Join Date: Aug 2009

Location: Martinsville, Indiana

Posts: 1,430

OK, I bite. I can see that a Yooper would be one from the UP as we called it in the old days when I lived in Mich. Ya, that was how it was abbreviated in the old days when I lived in the state. But where did the troll come from? Does it mean LP?
Welcome from IN.

08-30-2011, 12:58 PM

#57

WMUTeach

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Join Date: Dec 2010

Location: Portage, Michigan

Posts: 9,521

Tee- Hee!:-D
Trolls live under the bridge! (Remember "Three Billy Goats Gruff"?)

So, if you are south of the bridge you are a troll. North of the bridge a yooper.

08-30-2011, 01:24 PM

#58

Janis

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Join Date: Aug 2009

Location: Martinsville, Indiana

Posts: 1,430

Now I get it!!! (dumb me!!!) I wasn't thinking of the bridge. I'm old enough to remember when it was being built!! I still use my hand to tell people where I used to live in MI. Now it's down the wrist a bit (IN). I guess that I'm a Hoosier now, but there's not just one good answer to how the people in IN got that name, just a lot of different ones.