there are 2 schools of thought on what makes a yooper. Born, or moved to. I'm of the born there variety. Just moving to Japan does not make someone Japanese, moving to Australia doesn't make someone an Aussie, and I'm one of many that believe that moving to the Yoop doesn't make someone a Yooper. When you're born, you get lucky, or not. Maybe your parents turn out to be rich enough to take you on vacations and pay for your college and marriage. Maybe you're born with great health, strength, intelligence, and terrific looks. Maybe even a great memory, and the ability to remember things really well. Or, you're born where you'll learn languages, fly planes, or other cool stuff. Well, most people won't get anything like that. Only two kids got Steve Irwin for a dad. So, some people are born in the yoop, and grow up killing mosquitos, drinking from any water that isn't in a mudpuddle, never locking anything, smelting, using a Zebco 404, a Skidoo, conibars, bearpaws, buzzrigs, and a jack knife. Using the phone to anywhere outside town was long distance, school was a 3 part system that had a school building in three different towns to get kids from k to graduation. Wood meant getting into the forest, cutting downed trees, hauling it home in a truck, splitting and stacking it to dry, and bringing it into the basement with a weekly repetition to keep the furnace going, from Sept to April. Someday I'll be able to get back, and see the trees, smell the leaves, hear the wind, eat some real pasty again, and visit with classmates from school who didn't move away for work. And get more cinnamon rolls from the Hilltop. Then I plan on holding the Yooperlympics to have a new cool event on the annual, where snowshoe races, trap setting, fishing lure cast target accuracy, pasty judging, fish cleaning, knife sharpening, wood splitting, jam and jelly tasting, and a bunch of other fun stuff will take up Memorial Day weekend's Friday and Saturday. How about yourself? born, transplanted, or just familiar with yoopers?
Not Canadians. And the northern Minnesotans, etc are above the bridge too... the troll is usually a southern Michigan term though. It's only a way of describing Michigan people, those above, or below, the Mighty Mack
great cat names, and yes, you've got it right. Only the people born in an area are real locals, everyone else is a tourist, transplant, or in the case of Michigan, a troll
Yooper or ex-Yooper?
ReplyDeletethere are 2 schools of thought on what makes a yooper. Born, or moved to. I'm of the born there variety. Just moving to Japan does not make someone Japanese, moving to Australia doesn't make someone an Aussie, and I'm one of many that believe that moving to the Yoop doesn't make someone a Yooper. When you're born, you get lucky, or not.
DeleteMaybe your parents turn out to be rich enough to take you on vacations and pay for your college and marriage.
Maybe you're born with great health, strength, intelligence, and terrific looks. Maybe even a great memory, and the ability to remember things really well.
Or, you're born where you'll learn languages, fly planes, or other cool stuff.
Well, most people won't get anything like that. Only two kids got Steve Irwin for a dad. So, some people are born in the yoop, and grow up killing mosquitos, drinking from any water that isn't in a mudpuddle, never locking anything, smelting, using a Zebco 404, a Skidoo, conibars, bearpaws, buzzrigs, and a jack knife.
Using the phone to anywhere outside town was long distance, school was a 3 part system that had a school building in three different towns to get kids from k to graduation.
Wood meant getting into the forest, cutting downed trees, hauling it home in a truck, splitting and stacking it to dry, and bringing it into the basement with a weekly repetition to keep the furnace going, from Sept to April.
Someday I'll be able to get back, and see the trees, smell the leaves, hear the wind, eat some real pasty again, and visit with classmates from school who didn't move away for work.
And get more cinnamon rolls from the Hilltop.
Then I plan on holding the Yooperlympics to have a new cool event on the annual, where snowshoe races, trap setting, fishing lure cast target accuracy, pasty judging, fish cleaning, knife sharpening, wood splitting, jam and jelly tasting, and a bunch of other fun stuff will take up Memorial Day weekend's Friday and Saturday.
How about yourself?
born, transplanted, or just familiar with yoopers?
I would assume from a Yooper's perspective, anyone can be a Troll?
ReplyDeleteNot Canadians. And the northern Minnesotans, etc are above the bridge too... the troll is usually a southern Michigan term though. It's only a way of describing Michigan people, those above, or below, the Mighty Mack
DeleteRight. So you can be born in the LP, or move there, and either way, you're a Troll. But to be a real Yooper, you have to be born in the UP.
DeleteSomeone I went to school with now lives in the Northern part of the lower peninsula. She has 3 rescue cats - Mackinac, Troll and Yooper.
great cat names, and yes, you've got it right. Only the people born in an area are real locals, everyone else is a tourist, transplant, or in the case of Michigan, a troll
Delete