Michigan
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Michigan is an oven mitt with a spare thumb. The spare thumb is called "UP". These two landmasses, which are separated by Lake Michigan, form a state that is a signatory member of the United States.
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[edit] Rust never sleeps
They used to make a lot of cars in Michigan. Ask Michael Moore - he made a movie about how they had to start killing rabbits in Michigan once they stopped making cars.
Upton Sinclair once wrote a novel about Michigan's auto industry, The Flivver King, which is to the Great Depression what Michael Moore's film is to the 1980s. The more things change, the more they stay the same, sadly.
But, never fear! Laid-off automobile workers can always give Michigan's own Amway a try.
[edit] Edumacations
Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo hosts the annual International Congress in Medieval Studies, the largest conference in the field. Why they would want to hold the conference in a field is . . . anyone's guess.
[edit] Indigenous tunage
The greatest musical group in the world, Da Yoopers, are from Michigan. They sing about fishing, hunting, and cheap beer, mostly.
[edit] Demographics
In Flint, the rat population is higher than the human population.
[edit] More edumacations
Besides the host of the medieval conference (obviously the most important edumacational institution on the mitt), Michigan plays host to two universities. The University of Michigan is, despite its somewhat snobbish population, all in all a good institution, but of late its football team has sucked balls. Michigan State University's worst academic programs are worse than those at the University of Michigan, yet paradoxically its best programs are better than the former's best, much to the annoyance of its intelligent students, the jubilation of its stupid ones, and the confusion of its mediocre ones (of course, none of these students feel any of this when they are not soaked in some form of alcohol, i.e. drunk, which is often).
