This was full of revelations for me. If I knew anyone moving to Minnesota I would happily share this with them.

Not too bad, pass the butter please.

Incredible! The home of the ViQueens gets it's 15 minutes.

I have his book, it's outstanding.

I had no idea some of these were regional. I've heard "you bet" and "that's different" pretty regularly in New England for my whole life. they aren't common but they don't seem exotic.

This is the most consistently laugh out loud funny thing I have seen in forever.

I've been led to believe that the mushroom soup / canned vegetables / crispy onion abomination is an American Thanksgiving tradition

I grew up in Minneapolis and most of my family still lives in MN. My grandfather had a farm up in Pine County in the town of Sandstone. He could only hear out of one ear, so often times he would spend an hour talking with neighbors where he only heard roughly half of the conversation. He solved the problem by replying "Yaaowp" to everything, whether he heard you or not. Seemed to work just fine, considering most hour-long conversations only consisted of 10 words or less.

The big taboo in MN is "making a fuss" about anything. Keep your head down, don't complain about anything unless it has to do with the weather or sports teams, and don't use too many words when a simple "Oh yah?" will do.

Wow, I know a lot of older Minnesotans who do the stuff at the beginning of the video, but people my age still never let you leave parties. Combining the Minnesota goodbye with booze, makes it even harder to leave.

We've actually snuck out parties, because the hosts would give us the third degree when we said that we wanted to leave. We're sometimes even rude (for Minnesotans) with replies like "Yes, we have enough cookies."

This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by twin cities public tv. Fuck yourself twin cities public tv!