What's a Yooper?

[Doc Tinker]

Is a Yooper a hillbilly? If a person moves from a big city to Michigan's Upper Peninsula, is he a Yooper?



Doc

 

[mcoleman]

Isn't it the yoopers that sing that song Grandma got Ran Over by a Reindeer.

 

[lschultz]

I never heard that word yooper. Down here we don't call ya'll that

 

[DaveN]

Yoopers are the local people of the upper peninsula of Michigan. They are generally of Finnish or Scandanavian descent. They have a unique accent and lots of their own words. Here are a couple of websites that explain alot about them.



http://www.dayoopers.com/



website about a local band that has lots of Yooper songs and lots of other neat stuff



http://my.execpc.com/~pblock/ruauper.html



"You might be a yooper if... "



To be basic, da basic idear of teh hole gol durn yooper ting is dat deyz a bunch of guys and glas dat like to drink der beer and hunt and fish and drink. Da cheaper da beer da better doncha know. Den deres da gol durn trolls dat come up here and wreck da hole durn ting.



(Translation - the people from the lower peninsula come up and wreck it. They make the beer expensive and try to steal our women. )

 

[TxDieselKid]

Originally posted by DaveN

To be basic, da basic idear of teh hole gol durn yooper ting is dat deyz a bunch of guys and glas dat like to drink der beer and hunt and fish and drink. Da cheaper da beer da better doncha know. Den deres da gol durn trolls dat come up here and wreck da hole durn ting.



(Translation - the people from the lower peninsula come up and wreck it. They make the beer expensive and try to steal our women. )

Good lord man! I thought we had problems here in Texas with Aggies!!!

 

[wmorden]

Hey... ... I resemble that remark... always a Yooper at heart, even if I can't live there right now. But better a Yooper than a Troll (you know, the ones that live beneath the bridge... )

 

[DaveN]

Yeah, I'm not badmouthing them at all. I spent five of the best years of my life living up there. There's not much for employment up there, but it is truly god's country. The cold part of god's country.



I had the opportunity to meet quite a few people up there, and I tell you what, I'd rather be in trouble in the middle of nowhere up there than in the middle of Detroit. Up there if someone pulls over to help you out, they have honest intentions, not to rob you.



You'll probably be forced to have an Old Milwaukee with them, but that's not all bad.



Big bunch of good people, that's what they are.

 

[Adam]

The really neat thing about Yoopers is their names. They tend to end in "... maki" as in Rinttimaki, or Keskamaki, or the shortened version wherein Kesoski becomes Koski. Of course we couldn't foget the Juidici's, Ahtonen's, Javoroski's and a whole slew of other decidely Scandanavian names. Anyhow, I'd much rather be at my folk's house in Ishpeming than alot of other places, and definitely a bunch more than where I am now! Hey, while we're on the topic, can any Yoopers out there honestly say you've caught fish while ice fishin? All I remember is waking up in a cold shanty with the fire burned out and a hangover...



-Adam



(no I don't have a long last name)

 

[Whitmore]

I think my wife has one of those... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... . she keeps it in her drawers I will check and get back to you on this one



Cheers, Kevin

 

[Paul Herioux]

First off don't forget about us Frenchmen(Canadian French) that live up here in GOD'S country. Somebody has to keep the place running smoothly.



It takes about 30 years for the average troll to earn the right to be called a Yooper. The only way to shorten this is to marry a full blooded Yooper, this shortens the indoctrination period to 5 years in most cases.



Not all of us are drunks. Some of us are recovering alcohalics.



True Yoopers eat their pasties with ketchup. Only trolls and other inbred tourists cover them with gravy.



Don't try to steal from us or tick us off severely. Almost all of us have guns and most of us know how to use them. (The ones that don't have sadly fallen under the spell of the trolls)



Bar-room brauls do occasionally start over the discussion of which truck is the best. I just keep a tow rope in the truck to settle these.



I've gone long enough for now. I have ammo to reload and guns to clean.

Later,

Paul

 

[Rob Thomas]

I like ketchup as much as the next guy, but on pasties???? Paul, thats just wrong, Yooper or not.



Your not lyin' about the bar room brawls over a little truck conversation... ... ... ... may have started one or two myself.



I really miss the UP, but October is near!!!! (huntin' season)





Rob (a worthless POS troll)

 

[Elite1]

yooper site

I have a Yooper buddy who told me about this site, kinda cool when winter storms are brewing... . http://www.graniteisland.com/webcamp.shtml