Battle of the mitten

Really Wisconsin?

http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2011/12/wisconsins_use_of_mitten_to_pr.html WZZM) - Michigan is abuzz this morning after seeing the image of a mitten, misshapen to supposedly imitate the shape of the state of Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Department of Tourism is using a mitten to illustrate their state in their winter tourism campaign. This has generated a lot of discussion in Michigan, especially in social media. After all, we know that Michigan is much more shaped like a mitten than Wisconsin is. To Wisconsin's credit, in a search of the Pure Michigan travel website, I find no mittens, even in the merchandise store. But just because the Badgers beat Michigan State and the Packers beat the Lions on Thanksgiving Day, doesn't make this right, does it? Unfortunately we didn't notice this sooner, because the Wisconsin site was giving away tickets to the Detroit Lions vs. Green Bay Packers game for the last week of the season. We could have flooded the entries and filled Lambeau field with silver and blue. WZZM's Peter Ross will be out in the community today getting a handle on the rage.

I've been using my hand has a map for as long as I remember. Wisconsin doesn't look like it

I dunno man. Door County's pretty clearly a thumb.

And doesn't our Great Nation deserve a complete pair of mittens anyway?!

I always thought Michigan looks more like a lobster claw.
That or a snapping turtle..

Grtechguy wrote: Really Wisconsin?

http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2011/12/wisconsins_use_of_mitten_to_pr.html WZZM) - Michigan is abuzz this morning after seeing the image of a mitten, misshapen to supposedly imitate the shape of the state of Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Department of Tourism is using a mitten to illustrate their state in their winter tourism campaign. This has generated a lot of discussion in Michigan, especially in social media. After all, we know that Michigan is much more shaped like a mitten than Wisconsin is. To Wisconsin's credit, in a search of the Pure Michigan travel website, I find no mittens, even in the merchandise store. But just because the Badgers beat Michigan State and the Packers beat the Lions on Thanksgiving Day, doesn't make this right, does it? Unfortunately we didn't notice this sooner, because the Wisconsin site was giving away tickets to the Detroit Lions vs. Green Bay Packers game for the last week of the season. We could have flooded the entries and filled Lambeau field with silver and blue. WZZM's Peter Ross will be out in the community today getting a handle on the rage.

I've been using my hand has a map for as long as I remember. Wisconsin doesn't look like it

I use this one more than the other. Well, I don't use the other- just this version of showing where things are.

In other news...
Wisconsin denies that the state looks like The Shocker.
Door County takes offense to being in the stink and not near the pink.
Green Bay launches probe to verify they are The Taint.
Film at 11.

The distinguished gentleman from Nebraska agrees with the good looking girl:

If we're comparing the shape of states to body parts, can we just skip Florida?

Please?

bludroptop wrote: If we're comparing the shape of states to body parts, can we just skip Florida? Please?

Wachu got against senior citizens, bro?

This is hilarious. The hands look like they are making weird new gang signs.

I like this shirt, the murder mitten.

Michigan is clearly the mitten.

There is no other state where you can tell people where you are from by pointing at your right hand. (Unless you are a yooper. Yoopers are too afraid of other people to talk to anyone anyway. I'm not afraid of offending any of them, none of them can read...)

Michigan is definitely a mitten...Wisconsin? Who are they kidding?

lol....

The U.P. doesn't look anything like a mitten. The UP is part of Michigan (more or less). And therefore Michigan doesn't look like a mitten. Now if the UP was part of Wisconsin, then yes Michigan looks like a mitten.
Wisconsin does look hand shaped. What of it? We also have more lakes than Minnesota.

Florida may look like someone's unmentionables, but Maine actually penetrates Canada!

Uh... take a look at what Ontario's doing right back

You people are remarkably preoccupied with sex. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Lesley wrote: Uh... take a look at what Ontario's doing right back

Lesley wrote: Uh... take a look at what Ontario's doing right back

Ummm, it's aimed right at Buffalo.

I think it is aimed at Detroit.

Where are the two unique places in the US where if you look due South, you see Canada? (Not a little East or a little West but straight South.)

In reply to jrw1621:

Detroit and somewhere in the Alaskan panhandle

jrw1621 wrote: I think it is aimed at Detroit. Where are the two unique places in the US where if you look due South, you see Canada? (Not a little East or a little West but straight South.)

1) The US embassy in Ottawa?

Don't you hate it when you have to change the question because you didn't think of all the possible answers?

I was thinking Downtown Detroit (Detroit River area) and Niagara Falls (Niagara River area)

I guy I work with lived for years in a little town just south of Copper City, MI. Just today we were talking about that little piece of land sticking out into Lake Superior as being a thumb.

West Virginia looks like somebody giving you the finger with their thumb held out.