check it out, dunno if you had heard about this on the news or not--it wuz on the news yesterday:

Survey says Minneapolis is most fun city in U.S.
BY DAVID HAWLEY
Pioneer Press

We're not making this up: Minneapolis has been designated the most fun city in the United States — way ahead of boring places like Las Vegas (25th in fun) and New York (a dismal 41st in fun).

And St. Paul and other municipalities can claim a piece of the award because the survey lists "fun city" amenities that technically aren't really in Minneapolis. These include such fun things as the Minnesota Wild hockey team, the Mall of America and even the state's 10,000-plus lakes.

In an 11 a.m. ceremony today at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden Conservatory, Mayor R.T. Rybak will receive the "fun city" designation from Richard Tait, CEO of Cranium Inc., a company based in Seattle (10th in fun) that makes board games.

The game manufacturer commissioned the fun-city list from Bert Sperling, who did "Best Places to Live" reports for Money magazine before spinning off his own ratings business. His fun-city rankings were based on an analysis of such things as sports teams, restaurants, shopping malls, boat ownership, theaters, toy stores and the amount of money spent on recreation.

Minneapolis, according to Sperling's report, "has more theaters than Boston, more parks than Denver, more golfers per capita than any other city in America — and, with 10,000 lakes in the state, Minnesota has more coastline than California, Florida and Hawaii combined."

Top contenders behind Minneapolis were two California locales: Orange County, which came in second for fun, and San Jose, which was third. Orlando, home of Disney World, finished 36th. Fun-loving Omaha, Neb., by comparison, beat out Mickey Mouse and came in 30th. Dead last on a list of 56 cities was Niagara Falls, N.Y. Mention that to the next visitor you take to see Minnehaha Falls.

...funner than disney world!!! woot-woot!!!

Hey, I dont live in the US, so I can still beat you!

you go girl...can i come visit you ?

i need a vacation

I should move to MPLS then, because every party needs a pooper.

I have Quake 3 installed so I doubt it!

to be quite honest, i'm surprised at this...sure, mpls has lotsa interestin places to go n'stuff, but it ain't that fun here. s'just another midwestern city, y'know...

anx & kelley, come on over!!!

methinks the people who made this list obviously haven't actually BEEN to San Jose...

CAMILLE4U said:

dork.

ben said:

they probably haven't been here, either!

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

reporte... oh shit!

CAMILLE4U said:

you also rank #12 as the smartest state...

we come in #14 here in kansas...


http://www.morganquitno.com/edrank.htm

They've obviously never been to Topeka, Kansas. Why there are all kinds of things to do here. There's watching the grass grown, watching the paint dry, counting the cars on the freight trains (for educated people), and dining at one of the hundreds of 5 star fast food restaurants. I'm rather partial to Taco Bell.

And for the young people there's hanging out at night with your friends in one of the many empty parking lots on Wanamaker road.

justkelley said:

heyyy, my home state's smarter than mn!!!

LittlePill said:

come on now...kansas is not that bad

i rather like it here myself

LittlePill said:

sounds funner than des moines...lucky you.

justkelley said:

It is.

Moonbeam said:

really?

justkelley said:

I like it too but there's nothing to do. Thank God for computers!

ben said:

.. or Barcelona!

LittlePill said:

i have a new org neighbor

you are about an hour and a half away from me...see me ? im wavin out the window

you should see the fun that we have at the convent.

GhostlyNun said:

GREATEST ORGER OF AL TIME

Chicago didn't even chart. Dayum.

justkelley said:

Is that you!!?

Anxiety said:

i've been to chicago...i'm surprised, too!

Reported for copyright infringement.

Tyro said:

Anxiety said:

Hey...that's another SOCK PUPPET!!! :OMG: