Stupid useless facts about the great State of Michigan

[super-bee_ski]

1. In 1997 the state of Michigan became the 16th state to allow the blind to hunt
2. In Michigan, where ever you are standing, you are only 85 miles from a Great Lake
3. The name Michigan is derived from the Ojibwa Indian words Mishi-gama (meaning "large lake")
4. Nicknamed Motor City and Motown, Detroit, Michigan was known as the world's automotive center and is a metonym for the American automobile industry. The world's first air-conditioned car was built in 1939 by Detroit's Packard Motor Car Company
5. World's first concrete road was laid on Woodward Avenue in Detroit (Robert Douglas Baker, who spent 60 years in road building business and invented several road building techniques and machinery, was the man behind that pioneering work in 1908)

 

[the mississippi madman]

Michigan has world's only floating post office. It delivers mail to ships as they pass under the Ambassador Bridge.

Alcona County has the highest number of people to fall for the Nigerian prince scam.

Battle Creek is known as the cereal capital because it's home to Kelloggs

 

[440+6]

I live here, how's that for a useless fact?

 

[super-bee_ski]

I live here, how's that for a useless fact?

The title says it all
"Stupid facts about the great state of Michigan"
Cool!
Yup, the web-site I got it from was: Useless facts...
Sorry 440+6
I didn't mean it as a statement of Michigan and negativity
As stated I noted: the great state of Michigan
Even though that is how is came out (how it reads)
I posted it because:
1. I am a fan of Detroit and her ability to produce the best cars ever in the world...period
2. I found some of the facts (100s of them) fascinating but some are useless...I guess...

I thought it was a good post
Michigan has some very neat history

You guys all know me
I'm not confrontational...

 

[440+6]

The title says it all
"Stupid facts about the great state of Michigan"
Cool!
Yup, the web-site I got it from was: Useless facts...
Sorry 440+6
I didn't mean it as a statement of Michigan and negativity
As stated I noted: the great state of Michigan
Even though that is how is came out (how it reads)
I posted it because:
1. I am a fan of Detroit and her ability to produce the best cars ever in the world...period
2. I found some of the facts (100s of them) fascinating but some are useless...I guess...

I thought it was a good post
Michigan has some very neat history

You guys all know me
I'm not confrontational...

I didn't take offense at all, good post indeed.
I was just adding another to the list

 

[super-bee_ski]

Cool!
God Bless and Happy Memorial day 440+6
Yeah, BAD *** CAR!

 

[black64]

Here is another fact your about 50 miles from an Objibwa Casino any where in the state. lol

 

[bee71]

Even though we have been in Florida the last twelve years we are proud to been born and raised in Michigan as do our children.

 

[Budnicks]

Another worthless ditty;
Detroit is bankrupt because of unsustainable progressive political practices,
unsustainable taxation & spending practices...
The Many powerful labor Unions & their unrealistic/unsustainable
Golden Parachute benefits, or pay, with sweetheart/corrupt deals,
made by both sides for retirement & lack of funding,
poor planning, because the population has pretty much left Detroit in shambles...
It's a once shinning robust growing city, a shell of it's self, it's not what it once was BS too...

Sad reality, it's just another sign of what will happen today, because of past indiscretions...

 

[mmissile]

Davison freeway, was the first in the USA. It initially had bus-stops.....which didn't take long to figure out wasn't a good idea. I remember the stairs and platforms from years ago.

 

[Riverdawg]

Detroit does have some areas that are rebounding and revitalizing. There's a bunch of new development near downtown by all the Sports facilities.
Traverse City is the tart (i.e., pie) cherry capital of the world, and hosts the week-long National Cherry Festival each July.
The Saugatuck Chain Ferry, built in 1838, is the only remaining hand-cranked chain ferry in the U.S.
Detroit residents were the first in the nation to have phone numbers. It seems that by 1879, the city had grown so large that operator were no longer able to route the calls by name alone.
Found on http://www.movoto.com/guide/mi/michigan-facts/ which has many of the previously facts listed by all of you.

 

[black64]

It also has to be the largest car cruise in the world every August with the Woodward Dream Cruise. more than a million spectators a year along the 18 mile cruise route . Usually the third Saturday of the month in August but it is getting to be heavy cruising a week or more before it.

 

[ZR9B]

I also think we have more pot holes per mile than any other place in the world....just a guess tho

 

[64Savoy]

You can thank the sheet of salt underneath the state for that! Left behind by the glaciers that carved out the lakes. It's so plentiful we use it instead of sand or just plowing, with no regard to what it does to our cars!!

 

[fwi]

My wife is from Muskegon MI, right on that beautiful big lake........unfortunately this city went the way of Detroit, all in with one industry: the automobile and for the same reasons as Detroit.
Fortunately for her, my wife left when she was 21 to become a stewardess and see the world....(they were not called flight attendants then).

 

[mmissile]

They do plenty of plowing of snow.....as well as plenty of salting. When everybody had a job building and buying domestic cars, it wasn't a big deal to buy a new car, every few years.....Then, Americans sold America out.

Detroit was also the model of a progressive/liberal city. It's nice to see how every other major city has followed the model. YEA TEAM!!

 

[Pistol Pete]

Wait a minute........I covered Michigan two years ago.

http://www.forbbodiesonly.com/moparforum/threads/michigan.52796/

 

[64Savoy]

Wait a minute........I covered Michigan two years ago.

http://www.forbbodiesonly.com/moparforum/threads/michigan.52796/

That is hilarious

 

[doublekrossd]

Another worthless ditty;
Detroit is bankrupt because of unsustainable progressive political practices,
unsustainable taxation & spending practices...
The Many powerful labor Unions & their unrealistic/unsustainable
Golden Parachute benefits, or pay, with sweetheart/corrupt deals,
made by both sides for retirement & lack of funding,
poor planning, because the population has pretty much left Detroit in shambles...
It's a once shinning robust growing city, a shell of it's self, it's not what it once was BS too...

Sad reality, it's just another sign of what will happen today, because of past indiscretions...

While I partially agree with your obviously one-sided blanket statement about unions, I take huge offence to you thinking it's the trade unions hurting Detroits economy. I don't agree with the way the UAW operates anymore. They've gone soft in work ethic and demand way more than they should (in my opinion) but the basis of a union is nor altogether wrong. I'm a union carpenter, I work my *** off to make a decent living. I don't get paid vacation, paid sick time, comp pay when I'm laid off, or any other crazy benefit that the UAW demands. When I work, I get fair compensation, how is that wrong? And to be honest, any of the local skilled trade unions in my area do not get any extra benefits like those. We all get marginal Healthcare, fair pay, and the hopes of someday being able to retire before we work our bodies to death. If that is too much to ask for then I guess that's my fault.

 

[super-bee_ski]

Another worthless ditty;
Detroit is bankrupt because of unsustainable progressive political practices,
unsustainable taxation & spending practices...
The Many powerful labor Unions & their unrealistic/unsustainable
Golden Parachute benefits, or pay, with sweetheart/corrupt deals,
made by both sides for retirement & lack of funding,
poor planning, because the population has pretty much left Detroit in shambles...
It's a once shinning robust growing city, a shell of it's self, it's not what it once was BS too...

Sad reality, it's just another sign of what will happen today, because of past indiscretions...

AMEN!