Minnesota Humor (Cleveland: camps, to live, cabin)

[AGuyFromCleveland18]

Does Minnesota have a distinct sense of humor? Types of humor are e.g.: raunchy, sarcastic, subtle, coarse/dirty, polite, dry, witty, slapstick. What type of humor is funny up here, and what would be considered inappropriate or unfunny?

[iNviNciBL3]

I think we joke around with people who are not from here by making jokes about there homeland, we don't mean to be rude we're just joking around. But if an outsider jokes around about Minnesota than we find it rude lol

[rcsteiner]

Originally Posted by AGuyFromCleveland18

Does Minnesota have a distinct sense of humor? Types of humor are e.g.: raunchy, sarcastic, subtle, coarse/dirty, polite, dry, witty, slapstick. What type of humor is funny up here, and what would be considered inappropriate or unfunny?

Heh heh. Cheeeeeeseheads. Cheeeeeee....

[uptown_urbanist]

I think Minnesota is pretty PC. Ethnic or racial jokes don't fly, with the major exception being Ole and Lena jokes. Much as I personally dislike them, Ole and Lena jokes could probably be considered distinctively Minnesotan, or at least Upper Midwestern.

[Minneapolisville]

Polite, punny jokes in formal company, sarcastic and dark jokes in the company of friends (Making fun of others behind their back--Classic Minnesota Nice). Also subtle sarcasm in the company of "Idgits".

[slamont61]

A guy "from Cleveland" asks if WE have a sense of Humor???? Me thinks he must have tough skin. One needs to have a good sense of humor to live here in MN. It helps with us cope with cold in the Winter and Mosquits the size of Cessnas in the Summer.

[demtion35]

There was the fella who back in the 1880's was working the logging camps up north.

One winter in particular was very cold. So cold in fact that when talking with each other in the cabin the words they would say would freeze in the air.

They would then grab the words, put them behind the stove until the words would thaw out.



Another story that is told is about Stan and Luke, who decided to go up north for some ice fishing. After arriving at the lake cabin, Stan says to Luke he is going to go out and start to cut the hole in the ice and in the meantime, Luke would get the fire going for when Stan returned.

Stan was gone for about 8 hours, and upon returning, opened the door and stepped inside, falling in a hole through the cabin floor. Stunned, Stan asks Luke how this hole got in the floor, to which Luke replies that the match he was using to light the fire, worked once then the flame went out, and he had tried to re-light the flame by striking the match on the floor, eventually wearing the hole in the floor.

But Luke wanted to know what had taken so long for Stan to chop the hole in the ice and return, upon Stan replied a little irriated at best, that Luke should go out and chop a hole in the ice long enough to go trolling in and see how long it takes him.


Bob and Charlie decided one hunting season to go up north for deer hunting. After sitting in a tree for the entire day Bob finally shot a deer, and after Charlie came over they started to drag the deer back to their truck. After several hundred feet of dragging the deer, they both commented to each other on how dragging this deer sure seemed to be quite difficult, when Charlie said he had an idea. Instead of dragging the deer by the hind legs, going against the fur, lets drag it by the head so we are pulling it with the direction of the fur.

Sounds like a good idea Bob says, lets try it. So after another several hundred feet, Charlie says that indeed this is easier dragging this deer with the fur direction, but that the truck is getting further away.

[snofarmer]

Finlander dry.

[demtion35]

Paul Bunyan comes to mind

[dober1]

One day Sven and Lars are standing outside their barn with a mule. They both look perplexed and are scratching their heads.
Their neighbor walks up and asks "Whats the problem?" Sven says " Well we bought this new mule and his ears are too long and hit the top of the barn opening and he won't go in." Sven goes on to say we are going to have to jack up the whole barn and raise the foundation!
The neighbor (possibly of German ancestory) says "Why don't you just dig out the dirt at the entryway."
Sven and Lars thank him and off he goes.
Sven turns to Lars and says "Nice guy but its the mules ears that are too long not his legs, sheesh."