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Article: Gusset plates: Minnesota's favorite scapegoat.(NEWS)(JAMES LILEKS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- June 8, 2008
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Byline: JAMES LILEKS; STAFF WRITER
Just in time for peak fireworks importation season: They closed the bridge that connects Winona to Wisconsin. Not even bikes are allowed across. Last month you could run an 18-wheeler across the bridge; now they're waiting for a butterfly to alight on the deck and bring the entire thing down. If drivers had been listening exclusively to heavy metal on the radio, the extra weight might have put the bridge in the drink. You wonder if someone was underreacting before, and overreacting now. What's the problem? Everybody, all together now: GUSSET PLATES. That's all you really need to say nowadays; people nod their heads knowingly, ...
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