ORIGINAL: geofflambert
ORIGINAL: Schanilec
Welcome aborad my Northern friend.

And for the rest of you American's. Noooo, North Dakota is NOT a Canadian province. Just barely though. South Manitoba.[;)]
There are no Seven-Elevens in N Dak. You have to cross the border to get your beef jerky.
Disagree Ser Lizard - I was at one albeit a few years ago.
I can personally attest that a large number of citizens of Minot and Bismark North Dakota are (1) great Americans, and (2) some of the friendliest people I have ever met. [8D]
The jerky was fine.
Now the mosquito'es (insect / pest / not war plane) are as large as an F4F in June as I recall making them potentially even larger than those in "Friendly Manitoba and Land of the Living Sky (Saskatchewan)" (licence plate motto). I have heard rumor they can sprint off small animals and unattended children.
I think it has to do with the watershed filtration headwaters lands building the Missouri and eventually Mississippi Rivers.
Either that or they blow in from secretive "lost worlds" in mountain cauldrons from Helena Montana
A People that values its privileges above it's principles will soon loose both. Dwight D Eisenhower.