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By: South Dakota Magazine » Doug Lund and our South Dakota Quiz

South Dakota Magazine » Doug Lund and our South Dakota Quiz — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:10:22 +0000

[...] Dakotan to us. Popular broadcast legend Doug Lund took our test and analyzed it nicely in his Lund At Large [...]

By: Heidi

Heidi — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:37:06 +0000

So glad you took the test…and did pretty darn good! For those who don’t get South Dakota Magazine yet, you can read this feature online at http://southdakotamagazine25years.blogspot.com/2010/05/25-things-every-south-dakotan-should-do.html# Thanks Doug! You’re an all-around South Dakotan in our our eyes!

By: Neale

Neale — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:06:16 +0000

Your cousin Grouse is the Greatest! Love his comments.

By: Sweeps

Sweeps — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:33:00 +0000

Hi, Doug! You’ll have a chance to try to find those blue mosaics in the Capitol floor if you and Linda and all your friends come to Pierre on Saturday, June 19. Big things going on, from eating to entertainment, for the Capitol Centennial Celebration. 147th FA Military Band, some of the original members of Red Willow, dancers, lots of stuff! We’re sprucing up our town to welcome you!

By: grouse

grouse — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:55:23 +0000

Cousin Doug, once again I’m going to boost your score so that you’ll look a lot better and can hold your head up high and not feel like a doofus.
First off, you may not have actually paddled a canoe on the Missouri, but you did have drum set with a distinguished native American gentleman paddling a canoe on the bass drum. To make the point even more legitimate point, there was light bulb inside to illuminate the event. ANOTHER POINT!
Secondly, you lamented that you’ve never howled at the moon. Remember, we used to take our electric guitars (my Fender, your Silvertone) out your back step on hot summer nights and practice singing and harmonizing to rock and roll songs of the day. The elderly neighbors called it howling (and who knew the sound of coyotes better that they did). ANOTHER POINT!
Closely related, was the night we were out back with the guitars howling at the moon, when two lovely, charming native American girls who were staying with a Volga family for the summer stopped by. They liked our tunes, and even danced together while we played. Lovely native American girls dancing in the moonlight…Well, I’m calling it a Pow Wow! ANOTHER POINT!
Next on the list, roping with a lasso. It may not have been from the top of a horse, but we did take our hand at roping little calves with mom’s clothesline rope in the cattle pen. (Notice that I didn’t call it a corral, because we were just east river farmers, not glamorous west river ranchers.) When we couldn’t rope the calves, we roped our little brothers. ANOTHER POINT!
Next on the list, the Stone Johnny! We may not have called it a Stone Johnny. We may have just acted like non assuming Norwegian stock and called it a god damned rock pile, but surely you helped pick rock on that north field by the road, that had to have skimmed the top of some submerged mountain just below the surface. We piled that rock at the bottom of a hill to the west of the house. After a good winter’s snowfall, it made a great launch down the hill for a sled jump. ANOTHER POINT!
Now, I’ve done my best Norwegian, Journalism major math, and according to my calculations that gives you another FIVE POINTS!
What’s the score now? I’ll bet the hot shots at South Dakota Magazine are green with envy.

By: SQUIBBY

SQUIBBY — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:18:59 +0000

Got the mag for my mother as a Christmas gift this last year, we all LOVE IT!