Maybe youse guys could use some good lafs
http://ring.com/yooper/yoopers.htm#funfacts

now there's fodder for our PC discussion...

The U.P. is the supplier of mosquitos to the free world.
So that's where the official Okracoke mascot came from!

The only guy from UP I ever knew had been a game warden (fifty years ago before fancy titles were
devised.) He told me about a hunter presumably mistaking him for a deer, and shooting at him.
"What did you do?" I asked. "Gave him an extra navel." "What did the judge say?" "He said I
done just right." So in his case, "U.P." stood for "Umbilicus Perforator".