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I love finding new cocktail recipes but sometimes I wonder where the names come from.
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This is one of those times.
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And since I’m always posting photos of sunrises and sunsets, here’s a different spin.
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Moonset.
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The mosquito is often referred to as the Maine state bird since our state has ample wooded areas and lakes for it to breed. They can get pretty large up north, but I have to admit the one we saw on someone’s front lawn the other day takes the prize.
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I’d hate to be bitten by that bastard.
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River's world..... 
I’ve been told by Minnesotans that they have the biggest mosquitos.
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I haven’t been to Minnesota so I can’t speak to their ‘squitos…. but ours are pretty hefty.
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The mosquito is Minnesota’s state bird!
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Maine claims that as well…
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https://wblm.com/the-maine-state-bird-is-the-the-mosquito-how-to-deal/
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Minnesota is typical of Aumerican thinking, they figure they have the biggest mosquitoes in the world? Aside from the fact in the USA Alaska has bigger ones, let them come up to Northern Canada and then tell us their mosquitoes are big. The farther north you go, the bigger and nastier they get, and Minnesota is nowhere near the Arctic Circle!
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It’s a joke. I’m sure no one wants the distinction of having the world’s largest and nastiest mosquitos.
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Yay to the cocktail, boo to the name. I mean really…
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It’s a bit much.
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Having taken bartending classes, I know many names are based on the ingedients. A “slow comfortable screw against the wall” = slo gin (or matbe any gin), southern comfort, oj (screwdriver), and harvey wallbanger.
For a Long Beach Iced Tea, you replace the cocacola with cranberry juice. For Sex on a Pool Table, you replace the peach schnapps with Midori.
I have NO idea which liquors are being called out by Dick and Dirt!!
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That may explain the what… but not the why.
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I’m pretty sure Minnesotans also refer to mosquitoes as the state bird. We’ll let The Travel Architect weigh in on that one.
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Hey, that’s our state bird, too!
Great moonset photos. Very eerie.
The name is dumb, but it sounds right up my alley.
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