Taconite Curtain is a play on words from the iron curtain (meaning russian and the eastern bloc countries of the cold war). It refers to the slow progress and backward tendencies of people from Minnesota's great white tundra. The boom in mining created many cities along the iron range of Minnesota that have Taconite is iron-bearing rock that is mined in northern Minnesota.
Snowmobiles and ATVs are likecandy to kids behind the taconite curtain.
Even after garnering fame, Bob Dylan was still despised by some behind the taconite curtain.
The new 21st century recession has had little effect on the constantly depressed cities behind the taconite curtain.
Behind the taconite curtain all kids knew was shoveling snow and playing hockey, and shoveling snow got old fast.
A symbolic, ideological and physical boundary separating the northeastern section of Minnesota from the rest of the state.
You gotta remember that a lot of people HATED the lanky kid with the nasal voice--until he moved away and gotfamous. There are still plenty of haters here behind the taconite curtain, but maybe not as many.
The special multi-grain recipe used for making taco-shells; this unique "formula of flours" is a closely-guarded secret, just like the "how we mix it" proportions of ingredients for other famous highly-desirable (and therefore highly-profitable for their inventors who hold the patents on said delectables) concoctions like Coca Cola, Colonel Saunders' chicken-sauce, Damascus steel, etc. have always been "totally hush-hush" ever since said recipes were perfected.
Ground-up grain is hardly very far up on the atomic weights & measures scale, so I am at a loss to understand why the Edmund Fitzgerald sank just from having her hold filled with "taconite", even if they did indeed "heap her to da brim" with it.
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flying everywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
A plate of brown consists of foods that have little to no nutritional value, and are typically deep fried. A true plate of brown will also be accompanied by a dark soda.
When finance content creators rent out fancy cars and flexcash to seem richer than they really are in order to promote and sell their “get rich quick” courses.