St. Olaf

St. Olaf ("Where every spring the ducks return, if we remember to throw out the corn." ) is a fictional town in northern Minnesota and home to the character Rose Nylund in The Golden Girls. Its official motto is "Better Ned than Red." Its license plates say "Big Statute Country." It is also the broken hip capital of the Midwest.

The town itself was founded by Heinrich von Anderdonnen, and the residents of St. Olaf are one of the lost tribes of Israel. They can all trace their ancestors back to the same brother and sister.

St. Olaf has only one street, Longenbueton Avenue. It also has a Main Street.

St. Olaf does not have an airport. The only way to get to St. Olaf is to fly to St. Gustav, take a train to the Zumbro Falls, and take a shuttle and hay cart to St. Olaf. Even the birds do it that way when they migrate.

Many residents have fallen off the roofs of their homes trying to touch the stars in the sky.

The most expensive hotel room in town is $18 per night, and that includes the cow.

Encyclopedia salesmen in St. Olaf carry 52 encyclopedias with them; 26 in each hand.

Under divorce laws in St. Olaf, the wife was permitted to keep everything that didn't ferment.

St. Olaf has had several intellectual fads in its history. After Nylund visited St. Gustav, the notion of coming in out of the rain captivated the town. It was later surpassed by the phrase "Watch out for that tractor!"

In St. Olaf, if neither the mother nor mother of the father was present when a woman gave birth, Lucky Gunther was called to assist.

St. Olaf required permits before couples could have children.

Handkerchiefs from St. Olaf have embroidered in them the phrase "Sneeze Here."

The people of St. Olaf take care of their elderly. They revere them, honor them, and put them on a pedestals. Putting them on pedestals frequently causes them to fall.

In St. Olaf, the brown bear and the field mouse share their lives and live in harmony. However, they do not mate, because the mice would explode.