Too much coffee, man.

​What a year.

Jonathon "The Impaler" Sharkey wanted to be our governor. We got a brand spankin' new Twins ballpark. Michele Bachmann took the tingle out of Chris Matthews. And the Metrodome roof collapsed in the Blizzard of 2010.

All of that and more was caught on video. Take a look at 10 of the most memorable moments, and offer your own suggestions.

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Not ready for TwinsFest, or anything else for a while.

​TwinsFest is moving to the National Sports Center in Blaine because the collapsed Metrodome won't be repaired in time to host the annual fan extravaganza.

Besides the change in venue, and a more limited number of tickets, the Twins say the event won't be any different from those in the past.

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Rengel took the team rivalry thing a little too far.

​So much for friendly team rivalry.

Francisco Jose Rengel, a 22-year-old Madison man, allegedly took about 20 swings at some Minnesota Gophers fans after the Badgers basketball team's win Tuesday night, according to police.

Rengel has been charged with two felony counts of substantial battery and one misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct, according to Dane County Court records.

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Randy Hopper, the man who sued the Strike Force

​Today is the deadline for filing claims against the disgraced and disbanded Metro Gang Strike Force, and so far 118 people have said the force extorted them.

Lead plaintiff Zelaido Rivera Garcia won a $3 million settlement for the group of plaintiffs back in August. U.S. District Court Judge Joan N. Ericksen agreed that the strike force had extorted people--in Garcia's case, by taking $100 from his wallet.

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Minnesota heads sock it to the feds.

​Marijuana legalization is on the back burner in Minnesota these days, but that hasn't stopped the state's stoners from opening up another front in the nation's drug wars.

Four head shops from across the state recently joined together to sue the Drug Enforcement Agency over its recently enacted ban on synthetic marijuana products.

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Arm wrestler Richard Lupkes has backstage passes to the gun show.

​By day, Richard Lupkes farms the same 320-acres his father did in the southwestern corner of Minnesota. But in the world of professional arm wrestling, he's a local legend.

"I saw a poster hanging on a wall in a gas station," says the laconic Lupkes of his start in the '70s. "It was something to do."

Earlier this month, after forty years in the sport, Lupkes went to Nevada hoping to clinch a world championship title at the unlikely age of 54.

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No profanity please.

​Terry Duncan climbed aboard a Milwaukee bus and started cussing a blue streak, lacing his conversation with a string of four-letter Anglo Saxon monosyllables.

Then he found out you can't do that in Milwaukee. An undercover deputy heard Duncan's foul mouth, tossed him off the bus and fined him almost $500.

Duncan was outraged. So were a lot of readers, both with Duncan and the law.

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Harmon Killebrew has been diagnosed with cancer.

​Sad news today for Twins fans, and baseball fans in general: Harmon Killebrew is battling esophageal cancer.

In a statement, he called his condition serious, while remaining optimistic about his chances for recovery in the hands of Mayo Clinic doctors.

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New Year's Eve promises to be a wet, wintry blur.

​Forget being the Blizzard People. The National Weather Service says it looks like folks in the Twin Cities will need galoshes and rubber duckies, and maybe a whole lot of sidewalk sand, as we ring in the New Year.

That fog, rain and freezing rain that's dampening everyone's spirits and turning the snow to mashed potatoes, is moving eastward. But a new storm will be blowing in from the plains that could bring snow with it, or it could bring rain, by the time it arrives on Friday.

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Wingnut of the Year.

​Rep. Michele Bachmann took us all on another ride aboard the crazy train this year, questioning the president's patriotism, defending BP, proclaiming herself the queen tea partier -- and winning re-election in the 6th congressional district.

Here's a look back.

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