But unlike the children in Lake Wobegon, not all banks are above average.

But of course, except in Lake Wobegon, it doesn't work that way.

Surely no one in Lake Wobegon would recognize that kind of extremism.

Just as in Lake Wobegon, almost every entry got a blue ribbon - even the ones the judges did not particularly care for.

Lake Wobegon is characterized as "the little town that time forgot, and the decades cannot improve."

Lake Wobegon became a secret dumping ground of nuclear waste during the 1950s.

He describes his childhood there as if gazing upon a faded photograph of a 1950's Lake Wobegon.

During the drive I played some tapes, but the news from Lake Wobegon didn't hold my attention.

But so much for living in Lake Wobegon.

This side of Lake Wobegon, we call that grade inflation.