New Hope

The Scary Guy is a United States based motivational speaker who campaigns worldwide to eliminate hate, violence, prejudice and bullying in schools... and corporations. In addition to being a tattoo shop owner, philosopher, comic, entertainer, inspirational speaker and performance artist, his nose, eyebrows and ears are pierced and tattoos cover 85 percent of his body. Scary was born December 29, 1953, as Earl Kenneth Kaufmann, to Carroll and Constance Kaufmann, and grew up in New Hope, Minnesota, United States, graduating in 1972 from Cooper High School. He was a voice major at Macalester College in Saint Paul. In 1975 he began a career in baby portrait photography and later moved on to selling computers in the 1980s and early 90’s. In the mid-90’s he became a tattoo artist and eventually owned 3 tattoo shops in Tucson, AZ. It was at this time that a rival tattoo shop owner took out an add questioning the character of someone with “war-paint facial tattoos” and labeled him a “scary guy”. This motivated him to take the name as his own.
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Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state on May 11, 1858. Known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes", the state's name comes from a Dakota word for "sky-tinted water". Those waters, together with forests, parks, and wilderness areas, offer residents and tourists a variety of outdoor recreational... opportunities. Minnesota is the 12th most extensive and the 21st most populous of the 50 United States. Nearly 60% of Minnesota's residents live in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area known as the "Twin Cities", the center of transportation, business, industry and education, and home to an internationally known arts community. The remainder of the state consists of western prairies now given over to intensive agriculture; deciduous forests in the southeast, now cleared, farmed and settled; and the less populated North Woods, used for mining, forestry, and recreation. Minnesota is known for its relatively mixed social and political orientations, and has a high rate of civic participation and voter turnout.
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