My favorite Great Lake is Superior because I live in Minnesota and was born in a long ago November in Duluth (on the edge of Lake Superior. And because of the line from "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald": "The lake it is said never gives up its dead, When the skies of November turn gloomy."

I would have to say Huron, because of the giant and prolonged rash it gave me after I swam in it. That lake has powers!

I’ll go for the easy one, Lake Michigan, as the first two "state" albums from Sufjan Stevens have bordered it. That’s gotta say something, right?

Lake Ontario, familiarity does not breed contempt in this case. I’ve almost always lived within walking distance, even when that walk ends me up at the nuclear power plant sitting on the edge of the lake.

Lake Erie is the best great lake but mostly by default, as it has nothing to recommend against it:
* Lake Superior, for instance, is kind of a downer, thanks in no small part to Gordon Lightfoot.
* Lake Ontario wins negative points for literally meaning "great lake"
* Lake Michigan, like Manhattan and Florida, is just another example of unnecessarily phallic-shaped American topography.
* and then there’s Lake Huron, which is the Fredo Corleone of the Great Lakes.

Erie. E-R-I-E.
Erie.

There can be no other choice. It is the sound you make as a toe gets dipped, the weight is placed and the body quickly pulls back from the tiny slices of 5 zebra muscles. Ouww. Erie.

and it’s Tony Dekker’s home lake I believe

my favorite is lake michigan. i grew up in a town right on it. (Southeast WI side) and i polar bear plunged it twice for charity. many years ago when it actually would get cold in the winter. boy it hurt my toes.

My favorite Great Lake is Michigan, because I once had to run through a small portion of that lake to get to an island lighthouse. The stretch of water between the island and the land also was marked by sharp, pointy rocks.

So, after reaching Cana Island through Lake Michigan, my feet were not only incredibly cold, but a bit sore as well. It was a very cool lighthouse, though, overlooking a great lake.

Favorite? Sing it…"Ont-air-ee-air-ee-OO!". Gotta love L. Ontario. Driving the 1000 Islands Expressway outside Kingston is the only thing that makes the drive to Montreal bearable!

Erie, because it is one of the two lakes whose name is an adjective and I’d rather be eerie than superior.

well the final tally was:

Ontario – 5
Erie – 7
Michigan – 4
Huron – 1
Superior – 3

showing much love for lil ol Erie. That’s sweet. As for the CD, that goes to Ron (Team Michigan) because, well, the random number generator chose "11" and he was the 11th commenter. Science! It’s infallible.