Comments on: Woo!

By: Old Man Schenk

Old Man Schenk — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 22:46:57 +0000

I was a newborn…I’m not really sure if that counts

By: Alicia

Alicia — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 17:28:35 +0000

What’s up with Arizona?

By: Infinity

Infinity — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 14:18:08 +0000

hey! Hanson rocked my face off pretty hard in 97/98

By: mike d.

mike d. — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 20:51:36 +0000

did you break out the kiteboard and try extreme tornado-ing?

By: Old Man Schenk

Old Man Schenk — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 20:04:53 +0000

I’ve been to North Dakota. We saw a tornado there!

By: Old Man Schenk

Old Man Schenk — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 19:57:34 +0000

1. I added SE Alaska to your map
2. I added the “lived there” catagory, a new level to your game! “Living” someplace means that you had your personal and household goods packed up and moved there, and you’ve stayed there long enough to see some seasons change. (for instance studying abroad one term or summering somwhere != living there, but going to college == living there)

http://www.plasticvicar.com/drop/states.bmp

By: Kurt from Work

Kurt from Work — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 19:45:08 +0000

I’ve been to 20 States, including the Entire Eastern Seaboard. I have a snazzy 3D picture that I whipped up at work. but I don’t know how to post it. So it is lost.

By: mike d.

mike d. — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 12:17:20 +0000

Actually, I did not.

There’s a little candle of hope in my heart that’s praying you mean Eric Hanson (hackey sack worcester wonder) and not the musical group (mmbopping blondes), but I think that particular candle of hope is nearly burnt out. We need to get you out of the Hanson loop and into the ‘rock your face off’ AC/DC, def leppard era of fantasticness.

By: mike d.

mike d. — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 12:12:59 +0000

Wizzo, despite your insistance that you’re from Maine… I think your birth certificate was forged.

I think you’re actually from San Francisco or some other hip wild city of adventure.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 05:29:39 +0000

In some places, it is…

There’s the state, which is always pronounced “R-can-saw”

And there’s the river, which starts in Colorado, and flows through Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. This river is commonly pronounced the “R-Kansas” river.

There are also two words to describe people from Arkansas (besides hillbillies). There’s Arkansans, which sounds too similar to Kansans. And for the folks who take pride in the “saw” pronunciation, they opt for Arkansawyers (rhymes with lawyers).

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 05:21:26 +0000

‘Backwoods’ is distinctly different from ‘backwards’.

Backwoods = hillbillies = country bumpkins = rednecks = uncultured = “them people live back in them woods”

In the midwest, we stereotype places like Arkansas and Missouri for having those types of people. Apparently, in NE, they poke fun at Mainers for the very same reason. (West Virginia is another prominent ‘backwoods’ state.)

By: wizzo from maine

wizzo from maine — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 03:42:56 +0000

You cant be serious!!!!

By: Infinity

Infinity — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 03:09:33 +0000

did you visit Hanson while in the OK?
please say you did.

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 22:28:54 +0000

29 for me. still haven’t really been to the west coast except for Seattle. Can you tell where my road trip took me?

By: Sander

Sander — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 22:25:36 +0000

quote: “…it’s easy to forget Utah.” That’s right up there with “Kurt wears size 500 pants.”

If you haven’t been to Maine, you haven’t been ANYWHERE.

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 22:20:19 +0000

It’s pretty sad to see just how few states I’ve visited.

I need to get out of New England!!!

http://pics.livejournal.com/xrosebudx/pic/0014r8hs

By: marian

marian — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 22:08:47 +0000

well you just spelt backwards as backwoods, so…

By: Roland

Roland — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 21:18:08 +0000

For ages I thought Arkansas was pronounced “R-Kansas”.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 20:44:29 +0000

I find this amusing. New Englanders make fun of Maine for being backwoods and everything. Midwesterners make fun of Missouri and Arkansas for the same thing. From what I’ve seen so far, I think Northwesterners pick on Idaho. Or Spokane (but that’s close enough to Idaho to count.)

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 20:41:24 +0000

some nice photos of teddy roosevelt national park:
http://www.terragalleria.com/parks/np.theodore-roosevelt.all.html

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 20:23:01 +0000

There are about 20 trees in ND, and they are all planted in a row alongside a field.

There is grass though.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 20:18:25 +0000

I’m gonna cut and paste this response from Mykal’s comment that I posted here:

“When I studied abroad in Australia, I was talking to people about being from Kansas and how it wasn’t a tourist destination. Then someone told me that North Dakota is the least visitied state of the 50.

So, within a month of getting back to the USA, my best friend and I took a road trip specifically to North Dakota because of that very fact. Our final destination? Teddy Roosevelt National Park. Laugh if you must, but western North Dakota is beautiful. Grassy rolling hills, buffalo and antelope badlands… it’s straight out of Dances with Wolves (shot in SD, by the way). We spent three days backpacking there and didn’t see a soul. It was a great trip. We also stayed at Lake Sakakawea, and it was pretty nice, too. That being said, everything in ND east of Bismarck is pretty dull.”

By: Roland

Roland — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 20:17:09 +0000

I read that as Designated Hitler.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 20:16:43 +0000

Thanks for the favorable review of ND. I concur, east of the Bizzo (that’s what we called it) is boring. West is where it’s at.

NE is exactly as you descibe it, the western portion still looks like the dust bowl happened.