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Most forgettable US State.

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  • #122
    JupiterKid
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    Delaware, Rhode Island and North Dakota.


  • #123
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    languagenerd wrote: »
    Wyoming. I had actually never heard of it until I tried to name all the states and kept coming up one short. Never heard it mentioned before that and very rarely since...

    Yellow Stone Park I bet you'd heard of before. Buffalo Bill Cody and his Wild West theme show in the late 1800s also, he gives his name to one of the States's city's, Cody Wyoming.


  • #124
    Jamsiek
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    MonaPizza wrote: »
    I fcuking LOVE Seattle. Was there in October and the weather was great...at least I thought so.

    I live just across the border in Vancouver, same weather and similar size.
    Nice part of the world!


  • #125
    Jamsiek
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    MonaPizza wrote: »
    Chicago is one overrated city.

    Never been there but I'd like to see it out of curiosity.


  • #126
    rossie1977
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    i am surprised how many here are saying wyoming given yellowstone (the worlds first national park) is situated there. the tetons are also one of the more famous mountain ranges in the us.


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  • #127
    WilyCoyote
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    cml387 wrote: »
    Maine have "Live free or die" on their licence plates.

    Maine is "Vacation Land"

    Hande hoche! wrote: »
    That's New Hampshire.

    Well done!

    But why do you dislike it Hände hoch? Can't hack the snow and cold? About 12" of the crispy white stuff outside, cloudless skies (unless there's a winter storm) and -14C at the moment. But come July it's a lovely 30+ and plenty of mozzies to keep you company up to the time that the leaves turn every colour under the sun.
    Or as Shelley put it, in Ode To The West Wind:

    "O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being,
    Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
    Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,

    Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,
    Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O Thou,
    Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed"

    OK. You can put your hands down now.


  • #128
    Fred Swanson
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  • #129
    foggy_lad
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    Is Connecticut well known or famous for anything apart from nutmeg and being called the constitution state?


  • #130
    Fred Swanson
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  • #131
    foggy_lad
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    Fred Swanson wrote: »
    Birthplace of George W Bush.

    Nothing noteworthy then:-D


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  • #132
    eyescreamcone
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    BizzyC wrote: »
    Rhode Island

    RI is less than half the size of County Cork


  • #133
    JackF1
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    Fred Swanson wrote: »
    Birthplace of George W Bush.

    Home to modern America's 1% it's what Newport RI was in the roaring 20's.

    The most forgettable ones are ones where you can't instantly name either the state capital or a well known city!

    Montana? Capital is Helena


  • #134
    Jamsiek
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    eyescreamcone wrote: »
    RI is less than half the size of County Cork

    Family Guy is from there


  • #135
    Killer Wench
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    MonaPizza wrote: »
    Chicago is one overrated city.

    You said that you loved Seattle so I gave you a thumbs up. Then you insulted Chicago so I took that thumbs up away.


  • #136
    eyescreamcone
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    Jamsiek wrote: »
    Family Guy is from there

    RI or Cork?

    RI is the only state that still celebrates VJ Day (Victory over Japan)
    Sep 2?!


  • #137
    Killer Wench
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    Keep Washington State and Illinois off of your fingers and it will be a smooth and easy ride, friends.


    But Texas? Yeah, we could pack that up and ship it off to forgettable land. Well, except Austin. We like Austin.


  • #138
    Jamsiek
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    Killer Wench wrote: »
    Keep Washington State and Illinois off of your fingers and it will be a smooth and easy ride, friends.


    But Texas? Yeah, we could pack that up and ship it off to forgettable land. Well, except Austin. We like Austin.

    I wouldn't call Texas forgettable


  • #139
    Killer Wench
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    Jamsiek wrote: »
    I wouldn't call Texas forgettable

    No. I wish to forget about Texas.



    Except Austin.


  • #140
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    Don't certain Texans view themselves as being a separate country? :pac:


  • #141
    WilyCoyote
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    Fred Swanson wrote: »
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    I'll give you that Fredrick - old bean. But it's worth reading this short bit of history that we were taught wrongly about in school.

    The story told of how the humble potato was borne here from Ireland in 1719, via seeds carried by the Rev. James MacGregor, who planted them in the town now known as Derry (then a part of the township of Nutfield) in a field close to where the Derry Village School now stands. Students at the school discovered all that while researching the origins of the white potato in North America. The students were in the gallery when the House debated the potato bill, or the Spud Saga, if you prefer.

    The spud was indigenous to Peru. Taken back to Spain by the conquistadores after which it spread throughout Europe and seed was brought to NH by that McGregor in 1719.
    So the whole Walter Raleigh tale was a load of cobblers.

    The full story below
    http://www.nhmagazine.com/April-2013/Potato-becomes-New-Hampshires-State-Vegetable/


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  • #142
    Killer Wench
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    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Don't certain Texans view themselves as being a separate country? :pac:

    The delusional ones, I bet.


  • #143
    eyescreamcone
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    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Don't certain Texans view themselves as being a separate country? :pac:

    The only state that is allowed to fly the state flag at the same height as the stars and stripes


  • #144
    Fred Swanson
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    This post has been deleted.


  • #145
    MonaPizza
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    foggy_lad wrote: »
    Is Connecticut well known or famous for anything apart from nutmeg and being called the constitution state?

    Yale and suburbanites too up their own arses to to live in Jersey or Long Island (don't blame them....CT is nice, I once got lost in Bridgeport. A hooker gave me directions).


  • #146
    Jamsiek
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    eyescreamcone wrote: »
    The only state that is allowed to fly the state flag at the same height as the stars and stripes

    They also swear allegiance to the flag of Texas as well as the US


  • #147
    MadsL
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    eyescreamcone wrote: »
    The only state that is allowed to fly the state flag at the same height as the stars and stripes

    Urban Legend...
    http://www.snopes.com/history/american/texasflag.asp


  • #148
    MadsL
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    MonaPizza wrote: »
    Here he comes again with his little anecdotal smidgens to refute anything anyone says. Saudi Arabia is a goddamn desert country but posting a photo of some palm trees and a view over the Red Sea from Jeddah isn't going to convince anyone otherwise. If I said Alaska was a cold bastard of a place you'd stick up some photo of kids in shorts playing in a park in July in Anchorage just to be difficult.
    Stick me back on your ignore list pal.

    Hard to admit you are wrong?
    http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_of_Texas_is_desert?#slide=2


  • #149
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    Speaking of Franklin (modern day east Tennessee) is there any other former States that were incorporated into others? It was such a vast body of land to divide. The pan handle Oklahoma still had unclaimed territory up until it was established into the Union in 1907. I think the bould Native Americans might have got short shrift with that.


  • #150
    Killer Wench
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    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Speaking of Franklin (modern day east Tennessee) is there any other former States that were incorporated into others? It was such a vast body of land to divide. The pan handle Oklahoma still had unclaimed territory up until it was established into the Union in 1907. I think the bould Native Americans might have got short shrift with that.


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_territories_that_failed_to_become_states#Proposed_but_non-existent_entities


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  • #151
    MonaPizza
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    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Don't certain Texans view themselves as being a separate country? :pac:

    It was an independent state in the 1830's. In fact it was the biggest trading partner with the US from 1840 to 1846 until it was invaded and annexed. The gas thing is that so many of the Mexicans who live in current Texas are descendents of those who lived in the exact same spot when it was independent and when it was part of Mexico before that, yet are treated as "wetbacks".


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