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Most forgettable US State.

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  • #92
    Jamsiek
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    spank_inferno wrote: »
    I'm sure it is a lovely place, once your happy to tolerate more rain than what Ireland gets.

    People know Cali, some know Seattle.

    I'd say many would not be able to name what's in between.

    I'm in Vancouver myself, very little rain here this past year. Agreed it rains more here on the west coast than anywhere else in North America but we've been very lucky. Portland should be more well known IMO.


  • #93
    Jamsiek
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    playedalive wrote: »
    The state of Washington that is not D.C.

    Seattle?


  • #94
    Jamsiek
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    |Wyoming|

    and

    |Colorado|

    two states that can be mapped using text!

    Legal marijuana in Colorado if that's your thing.

    Wyoming has Yellowstone park


  • #95
    metaoblivia
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    It's gotta be one of those heartland states like Kansas, Nebraska or the Dakotas. Wyoming and Montana get a pass because they both have Yellowstone and Montana has Glacier National Park as well, which is one of the most beautiful national parks in the country.


  • #96
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    Idaho is another one you never hear much about. Next door to Wyoming I think.


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  • #97
    spank_inferno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,892 ✭✭✭spank_inferno


    michellie wrote: »
    I am visiting there in August, sounds great !

    Meh..... Its OK.

    Very middle of the road.... Typically suburban America.

    People are very friendly & very very fat.

    The north of the state is nice, the south is s bit featureless.

    Mention you like the Green Bay Packers.... They will be chuffed.


  • #98
    LoganRice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 424 ✭✭LoganRice


    Illinois


  • #99
    Jamsiek
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    LoganRice wrote: »
    Illinois

    Except it has Chicago, 3rd biggest city in the US


  • #100
    drquirky
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    cml387 wrote: »
    Maine have "Live free or die" on their licence plates.

    Nope. That's actually New Hampshire


  • #101
    LoganRice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 424 ✭✭LoganRice


    Jamsiek wrote: »
    Except it has Chicago, 3rd biggest city in the US

    Except New York City is named after the state of New York, and Oklahoma City after the state of Oklahoma.

    Lots of people don't know what or where Illinois is


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  • #102
    Andrewf20
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    I was in Nebraska and Kansas in 2006. Yep not much going on. Some fields and pylons. Thats about it.

    Delaware also was not much of a party. Idaho is fairly mountainous up north. Not bad scenery.


  • #103
    Stojkovic
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    Get off my lawn! wrote: »
    But The Wire was in Maryland!
    It was in Baltimore, big difference.

    Its like saying Love/Hate was set in Ireland.

    Lived in Maryland for six months - ****hole. Down south swampland, never seen mozzies so big in my life.

    Mason-Dixon Line - nuff said.


  • #104
    feargale
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    Franklin. The Americans themselves forgot about it.


  • #105
    MadsL
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    The State of Rough and Ready

    There was a mining town founded in 1849 in north-central California, very near Sacramento by the Rough and Ready Company of Wisconsin. As with any 19th century mining frontier town, the people flocked to the town, most coming from Wisconsin and the population very quickly reached 3,000. With such rapid growth and money comes increased crime to the area.

    The citizens of the town of Rough and Ready were not happy with a new state mining tax on all claims. There were con men cheating many of the miners out of their money with no punishment. A post office was added, but one where the post office wanted the town's name either 'Rough' or 'Ready', but not both. The people were now really upset. The citizens had enough and decided by a vote to secede from the United States in April 1850.

    During the following months after declaring themselves the Great Republic of Rough and Ready they thought everything was going well. With plans for the big 4th of July celebrations taking shape several citizens went to the larger nearby town of Nevada City to stock up on liquor. No merchant there would sell any alcohol to what they considered foreign citizens.

    Suddenly the Rough and Ready town's folks realized they were not part of the United States and looked at as a foreigner. They would have nothing to do with that concept and immediately voted the town back into the Union. The State of Rough and Ready no longer existed, but the town did keep its full name.


  • #106
    wil
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    Whats that one, you know where they...
    Begins with a ...
    I think that guy was from near there somewhere.
    I post back when I think of it


  • #107
    Jamsiek
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    LoganRice wrote: »
    Except New York City is named after the state of New York, and Oklahoma City after the state of Oklahoma.

    Lots of people don't know what or where Illinois is

    Obama comes from there too


  • #108
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    wil wrote: »
    Whats that one, you know where they...
    Begins with a ...
    I think that guy was from near there somewhere.
    I post back when I think of it

    New Brunswick is where you're thinking of. That's a Canadian province though not US.


  • #109
    MadsL
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    wil wrote: »
    Whats that one, you know where they...
    Begins with a ...
    I think that guy was from near there somewhere.
    I post back when I think of it

    Guam?


  • #110
    MonaPizza
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    MadsL wrote: »
    Err...

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Texas_Hill_Country_187N-2.JPG

    http://www.regentpg.com/blog/uploads/Oasis-Austn.jpg

    http://historymartinez.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/texas-climate-zones.png

    You really have no clue about Texas do you?

    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.


  • #111
    MonaPizza
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    Get off my lawn! wrote: »
    Wisconsin has amazing beer, cheese, and sausage and is the home of Harley-Davidson. Don't hate on Wisconsin. X-(

    Actually Wisconsin girls are really nice. Friendly and healthy with big boobs. Must be the Germanic/Swedish influence coupled with plenty of dairy in their diet.
    Milwaukee's Best beer is urine!


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  • #112
    MonaPizza
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    MadsL wrote: »
    Many people ask if they can use the dollar down here.


    He's dead



    You basically hate the US full stop. I expect you have never even been to half of those places.

    Aww, boo-hoo. Getting the tantrums again for anyone who criticises anything about your beloved US. If someone said Trenton was a kip (which it is) you'd get all offended and insecure and babble on about some fabulous burger joint there. There is beautiful scenery everywhere in the world....even Ohio. It's still a kip for the most part. New England is where it's at for scenery, food, weather (cold winters, temperate summers) AND people. Upstate New York by comparison is just a dull and boring place. Highways snaking through bland hilly countryside interrupted by dump towns like Ithaca, Albany, Utica, Syracuse (christ).
    You can keep your flyover country I'll stick to the coasts


  • #113
    bnt
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    I'd never heard of Delaware until I heard that Perry Como song ...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NztfOSyCCFM

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #114
    MonaPizza
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    Pherekydes wrote: »
    No votes for Florida?

    Florida is about twice the size of the island of Ireland, but its highest point is only 345ft.

    Though it does have some interesting wildlife...

    I prefer the Atlantic Coast of Florida to the Gulf Coast.


  • #115
    [Deleted User]
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    North Dakota. I know a girl from there and even she's not crazy about the place.


  • #116
    MonaPizza
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    Jamsiek wrote: »
    Seattle?

    I fcuking LOVE Seattle. Was there in October and the weather was great...at least I thought so.


  • #117
    kumate_champ07
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    anncoates wrote: »
    Great album, in fairness.
    great pair of wrangler jeans too


  • #118
    MonaPizza
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    Jamsiek wrote: »
    Except it has Chicago, 3rd biggest city in the US

    Chicago is one overrated city.


  • #119
    Eeden
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    Indiana?


  • #120
    languagenerd
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    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...


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  • #121
    MonaPizza
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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...

    The map of Wyoming is fairly interesting though. It's a rectangle. Imagine that on the state flag.....big fcuk off rectangle with the state motto :pac:


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