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Originally posted by Ex greek
14. Midwestern is a synonym for "naive."
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This is completely wrong!!! If anything you "northeners" are naive...
List of questions I have been asked by people from the east coast when they find out I'm from Kansas or that I go to school at Nebraska...and every single time the people are serious when they ask.
1. Do you have electricity yet?
2. Are the Indians still a problem out there?
3. Do you wish you had indoor plumbing?
4. What kind of tractor do you own? (I live in Kansas City for cryin' out loud!!!)
5. Are you excited that your streets are getting paved?
Conversation that I actually had with this kid from New York:
NY Kid: So why is your football team so good? Is it because you have corn growing on the field and so they get good at dodging at them?
Me: (secretly wondering what the hell he's talking about before deciding I was going to mess with him) Ummm....What? Oh...(this is where I decide to screw with him). Yeah the cornstalks. That's actually the secret. On tv they airbrush them out.
NYK: Really??? That's awesome.
Me: Yeah it costs our athletic department a million dollars for each game.
NYK: oh man that's like almost cheating
Me: There's no rule against it
Then he left actually believing that there are cornstalks growing in the middle of the field at Memorial Stadium at the University of Nebraska.
7: (keep in mind that I live in an affluent suburb of over 100,000 people, graduated in a class of 450, etc, etc...I'm by no means from a small town).
East Coast Person: So how do you like small town life?
Me: I don't live in a small town. I live in Kansas City.
ECP: You mean there is a town called Kansas City?
Me: Yeah where do you think the Chiefs and the Royals play?
ECP: How does a small town support a major league team? I mean if the town only has like 5000 people?
Me: Kansas city has a population of over 1.5 million people.
ECP: I didn't know that the state of Kansas had a population that big.
Me: Well, I'm just talking about Kansas City...not the state of Kansas.
I think that naive doesn't even begin to cover the above examples...I don't know whether it's just plain ignorance or what, but obviously I've been asked some pretty dumb stuff, and whenever I play along the people think I'm telling the truth...what's that all about
Finally my list:
1). Just b/c I'm from the midwest doesn't mean that I grew up on a farm.
2)
Hello...New York. It's Kansas City: We want our steak back. When did the change occur that made it a New York Strip from a K. C. Strip. Don't think they ever had cattle drives to NYC, nor are there probably that many slaughterhouses/stockyards in NYC either.
3) You have never had real barbeque (or good barbeque) until you've had barbeque from Kansas City. KC Masterpiece is only average in kansas City. Putting barbeque sauce on something doesn't make it barbeque. Barbeque doesn't include a grill. There is a fundamental difference between grilling (which is what you do to hot dogs) and barbequeing (which takes hours to do correctly). The only people who have any claim about decent barbeque is people in the Carolinas with their southern style. (KC sauce is tomato based, while southern style sauce is Vinegar based...but they at least know that barbeque is an all day affair)
4) It's only soda or pop (and pop is preferable). If your talking about strawberry pop then you call it "Red Pop".
5)St. Louis is an Eastern City
6) The midwest is only Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, and only Oklahoma sometimes. South Dakotans have an accent and are therefore not in the midwest, Same for Minnesotans. People in Arkansas are way too backward.
7) Only in the midwest are people kind to strangers.
8) Looking for excitement outside the big cities other than man made lakes, football games (Nebraska), or basketball games (Kansas)??? You can either drink yourself stupid, or you might as well keep going on to Colorado.
9)Iowa smells...bad.
10) We have fun weather.
11) The joke that the "N" (on the Nebraska football team helmets) stands for knowledge...it's old. It reached it's peak way before I was born, and YOU need new material. (and by last count Nebraksa still led the nation with # of academic all-americans in all sports)
12) We don't understand why everyone else talks funny
13) We don't understand Virginia and West Virgina...if the area of W. Va was already part of VA, then how the hell did they become a state? Did VA just decide it wasn't good enough for the rest of the state, was there a revolt?