Non-Texans UNITE!!!! - Page 5

GeekyPenguin · #1 05-27-2003, 04:37 PM

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Originally posted by DeltAlum
Michigan and Wisconsin are both really neat states -- we've lived in both. Everything from major cities to beaches to spectacular scenery.

Add to that, really good people.

(I wonder why they're both right hands?)

I use my left hand for Wisconsin...I thought everybody did. We always did that at Student Council camp to show where we were from!

DeltAlum · #2 05-27-2003, 05:31 PM

Hmmm...

Guess it depends on whether you look at the palm or the back.

PrincessHeather · #3 05-27-2003, 05:33 PM

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Originally posted by PiKA_Phil
Cali baby!! unsurpassed in all areas of coolness.

I second that!

I'm a NorCal girl but I love SoCal too! Man this is the best state!! from the snow to the ocean and everywhere inbetween you can't get much sweeter than Cali

Shake it Cali Shake it!!
California knows how to party!

FiReKraCkEr · #4 05-27-2003, 05:35 PM

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Originally posted by jennybloch
What's so bad about Oklahoma? Some people think it's all hick-town because they've never been there. The people are nice, it's not too polluted, there's decent stuff to do, and they have good schools, just like about every other state in the nation. I have relatives there, and I've never felt uncomfortable or unwelcome there.

But I'm from New Mexico...no one seems to have mentioned us yet.

For a girl from NM, you suuuuuuure do like Oklahoma!

jennybloch · #5 05-27-2003, 05:58 PM

I've just spent a lot of time there...like I said, I visit relatives. No one's really picked on NM, so I thought I'd stand up for a neighbor

damasa · #6 05-27-2003, 06:03 PM

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Originally posted by KDatUTC
For a girl from NM, you suuuuuuure do like Oklahoma!

I was thinking almost the exact same thing!

FiReKraCkEr · #7 05-27-2003, 06:07 PM

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Originally posted by damasa
I was thinking almost the exact same thing!

Well, ya know....great minds think alike

The1calledTKE · #8 05-27-2003, 06:15 PM

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Originally posted by KDatUTC
For a girl from NM, you suuuuuuure do like Oklahoma!

Hey I know somebody that from Oklahoma... interesting

#9 05-27-2003, 06:16 PM

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Originally posted by DeltAlum
That's true, however another Texas person (whom I shall not name) started a whole thread entitled "Nebraska Sucks" or something close to that. I'm absolutely sure it was meant as humor, but some people do and did take offense.

Use of that word when talking about states, cities, etc. is not uncommon in the hallowed halls of GC.

And, I agree. Let's be kind to each other.

It was entitled, "Reasons why Texas is better than Nebraska" and it was started with the sole intent to poke fun at docetboy.

In an earlier group chat he had said that Texas sucks, so i went ahead and posted a thread of why i thought Texas was better than where he lived.

It was not meant to flame anyone and was a joke, but with all the apparant anti-Texas sentiments on this board it quickly became a insult fest.

Whatever, i'm done on this thread. For the record, i believe that thread was the only time i've (loosely) said some other place sucked. I've lived in Denver and Northern Virginia besides Texas, as well as spent ample time in nebraska and south dakota as well as NYC due to family. So, believe me when i say that Texas is the best placed i've lived.

*EDITED to add*

"nebraska" thread in question:

Reasons Texas is better than nebraska

threads where i have used the word 'sucks':

Rushing the field

Fun game

so i guess i did 'say' that Nashville sucks, but that was more a stab at Nashville country music as opposed to Texas music

Kitso
KS 361 times people on GC like to take little jokes and blow them out of proportion

aephi alum · #10 05-27-2003, 07:25 PM

Looks like it's up to me to weigh in for Connecticut

- Quaint little New England towns
- Not too far from NYC or Boston (I'm a city girl)
- Affordable houses (in most towns anyway)
- 4 distinct seasons and weather that keeps you guessing
- The world's worst drivers

docetboy · #11 05-27-2003, 07:33 PM

I might live in Nebraska, and love the cornhuskers, but I am a native Coloradoan...however, I will not support any of their college teams, but BRONCOS ROCK!!!

(and beats the shit out of the 'cowboys')

DeltAlum · #12 05-27-2003, 11:51 PM

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Originally posted by AggieSigmaNu361
It was entitled, "Reasons why Texas is better than Nebraska" and it was started with the sole intent to poke fun at docetboy.

In an earlier group chat he had said that Texas sucks, so i went ahead and posted a thread of why i thought Texas was better than where he lived.

It was not meant to flame anyone and was a joke, but with all the apparant anti-Texas sentiments on this board it quickly became a insult fest.

Kitso
KS 361 times people on GC like to take little jokes and blow them out of proportion

Kitso,

You have my appologies for misrepresenting the name of your thread. Without using the word "sucks," though, that was pretty much the message I read into the post -- even though, as I said at the time, I was sure it was done in humor.

However, from the PM's I got after my post, I will tell you that there were people hurt and offended by the thread.
Take that for whatever it is worth. The same goes for anyone else who decides it is OK to take a direct frontal attack on someone else's home state, city of residence, etc. I think that's 361 kinds of thoughtless. At least some people didn't consider the thread a "little joke."

I will just reiterate this: I believe I've still been to everywhere mentioned before and since that post (although I haven't gone back to really double check). None of those places is perfect, and no place is worthless. Whether one place is better than another is purely a matter of what we are comfortable with and what we like or dislike.

I would go on, but to what end? No opinions are likely to change, are they?

DolphinChicaDDD · #13 05-28-2003, 12:07 AM

Umm, so I've been looking at the map of the US the last few days that I have been sub. teaching...and I still am missing the hand as a map thing. Does it look like a hand or something, cause I'm missing it....

someone help a confused east coast girl out...thanks

AlphaSigOU · #14 05-28-2003, 12:26 AM

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Originally posted by DolphinChicaDDD
Umm, so I've been looking at the map of the US the last few days that I have been sub. teaching...and I still am missing the hand as a map thing. Does it look like a hand or something, cause I'm missing it....

someone help a confused east coast girl out...thanks

Hint: look at the lower peninsula of Michigan...

Looks suspiciously like a mitten, doesn't it?

GeekyPenguin · #15 05-28-2003, 12:27 AM

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Originally posted by DolphinChicaDDD
Umm, so I've been looking at the map of the US the last few days that I have been sub. teaching...and I still am missing the hand as a map thing. Does it look like a hand or something, cause I'm missing it....

someone help a confused east coast girl out...thanks

Hold the back your left hand out in front of you. It roughly looks like Wisconsin - it is a good method for pointing out where you are from. For example, I would tell people Platteville is just above your wrist on the outside, and my hometown is where the bone from your thumb meets the bones in your palm, my cottage is the top knuckle on my middle finger...it's a vague Wisconsin map.