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Old 07-09-2004, 06:55 PM
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so, can any of y'all Iowans tell me about Sioux City?

Apparantly it's pretty close to Vermillion, SD and some people will load up and drive down there to party.

Just trying to explore all my socializing options once school starts up in the fall.

I might be making the trek to Ames this fall to see A&M play the Cyclones, that should be interesting.

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Too bad our SN Chapter went inactive long time ago.

Actually, the only thing I know about Sioux City is the shrine Catholic site - I forget what it is called, but it has two 30 feet steel statues of Virgin Mary and Jesus. Pretty cool to go there, and they also have a life size wood diorama of the Last Supper.

There is also Loess Hill in NW Iowa, suppose to be extremely fragile and unique - loess soils only can be found in Iowa and somewhere in China. State of Iowa has been trying to make this area as a national park - and it is still in progress.

How bout this highest point in Iowa? It is also in NW part of the state, I believe by the Ida Groove/Battle Creek area.
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Old 07-09-2004, 07:26 PM
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GO CLONES!
Too bad our SN Chapter went inactive long time ago.
Sig Nu was just barely active my freshman year (1997) and closed soon after. Alpha Sigs bought their house and renovated it in 1999.
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Or maybe a jamboree.
Or possibly even a shindig or lollapalooza.
Perhaps it'll be a hootshinpaloozaree. I don't know.
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Old 07-09-2004, 08:16 PM
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Now, I liked the campustown scene in Ames, as long as you avoided Sips and Dean's List (before it was Big Shots) and got to Paddy's early. The two-block walk home was a godsend if we couldn't convice someone to come pick us up in the middle of winter! We usually frequented Paddy's, Micky's, Cy's, People's and occassionally MoJazz.
Cosign. I loved living close to the bars when I was in the house, even if I was only 21 for my senior year and the following fall before I graduated. I lived in Ames for two years after I graduated and we went to Paddy's so much that the manager asked my friend this May when we were all going to graduate. She looked at Barry and said, "Um, we've all graduated (from undergrad)." I was never a big fan of MoJazz or Sips. Went to Big Shots the summer before they went under because they had $1 pitchers.

I like the Royal Mile - we've had fun every time we've gone there. Unfortunately we don't go out downtown too much. We do go to Mickey's quite a bit in Urbandale.

The butter cow and other butter renditions are one of my favorite things about the fair. I believe this is the 150th State Fair this year.

AggieSigmaNu361, I'll be at the game watching us get killed I imagine. I love my Cyclones, but I'm also a realist. Our football team may not be fabulous, but we can tailgate with the best of them!
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Old 07-09-2004, 09:35 PM
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I like the Royal Mile - we've had fun every time we've gone there. Unfortunately we don't go out downtown too much. We do go to Mickey's quite a bit in Urbandale.

I'm from Urbandale - going to Mickey's is a rite of passage, and I'm required to go back every time I'm around.

I'm also a fan of Valley West Pub for cheap happy hour, Autographs for when we want to get f-ed and stumble home w/out the DD, and Cabaret for the nighttime.

Unfortunately, too many of my friends work/did work/date someone who works at Drink, so we end up there . . .

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Old 07-10-2004, 05:25 AM
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AggieSigmaNu361, I'll be at the game watching us get killed I imagine. I love my Cyclones, but I'm also a realist. Our football team may not be fabulous, but we can tailgate with the best of them!
Sounds just like my cup of tea.

A&M's football team has been down the last couple of years, enough to prompt some people to make a shirt that reads: "College Station, Texas: A Drinking Town with a Football Problem"

I'm lookin forward to crusing the tailgate scene in Ames. The people in Lincoln last year were surprisingly benign.

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Old 07-10-2004, 09:45 AM
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Hee. ISU's only had about three years of being "good." Our sophomore year homecoming shirts had a passed-out Barney on the back with the words "What football game?" It royally pissed off some of the more proper girls in the house, but I still wear mine!

Heh. Drink. My husband had many a drunk night there courtesy of his friend who used to pitch for the ICubs.

If we felt like getting out of Campustown, we'd go to Whiskey River in downtown Ames or the Corner Pocket (but I didn't like it there).
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Old 07-11-2004, 12:57 AM
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the state fair in des moines is a good party scene.
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Old 07-11-2004, 01:23 AM
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so, can any of y'all Iowans tell me about Sioux City?

I might be making the trek to Ames this fall to see A&M play the Cyclones, that should be interesting.
Sioux City has a distinct odor to it. Comes from the rendering plant right near downtown. Otherwise I dont remember much of when I've visited except for drinking champagne while soaking in a hot-tub at a friend's parents' house.


Texas A&M vs. Iowa State: I believe that's our homecoming game. Come down and tailgate- if you see a guy in a gorilla suit mostlikely it's me and I'll have been drinking.
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Old 07-11-2004, 01:30 AM
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Texas A&M vs. Iowa State: I believe that's our homecoming game. Come down and tailgate- if you see a guy in a gorilla suit mostlikely it's me and I'll have been drinking.
If it's Homecoming, I'll be there! I made my husband promise we would go this year after having to miss the last two years--one for his college homecoming and one for his brother's wedding.
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Old 07-11-2004, 02:09 AM
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Crop Circles Baffle Iowa Family
Spots Appear In Eagle Grove Oat Field

POSTED: 10:51 a.m. CDT July 6, 2004
UPDATED: 2:15 p.m. CDT July 6, 2004

EAGLE GROVE, Iowa -- An Iowa farm family is baffled over some crop circles that showed up in their field during the Independence Day weekend.

Saturday morning, Brenda and Mike Trevis noticed about a dozen spots in their oat field near Eagle Grove in north-central Iowa.

The crops had been pushed over and broken at the roots in various shapes and sizes.

"I don't know what to make of it," Mike Trevis said.

The family called the Humboldt County sheriff to investigate, but there was no evidence of a person or animal going in or out of the field.

"We talked to neighbors to see if there was anything different in their crops. This is the only one," Brenda Trevis said.

There is no weather explanation for the crop circles, and the family said they don't know who or what is responsible.

"We're kind of scared because we want to know what caused it," Brenda Trevis said.
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Old 07-12-2004, 01:20 AM
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Saw in the news we rank #1 in meth lab busts in the US.
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Old 07-12-2004, 09:01 AM
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Saw in the news we rank #1 in meth lab busts in the US.
Must have happened since we in Oklahoma made pseudophedrine something you had to sign and show ID for at the pharmacist's counter.

I'm disappointed that our meth cookers can't be more resourceful and just drive to Arkansas, Texas or Kansas.
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Old 07-12-2004, 11:31 AM
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Must have happened since we in Oklahoma made pseudophedrine something you had to sign and show ID for at the pharmacist's counter.

I'm disappointed that our meth cookers can't be more resourceful and just drive to Arkansas, Texas or Kansas.

Iowa law doesn't require sigs for pseudoephedrine . . . just strict accounting for anhydrous ammonia and any devices from which you can extract lithium (plus you can't buy more than 96 pills at a time).

IA has been either one or two in methamphetimine busts for almost a decade, simply due to the perceived availability of anhydrous ammonia (farms do have legit uses for it, there's tons in the state) and the wide-open spaces needed to mask the intense odor of ether cooking. State-wide crackdowns and enforcement have led to being #1 in busts, even while not #1 in actual production, it's interesting.


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Old 07-12-2004, 11:46 AM
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I know in FY2000, Oklahoma led with 897 labs busted.

Since the passage of our new pseudophedrine law, we've only had around 39 (maybe 37) in the first quarter of this year.

We have the same problem with the availability of anhydrous ammonia. The pseudophedrine law seems to have had an excellent effect.
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Old 07-13-2004, 03:31 AM
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I tell you what, i don't know the stats, but i'm sure SD is right up there.

All i hear on the Rapid City news and Sioux Falls news is about meth lab busts.

I've also heard that a lot of MJ is funnelled through the rez and that I-90 is notorious for being a favorite route of drug runners.

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