What state is the biggest mystery to you? - Page 8

**Rain Man** · 03-19-2006, 03:00 PM

During the course of your Internet travels, you make the acquaintance of a nice person from Thailand named Santawanjanoop Parseethanawanapattapittyparwanathanasan. Santawanjanoop informs you that he/she (you don't know if Santawanjanoop is a male name or female name) is moving to the U.S. next year, and will be living in [insert state name here]. Santawanjanoop asks you for a brain dump of what it's like to live in [insert state name here].

What state would give you the most trouble?

For me, a couple of states stand out. Connecticut is probably the most mysterious state for me. I don't know much of anything about it, and can hardly even name cities in Connecticut. Is it urban, or is it just a bunch of New York suburbs? Connecticut is kind of a black hole for me.

Another state that is challenging on a different scale is California. I know a fair amount about the state, but I can never keep all of the second-tier cities straight. Where is Santa Monica compared to Santa Anna compared to Santa Rosa compare to Santa Rosita (if there is a Santa Rosita). That state has far too many cities that start with Santa.

The other mysterious state is Delaware. I still question whether it really exists, or if it's some mythical place like Shangri-La or Cibola or Puerto Rico.

**banyon** · 03-20-2006, 10:02 PM

nobody ever got to the bottom of that weird Idaho border, huh?

Maybe someday it'll be in a Time-Life Books series to explain the phenomenon.

**chefsos** · 03-20-2006, 11:41 PM

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Originally Posted by listopencil

Ha-ha. New Jersey got screwed.

Hehe. It's ****ed up logically, but it's established law now. If Jersey bitches about it again, we could just go totally douche and plant a few "Welcome to Delaware" signs on their riverbank.

**Bugeater** · 03-21-2006, 12:07 AM

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Originally Posted by chefsos

Hehe. It's ****ed up logically, but it's established law now. If Jersey bitches about it again, we could just go totally douche and plant a few "Welcome to Delaware" signs on their riverbank.

Iowa pulled some douchebaggery like that on us a few years back, if you look on the attached map you'll see where the Corp of Engineers changed the course of the Missouri river decades ago to take out the Carter Bend (Carter Lake now). So we end up with a little piece of Iowa on our side of the river. Well some jackasses in Iowa decide it would be a clever idea to put "Welcome to Iowa" signs on Abbott Drive, the main road to & from the airport. Ha ha.

**chefsos** · 03-21-2006, 12:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Bugeater

Iowa pulled some douchebaggery like that on us a few years back, if you look on the attached map you'll see where the Corp of Engineers changed the course of the Missouri river decades ago to take out the Carter Bend (Carter Lake now). So we end up with a little piece of Iowa on our side of the river. Well some jackasses in Iowa decide it would be a clever idea to put "Welcome to Iowa" signs on Abbott Drive, the main road to & from the airport. Ha ha.

Funny. I was in Omaha several years ago and I remember my son-in-law telling me after my ride from the airport, "Yeah, it says Iowa but it's not really." I never got around to asking for an explanation; now I know the deal.

Frosty · 03-21-2006, 08:15 AM

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Originally Posted by listopencil

Nope. It's just me, my family and my close friends. We kill all of those Southern Californians stupid enough to wander up here.

Could you keep them from coming to Washington, please? They keep wandering up I-5 and then they stay in Washington when Canada turns them away.

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