What is the WEIRDEST state in America?

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― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:53 (nineteen years ago) link

that smurfturf they got in idaho means it's in my final four fer sure

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:53 (nineteen years ago) link

what now?

― adam... (nordicskilla), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:54 (nineteen years ago) link

mountain men shave their arms.

― battlin' green eyeshades (Homosexual II), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:55 (nineteen years ago) link

why? I've thought about it, we all have. But really, why?

― adam... (nordicskilla), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:56 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm sure delaware is secretly weird underneath the nondescriptness. it's gotta be a front operation for something really sinister.

― motown modown (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:57 (nineteen years ago) link

I heard everyone in Delaware basically works for the same company.

― adam... (nordicskilla), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:58 (nineteen years ago) link

In the same building!

― adam... (nordicskilla), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Iowa is sinister.

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Florida, Florida, Florida. Where do we start?

Talking mice, Elian Gonzalez, it looks like a flacid penis, Bob Graham and his life notebook, drive-thru ministries, southern state with more jews than hillbillies (as well as some folks known as "jewbillies"), only atlantic coast state in central time zone, hit by four hurricanes in six weeks, home to Jeb Bush and Janet Reno, vice cops who don't wear socks, insects as big as pumpkins, orange moonshine, zoning laws that would make North Korea proud, Ocala in every crossword puzzle I work, two world series championships and possibly the last NHL Stanley Cup winner, Ernest Hemingway's thousand cats, and oh yeah, CHADS THAT DANGLE, CHADS THAT HANG, CHADS THAT DIMPLE, CHADS THAT SANG.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 29 October 2004 21:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Louisiana, by a mile. Utah's pretty weird, it's true, but it's only weird in one direction. Louisiana's weird all over the place. It's Southern, French, black, gay, redneck, racist, Catholic, voodoo, bacchanalian, you name it. And in the last governor's race, it was neck and neck between a white Democratic woman and a Republican Indian man. They elected the woman. Crazy state.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 29 October 2004 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link

I think I will move there.

― adam... (nordicskilla), Friday, 29 October 2004 21:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Louisiana is fun in doses.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 29 October 2004 21:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Also the only state with drive-thru daiquiri stands.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 29 October 2004 21:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I have been to New Orleans. Within minutes of our arrival, the bellboy was asking us if we liked "titties" and telling us where we could go to see them.

― adam... (nordicskilla), Friday, 29 October 2004 21:06 (nineteen years ago) link

When it rained, it was the most beautiful city ever.

― adam... (nordicskilla), Friday, 29 October 2004 21:06 (nineteen years ago) link

and the smelliest

― motown modown (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 29 October 2004 21:07 (nineteen years ago) link

deleware is run by them inbred rasslin duponts so jbr may be on to something

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 29 October 2004 21:08 (nineteen years ago) link

I have a friend from Louisiana (named Jacques, for real). He grew up in Lafayette, in an old-fashioned Catholic Acadian family. He has 10 brothers and sisters. I said, damn, that's a big family. He said, nah, the family next door had 17 kids. Sometimes the two families would go out to eat together and take over an entire Pizza Hut.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 29 October 2004 21:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Delaware really is a secret front for something sinister (specifically: Jade Tree).

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 29 October 2004 21:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Damm Leblancs.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 29 October 2004 21:14 (nineteen years ago) link

No to mention the DuPonts.

― briania (briania), Friday, 29 October 2004 21:21 (nineteen years ago) link

how about West Virginia, in the sense that you'd have to consider it a little weird to ever want to go there.

montana, for the record, amazing. my wife is from bozeman and i could only be so lucky to have a place there with her someday.

― metfigga (metfigga), Friday, 29 October 2004 21:50 (nineteen years ago) link

west virginia's great - don knotts, jerry west: what more could you ask?

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 29 October 2004 21:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh it's New Mexico. Or Nevada. There's some weird shit going on there that far outdoes any of the freaks in Cali or Florida. Hello lesbian communes!

― oops (Oops), Friday, 29 October 2004 21:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Lesbian communes don't seem especially weird to me.

― adam... (nordicskilla), Friday, 29 October 2004 22:01 (nineteen years ago) link

I mean, Northern California must have hundreds of communes.

― adam... (nordicskilla), Friday, 29 October 2004 22:01 (nineteen years ago) link

The lesbian-themed among them being the most mundane.

― adam... (nordicskilla), Friday, 29 October 2004 22:02 (nineteen years ago) link

That's just the tip of the iceberg.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 29 October 2004 22:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Over half of the Fortune 500 companies are incorporated in Delaware.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 October 2004 22:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Half of Fortune 500 - advantage Delaware.

Hundreds of lesbian communes - Advantage California.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 29 October 2004 22:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Lesbian communes in the desert are a different animal than lesbian communes in California. Basically, deserts create weirdness, in my book. Advance copies available.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 29 October 2004 22:05 (nineteen years ago) link

As much as I'd like to rat out the deep south, I'm guessing Idaho. Survivalists and posse comitatuses n' shit...

― the apex of nadirs (Rock Hardy), Friday, 29 October 2004 22:17 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm going to vote for Kansas, even though I haven't been there. There was a great rant about how weird and fucked up Kansas is in (argh, either Harper's or the Atlantic Monthly) a few months ago. People from the Midwest have agreed with this sentiment.

Utah is a close second.

The pundits seem to agree that Missouri is the most typical state in the U.S. Do you agree?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 29 October 2004 23:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I find Ohio so fucking normal it's weird. Cincinnati is probably the one American city I'd go to any lengths to never, ever set foot in again. It's the most boring fucking place I've ever been, except for Cleveland, which I have a strange affection for.

But I vote for Louisiana. I mean I love it but it's so outside what most Americans think is normal...everything this country could've been but is not.

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Saturday, 30 October 2004 00:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Wisconsin. Wisconsin Death Trip. The House on the Rock. American Movie. That '70s Show. Lavergne and Shirley. The most beer in the nation. All the dairy. Polka.

― lysander spooner, Saturday, 30 October 2004 00:38 (nineteen years ago) link

new jersey is def. the weirdest NE corridor state. but both NY and PA have pockets of DEEP weirdness. NY has staten island (which ALONE would qualify it for "deeply weird") and long-forgotten communities of dutch patricians and pre-hippie free-love-fuck-yer-brains-out "communes." PA has scrapple, communities deep in the poconos where they round up and wrassle rattlesnakes and play darts w/ bowie knives, and crack central is in the middle of amish country (a/k/a the city of reading).

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 30 October 2004 01:10 (nineteen years ago) link

yes, i was gonna say, pennsylvania is very very weird.

― motown modown (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 30 October 2004 01:17 (nineteen years ago) link

and upstate new york going from the catskills all the way out west to like buffalo, seriously fucked up.

― motown modown (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 30 October 2004 01:19 (nineteen years ago) link

listen, the whole country is fucking weird besides new york.

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 30 October 2004 01:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Half of Fortune 500 - advantage Delaware.

this is precisely what makes delaware so friggin' weird. its corporate laws (which are notoriously business-friendly and lax in enforcement which is what entices them to DE in the 1st place) are practically the legal world's personification of baudrillard's simulacron. downtown wilmington is a ghost-town after 6 PM (and the rest of the place is a REAL NASTY ghetto). i'm also sure that the duponts and george thorogood have something to do w/ DE weirdness, too!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 30 October 2004 01:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Florida, even if it only had one city - if that city was Gibsonton.
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/roger/QueryTips.php3?tip.Town=gibsonton&Tip.State=FL

― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Saturday, 30 October 2004 03:17 (nineteen years ago) link

creepy!

― motown modown (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 30 October 2004 03:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Texas

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 30 October 2004 03:26 (nineteen years ago) link

yanc3y to thread re: wva

but really--there are people in alaska who live unlike anyone "outside". that book into the wild? it was kind of a pisser in alaska because there are plenty of folks who just go out and live on their own--they're just not stupid enough to eat random plants, etc.

people in texas think they're bitchen. fucken live through an alaskan winter.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 30 October 2004 05:35 (nineteen years ago) link

The case for Rhode Island:

+ Buddy Cianci
+ Ian Johnson
+ Jon Williams
+ Laura
+ Andrew L.R.
+ Me
+ Coffee Syrup
+ Calling milkshakes 'cabinets' , giros 'grinders' and see-saws 'dandles'
+ Newport
+ Gaspee Day (google it)
+ Providence
+ Brown / RISD
+ Waterfire.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 30 October 2004 06:34 (nineteen years ago) link

hp lovecraft!

― motown modown (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 30 October 2004 06:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Are we missing posts on this thread? I could have sworn someone said something about Indiana and Oklahoma, and I snapped back, and none of that's there anymore. I can't imagine what other thread that happened on, so it must be... missing?

― Kenan (kenan), Saturday, 30 October 2004 07:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Relatively normal states: Alabama, Arizona, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, all the "New" states, the "North" states, Ohio, the "South" states, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, Washington. Also: D.C.

Moderately weird states: Arkansas, California, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan (only for the U.P.), Mississippi, Oregon, Rhode Island, West Virginia, Wyoming.

Totally weird states: Alaksa, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Wisconsin. Also: Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, etc.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 30 October 2004 08:13 (nineteen years ago) link

And, for good measure:

More normal-ish provinces: British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, PEI, Saskatchewan.

More weird provinces: Alberta, Newfoundland and Labrador, NW Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, Yukon Territory.

With "most normal" going to Manitoba and "weirdest" going to Newfoundland.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 30 October 2004 08:17 (nineteen years ago) link

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jim wentworth, does your wife like it when you skip foreplay???

― Ian John50n (orion), Sunday, 31 October 2004 04:07 (nineteen years ago) link

i wouldn't concede the fight so quickly, mr. wentworth. i mean, PA doesn't have "runaway pond" while VT does (and said "runaway pond" wasn't too far away from where you are in VT, either!)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 31 October 2004 04:10 (nineteen years ago) link

new jersey has boy scout lake and wortendyke!

― results not typical (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 31 October 2004 04:12 (nineteen years ago) link

new mexico has ROY.

― Ian John50n (orion), Sunday, 31 October 2004 04:15 (nineteen years ago) link

arizona still has the original london bridge, right?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 31 October 2004 04:16 (nineteen years ago) link

i wonder if they sell this in blueballs:

http://members.shaw.ca/gorillagallery2/nibspic.jpg

― results not typical (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 31 October 2004 04:17 (nineteen years ago) link

http://members.shaw.ca/gorillagallery2/licenseplatepic.jpg

― results not typical (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 31 October 2004 04:28 (nineteen years ago) link

You folks will have to excuse me as the Red Sox fan that I have long been. I'm not used to winning.

Of course my wife enjoys the foreplay. I think she does, at least. That is, she tells me it's good. I mean... For Christ's sake!

Eisbar, I drive right by Runaway Pond regulary. I mean, where it was.

And as long as we're talking named places. What the hell were folks thinking when they named Kalamazoo or Cucomonga?

― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 31 October 2004 04:28 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.thom.org/photos/WIPVcheesesign.jpg

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Sunday, 31 October 2004 04:37 (nineteen years ago) link

one of the weirdest 24 hour stretches of my life was spent in nevada.. walking around vegas at night, stone cold sober, seeing a waitress with a 'new york' nametag in the venetian, coming back to new york, new york (the hotel), seeing a photograph of the new york skyline right next to a window showing the las vegas skyline..

the next morning, taking a tour of the nevada nuclear test site. remains of dummy houses and bridges. thunderstorms. craters. the desert. 'official' documentary on the bus that showed the flashes you could see in vegas when the site was operational. bus driver almost falling asleep.

― mattp, Monday, 1 November 2004 09:34 (nineteen years ago) link

the next morning, taking a tour of the nevada nuclear test site.

:-) :-) :-) :-)

― results not typical (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 1 November 2004 13:35 (nineteen years ago) link

The case could very easily be made that Kentucky is NOT normal. We have political assassinations over COUNTY ELECTIONS. We have Cumberland Falls, where the ONLY remaining MOONBOW on Earth can be found (now that that stretch of the Nile has been dammed). We have churches whose services are based around people HOLDING DEADLY VENOMOUS SNAKES. We have places with names like DIX DAM DOX and BIG BONE LICK. We have huge amounts of very deadly NERVE GAS stored in Richmond. When Derby season is on, celebrities and Saudi princes fly in for the ponies.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 1 November 2004 14:15 (nineteen years ago) link

america is weird. so all of them, naturally.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Monday, 1 November 2004 17:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Whassa Moonbow Nick?

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Monday, 1 November 2004 17:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Like a rainbow, but caused by MOONLIGHT rather than SUNLIGHT.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 1 November 2004 17:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Sounds pretty.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Monday, 1 November 2004 17:51 (nineteen years ago) link

i feel rather bad about not ever having gone to see it, even though i grew up about 20 minutes away. i heard that it is fantastic, though.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Monday, 1 November 2004 17:58 (nineteen years ago) link

five months pass...

i'm sure delaware is secretly weird underneath the nondescriptness. it's gotta be a front operation for something really sinister.

Ever seen The Pretender?

― What we want? Sex with T.V. stars! What you want? Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Thursday, 7 April 2005 00:04 (nineteen years ago) link

man i love cumberland falls.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Florida, because it's shaped like a wang

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:15 (nineteen years ago) link

i dont know, i think the weirdest i have visited is california...

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:14 (nineteen years ago) link

the central valley is totally weird!!

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Everyone who said Wisconsin is completely OTM; have we already forgotten Ed Gein and Jeffrey Dahmer?

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 7 April 2005 12:14 (nineteen years ago) link

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