What is the WEIRDEST state in America?

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.

+ 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.

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.

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.

I think WV is crazy, especially that little northern bit that, if you look at a map, gets pretty close to Canada. Plus its name is odd seeing as there's a bit of Virginia that's further west.

Everything in Florida is either painted orange, turquoise or pale yellow. That alone has to cause some form of madness.

Florida Death Metal -- where else could something like that come from? Oh yeah...Sweden. Explain that one Batman.

They have advertisements for Florida based topless pancake houses as far north as Chattanooga, Tennessee.

While staying in a Hyatt right on the ocean in Miami Beach, the hotel bar had a nice black marble, gold embossed sign that said anyone over heard trying to purchase or sell narcotics would lead to the sheriff's office being notified by management. That blew my midwestern mind, that it must have been happening enough that they had to post a sign. It wasn't enough for the bartender to say, "hey man quit trying to make a cocaine deal in my bar." Of course the lead story on the local news that day was some poor Jamaican that died in the airport because of a baggy of cocaine that burst in his stomach and the other was about someone spiking drinks in bars in South Beach and killing some woman.

Kenan, I think that you were looking for this: http://ilx.p3r.net/postmarkread.php?msgid=5193240

YOU DON'T SAY.

Having spent the first 18 years of my life there (1958-76) I'd have to agree. And it's become much more bland/generic since then. In fact being "weird" has always been considered a mortal sin in Cincy.

All the fucking bridges
Newport Mansions
The RI desert
Windmills
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The providence tunnel
fort thunder, etc
crosswalk to nowhere
The Masonic Temple
Dell's lemonade
The homeless village and art associated with it

http://www.livejournal.com/community/weird_ri/

>Having spent the first 18 years of my life there (1958-76) I'd have to agree. And it's become much more bland/generic since then. In fact being "weird" has always been considered a mortal sin in Cincy.

yeah--you'd think, with its *potential*--interesting architecture (some of which is even cutting-edge), and what could be a cool arts scene, and the King Records connection, and what is basically a lovely setting there on the river--it could be a lot better than it is. i lived there for a year and a half and i was always amazed at how dour the city was, how old the young people seemed, how uptight everyone was, how much they hated southerners...no matter how many times i told 'em that my home, Nashville, was about 20 years ahead of Cinci, they couldn't believe anything below the Ohio River could possibly be such. nothing there made any damn sense to me whatsoever, and that chili is an abomination.

I don't know how a state of which the majority of its land is either Native American reservations or national/state forests could be considered normal.
Also weird: the border.

Well, that's true for a lot of places. Virignia's like that and has even banned radar detectors.

but chris is right, wisconsin is weirder. see here.

It was a sovereign and idependent country once upon a time. The 13 original states refused its entry ino the union.

The state tried to have Lake Champlain designated as the 6th great lake, even though the nearest one is a few hundred miles away.

It is the home of Snowflake Bentley, a man who made thousands of photgraphs of, well, snowflakes.

There is speculation that Chester A. Arthur was actually born in Canada, which would have invalidated his presidency.

Most hippies east of the Mississippi tend to gravitate toward here.

Most Vermonters can not afford to buy Ben & Jerry's ice cream.

Phish

There are no billboards ( I kinda like that, though)

We actually do say "ayuh".

Winters are interminably long.

And of course no mention of Vermont would be complete without touting Ticklenaked Pond.

So, yeah, kinda weird in those respects.

LOCK THREAD.

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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?

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.

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