the united states of america

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ah cmon there had to be SOMEONE writing a letter in their studebaker before plowing into a telephone pole

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Wait, does black mean no "Jeapordy" at all? The poor dears.

They're probably so small, they mooch off one of the other surrounding markets.

Mankato, Minn., for example, is a market with one television station, an NBC affiliate.

Zanesville, Ohio, has only one station, WHIZ.

wheres that big one, northern mississippi?

Tupelo.

Relevant to the thread:

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IND ?

Like WGN in Chicago or WTBS in Atlanta. No network affiliation.

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that is not the united states of america

this, however, is (from here)

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one united state of america

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the eye is naturally drawn to the borders that aren't rivers. the border between idaho and montana is the continental divide. the border of virginia and west virginia is...existing county lines? seems overly complicated ya'll

the border of virginia and west virginia is...existing county lines?

You're close. those county lines mostly going across the top of the mountains, dividing one side of the mountain from the other.

(Same for VA/KY and VA/TN.)

he's right

if you zoom in on the texas-oklahoma border it would be so much simpler if the river decided the boundary, but no, there are all these weird little loops and oxbows that make everything confusing

that's the problem with using rivers as borders, the red river has changed course over the past century or but the border technically remains the same

i wonder if anyone being charged for a crime involving an illegal crossing of a river state border has ever used the "No one ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same person" defense

your honor, as famed radio personality john peel once said of the fall,

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How true

i say trash can but garbage truck?

tbf you are -- and god bless you for it -- not a native

also no one (i hope) says trash truck

haha yeah trash truck would be weird. I say 'Garbage' in Aus. Picked up Trash over here.

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Twerk is a gen x slang term. As a Marylander, I feel robbed.

Basic and fleek are millennial terms, I thought

Fleek is definitely Millenial. Basic is GenX. Low Key has been around forever, no?

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"Kinda"

Proud Virginian here. We're PG-13 and we like it that way

this is grebt; particularly love the results for 'columbia'

https://pudding.cool/2023/03/same-name

Portland, TN, and Portland, IN, get more hits than Portland, ME?

calling bs on this, no one in massachusetts even knows theres a Princeton MA except maybe people in worcester county

yeah the radius for ones that are major or famous city vs tiny towns seems too big, are people in indianapolis really talking about Boston, IN more than Boston, MA

I'd put the order in Little Rock at 1.) Springfield, Mo., 2.) Springfield, Ill., 3.) and then Springfield, Mass., followed finally by 4.) Springfield, Ark., wherever the hell that is.

yeah, i assure you no one who has ever mentioned "miami" to me meant miami, missouri, population 175

"In most US counties, Florence usually refers to Florence (Italy)."

Ha! I was talking to a travel agent last night about flying into Rome and asked if Florence was easier and he said "Well there are a lot of Florences"

I have been to Florence, Oregon and it has the advantage of actually being named Florence.

As opposed to the one in Italy.

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https://tenpages.github.io/us-level/us.html

level 54 I think, based on what I remember of travelling across the states 30 years ago, plus a couple of other trips.

I'm at 96, overwhelmingly from coastal visits/stays. I've only ever lived in two states: Missouri and Virginia.

Level 129, although tbh I'm not sure of the difference between "Visited Here" and "Stayed Here." There are only a handful of states I haven't at least passed through, mainly West Virginia and most of New England.

i interpret “stayed” as stayed with friends or family and “visited” like you stayed there but you were a tourist in an airbnb or a hotel