Is it Time to Rethink US State Names?

[jtbell]

I thought that it just didn't make sense that the small portion of Michigan above one of the Great Lakes wasn't part of Wisconsin, so I added it to Wisconsin instead of Michigan.

Hey, if you take "da U.P." away from Michigan, you have to give back to Michigan the slice of northwest Ohio that includes Toledo. Otherwise Michigan might start another Toledo War.

[added] Ah, I now see that you all have gone way beyond this level... carry on!

 

[Smurf]

Since the city of Toledo was not chartered until 1837 and since the fracas was not actually a war, the term "Toledo War" is ...

hmmm, not as interesting as I thought.

 

[JamesU]

Most Improved member Award Evo?

http://www.filehigh.com/serve/7948/59796.jpg

 

[Smurf]

Stop being a dink.

 

[JamesU]

what have you earned for not sucking up?

 

[Smurf]

Dignity, Self-respect, you know, all that crap. Oh, and I have immunity.

 

[JamesU]

Since when does a smurf have dignity and self-respect?

 

[Mk]

Jesus, if anyone could see my first few posts I would totally massacre anybody in the "Most Improved Member" award. Wow, extremely embarrassing. Back then I didn't know anything about physics either!

 

[Math Is Hard]

oooh! I like Yomamma's map!
Voting and counting ballots is really time consuming - can't we just give Yomamma all the prizes this year? It just seems like the most efficient thing to do.

 

[Phobos]

Does this mean we need to cede New York, New Jersey and New Hampshire back to England? Or do we bite the bullet and cede all the New England region?

What? After all the trouble to dump all that tea in the harbor? (it's never been the same since) Would our football team become the Expatriots? Would we replace the Kennedy monarchy with Wills and Charles?

How about we just get Old England to join the U.S. and just name it all England instead? We already share the some of the same accent quirks (dropped r's), the best colleges in the world, and the same U.N. agenda.

- New Phobos

 

[Smurf]

We already share the some of the same accent quirks (dropped r's),

You've never been there, have you?

 

[moose]

oooh! I like Yomamma's map!
Voting and counting ballots is really time consuming - can't we just give Yomamma all the prizes this year? It just seems like the most efficient thing to do.

I'll give you a million dollars if you let ME count it, OR if you just throw away yomamma...

EDIT: MIH, do you realize that he gave you the least amount of land, AND ITS CRAPPY LAND!

 

[Math Is Hard]

I'll give you a million dollars if you let ME count it, OR if you just throw away yomamma...

EDIT: MIH, do you realize that he gave you the least amount of land, AND ITS CRAPPY LAND!

oh, no, baby, he gave me Dixieland - my land of hot sauce and collard greens. He knows right where my heart is!

 

[motai]

Hey, if you take "da U.P." away from Michigan, you have to give back to Michigan the slice of northwest Ohio that includes Toledo. Otherwise Michigan might start another Toledo War.

[added] Ah, I now see that you all have gone way beyond this level... carry on!

What is "Michigan"? I have never heard such a state. All we know is that chunk of the U.S. is now known as "Fridiga"

If you need directions to Fridiga, try to find it between Canada and Colombia.

 

[Evo]

oooh! I like Yomamma's map!
Voting and counting ballots is really time consuming - can't we just give Yomamma all the prizes this year? It just seems like the most efficient thing to do.

Yeah, I'm leaning toward letting yomamma sweep the awards this year. Not that this new truckload of dark Belgian <chomp> chocolate <snarf> has anything to do with my decision.

 

[JamesU]

Yeah, I'm leaning toward letting yomamma sweep the awards this year. Not that this new truckload of dark Belgian <chomp> chocolate <snarf> has anything to do with my decision.

http://nirvanachocolates.com

How many truckloads goes monthly to the PF sisterhood? I believe its seventeen? why not eighteen? (god, danger's credit card rules)

 

[Danger]

How'd you manage to morph it from a checkbook into a credit card?

 

[JamesU]

The PF sisterhood loans me all kinds of gadgets

 

[tribdog]

What is "Michigan"? I have never heard such a state. All we know is that chunk of the U.S. is now known as "Fridiga"
If you need directions to Fridiga, try to find it between Canada and Colombia.

and if you go straight South from Detroit what's the first different Country you come to?

that's right Canada. so it should be between Canada and Canada, not Colombia [/color]

 

[jtbell]

and if you go straight South from Detroit what's the first different Country you come to?

I bet you win a lot of bets in bars/pubs with that one.

 

[Janus]

and if you go straight South from Detroit what's the first different Country you come to?

According to our new map, it would be France.

 

[tribdog]

I bet you win a lot of bets in bars/pubs with that one.

you'd think so, but it seems like the only people dumb enough to make a bar bet usually get confused by the term South and end up saying Canada anyway.

 

[Danger]

and if you go straight South from Detroit what's the first different Country you come to?

You would not believe the number of times we encountered Yanks driving south across the border from Detroit with skis on their car racks in the middle of August. It was like 100* F. with 99% humidity, and they wanted to know where the snow was! We'd tell them to turn around and go back the way they came from for 8 or 9 hundred miles.