I always heard it pronounced as “Ab-zork-ee, Mon-tan-ah”
I moved away from Bozeman last year. I liked it there, but there are not many jobs in most fields–you really have to want to live there (or like to ski) to stay there. A couple factoids: Most popular cars (accord to my astute observations) in Bozeman: likely, Subaru Outbacks. Number of full service gas stations in Winnett, county seat of Rhode Island-sized Petroleum county: 0.
Butte is a pretty ugly city, but it has a lot of character. Of the larger towns, I liked Helena, Missoula, and Bozeman the best due to the scenery in which they are situated. Bad Place to be during a nuclear war: Great Falls. Good Place: West Yellowstone.
and Derleth, I liked Havre (or at least driving through it, maybe living there I wouldn’t). All those little towns up that way like Kremlin and Chinook that are dwarfed by the horizons remind me of just how big, Big Sky country is.
Canada. but a little south in the middle ("Just a little bit soouuth of Saaskaatoom’)
Cows, government rebels, skiing
Rhymes with Con-Ten-Uh
We know you Aussies and like yuh. Montana has a couple of exchange programs with cattle farmers in Australia. My mother knew and corresponds with a woman who is on a station around Alice Springs and spent a year on a ranch in eastern Montana (Baker).
I meet a couple of Aussies a year who work on cattle or sheep ranches in Montana. Our beer tastes like piss, but any Aussie and any Montanan will drink beer together and have a good time.
Yep, go south of Big Timber and 10 miles west. But it’s all private land.
And we (Montanan’s) thought that show was about as interesting as New Yorker’s would like watching hicks learn how to ride the subway. What they did for sport, our grandparents did to survive. Big freaking whoop.
Actually, I dont think they got paid or anything, they called it an “Experiment”, like they did it just to see if the could survive. If so, the Clunes should have gotten kicked out, they cheated on more than one occasion. Like you said, your grandparents couldnt walj to the next town to go to winn dixie and watch tv like the Clunes did.
If you could tie Montana to a device that drags, where in the world would you drag it to?
What do you think of people naming their babies after your state? For instance, if people started calling their kids New South Wales, I’d be a little concerned.
Satan gets abducted by Montanans. What happens next?
If you could have had anyone to babysit you as a child, who would it be?
IMHO, nowhere. I like this part of the world, despite the killing cold in the winter and the killing heat in the summer. I like the fact that it does snow around here (when it isn’t too dry… ) and that we’re rural enough to avoid traffic problems throughout most of the state (plenty of exceptions in the big cities, though (goddamned Missoula drivers… ;))).
I think Montana is a pretty name, but Montanans by and large are a live-and-let-live group. We don’t really care what you do as long as it doesn’t hurt us.
That’s why Ted the Unabomber (can’t spell his last name, won’t try) was able to hide out in his little 8*10 cabin for so long: Montana has always been the last refuge for those who just can’t hack it anywhere more civilized.
We smear him with honey and take him to Glacier. He’d make really good bear food.
Eh, how is this related to Montana? It’s a pretty odd question anyway…
When I was a kid, my family used to backpack in a wilderness near Red Lodge. I loved the place. I wan’t to go back. I have no idea what it was called. It had a bunch of lakes that went by numbers instead of names. Any thoughts?
If you could tie Montana to a device that drags, where in the world would you drag it to?
Canada.
What do you think of people naming their babies after your state? For instance, if people started calling their kids New South Wales, I’d be a little concerned.
It’s stupid. You need to find other things to be concerned about.
Satan gets abducted by Montanans. What happens next?
We buy him a drink and swap stories about his sister, my ex-wife.
If you could have had anyone to babysit you as a child, who would it be?
Once upon a time I would have said PeeWee Herman, but I don’t think that’s safe anymore. I’d have to go with either Anna Nicole Smith or a dead guy.
Any snow in the Bozeman area yet? Last weekend my mom said they still didn’t have any.
I miss Montana. I grew up there but had to move out here to work. We’re planning on moving back there in another 5 or 10 years.
Absa-f*cking-lutely! Man, that named jumped out at me as soon as I saw it! Is is still relatively uncrowded? Back in the 70’s, if you saw more than one group of people on the trail a day, it was a “traffic jam”.
