It’s my impression that it’s mostly people in the Northwest and in the national capital that refuse to append “State” or “DC” to the word “Washington”
= NM of course.
Mine too. Annoying, when one lives in Washington state, but the TV is full of talking heads referring to the one-and-only Washington, by implication, being the city. WA state is IMHO 100 times nicer than that East Coast city.
Neighbors were at the NY World’s Fair and asked a guard where the nearest bubbler was…
“End o’ that building, take a right, and how are things in Milwaukee?”
Are the people in your largest city raging assholes that give the rest of the state a bad name?
Yes = New York
In the past, it was
Does your state sell cheap cigarettes across the border from states that sell lottery tickets and fireworks?
Yes = North Carolina
but we now have a lottery, stores can sell non-noise making fireworks, and tobacco is no longer a cash crop.
That sounds more like Massachusetts or Penn to me.
I was curious how many different states would pop up to say ours too!
Has your state had four current or former governors sent to prison in the past 50 years?
Yes = Illinois
Did your summertime visit not produce the expected warm, sandy beaches, palm trees, and surfers, but instead you had to wear a jacket and hat in the fog? Did you drive 30 minutes inland away from the coast and now you are boiling in 100F?
Yes = Northern California
Is the mountain out?
Yes/No = Pacific NW
??? = other places
As Mark Twain said, the coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
In Rhode Island we have 'bubbla’s. I thought it would be the same in MA. Don’t know about WI.
I expected Illinois, then Massachusetts… lot of assholes around, I guess.
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It wasn’t til my third visit to Seattle that someone yelled “Hey, mountain’s out!” And there was Mt. Rainier!
Viewed above the cherry blossoms on the UW campus, it looked so huge and so close that my first thought was “Wait, did I just never look in that direction?”
Does any other state have The Shore? Is that just New Jersey?
Maybe the Great Lakes States?
I think most states go to the beach. (That have them)
It’s definitely pronounced with the R in Wisconsin: BUB-blr.
Portland would like to join the club. Or, seeing as how the Portland bubblers were installed en masse in 1912 and have multiplied like rabbit offspring ever since, perhaps Portland is the charter member.
Did you learn about Cinco de Mayo in elementary school or from a beer commercial?
School = Southern/Central California
Beer commercial = rest of country
Append? In Maryland, we just refer to it as D.C., saving a syllable over “Washington”.
Dan
New York, too.
Although if people said Washington, our first thought would go to D.C., especially since Washington serves as a metonymy for the government so people refer to Washington that way far more often than they do to the physical district or the state.