# "Flat as a pancake" in American vernacular **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 29, 2022, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flat-as-a-pancake-in-american-vernacular/965301 "2022-05-29T14:15:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2022, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flat-as-a-pancake-in-american-vernacular/965301/61 "2022-05-31T00:27:16Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I think we can safely say the reason the north winds are so cold in West Texas is that there is nothing between Lubbock and the North Pole but a couple of barb wire fences. I recall that saying. 🙂 In the version I heard and prefered it ends with “… and a couple of the wires is broke.” Not “are broke.” “is broke.” ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2022, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flat-as-a-pancake-in-american-vernacular/965301/62 "2022-05-31T00:29:58Z")
Hey, if Lubbock was just 3 degrees farther west, Regina would be an excellent northern windbreak! Their loss. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2022, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flat-as-a-pancake-in-american-vernacular/965301/63 "2022-05-31T00:38:00Z")
Hank sums it up perfectly: “There’s plenty to see. Nothing to block your view.” It helps to have a taste for abstract art. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flat-as-a-pancake-in-american-vernacular/965301/64 "2022-06-04T17:41:41Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > If you really want to see suffocatingly flat, drive from Grand Forks ND to Rugby. I’ve done that drive. It felt like the horizon was going to pull my eyes out through the windshield. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flat-as-a-pancake-in-american-vernacular/965301/65 "2022-06-04T20:31:53Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Having grown up at the beach in So Cal, I’ve seen very bumpy mountains and I’ve seen very flat oceans just by turning around while standing in place. > > West Texas is disorientingly, disturbingly, scarily flat. it makes calm oceans look hilly. Kansas is not like that. Quite. As another SoCalian, I know exactly what you’re talking about. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2022, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flat-as-a-pancake-in-american-vernacular/965301/66 "2022-06-05T00:19:49Z")
My flatness reference is Wile E. Coyote after many of his attempts to catch the Roadrunner. A collection of youtube clips here: [https://www.google.com/search?q=wilie+e+coyote+gets+flattened&rlz=1CATTSD\_enUS774US774&oq=Wilie+e+coyote+gets+fl&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j33i10i160l3j33i22i29i30l6.26474j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8](https://www.google.com/search?q=wilie+e+coyote+gets+flattened&rlz=1CATTSD_enUS774US774&oq=Wilie+e+coyote+gets+fl&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j33i10i160l3j33i22i29i30l6.26474j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flat-as-a-pancake-in-american-vernacular/965301.md?page=3)