# happy, happy, joy, joy **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 8, 2009, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-happy-joy-joy/492444 "2009-04-08T22:44:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![catflea12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f6c823/32.png) [@catflea12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catflea12)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-happy-joy-joy/492444/1 "2009-04-08T22:44:01Z")
According to some poll, I live smack dab in the middle of the happiest place in the US! 😃 Guess Where! ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-happy-joy-joy/492444/2 "2009-04-08T22:47:26Z")
Disneyland? ---
**Author:** ![catflea12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f6c823/32.png) [@catflea12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catflea12)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-happy-joy-joy/492444/3 "2009-04-08T22:48:44Z")
It’s Nebraska :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-happy-joy-joy/492444/4 "2009-04-08T22:52:18Z")
There’s a Disneyland in Nebraska? ---
**Author:** ![catflea12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f6c823/32.png) [@catflea12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catflea12)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-happy-joy-joy/492444/5 "2009-04-08T23:00:20Z")
Well, there are a whole bunch of rather stange and different characters here. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-happy-joy-joy/492444/6 "2009-04-08T23:06:07Z")
That’s interesting. Ask how many people who \*don’t \*live in Nebraska would be happy living there. I’m guessing you won’t find many. Nebraska would not be my first choice. But then neither was Cincinnati, Ohio. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-happy-joy-joy/492444/7 "2009-04-09T01:00:16Z")
Soapland…? ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-happy-joy-joy/492444/8 "2009-04-09T02:16:45Z")
Ah! But what’s the happiest place in Nebraska? I’m guessing Halsey… ---
**Author:** ![catflea12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f6c823/32.png) [@catflea12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catflea12)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-happy-joy-joy/492444/9 "2009-04-09T10:33:59Z")
this was reported by Good Morning America a couple of days ago, they wouldn’t lie to us, would they? ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2009, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-happy-joy-joy/492444/10 "2009-04-10T01:04:25Z")
> [@catflea12](#): > > this was reported by Good Morning America a couple of days ago, they wouldn’t lie to us, would they? Not since the last time. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2009, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-happy-joy-joy/492444/11 "2009-04-10T02:21:14Z")
> [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](#): > > Nebraska would not be my first choice. But then neither was Cincinnati, Ohio. Wasn’t mine either. It’s nice, though. Maybe not the happiest place in the country, but we do have flying pigs. And Graeter’s ice cream. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2009, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-happy-joy-joy/492444/12 "2009-04-10T03:08:27Z")
I have always liked living here… ---
**Author:** ![mattomic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@mattomic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mattomic)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2009, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-happy-joy-joy/492444/13 "2009-04-10T03:12:25Z")
How do you measure happiness, exactly? My scientific formula would be to send teams of researchers to cities, have them poke passers-by in the arm repeatedly, and to record the number of pokes required until they tell you to knock it off. I’d venture happy cities would average around a 10.