# I am posting from the state of: **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 21, 1999, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159 "1999-08-21T13:22:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Contestant\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce7236/32.png) [@Contestant\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contestant_3)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 1999, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159/1 "1999-08-21T13:22:00Z")
Ohio How about you? * * * Contestant #3 ---
**Author:** ![MrKnowItAll](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrknowitall/32/87_2.png) [@MrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrKnowItAll)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 1999, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159/2 "1999-08-21T13:27:00Z")
Kentucky. This of course accounts for most of my “typos”. ---
**Author:** ![ellis555](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e36b37/32.png) [@ellis555](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ellis555)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 1999, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159/3 "1999-08-21T13:50:00Z")
vermont. it’s quite simple, you see; new hampshire is the upside-down one. ---
**Author:** ![Imthecowgodmoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Imthecowgodmoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imthecowgodmoo)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 1999, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159/4 "1999-08-21T13:51:00Z")
confusion. Its 9:46 on a Saturday, I’m supposed to be in bed for another 4 hours!! DAMN HAY FEVER! Actually, Ohio. * * * “I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.” – Calvin and Hobbes (\_\_) `\/-------\ `| |-----| | …c.c…c.c… ---
**Author:** ![Gilligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Gilligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gilligan)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 1999, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159/5 "1999-08-21T14:01:00Z")
Also Ohio. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 1999, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159/6 "1999-08-21T14:10:00Z")
Ohio. Are there really that many of us, or is it just that we all have no lives? ---
**Author:** ![Pooch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/dbc845/32.png) [@Pooch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pooch)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 1999, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159/7 "1999-08-21T14:14:00Z")
delusion…Japan…anarchy…japan…grace ---
**Author:** ![sly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@sly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sly)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 1999, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159/8 "1999-08-21T14:21:00Z")
Michigan. Let me get this straight. Gilligan spent years and years on a tropical deserted island trying to get home to _Ohio_? ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 1999, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159/9 "1999-08-21T14:39:00Z")
Oregon! Yay 🙂 * * * “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 1999, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159/10 "1999-08-21T15:17:00Z")
Tejas ---
**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 1999, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159/11 "1999-08-21T16:11:00Z")
Nevada but I was born and raised in Toledo, Ohio.(actually Perrysburg township, for you north west ohioans. * * * Gail “Any major dude with half a heart surely will tell you, my friend– Any minor world that breaks apart falls together again…” -Steely Dan ---
**Author:** ![jazzmine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jazzmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jazzmine)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 1999, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159/12 "1999-08-21T16:13:00Z")
Idaho. Help, the Ohioans are taking over the board. :). trisha * * * He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice - Albert Einstein ---
**Author:** ![mr\_john](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@mr\_john](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr_john)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 1999, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159/13 "1999-08-21T16:36:00Z")
Anarchy,conny melad, and I am expanding the boundaries as we speak. Hola, escarabajo. También, qué parte es usted from?(agradece le, pequeños pescados de la confusión.) Not to worry Jazz ,lot’s of them moved down here with beatle and me,they wasn’t so bad once they converted. And now in honor of the creator of this topic,which is evolving even now, a special sig line,complete with gratuitous cheap shot; * * * " Emulate the duck,no matter how severe the rains blow down, he ignores them and lets them roll off his back.The same however can be said of the jackass when the blows rain down."-mr john ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 1999, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159/14 "1999-08-21T16:40:00Z")
Confusion. IE: California, the granola state, whats not fruit and nuts is flakes. ---
**Author:** ![Holly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/48db29/32.png) [@Holly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Holly)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 1999, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159/15 "1999-08-21T16:41:00Z")
Texas! Howdy, y’all! ---
**Author:** ![Leslie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba8739/32.png) [@Leslie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leslie)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 1999, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159/16 "1999-08-21T16:44:00Z")
Washington. But I married an Ohioan. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 1999, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159/17 "1999-08-21T16:54:00Z")
Georgia, or, if you’re in a bad movie set IN Georgia (ie: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Gone With the Wind, et al) it would be pronounced Jaw-Ja. ---
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 1999, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159/18 "1999-08-22T05:17:00Z")
California ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 1999, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159/19 "1999-08-22T05:22:00Z")
Trumpy - Jaw-ja? Jaw-ja Binks? (Sorry, had to be done.) * * * ‘They couldn’t hit an Elephant from this dist…!’ Last words of General John Sedgwick ---
**Author:** ![mr\_john](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@mr\_john](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr_john)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 1999, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159/20 "1999-08-21T18:21:00Z")
Dear tengu&trumpy, i couldn’t find a Binks in Joejuh, I tried to Caliphoneya,but i just got an Illinoise.Please ,shoot me and put me out of my Missouruh. your friend, Ms john PS.Howdy,Holly,how yew? we gainin on um. * * * “Pardon me while I have a strange interlude.”-Marx [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159.md?page=2)