# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 1999, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159/21 "1999-08-21T19:03:00Z")
Texas of course! Couldn’t y’all tell from my accent? mr. john - Fort Worth is where the west begins, Dallas is where the east peters out. - Will Rogers (Had to get a little Ft. Worth/Dallas rivalry in there) ---
**Author:** ![Lessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a587f6/32.png) [@Lessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lessa)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 1999, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159/22 "1999-08-21T19:10:00Z")
Massachusetts ---
**Author:** ![OldBroad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@OldBroad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldBroad)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 1999, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159/23 "1999-08-21T19:25:00Z")
Colorado – Boulder, in fact. The town nestled firmly between the mountains and reality. ---
**Author:** ![mikan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@mikan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikan)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 1999, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159/24 "1999-08-21T20:00:00Z")
Boulder – isn’t that where Mork from Ork landed? ---
**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 1999, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159/25 "1999-08-21T20:09:00Z")
Washington. ## I grew up in eastern Washington but now I work for a large airplane manufacturer in western Washington. (I actually work on the defense side of the business. Bombs 'R Us!) Spent some time in Illinois, glad to be back in the Pacific Northwest. “non sunt multiplicanda entia praeter necessitatem” ---
**Author:** ![robertfhm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b5a626/32.png) [@robertfhm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robertfhm)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 1999, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159/26 "1999-08-21T20:15:00Z")
Long Island, We think we’re a State ---
**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, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159/27 "1999-08-21T20:44:00Z")
The tally so far: tie 1. Ohio (4) Texas (4) tie 3. California (2) Washington tie 5. Kentucky (1) Vermont (1) Michigan (1) Oregon (1) Nevada (1) Idaho (1) Georgia (1) Massachusetts (1) Colorado (1) New York (1) oh yeah…somebody answered …Japan * * * Contestant #3 ---
**Author:** ![According\_to\_Pliny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@According\_to\_Pliny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/According_to_Pliny)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 1999, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159/28 "1999-08-21T20:45:00Z")
Handy, Jess, shame on you! You know California isn’t a state! It’s a republic! Just look at the flag! ---
**Author:** ![Bluepony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Bluepony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluepony)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 1999, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159/29 "1999-08-21T21:14:00Z")
Florida. The panhandle, a.k.a. L.A. (“Lower Alabama”) * * * “…send lawyers, guns, and money…” ``` Warren Zevon ``` ---
**Author:** ![pricciar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@pricciar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pricciar)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 1999, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159/30 "1999-08-21T21:30:00Z")
Uhoh, I can’t say California. I will just have to say what I told my Mom to put down when she filled out a form that asked where I was. whereabouts unknown. presumed asleep. pat ---
**Author:** ![funneefarmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@funneefarmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/funneefarmer)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 1999, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159/31 "1999-08-21T22:13:00Z")
New York, and having Long Island as a seperate state is fine with me, in fact take NYC with you when ya go. ---
**Author:** ![Jorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@Jorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jorge)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 1999, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159/32 "1999-08-21T22:15:00Z")
Torpor, aka Hawaii (occasional posts from elsewhere out hereabouts…) * * * “Proverbs for Paranoids, 1: You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.” - T.Pynchon, _Gravity’s Rainbow_. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 1999, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159/33 "1999-08-21T22:42:00Z")
North Carolina. And I wish to state once more that we do NOT all vote for Jesse Helms. ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 1999, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159/34 "1999-08-21T22:45:00Z")
Ohio, as well. ---
**Author:** ![topolino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/91b2a8/32.png) [@topolino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/topolino)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 1999, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159/35 "1999-08-21T22:46:00Z")
Kentucky. In about a month from now, I’ll be a citizen of… OHIO! I just MUST live in the homestate of Dick, Sally, Harry, and Tommy Solomon ;). ---
**Author:** ![gypsy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbce88/32.png) [@gypsy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gypsy)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 1999, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159/36 "1999-08-21T23:35:00Z")
Ontario, Canada…but hey I am across the bridge from Michigan and spend an awfully lot of time in there… You can count me in as Michigan * * * Unforgiven ---
**Author:** ![Sylence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@Sylence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylence)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 1999, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159/37 "1999-08-22T01:30:00Z")
Insanity. (aka Colorado) – Sylence * * * “A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, ‘Wish you were here’.” - Steven Wright ---
**Author:** ![Byzantine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@Byzantine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Byzantine)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 1999, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159/38 "1999-08-22T01:38:00Z")
Intoxication. Can’t believe no one used that one yet! Utah A pretty, great state. * * * The moon looks on many flowers, the flowers on but one moon. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 1999, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159/39 "1999-08-22T01:46:00Z")
PapaBear: every state in the Union is a republic (at least, it’s required by the federal Constitution to have a republican form of government). BTW, I’m posting from California and thus Fort Worth isn’t where the west begins…it’s back East! ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 1999, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159/40 "1999-08-22T02:32:00Z")
Advanced pregnancy. Coping with it in Flint, Michigan. That’s roughly at the base of your right thumb. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-posting-from-the-state-of/8159.md?page=3)