# Resolved: Delaware Does not Exist **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 22, 2000, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-delaware-does-not-exist/30358 "2000-08-22T21:33:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2000, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-delaware-does-not-exist/30358/41 "2000-08-24T00:56:38Z")
JosephFinn: New Jersey andygirl: You should subscribe to the _Daily Planet_. ---
**Author:** ![uberDave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f04885/32.png) [@uberDave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uberDave)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2000, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-delaware-does-not-exist/30358/42 "2000-08-24T15:27:59Z")
I was born and raised in Delaware. (That does probably explain a lot 🙂 ). Small state, nice folks. The home of corporate America. As I understand it, Delaware has more companies incorporated in it than any other. My father worked for DuPont. The First State. But, if you’d ask me, our most favorite son (and most famous) is that slide guitar playin’ boy George Thorogood. Of George Thorogood and the (Delaware) Destroyers. Surely, any blues lovin’ rocker has heard of him. ---
**Author:** ![oldscratch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@oldscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldscratch)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2000, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-delaware-does-not-exist/30358/43 "2000-08-24T16:04:33Z")
Yeah, like we’re supposed to take a commies word on anything. :rolleyes: Again. I need some objective proof that DE exists. So far all we’ve gotten is rumours and heresy. I could present a more convincing case that Atlantis exists than anyone’s done for Delaware. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2000, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-delaware-does-not-exist/30358/44 "2000-08-24T16:29:31Z")
I just noticed something else. When I send a credit card payment to an address in Delaware, it is always a Post Office box, rather than a physical address. Similarly, although many of our nation’s corporations are _in theory_ “Delaware corporations,” their physical address is always someplace else. Could it be that there are no physical addresses in Delaware because Delaware _ **has no physical existence???** _ (If my credit card payments start going to a P.O. box in “Metropolis,” I am _really_ going to start to worry.) ---
**Author:** ![JosephFinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@JosephFinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JosephFinn)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2000, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-delaware-does-not-exist/30358/45 "2000-08-24T19:56:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Little Nemo \* > \*\*JosephFinn: New Jersey > > andygirl: You should subscribe to the _Daily Planet_. > \*\* Sheesh, no wonder Gotham is always portrayed as such a hellhole. ---
**Author:** ![wireless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f14d63/32.png) [@wireless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wireless)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-delaware-does-not-exist/30358/46 "2000-08-25T00:09:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by spoke- \* > \*\*I just noticed something else. > > When I send a credit card payment to an address in Delaware, it is always a Post Office box, rather than a physical address. > > Similarly, although many of our nation’s corporations are _in theory_ “Delaware corporations,” their physical address is always someplace else. > > Could it be that there are no physical addresses in Delaware because Delaware _ **has no physical existence???** _ > \*\* As I said way up top… > [@](#): > > \*\* > I mean it could just be some giant kind of Mail Boxes Etc.-type post office front, I suppose. > \*\* Anyway, **spoke-** , I’m probably actually going there this weekend to (gasp!) TAKE PICTURES (for work, alas), so, in advance, I’ll ask, **what in your mind would constitute proof?** If it’s reasonable (and post-able), I’ll try to oblige. -Wireless ---
**Author:** ![JamesCarroll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@JamesCarroll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JamesCarroll)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-delaware-does-not-exist/30358/47 "2000-08-25T00:42:39Z")
Hey did I mention pumpkin thunking? A bunch of rednecks gather in sLower Delaware and shoot frozen pumpkins with 30 ft pneumatic (sp?) cannons. Now that’s a state!!! ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-delaware-does-not-exist/30358/48 "2000-08-25T01:29:52Z")
JamesCarrol, You are, I’m assuming, referring to the immortal **Punkin’ Chunkin’,** an event just over a mile from my house, wherein drunken rednecks use hydraulic cannons to hurl frozen pumpkins across a field? It’s very boring around here. Oh, but let us not forget the Apple Scrapple festival… Don’t know what scrapple is? Take a pig. Kill it. Take away ham. Take away bacon. Take away sausage. What’s left, more or less, is scrapple. Ew. Anyway, at the apple scrapple festival, there is a scrapple carving contest… one year the winner made a portraint of Mother Theresa. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-delaware-does-not-exist/30358/49 "2000-08-25T16:21:10Z")
OK, **wireless** while you are in Delaware, please gather whatever evidence you find that convinces _you_ of its existence. Pictures would be great, if you have any means of linking us to them. Shots of a Welcome to Delaware sign, or some actual Delaware licence plates, or some actual Delawaroidians. If you don’t have the ability to link us to some pictures, then collect whatever vignettes or other evidence you can which tends to prove your experience was real, and not the product of hypnosis or a heavy meal before bedtime. Then, when you get back, give us your evidence and make your case. We’ll critique what you find and let you know if you’ve convinced us. Deal? ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-delaware-does-not-exist/30358/50 "2000-08-25T16:40:57Z")
spoke- > [@](#): > > Shots of a Welcome to Delaware sign See my post above, spoke-. I’ve got shots of that (and of almost every other state and almost every Canadian province as well). Chaim Mattis Keller ---
**Author:** ![oldscratch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@oldscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldscratch)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-delaware-does-not-exist/30358/51 "2000-08-25T17:05:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cmkeller \* > \*\* > > See my post above, spoke-. I’ve got shots of that (and of almost every other state and almost every Canadian province as well). > > Chaim Mattis Keller \*\* Exactly. I disagree with spoke. That will not be enough. Anyone could fake shots like that. What we need is a live webcam of someone travelling from a neighboring state into delaware. ---
**Author:** ![wireless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f14d63/32.png) [@wireless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wireless)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-delaware-does-not-exist/30358/52 "2000-08-25T17:22:12Z")
I’ll see what I can do. I hope I’m up to the challenge! ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-delaware-does-not-exist/30358/53 "2000-08-25T19:13:45Z")
**cmkeller** wrote: > [@](#): > > I’ve got shots of [a Welcome to Delaware sign]. _Suuure_ you do, Chaim. Let’s see 'em. Can you scan them and link us to them somehow? Otherwise, how do we know you’re not just another co-conspirator spreading disinformation? **oldscratch** wrote: > [@](#): > > I disagree with spoke. [Photographs] will not be enough. Anyone could fake shots like that. Hey, I’m not saying we would necessarily _accept_ photographs as proof, but if we could see some, then we could at least have the opportunity to judge their authenticity for ourselves. Believe me, I’m as skeptical as you are, my brimstone-scented friend. ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-delaware-does-not-exist/30358/54 "2000-08-25T19:44:06Z")
Another alternative would be someone scanning a receipt from the Delaware Turnpike. If I were driving through again, I would ask for one just to prove that I was there. I have a postcard from there also, but I think it was confiscated by authorities. ---
**Author:** ![oldscratch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@oldscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldscratch)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2000, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-delaware-does-not-exist/30358/55 "2000-08-25T21:53:34Z")
And I have the anal-plug that the aliens used against me. I’d be happy to share it with anyone who doubt’s my alien sex stories. You’re right spoke. At least with a picture we could examine it. The fight against ignorance must go on! ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2000, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-delaware-does-not-exist/30358/56 "2000-08-26T00:21:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Little Nemo \* > \*\*Myrr, I write that everyone should be wearing a lead foil helmet to protect themselves from orbiting mind control lasers and the biggest fault you can find with my logic is that I misplaced Baltimore? What can I say, at 2:45 AM I’m easily confused. > > For the record however, Superman is indeed a Delaware resident albeit not a native son. _The Atlas of the DC Universe_ clearly states that his hometown, Metropolis, is in the state of Delaware. Consider the implications of the fact that Delaware’s most famous citizen is a fictional character. > \*\* Superman is native to the planet Krypton. However, he was raised just outside of Smallville, Kansas. ---
**Author:** ![Gabz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/838e76/32.png) [@Gabz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gabz)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2000, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-delaware-does-not-exist/30358/57 "2000-08-28T02:24:19Z")
and not just in the minds of those of us that live here. I happened across this site and this thread in particulawhile on vacation in California and was unable to gain access. let’s see: Yup, we got lots of chickens (hey it keeps the price in the store for it down); we’ve got lots of punkins to chunk; we got lots of banks and credit card companies; we’ve got lots of nationally known politicians (unfortunately); we’ve got lots and lots of scrapple and horseshow crabs; we’ve had a few nationally publicized murder trials; we’ve got lots of chemical Companies, not just DuPont; and we’ve got lots of out of staters with summer homes at our beaches. These were the things I noticed being mentioned in an effort to prove that Delaware exists. Here’s some more: The largest mortuary on the Eastern seaboard - Dover Air Force Base (remember Jim Jones and Guyana or the Marine Barracks bombing in beirut - all those bodies came to Dover, along with all of the national media). Two weekends a year of NASCAR Racing at the Monster Mile (Dover Downs International Speedway) which are broadcast nationally. There it is folks the proof that Delaware does exist - watch the NASCAR Race on Sunday September 24 and you will know that Delaware truly does exist - and on behalf of those of us who do live here, please do watch it on television as opposed to adding to the traffic problems that force many of us to stay in our homes for the entire weekend!!! ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2000, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-delaware-does-not-exist/30358/58 "2000-08-28T15:15:01Z")
Welcome to the board, **Gabz**. Even if you _are_ just a sophisticated computer program designed to simulate a Delaware resident. ---
**Author:** ![Gabz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/838e76/32.png) [@Gabz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gabz)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2000, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-delaware-does-not-exist/30358/59 "2000-09-01T19:58:16Z")
Thanks for the welcome… But what more do you need for proof that Delaware does exist? How much non-internet proof do you need? Do you really not believe the online stuff - or can I give you some of that? ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2000, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-delaware-does-not-exist/30358/60 "2000-09-02T13:24:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Little Nemo \* > \*\*A list of people who are supposedly Delaware natives: Gomez Addams, …, Boris Badenov, … Superman, …,Frank Zappa. \*\* Gomez Addams - Fictional Comic Strip character Boris Badenov - nope, Potsylvania Superman - nope, Krypton, later Kansas Frank Zappa - Baltimore, Maryland [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-delaware-does-not-exist/30358.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-delaware-does-not-exist/30358.md?page=4)