# Tell me about. . . middle Georgia (the state, not the country). **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 23, 2006, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-middle-georgia-the-state-not-the-country/345791 "2006-02-23T15:20:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2006, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-middle-georgia-the-state-not-the-country/345791/21 "2006-02-26T18:45:55Z")
All I cn tell you **Trip** is if you’re feeling peckish you can go to Athens and visit with the [double barrelled cannon.](http://www.batteryb.com/double-barreled_cannon.jpg) Oh, and you probably won’t be needing that oh so cool Soviet hat. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2006, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-middle-georgia-the-state-not-the-country/345791/22 "2006-02-26T22:53:42Z")
I’m all over a tailgate party. Though we should also consider **Sampiro’s** idea. Heck, who’s to say we can’t have more than one Jawja dopefest! swampbear I can’t wait to introduce **Tripler** to the joy that is boiled (pronounced “bald”) peanuts and cold beer! ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-middle-georgia-the-state-not-the-country/345791/23 "2006-02-27T13:27:23Z")
> [@Snakescatlady](#): > > Oh Boy! A Doper tailgate at a Snakes game! This is gonna be sooooo much fun!!! When are you gettin’ here, **Tripler**? > > P.S. Did you take your username from TAMC in Hawaii? Late July/early August, and no, I got it from a Doonesbury character. This is going to be sweet. I’m going to ‘host’ two DopeFests in dang near a month! First, my departing Montana DopeFest, and then my arrival DopeGate in Georgia. Oh man, the beer will flow. 😃 Tripler Oh yes, my friends, the beer will flow. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-middle-georgia-the-state-not-the-country/345791/24 "2006-02-27T13:55:16Z")
I have this mental image of a keg fountain type contraption. The idea both intrigues and scares. If you’re not going to be in Jawja until late July/early August, then I guess a hockey tailgate will have to wait for a few months, but we could always do what **Sampiro** suggested or other stuff. It’ll be fun no matter what. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-middle-georgia-the-state-not-the-country/345791/25 "2006-02-27T19:48:46Z")
> [@Tripler](#): > > Hey, how’s Macon for shopping ‘n’ stuff? Like, do they have _real_ stores and such, or is it like Montana where I have to ride three days on horseback just to find the haberdashery? Oh, sales tax too: Montana? 0.0%. What’s GA’s? Macon has plenty of shopping in and around, including a good size mall. Sales tax in GA caries by county and ranges from 5% to 7%. Macon is in Bibb county where the sales tax is 5%. I don’t know as much about shopping in Warner Robins, but it is located in Houston (pronounced HOWston) county where the sales tax is 7%. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-middle-georgia-the-state-not-the-country/345791/26 "2006-02-27T20:55:57Z")
And again, Atlanta is only an hour further away and you can find _anything_ there, plus between Macon and Atlanta is a large outlet mall. > [@Doctor Jackson](#): > > … it is located in Houston (pronounced HOWston) county where the sales tax is 7%. Two oddities about Georgia pronunciations and county names: 1- Very few places in south Georgia are pronounced the way they’re spelled. Houston/How-ston is one example, but others include Place Pronunciation Perry parry Buena Vista buna (rhymes with tuna) viss-ta Albany all-benny or al-benny Cairo kay-ro There are others. 1. Cities of a certain name are _never_ located in or anywhere near the county of the same name. For example, the cities of Quitman, Baldwin, Perry, Monroe, Oglethorpe and Grady are nowhere near the counties of Quitman, Baldwin, Perry, Monroe, Oglethorpe and Grady, so when you see that a house is for sale in Quitman or that there’s a John Davidson concert you wanna see in Grady then knowing whether it’s city or county is the difference in one side of the state or the other. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-middle-georgia-the-state-not-the-country/345791.md?page=1)