Woah there buckaroo - we don’t claim the OP! I wanna see a driver’s license before I sign him up for another tour through our public school system.
Besides - he’s probably from Indiana.
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But at least we’re not Flatlanders like the OP.
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Just because he didn’t believe you about the third dimension doesn’t mean he’s stupid.
Isn’t there a specific blog for bitching about Illinois?
Seriously, I can tell who at work doesn’t have any Social Media Sites (or Social Skills), and has to whine about the world via company-wide email instead. That’s what the OP feels like…
All I can say is, Whoa, dude, dial it back. This is the second incendiary OP posted in the Pit in just a short number of hours.
I can easily see that these diatribes are going to go viral and the whole nation could be up in arms within days. Dial it back, Vannort54, you, sir, are playing with fire.
Speaking of Illinois rocks, there’s the fabulous quarry. We used to drive over it when I was a kid, and I’d pretend there were dinosaurs working down there.
We SWAM in it back in the day. And don’t tell my mother - she’d still KILL me. And I’m almost 46 now.
I used to throw stuff down there!
:: Ducks and runs::
There are other quarries, too.
This says “Wisconsinite” is officially recommended. I thought of “Cheesehead” before looking it up, but decided that was perhaps more for Packers fans. Try “Sconnie.”
Say, aren’t all the people in charge of Illinois Baby Boomers?
How are you people forgetting the World’s Largest Catsup Bottle? It’s like you don’t even want tourists to understand the wonders of Southern Illinois!
One thing I regretted about leaving St. Louis was that I never did make it over to Collinsville, Illinois for the Horseradish Festival.
Illinoisans: ill and annoying.
Bite me. But I mean that in a NICE way. We’re all really polite here. Just ask tourists. We’re like TOTALLY polite.
Don’t forget our astronaut!
http://www.il66assoc.org/attraction/launching-pad-drive
Haven’t been following me while I’m trying to find the entrance to the Lincoln House parking lot in Springfield while my folks are offering opinions on whether I’m even in the right part of the city, have you? If that was you, sorry.
(In fairness, that was after I’d driven an extremely roundabout route to his tomb. “I’ve got it surrounded; it’s not going to get away.”)
This is why I hate people in Illinois: Some of them think an over-cooked burger on white bread with french fries piled on top drenched cheese sauce is an acceptable meal.
This is why I love people in Illinois: Some of them think thinly-sliced beef with peppers on a bun dipped in grease is an acceptable meal.
Not sure about Denial, but we have got, or had (recently evacuated) a Cairo …
Wow, that brings back memories of Huck ‘n’ Jim on the raft, wondering iffen they’d floated as far as Cairo yet…
Hey, I resemble that remark! We don’t want him, we’re full up on our quotient of stupid already - just look in our State Legislature.