# Things that are said about everyplace **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 12, 2013, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-said-about-everyplace/660774 "2013-06-12T01:07:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-said-about-everyplace/660774/1 "2013-06-12T01:07:51Z")
“The mosquito is our state bird.” “We have a saying here, if you don’t like the weather, wait a minute.” “We only have two seasons, winter and road construction.” Are there any others? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-said-about-everyplace/660774/2 "2013-06-12T02:42:18Z")
George Carlin used to begin his act anywhere he went by saying, “Hey, I got this water out of the tap back stage. Is the water good here?” The crowd would always say: “Noooooo!” He’d drink it, anyway. By the way, out of your three, the bottom two are very common here in Michigan. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-said-about-everyplace/660774/3 "2013-06-12T04:05:13Z")
Won’tcha come with me to Alabammy, Back to the arms of my dear ol’ Mammy, Her cookin’s lousy and her hands are clammy, But what the hell, it’s home.[indent]— Tom Lehrer, _I Wanna Go Back To Dixie_[/indent] ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-said-about-everyplace/660774/4 "2013-06-12T04:29:57Z")
“It’s a city of neighborhoods.” ---
**Author:** ![Gestalt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/90ced4/32.png) [@Gestalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gestalt)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-said-about-everyplace/660774/5 "2013-06-12T04:33:44Z")
The worst drivers I’ve ever seen are in \ ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-said-about-everyplace/660774/6 "2013-06-12T06:43:47Z")
“If you don’t like the weather, wait 5 minutes” has been said about every single place I’ve ever lived. And how many cities have a “Dead Man’s Curve”? ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-said-about-everyplace/660774/7 "2013-06-12T06:46:56Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > “If you don’t like the weather, wait 5 minutes” has been said about every single place I’ve ever lived. > > And how many cities have a “Dead Man’s Curve”? Neither of those apply to the town where I grew up. The first one applies to where I was born albeit in half an hour increments, but not the second one. “Only in [insert name of country]!” when complaining about the government, on the other hand… ---
**Author:** ![Steener122](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Steener122](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steener122)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-said-about-everyplace/660774/8 "2013-06-12T07:02:18Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > By the way, out of your three, the bottom two are very common here in Michigan. Yes, they are. In fact until pretty recently I didnt realize the weather one was common all over the country. You’d think it’d apply more in the general area of the Midwest/Great Lakes than say, the West Coast. ---
**Author:** ![Steener122](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Steener122](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steener122)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-said-about-everyplace/660774/9 "2013-06-12T07:04:08Z")
\ just sucks you back no matter how many times you try to leave, or a general equivalent. ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-said-about-everyplace/660774/10 "2013-06-12T07:19:37Z")
(city) is such a crappy place that if God wanted to give the planet an enema, this is where He would stick in the hose. Oh, and unrelated, but: " It is built on seven hills" ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-said-about-everyplace/660774/11 "2013-06-12T08:49:32Z")
“It doesn’t bother us…we’re used to it”----regarding the weather. (usually as a response to complaints about the hot summers/cold winters/heavy rain/) ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-said-about-everyplace/660774/12 "2013-06-12T11:09:14Z")
“We are a nuclear target, you know.” You don’t hear this now, but during the cold war it seemed like everywhere I lived took special pride in the fact that somewhere in Russia there was an ICBM with their name on it. ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-said-about-everyplace/660774/13 "2013-06-12T11:21:53Z")
“[Fill-in-the-Blank] University is like unprotected sex: glad you got in, sorry you came.” ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-said-about-everyplace/660774/14 "2013-06-12T11:30:40Z")
“\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ is proof that Hell is full and the dead walk the earth!” I’ve most often heard this about small towns. A lot of different small towns, same story. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-said-about-everyplace/660774/15 "2013-06-12T11:50:19Z")
(State) is so windy because (neighboring state) blows and (other neighboring state) sucks. ---
**Author:** ![Zyanthia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Zyanthia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyanthia)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-said-about-everyplace/660774/16 "2013-06-12T12:56:02Z")
Happiness is seeing \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ in a rear view mirror. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-said-about-everyplace/660774/17 "2013-06-12T13:06:41Z")
“People here are so provincial”. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-said-about-everyplace/660774/18 "2013-06-12T13:25:06Z")
We have the most bars/restaurants/churches per capita in the whole country! ---
**Author:** ![Mathematics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@Mathematics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mathematics)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-said-about-everyplace/660774/19 "2013-06-12T13:29:14Z")
“This is the meth capital of the world/United States!” I’m from a county that does indeed produce a lot of meth (great honor), but if I travel anywhere else in the midwestern US, I always come across people saying it about wherever they live. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-said-about-everyplace/660774/20 "2013-06-12T13:30:47Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > We have the most bars/restaurants/churches per capita in the whole country! “X% (i.e., some absurdly high percentage) of beer consumed yearly in the US is consumed here.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-said-about-everyplace/660774.md?page=2)