Georgia:
We’ll see your “grand” canyonand raise you the largest hunk of exposed granitein
teh woooooooorld.*
*almost
We really have nothing else to offer.
I’ve read that Tallulah Gorge was so called because it’s where Tallulah Bankhead was unearthed after spending more than 7,000 years sleeping off a drunk.
You only have a Grand Canyon because of water Colorado is already done with, And Even Colorado’s secondhand water beats the crap out of your weak-ass lithology.
Making John Ashcroft the only person to lose to a dead man.
In Detroit. Michigan if you drive directly South you hit Canada.
Here in Minnesota, we have the Northwestern Angle (that little bulge that sticks up on the top of the map). It’s part of Minnesota, but to get to it, you have to drive through Canada.
(It’s the result of bad maps used at the peace conference ending the Revolutionary War. Their maps showed the Mississippi River going much farther north, into Canada. They found out that it doesn’t when they were surveying the actual land, so 35 years later they did some adjustments to set the actual border, which left that little chunk of land sticking up as part of Minnesota.)
You have to, or you could? Cuz wouldn’t that mean you’d need passports?
You have to. It is not attached to the rest of the state by land. You can avoid going into Canada, but you need to take a boat to manage it. So yes, the US government would require you to have a passport for the trip. :rolleyes:
In my state (Massachusetts), we call soda pop “tonic”, we call submarine sandwiches “grinders”, and we call small food stores “spas” (although this is dying out).
We also have strange words for criminals…words like “politician”, “city councilor”, and “lawyer” come to mind.
Grinders is the term in Connecticut too. I think we still stand alone on our version of the lobster roll.
Come on, this is supposed to be about what is unique to your state, not what it has in common with all the others.
It’s the same thing for Point Roberts, Washington, except that I think you can fly in a on a small seaplane in addition to traveling by land or by sea. But in Point Roberts’ case, the surveying error was that when Canada and the USA decided on a parallel for the border, they somehow had not noticed that the tip of an otherwise Canadian peninsula ended a few miles south of that parallel.
You have to if you’re driving. You could go by boat or floatplane across Lake of the Woods, and stay entirely in Minnesota.
You don’t need passports. There is a small shack at the border. You have to stop there, go inside, and use the video-phone to connect to the border patrol at Fort Francis/International Falls, and report that you are crossing the border. You can connect to either the US or Canadian border patrol, depending on which country you are entering.
There’s no one there, and nothing to prevent you from just blasting past (or as fast as you can blast on the one-lane gravel road). But the 150 or so local residents consider it proper to check in, at least the first time you cross the border that day. For later trips in the same day, it’s considered more optional.
We do?
I am very familiar with tonic, but I never heard grinder until I moved out of state. I’d see it on signs and was like “What the hell is a grinder?” (Fun fact: a lot of people in Maine call subs/heroes/grinders “Italians.”) I still have never heard or saw “grinder” in MA.
I have never heard Spa at all.
Actually, not Utah. The Great Salt Lake is the only salt water lake. You could have lunch at a salt water lake and dinner at a freshwater lake, but that’s it.
I had a coworker from RI who told me she was going to pass down her license plate (a 4 digit one) to her daughter. I thought she was insane. Well, I still think she’s insane, but at least there are others like her.
They have Autocrat coffee syrup at my local supermarket (in Connecticut). I’ve never seen anyone buy it, but it’s there. I guess for the RI refugees.
As for Connecticut, I think we are the only state whose highest point is actually part of a mountain whose peak is in another state.
Utah seems to be the only place where “fry sauce” (ketchup mixed with mayo) is regularly available at restaurants.
Haven’t heard of grinders? That’s surprising. I think it’s quite common.
“Spa” really is dying out, but I can show you a couple of them still.
1 - It’s pronounce Eye-talian, most of the time.
2 - Not all subs are Italians. A “classic” Italian consists of ham, cheese, tomatoes, onions, green peppers, olives with salt, pepper and oil. Then there are salami Italians, roast beef Italians, etc. But if you want a meatball sub, it’s a meatball sub, not a meatball Italian.
I think Nebraska’s highest point isn’t even part of a mountain or hill or even lump of dirt. It’s the corner of the border with Wyoming and Colorado, and in the middle of the plains.
The state of Michigan was the first english speaking government in the world to abolish the death penalty
Nope, there’s no commercial airport in Montpelier. There’s a small private one nearby, but I think it’s technically in Barre…but also no commercial flights anyway.
Edit: And there are several places in Vermont (including the pizza place in my hometown,) that refers to subs/hoagies as ‘grinders.’
I’ve only ever heard people call it Ill-en-noy, no “s” sound at all.
New Hampshire was the birthplace of the only elected US president to not get his party’s nomination when he was up for re-election.