Another vote for Delaware, like others, I’d completely forgotten it until someone mentioned it.
Oklahoma? Every time someone says the name of that state, a little tiny chorus in my head sings “OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOkla HOMA where the wind comes rushing down the plains”.
And during my brief stay in Texas during 2004, whenever I’d drive up to see my dad in Misery (MO). as soon as I saw the sign for the Oklahoma/Texas state line, I’d sing it too.
I say to all the Delawarians in this thread who are tired of Delaware being regarded as a forgettable state: do someting about it! Get out there and cause a ruckus! Start a riot! Paint yourselves green en masse. Have your governor pledge to develop his own nuclear stockpile! Do something…anything…to get your state into the news!
If you’re not willing to take some initiative, then don’t get bent out of shape when the rest of us think you’re kinda…blah.
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Maple Syrup, Phish, Grateful Dead, Howard Dean, Ben and Jerry’s, about half a dozen beers that are popular and well known in New England and New York.
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OK, I’m confused. What does the Grateful Dead have to do with Vermont other than being popular with hippies, and having a flavor called Cherry Garcia?
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I say to all the Delawarians in this thread who are tired of Delaware being regarded as a forgettable state: do someting about it! Get out there and cause a ruckus! Start a riot! Paint yourselves green en masse. Have your governor pledge to develop his own nuclear stockpile! Do something…anything…to get your state into the news!
If you’re not willing to take some initiative, then don’t get bent out of shape when the rest of us think you’re kinda…blah.
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If holding your retirement accounts and credit cards hostage isn’t enough, I don’t know what would be enough. Without us, you’re all homless and on the street in old age! And with us, you might be that anyway, before old age!
Bwahahahahaa!
Not that this is necessarily scientific, but I just entered the names of all 50 states into google, one by one, to see how many hits there would be for each one.
The fewest hits, by a fairly large margin, was 59 million for South Dakota.
(The most hits was for New York with 500+ million, but that’s hardly surprising given that it’s also the name of the city. Second place was California with 300+ million.)
Rhode Island. Only because you normally drive though it.
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Neighbor!
Brandwine-milled flour went to the four corners of the globe. The Duponts made a gawd-awful amount of gunpowder here, which made an impression on a lot o’ folks as was gittin’ unfriendly with us. If you take that ‘little purple pill,’ well, the US headquarters for that company is here… And if you have a Roth IRA, best you tip your hats in thanks to lil’ ol’ Delaware & the late Senator Bill Roth.
Heck, this year, we even have a semi-viable Presidential candidate!
I like it here too. And so do a number of mostly-lapsed 'Dopers, including Intaglio, hedra, epeepunk - all from Newark.
That’s New-Ark, not Newwerk. Newwerk is located in that state across the bay.
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Oh, and it’s the home of Military Airlift Command, the place where young men and women in uniform, killed overseas, first return to their homeland.
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There’s no more Military Airlift Command, its now the Air Mobility Command.
As someone not of the US…
Wyoming
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There’s no more Military Airlift Command, its now the Air Mobility Command.
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Names change, the place remains. Call me old fashioned.
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All I know about Delaware is that I can go through five other states on my way to DC and I only start paying tolls at that bridge in Delaware. And I only stop paying tolls once I am out of Delaware.
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Which bridge? The Del Mem Br? Don’t blame us for that. Everyone knows that you have to pay to get out of New Jersey.
That and the toll on I-95 at Newark are the only highway tolls you would see passing through Delaware. Sure, there are some down in Slower Delaware, but you wouldn’t hit those on your way to DC.
Iowa. Corn and chain restaurants. Big whoop.
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Iowa. Corn and chain restaurants. Big whoop.
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That sounds like Nebraska…
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There is only one toll on I-95 through Delaware. Maryland has two, unless you take the beltway west, though one is only a one-way toll.
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Sorry I took some poetic license there. But the toll is all I remember of Delaware. :o
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Rhode Island. Only because you normally drive though it.
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Perspective is everything. I have a soft spot for RI since Mom went to Brown and I spent some wonderful times in Narragansett. And there’s the Awful Awful.
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Not that this is necessarily scientific, but I just entered the names of all 50 states into google, one by one, to see how many hits there would be for each one.
The fewest hits, by a fairly large margin, was 59 million for South Dakota.
(The most hits was for New York with 500+ million, but that’s hardly surprising given that it’s also the name of the city. Second place was California with 300+ million.)
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For those of us who are curious or don’t have the time to duplicate your efforts by Googling all 50 state names, do you still have your results on file? If you do please post them.
I’m gonna go with the state of Jefferson. I bet most of y’all didn’t even know it exists.
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For those of us who are curious or don’t have the time to duplicate your efforts by Googling all 50 state names, do you still have your results on file? If you do please post them.
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Sorry, I didn’t write them all down. I just tracked the highest and lowest.