Two questions about states

[Reilly]

1. What is your favorite U.S state shape?

2. What is your favorite U.S. state name?

(questions inspired by recent weather channel storm watching)

[OldPhiKap]

1. What is your favorite U.S state shape?

2. What is your favorite U.S. state name?

(questions inspired by recent weather channel storm watching)

1. Oklahoma. Go west, young man.

2. Loooooosiana. Roll the first part as long as you dare.

(Bias disclaimer, never lived in either one)

[hurleyfor3]

1. Utah

2. Montana

[OldPhiKap]

1. Utah

Square.

[hurleyfor3]

Square.

"Wyoming: The Other Square State"

[OldPhiKap]

"Wyoming: The Other Square State"

And you are in Colorado?

I guess recent legislation keeps you out of being "square" though . . . .

(J/k, obviously. Wyoming, Colorado, Utah is absolutely beautiful country. Hope winter is okay for you)

[hurleyfor3]

We're doing fine with snow this year. It takes a lot of effort not to comment about how wimpy eastern time zone people are with their little girly foot of snow.

http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/gis/ima...mal_update.png

[brevity]

"Wyoming: The Other Square State"

And you are in Colorado?

Hey, you can say you've always owned a State Shaped Cutting Board. I had a Colorado board that I accidentally dropped on the floor, and it got chipped in the corner. So now I have a Kansas board.

[BD80]

1. Keystone

2. Hawaii

3. What is your favorite color? Blue. No. Yello... aaayyaaiiiiiiii!

[DukieInKansas]

1. Keystone

2. Hawaii

3. What is your favorite color? Blue. No. Yello... aaayyaaiiiiiiii!

1. Alaska

2. Whichever one I'm in - no sense not liking where you are

3. What is the airspeed of a swallow?

[OldPhiKap]

3. What is the airspeed of a swallow?

African or European? Laden or unladen?

Lots of variables here.

[DukieInKansas]

African or European? Laden or unladen?

Lots of variables here.

I'm sure that, if I weren't safely ensconced on the twelfth floor of a building with windows that don't open, I would have just fallen into the abyss.

[77devil]

We're doing fine with snow this year. It takes a lot of effort not to comment about how wimpy eastern time zone people are with their little girly foot of snow.

http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/gis/ima...mal_update.png

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Wimpy, really? Just some of the damage on my property from that "girly foot of snow." I've lived through a direct hit from Hurricane Andrew-23 days w/o electricity and 16 w/o water and several > 7.0 earthquakes in the bay area. Plenty of damage all. Idiots like you have no clue.

[Reilly]

If those photos are supposed to elicit sympathy, I'm expecting some cards next Jan 6th when I drag the Xmas tree though the kitchen to the deck.

[77devil]

If those photos are supposed to elicit sympathy, I'm expecting some cards next Jan 6th when I drag the Xmas tree though the kitchen to the deck.

No sympathy needed. I've got about $5 grand of clean up. Petty cash for me, how about you? But card is on its way.

[Acymetric]

https://xkcd.com/1079/

Relevant to this conversation, I thought.

[throatybeard]

1. What is your favorite U.S state shape?

2. What is your favorite U.S. state name?

(questions inspired by recent weather channel storm watching)

Okay, you're suddenly my favorite DBR poster ever.

Shape

West Virginia. I can't even believe there's a discussion after this.

There are states that are aware of their shape and others that aren't. Less than .66% of the population live in that state where they know their shape is awesome. All these arts and crafts in WV are WV -shaped

Honorable mentions: Oklahoma (duh), Minnesota, Mississippi only because it looks like Bart Simpson's head doing a lookback, Maryland because it's on crack, maybe Oregon.

State Name

I love a lot of state names. My wife and I were on a grueling long car trip back to the SE at some point, and we quizzed each other about what language the state names were from, whether Spanish (Colorado), French (Louisiana), Latin (Carolinas), or Native American/Indigenous peoples' names. We came to the conclusion that about 50% of the state names are from Native American languages. I think it was 25-24, and the only one we weren't sure about was Maine.

But because I love bilabial consonants, I'm going with Alabama. The following post explains why:

http://forums.dukebasketballreport.c...308#post686308

[duketaylor]

I'm voting for the stegosaurus and Abalama!! Or is it Amalaba, geez, I'm just plain confused, my bad!!

[Wander]

Best shape is the combination of Minnesota through Louisiana: it's an elf as viewed from the side. Louisiana is the foot/lower leg. Arkansas is the upper leg. Missouri is the torso. Iowa is the head. Minnesota is the hat. This was pointed out to me years ago and I've never been able to unsee it since.

[brevity]

Honorable mentions: Oklahoma (duh), Minnesota, Mississippi only because it looks like Bart Simpson's head doing a lookback, Maryland because it's on crack, maybe Oregon.

Best shape is the combination of Minnesota through Louisiana: it's an elf as viewed from the side. Louisiana is the foot/lower leg. Arkansas is the upper leg. Missouri is the torso. Iowa is the head. Minnesota is the hat. This was pointed out to me years ago and I've never been able to unsee it since.

If we're doing this, then I should point out that northern New Jersey resembles Mr. Magoo. (And Florida is Droopy.)