I've never heard anyone say "Jewed" for reals, I only know the usage exists from cautionary tales like that one!! I think the forbiddenness makes me think of it more often that I would otherwise.
― Let's see how tough Aquaman is once we get him in the water. (Laurel), Thursday, 18 February 2010 22:34 (fourteen years ago) link
54,400 google results for "oklahoma sucks," divided by oklahoma's population of 3,687,050 produces a per-capita suck index of 0.01475 for oklahoma, of which i challenge any other state to beat
― iiiijjjj, Thursday, 18 February 2010 22:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyway, Tupelo: proven LAME.
oklahoma is one of the ugliest places I have seen w/ my own eyes
― iatee, Thursday, 18 February 2010 22:35 (fourteen years ago) link
still, your suck index is flawed because it mostly contains the opinions of texas football fans - and if you're a texas football fan, your opinion on just about anything in the world is most likely wrong
― iatee, Thursday, 18 February 2010 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Idaho is probably boring and has a reputation for crazies (deserved or not) but holy crap does it have some unbelievably beautiful stuff in it.
― joygoat, Thursday, 18 February 2010 22:40 (fourteen years ago) link
oklahoma is rough. nevada is possibly worse, depending on how much mileage you get out of vegas. i am not a fan of nebraska, either. grand island was the most depressing city i've ever been in.
― ('_') (omar little), Thursday, 18 February 2010 22:41 (fourteen years ago) link
"depending on how much mileage you get out of vegas"
Oh come on the state has to get points just for having legalized prostitution.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 February 2010 22:43 (fourteen years ago) link
iatee you are very right, there needs to be a control for the NCAA bias, i'll get on that
― iiiijjjj, Thursday, 18 February 2010 22:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Mississippi and Lousiana and even Florida may get by just on local color and charm. Idaho scares me, but it also has some amazingly beautiful landscape. My paternal grand-parents were from SW Oklahoma and it never sounded too interesting to me, though apparently there are spots near Arkansas which approach not suicide-worthy but I am going to vote Indiana just 'cause it did nothing for me when I drove through and has continued to do nothing for me since. At least Texas has a kind fo culture.
― Qui vous promet des lendemains qui chantent? (Michael White), Thursday, 18 February 2010 22:44 (fourteen years ago) link
faux culture is right
― iatee, Thursday, 18 February 2010 22:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Ha, joygoat, when I said Idaho was "boring" I meant geographically. At least SE Idaho, where I grew up, you could drive through miles & miles of sage & cheat grass (boring) and then something like this pops up:
http://www.visitusa.com/idaho/images/attractions/moonriftpic.jpg
Northern Idaho is frigging gorgeous.
― Dark Notion (Abbott), Thursday, 18 February 2010 22:44 (fourteen years ago) link
^^ this
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 18 February 2010 22:49 (fourteen years ago) link
NC would be a seriously ridiculous answer. beautiful mountains, BBQ, credit unions, indie rock, and like way more progressivism than the rest of the former CSA.
― 69, Thursday, February 18, 2010 4:24 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark
You're opinion may be different if you had lived in rural Eastern NC from 1979 to 1999. Although there may be a few enclaves of niceness, pretty much anything east of Raleigh is a wasteland. Well, we had BBQ, but I mentioned it before.
― Jeff, Thursday, 18 February 2010 22:50 (fourteen years ago) link
what is there to love about New Mexico
― Wrinkles, I'll see you on the other side (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, February 18, 2010
The Gila Cliff Dwellings are really cool. Also, there are Aztec ruins in New Mexico.
― MC Short Shorts (Nijoli), Thursday, 18 February 2010 22:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Having BBQ automatically makes you better than any state that has no notable regional cuisine.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 18 February 2010 22:51 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^^ this
I love MN to death but when I think of MN cuisine I think bratwurst (yay!) and lutefisk (oh HELL NO)
― slapped by a bear (HI DERE), Thursday, 18 February 2010 22:52 (fourteen years ago) link
NM is pretty if you like desolate... (i went w/ NJ, btw)
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 18 February 2010 22:52 (fourteen years ago) link
As a westerner, I couldn't vote NJ 'cause of the forests.
― Qui vous promet des lendemains qui chantent? (Michael White), Thursday, 18 February 2010 22:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I love Philadelphia so much, but if Western PA was an option I'd vote for that in a heartbeat. Pittsburgh is just horrible.
― Mordy, Thursday, 18 February 2010 22:59 (fourteen years ago) link
I have to say that I just voted Texas, not because I don't find that it has some amazing things going for it, but because most everything about it is directly in opposition to what I think is awesome.
― begonia perineum (the table is the table), Thursday, 18 February 2010 23:06 (fourteen years ago) link
(except music, etc)
oh and bbq
― begonia perineum (the table is the table), Thursday, 18 February 2010 23:07 (fourteen years ago) link
You people voting Texas when Utah exists are nuts.
― fit and working again, Thursday, 18 February 2010 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
i rafted the middle fork of the salmon river in Idaho a few years ago, one of the most beautiful parts of the country. Probably gonna go with ND (for the place) or NJ (for the people) but man some days it's California no contest.
― Cosmo Vitelli, Thursday, 18 February 2010 23:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Utah, too, was spared 'cause of its beauty.
― Qui vous promet des lendemains qui chantent? (Michael White), Thursday, 18 February 2010 23:13 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost utah is gorgeous tho
no kansas hate?
― sleepingbag, Thursday, 18 February 2010 23:13 (fourteen years ago) link
oh and Utah isn't even in the running. Southern UT is one of the best parts of the country, the mormons are a minority group in SLC, and skiing is A++ there.
― Cosmo Vitelli, Thursday, 18 February 2010 23:14 (fourteen years ago) link
it is a travesty that oklahoma is so constantly overshadowed by texas in the race for last. oklahoma shares all the bad stuff about texas and absolutely none of the good. they can't even piggyback a claim to texas's bbq reputation because they're too preoccupied with their slimy seafood dredged from shit-colored water.
― iiiijjjj, Thursday, 18 February 2010 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link
The Mormons are a minority group in SLC but you wouldn't know that talking to an SLC citizen!
― Dark Notion (Abbott), Thursday, 18 February 2010 23:16 (fourteen years ago) link
And the rest of Utah is Mormontacular.
yeah, Mormons, as fascinating as they might be, are also completely horrifying to me. So, Utah
― Dan S, Thursday, 18 February 2010 23:17 (fourteen years ago) link
I would say southern Idaho is even more Mormon that UT but I'm biased.
― Dark Notion (Abbott), Thursday, 18 February 2010 23:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Do go on. I have this morbid curiosity about Oklahoma, especially its panhandle.
― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 February 2010 23:18 (fourteen years ago) link
The only reason Mormons settled in Utah, btw, is once Brigham Young & co. hit the Great Salt Lake, they saw big salty body of water + gulls & thought they'd reached the ocean. So if it wasn't for this freak inland salty lake, Mormons wld be yet another California-based bunch of crazies.
― Dark Notion (Abbott), Thursday, 18 February 2010 23:19 (fourteen years ago) link
i think any state on an ocean or a great lake should be eliminated from the running.
― ('_') (omar little), Thursday, 18 February 2010 23:20 (fourteen years ago) link
That eliminates Indiana, which would be my choice.
― QuantumNoise, Thursday, 18 February 2010 23:23 (fourteen years ago) link
As for Mormons, New York can also lay claim to birthing their insanity.
― QuantumNoise, Thursday, 18 February 2010 23:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh Indiana has what, like 6 miles of coastline? Doesn't count.
― Let's see how tough Aquaman is once we get him in the water. (Laurel), Thursday, 18 February 2010 23:25 (fourteen years ago) link
― joygoat, Thursday, February 18, 2010 4:40 PM (42 minutes ago)
oh hai, it's the little town where one of my uncles lives.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/canyon1_exposure_exposure.jpg
― blow it out your bad-taste hole (WmC), Thursday, 18 February 2010 23:25 (fourteen years ago) link
yah st. george area is brutal but UT might be the best state for National Parks, which makes it one of my faves. Also the main library in SLC is amazing and I ate dinner at a Cracker Barrel with Gary Coleman sitting behind me, who complained to the waittress "i ordered six sugars with my darjeeling tea" so lotsa love for the state.
xpost to abbott
― Cosmo Vitelli, Thursday, 18 February 2010 23:26 (fourteen years ago) link
well, politically, oklahoma consistently votes as the second most republican state in the union (top honor goes to utah of course) and their policymakers are notorious for bullying abortion-seekers, and then of course you've got their star senator James Inhofe, the godfather of climate science cynicism.
oh and don't let Broadway fool you, when they sing about how the wind "comes sweeping down the plains" what they're really referring to is how it "violently annihilates you and everyone you care about"
― iiiijjjj, Thursday, 18 February 2010 23:28 (fourteen years ago) link
ok indiana's coastline is all steel mills and body dumping sites afaik so a vote for that is ok by me.
― ('_') (omar little), Thursday, 18 February 2010 23:31 (fourteen years ago) link
indiana truly is a horror. even driving through it is like being in some post-apocalyptic horror film...which doesn't save it. Detroit may be a post-apocalyptic hellhole, but it also has a fabulous wealth of culture, still, somehow....
― begonia perineum (the table is the table), Thursday, 18 February 2010 23:35 (fourteen years ago) link
oklahama hope it gets carried away in a fukken tornado
― abraham higginbotham is a dude (Lamp), Thursday, 18 February 2010 23:53 (fourteen years ago) link
If I was going to be a pop-horror novelist like Stephen King would use Ohio like he uses Maine. I like Ohio, but once you get off the interstates it's pure American Gothic.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 19 February 2010 00:26 (fourteen years ago) link
having only lived in ny, nj, tn and fli am going florida
― forksclovetofu, Friday, 19 February 2010 00:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Results 1 - 10 of about 447,000 for indiana serial killers
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 19 February 2010 00:28 (fourteen years ago) link
I'd rather live in Detroit than lots of other places in MI including every single Detroit suburb.
― joygoat, Friday, 19 February 2010 00:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Florida would have been my knee-jerk vote too if all you've ever been to is the Orlando tourist corridor and several zillion strip malls. Had some good meals there and there's still some examples of great tropical deco architecture.
In short: FL panhandle >>> the rest of FL
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 19 February 2010 00:31 (fourteen years ago) link