What the hell is wrong with Kansas?!

[LeahLo519]

Alt: I went to Chicago for New Years this year and a guy in a restuarant commented on my KU hat and made some smart ass comment about Kansas being flat. That was really stupid, because Illinois is probably the flattest, ugliest state I've ever seen. There's not even trees...just power lines, highways and peole who can't drive for shit. Also, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Ohio, and Tennessee are all flatter than Kansas.

SeanH: I've lived here my entire life and I have yet to experience a flood. Or even hear of one for that matter.

gravyrug: I've never been taught religion in school so I dunno what that is about.

rosco rathbone: Who the hell is Tom Frank? LoL Seriously.

 

[FrenziedMaiden]

Not a damn thing wrong with Kansas, if you are into tornadoes and cow tipping as a sport.

Can't beat them amber waves of grain, though.

Hey, at least it's not Nebraska.

 

[gravyrug]

gravyrug: I've never been taught religion in school so I dunno what that is about.

There have been three separate attempts by the Kansas Board of Education to get Creationism officially taught in schools. As far as I know, the latest attempt is still going on. Not even Mississippi has gone that far, and the Baptists there are tremendously powerful.

 

[LeahLo519]

Not a damn thing wrong with Kansas, if you are into tornadoes and cow tipping as a sport.

Can't beat them amber waves of grain, though.

Hey, at least it's not Nebraska.

I'll let you in on a little secret. Cow tipping doesn't exist. It's impossible to do and I don't know anyone who has ever attempted it. It's a lie we tell city folk to see their reactions.

 

[spacekowboy]

Do you represent the lollypop guild

 

[LeahLo519]

Do you represent the lollypop guild

You're askin' for it

 

[spacekowboy]

You're askin' for it

Beggin for it , baby And i have been for days now!

 

[Unafraid]

I'll let you in on a little secret. Cow tipping doesn't exist. It's impossible to do and I don't know anyone who has ever attempted it. It's a lie we tell city folk to see their reactions.

I have. On the same weekend that I caught my first Snipe.

 

[marshalt]

Kansas is alright. Garden City/Scott City area is nice, even though it smells like one giant cow turd.

A flute player from the K-State marching bad made a man out of me in the Garden City Days Inn....

 

[marshalt]

I have. On the same weekend that I caught my first Snipe.

Umm...Snipes are real. They are like the carp of waterfoul. Not good for anything.

 

[mrmgp]

So why is Kansas notorious for boring landscapes and endless, monotonous plains?

I remember traveling in Kansas on I-70. Can't remember if it was after passing Lawrence or Topeka, but all of a sudden I found myself in the middle of a monotonous stretch of slightly rolling hills, no houses, few trees, no other vehicles on the road. Nothing! Nothing for miles and miles and miles and miles. Began to feel like the only person in the entire state for a while until the scenery finally began to change into something resembling inhabited areas.

Could be that most people traveling through Kansas are doing so on I-70, and that's all they remember is that vast, seemingly uninhabited expanse of nothing but grass and almost flat terrain. Maybe it's time to plant some trees along that stretch?

 

[LeahLo519]

I have. On the same weekend that I caught my first Snipe.

Hah! I was actually gonna say something about snipes...I've fooled many a city boy with that one.

 

[mrmgp]

Everyone here HATES the movie "The Wizard of Oz" with a fiery passion.

How do they feel when they think back to that nuclear war movie The Day After?

 

[marshalt]

I found Kansas to be anything but flat. Lots of hill. I was on a custom combining crew. If a car got behind us on the highway, they were fucked. No one dared go around us since there was a hill every 100 feet.

 

[LeahLo519]

I found Kansas to be anything but flat. Lots of hill. I was on a custom combining crew. If a car got behind us on the highway, they were fucked. No one dared go around us since there was a hill every 100 feet.

That's been my experience too.

Heh, I actually have a t-shirt that says "Not everything is flat in Kansas."

 

[stonedfox]

Not everyone from Texas is a retard. But we do all say "yawl."

 

[Sean]

It's hundreds of miles of corn. To be honest we found a radio station in Kansas that was as good as you'd get. The whole state, and next door was about to become a nightmare. I70 moving to I 80 through colorado.

 

[mack_the_knife]

Nothing at all wrong with Kansas, when I was a OTR driver, I blew through it 2-3 times a month. I love the head of steam you can get on those LOOOOOOOONG straigh aways.

 

[marshalt]

It beats the hell out of nebraska or minnesota.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Alt: I went to Chicago for New Years this year and a guy in a restuarant commented on my KU hat and made some smart ass comment about Kansas being flat. That was really stupid, because Illinois is probably the flattest, ugliest state I've ever seen. There's not even trees...just power lines, highways and peole who can't drive for shit. Also, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Ohio, and Tennessee are all flatter than Kansas.

SeanH: I've lived here my entire life and I have yet to experience a flood. Or even hear of one for that matter.

gravyrug: I've never been taught religion in school so I dunno what that is about.

rosco rathbone: Who the hell is Tom Frank? LoL Seriously.

He wrote the book namechecked in your thread title.

 

[Unafraid]

Not everyone from Texas is a retard. But we do all say "yawl."

And, for the record, the plural form is "All Y'all".

 

[LeahLo519]

He wrote the book namechecked in your thread title.

Oh...never heard of it.

 

[Unafraid]

Hah! I was actually gonna say something about snipes...I've fooled many a city boy with that one.

I'm a city boy, but I grew up in small towns.

 

[leanoir]

Not everyone from Texas is a retard. But we do all say "yawl."

Oh, I definately say y'all, and I'm from Houston. But this is so true! I've known plenty of very intelligent people from Texas, as well as the normal number of idiots. The thing that drives me nuts is the cowboy image.

The only time I've ever ridden a horse was in Oregon. I used to get asked if I rode a horse to school when we were travelling.

I'm from the SUBURBS! GRRRR!

I promise not to make generalizations about other states, because I get so frustrated with the aforementioned stuff. Now if everybody could make that promise...

 

[mack_the_knife]

We do not. I say Ya'll same as ya'll do.