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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | When you get right down to it, what on the eastern seaboard IS cool?
Only the weather, and not in a good way.... |
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Location: Nashville TN. | I likily could get uS a room with PA system.
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Location: Carle Place, NY | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
The problem with NE gatherings is that you've got people like Clifford, Mitch, and Phil, and it's not, well, cool......... Whad'ya mean we're not cool!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Ykq05046E
It's you left coast wankers that aren't cool, Moody. ;)
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Let's not forget this one:
Ice Cream Man
It doesn't get any cooler than this! |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia |
A - Templeman lends that group whatever coolness it has.
B - I see NO adult beverages at a gathering of adults!?!?!?!
C - I still am constantly amazed at how much JeffW looks like my twin.
(Thought I killed that b*&#%@d 23 years ago!) |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I don't think you get to count Temp as an Easterner, just because he lives near the Atlantic. I also noticed the absence of beer. Something a Northwesterner would never allow. And then there was Dave from Arizona with a Uke. I suppose you can't take the New Yorker out of him, but he defies categorization. I'm not sure anyone could claim him, or want to. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
I don't think you get to count Temp as an Easterner I don't. Didn't he just move to the Northcountry? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I know only a little more about British geography than Easterners know about Idaho geography. I take that back. I haven't met an Easterner yet who knows where Idaho is. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Now that's just a bit unfair, Mark, don'tcha think?
(Mandatory group NE meeting NOW! Does ANYONE know where the HELL Idaho is?!?!?!)
And we're not done with you yet, Mark. We're just going to, uh, be needing just a little more time...
(What the...is that even a STATE...?!?!) |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | While you're at it, Weas, France is a country and Europe isn't and Budapest is the capital of Hungary. Now you might be able to compete with a 5th grader. Maybe not.
I was surprised the first time I was in New York the weather maps actually showed the whole country. Maybe none of the New Yorkers I ever met looked at the maps.
True story of one of my first days in Idaho:
I'm in the drugstore looking at postcards to send back and there's a guy on the other side, so I say "Let's look at the same side so we quit fighting each other." He says he's looking for a picture of a Jackalope to send back East. I showed him one of a furry fish and a giant potato on a truck and he says, "You mean jackalopes aren't real??" I told him they were just made up so people like him could send back to those Easterners who don't know anything. He says, "Oh, I'm from Connecticut." I said I was referring to New Yorkers. Wonder how he found his way here. |
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Location: closely held secret | The same way people found their way to my last house. He was lost.
I hope you didn't tell him jackalopes weren't real...
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I think it dawned on him after I showed him the furry fish and the big potato on a truck. There were probably a few others, too, but I can't remember that far back.
Another story:
I'm having lunch in Seattle with a New York lawyer and he asks me where Idaho is from here. I said, "Well, it can't be West" and he says, "Why not?" |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | I think that's more of a reflection on lawyers than easterners. |
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Location: closely held secret | I had a woman in Norfolk tell me it was a shame that people from Oregon had to drive through Washington or California to get to the coast. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | So do you also get the local state version of; "You're from Canada? I got a buddy in Toronto, Fred Whatupski....know him?" |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Ok, Mark - the consensus is you're mistaken or someone is pulling your leg. This is not, nor has there ever been an "Idaho". Sorry.
Sounds like it'd make a great punchline tho'. |
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Location: south east Michigan | A long, long time ago I was in Idaho.
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Ah, the '70's.....we were all so much cuter then. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Brad, post a "before and after" picture of that one next to the Fishsticks pic.
Is that Baldy or Dollar and those wouldn't be Hansen boots, would they? I wore a pair of Hansens out back when I went skiing most every weekend. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Baldy
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Olin Mark IVs |
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Location: SoCal | You had hair????? |
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Location: Feeding Hills, MA | I've actually BEEN to Idaho! Granted all I saw was the Coeur d'Alene resort (and what a golf course it is), but I have been there! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Originally posted by CrimsonLake:
I think that's more of a reflection on lawyers than easterners. Weaser is trying to disprove that for you. I had a secretary from New York who knew where Idaho was because she lived here for awhile, but couldn't understand why the wilderness was so far from the parking lots and vice versa. Went to school with a girl from Rhode Island and a guy from New Jersey who refused to believe that people lived outside of a city or that there was actually land outside of a city.
The lack of knowledge of geography is not limited to Easterners. Hence the blonde on the 5th grader show who didn't think France was a country or the guy from Chicago I talked to recently who didn't know the difference between Idaho and Montana. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Brad, those were the days. How did you ever get so lost? I couldn't afford the Olins, but I got the Hansens brand new for $50 just when they were losing their popularity. Can't afford to ski Baldy anymore, either. I remember when they got up to about $30 and I haven't been back since.
I have a geography story about a guy from Michigan that I met in Coeur d'Alene, but I've done enough. |
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Location: Nashville TN. | where did yoy get the picture of my bedroom????
Originally posted by The Wabbit Formerly Known As Waskel:
The same way people found their way to my last house. He was lost.
I hope you didn't tell him jackalopes weren't real...
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