Mid-West, anti-coaster Humor.

unknown ^ | 03-25-2002 | unknown

[EBUCK]

And Oregon isn't chock full of terrorists either. But we have to bear the bad name of our countrymen just the same.

I don't know who has it worse tho.. New Yorkers have to live with being called elitists, and I have to live with the eco-terrorist-green smear.

EBUCK

[frodolives]

But why would a flat-lander need a four wheel drive? It's flat. FLAT. Here in Idaho, complaints about a mere gravel road are for sissies. Try six inches of mud at a 30 degree slope-narrow, winding, with rocks on one side and the long drop into the lake on the other. NOW you'll need to get out and turn the hubs......

[EBUCK]

I don't know man. Flatlanders are a funny sort any way you look at it LOL. I'm in Oregon and we've got most of the same as you except, of course, we have an ocean with beaches to boot.

EBUCK

[mamelukesabre]

The biggest industry in New York is ------------- agriculture. But somehow, everyone seems to think that New York is just one big city. FYI

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Ill tell you why. The population of NYC is what? 12 million? And the population of NY state excluding NYC is what?

[mamelukesabre]

If you can't get there in two wheel drive, you don't need to be there.

[genefromjersey]

I hear you ! I grew up in rural Orange County-next door to the Ulster County line. When I was in HS, the principal used to allow any one-who had a hunting license, and permission from parents- to bring unloaded, cased rifle or shotgun to school for Opening Day .

The hunters had to stay in school for 2 hours ( so the school would get the per diem State Aid allotment for them ),and were then free to go hunting.

Can you imagine the uproar and outrage such a policy would create today ?

[EBUCK]

If I got there in a two wheel drive I didn't really want to go in the first place.

EBUCK

[mamelukesabre]

A properly equiped 2WD pickup will get around better than a poorly equiped AWD luxury SUV.

2WD
tall skinny mud&snow tires
adequate ground clearance
positraction
stickshift
adequate weight in back


vs.

full time all wheel drive
wide, low profile, quiet riding tires
ground effects package
no positraction
automatic transmission
no weight in back.

[AFreeBird]

If you can't get there in two wheel drive, you don't need to be there.

That is sooo wrong.

[EBUCK]

No argument from me. It should be false advertising to call the modern SUV an off road vehicle.

EBUCK

[js1138]

Rare steak is something new. No one in my parent's time would touch meat that wasn't cooked.

[EBUCK]

I like mine blackened (prolly cause I can't BBQ worth a damn). But I'm willing to bet that rare steak has been around longer that fully cooked steak has.

EBUCK

[barker]

19. That Highway Patrol Officer that just pulled you over for driving like an idiot... his name is "Sir"... no matter how old he is.

That's funny. The last local officer I had a 'heart to heart' talk with looked barely old enough to be in high school much less out of it. However he was old enough to go ahead and give me a ticket :-(

[TroutStalker]

Bummer about the ticket.

I think I might have reached a certain age where so many people in authority look too young. I have a nephew (by marriage to my niece) who is a PA State Trooper, and another niece who is a Baltimore detective, who are both in their mid-twenties. The kid selling me booze in the liquor store I would card, if we were on opposite sides of the counter.

[TroutStalker]

Well I never hooked a flathead of any weight, but I did break off (line, not rod) a 70# salmon on an Orvis fly rod.

[balls]

Western New York, i.e. the Buffalo area, and upstate are a complete shock to tourists who expect those areas to, somehow, reflect a relationship to NYC. They are not even remotely related and have more in common with the Midwest. The contrast between the state and NYC is an amazing phenomenon that highlights the extent to which they exist totally independent of each other.

[Rebelbase]

Two wheel drive anythings are no match for the undeveloped barrier islands on the Outerbanks of NC.

[DainBramage]

If you can't get there in two wheel drive, you don't need to be there.

he he You're not from around here are you?

[Free State Four]

Thought you might take exception to that one. Leave it to a midwesterner to know the proper tool for the job. :o) fsf

[Free State Four]

Ferchrissakes! That was only a traffic ticket presented to you by a boy who didn't seem old enough to produce facial hair. I waited so late in life to have children that when the interns came around to check on my labor before my doctor got there, I kept demanding to see their high school diplomas!!!! :o) fsf