Is state pride stupid?

[GePap]

Originally posted by Spiffor

Ignorant Yank

Hey, don't you diss the Yankees!

[SlowwHand]

Originally posted by GePap
I have never resally had pride in where I live above the really local level: I don;t know, nor will never know, most people in the state I live in, and I am quite sure that some are nice and some are not, so why should I give a rats ass what they do?

Of course, living in NYC (sorry Elok ), it is hard not to feel pride at the greatness of this place. Unlike Texas, we don;t have to say anything (eve if we do) we just KNOW we are better than you.

For someone who "doesn't have to", you surely have chronic diarrhea of the mouth.

[GePap]

Common NYC disease. Don;t worry Slowwly, we New Yorkers like to segregate from overtly Texan types. I mean, who knows what types of bugs you third world types carry..... maybe hoof and mouth? or Hoof in mouth?

[Felch]

Woooo Murland!!!

Who can't be proud of the greatest state in the Union? We look cooler on a map than anybody else.

[Elok]

Kinda like a tommy gun, yeah. That's probably the coolest thing about Maryland though.

GePap: Your sins are forgiven. Now absolve them. For the love of god, move to Albany.

[SlowwHand]

Why screw over Albany ?

[Felch]

Best flag evar!!!

[Stefu]

Nahh, Maryland's flag is too crowded.

[Felch]

You must not have seen any other state flags. I'd bet more than half are just the state seal on a blue field, with the state motto and some number of stars around the seal.

[Felch]

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/flags/

So you can see.

[GePap]

Originally posted by Elok
Kinda like a tommy gun, yeah. That's probably the coolest thing about Maryland though.

GePap: Your sins are forgiven. Now absolve them. For the love of god, move to Albany.

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ALBANY! That madhouse of disfunction!! Why not Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, or Houston! (I love you Sloww!..wait, No I don't...)

I don't mind if you dislike NYC Elok: some people just hate this city, just like some people just hate Kubrick's 2001. It's a matter of tastes. (I mean, just because NYC's tastes are superior doesn't mean we cant accept those of others.. )

[Adam Smith]

Small states tend to have more state pride becuase otherwise they would get ignored.

Top Ten Cool Facts About Murland

10. State sport is Jousting (Jaguar Warrior knew this, so does rah)

9. State motto is flagrantly sexist ("Manly Deeds, Womanly Words")

8. State song incites assasination of the President (Maryland My Maryland, written after the 1861 Baltimore Riots)

7. State flower, the Black Eyed Susan, does not bloom until August. So when you see the Preakness winner get a blanket of Black Eyed Susans in a couple of weeks, they are actually daisies with black shoe polish in the center. (A college friend used to do this every year.)

6. Part of Maryland's western panhandle is only two miles wide. This is the product of meticulous surveying which gained the original colony a couple thousand additional square miles at the expense of Virginia.

5. Elizabethan English is the local dialect on Tangier Isalnd (Talk about inbreeding )

4. Home of the world's largest estuary (Chesapeake Bay)

3. Home of the world's best seafood (Direct consequence of #4)

2. Home of the 2002 Mens Basketball Champs (and many more to come )

and the number 1 cool fact about Murland:

1. Maryland is the only state with absolutely NO natural lakes. @#$%^&* Finns stole 'em all.

[SlowwHand]

GePap, once again let me say, it's Northereners just like you that caused the War, at least from the South's viewpoint.

I, for one, don't lump ALL NYC in with being like you.
There's not that much punk to go around.

[Felch]

Preach it, Pastor Smith!

[Sava]

That's right, the North caused the Civil War with it's inhumane practice of slavery.... wait a minute...