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Re: NCAA tournament
artie_fufkin wrote:
"You could take out the words "a Final Four trip booked and instead have" and that statement would still be accurate."
Not having ever been ...
Have I ever told you about my wife's sojourn into Kansas a few years ago? She was attending a conference in Kansas City with an equally geographically-challenged colleague from another museum in Boston.
They rent a car and follow signs out of the airport for "Kansas City" and end up on I-70, heading west. They're probably about 30 miles outside of Topeka when my wife calls me on her cell phone. I tell her to turn around and head back onto the highway and go to Missouri.
"But we're going to Kansas City!"
"Yes, dear. There are two of them. One is in Kansas and the other is in Missouri. The one you want is the one in Missouri."
"There are TWO Kansas Cities? Who knew THAT?"
"Pretty much everyone, dear."
I think if she hadn't called me, the two of them would have ended up in Utah.
Driving through Kansas is like jogging on a treadmill. You can go like hell for an hour, but still be looking at the exact same scenery.
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The state tree in Kansas is a telephone pole .
- artie_fufkin
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The state tree in Kansas is a telephone pole .
BAWOMN! The state flower in Massachusetts is an orange barrel with reflective tape. Seeing one next to a pothole is usually the first sign of spring.
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That's a good story, but it's not hard to believe that East Coast residents would confuse the two. They're in the same metropolitan area. I've seen Chicago people be surprised when they find out East St. Louis is in Illinois. Yeah.
My wife is smart, geography just isn't her thing. When we traveled abroad for our honeymoon in 1994, she got utterly confused when a guy we met at a bar in Dublin tried to explain to her the difference between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
The only thing she had a harder time with was the exchange rate. "Look, this Irish wool sweater only cost me 40 dollars!!"
"No. That sweater cost 40 Irish pounds. You just paid 70 dollars for a sweater you could have gotten at Target for $19.95."
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