What STuPiD stuff do people believe about YOUR state/area?

Yes, our igloos didn't even fall down in the earthquake!

Griffenej5, "It's not?" LOLOLOL!!

"Everything you hear about it is true!" re: Mississippi
I think a whole generation of us were totally scared away from EVER visiting The South by seeing Easy Rider. [sm=uhoh.gif]

This thread is really cracking me up!

I wish someone from Scotland would log in and tell us how they all prance around in kilts all the time, playing the bagpipes, drinking Scotch and saying "Theerrrrre's a moose loose in th' hoose!"
Callie?

I live in Chicago, Illinois and people assume that Chicago is full of gangsters because of Al Capone. I've had people ask if I pack heat and if there's a lot of gang shootings. Al Capone is dead and so will be the next person who acts if Chicago is still stuck in Prohibition. []

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ORIGINAL: micksmom
I remember before my husband & I got married, I thought all NJ was was chemical plants and the shore.  Actually, it wasn't until we moved down here two years later that I believed my husband about the mountains and farms.
  

You mean it's not?

 
Nope, not over here on the redneck side.  I kid you not, when my husband's friend brought his sister and BIL to our house at camp for the first time, the sister was surprised we had indoor plumbing.

I dunno, I love New Orleans although when portrayed in movies it seems we are the only ones in the US who have failed to evolve out of huts on the bayou, shooting snakes for dinner, have one tooth, yelling and screaming at someone with a shotgun and a moomoo[sm=smack.gif]
 
I do eat crawfish almost every weekend, boiled at home or a friends house, favorite food. 
 
Alligator is on almost every menu around here... and will most certainly be on any seafood buffet you go to.  Po-boys are freaking amazing, gumbo is sooooo good if you can make it right, but that takes about 6 hours and restaraunts always get it wrong.  I have come to be a hot sauce champion and my family always complains when I cook...  Crystal sauce  (MMMMMMM!)  I dont think they sell it elsewhere oh and Louisiana hot sauce.  I put that stuff on EVERYTHING!   I could never move away just cause I need spicy food.... and seafood.  OMG how can I forget raw oysters!  Holy moly I could never leave my oysters.... or my crawfish...  
 
I wont get into the crime thing.

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ORIGINAL: micksmom
I remember before my husband & I got married, I thought all NJ was was chemical plants and the shore.  Actually, it wasn't until we moved down here two years later that I believed my husband about the mountains and farms.
  

You mean it's not?

Nope, not over here on the redneck side.  I kid you not, when my husband's friend brought his sister and BIL to our house at camp for the first time, the sister was surprised we had indoor plumbing.

I know that's not true, but i'm from PA, so it is my duty to make fun of NJ!

I lived in LA for about two years. I found it completely amazing how self-centered people were.

Jeano - I completely agree!![] My parents still live in LA and even to this day they have a hard time coming to terms that I am not moving back to LA. They probably think I am being held against my will in MD []

What's the biggest wave you've surfed?

 
When I was a kid living in California, we always heard about the monster "Pipeline" on the north shore of the Big Island. Later, surfers discovered a new adrenaline rush at Maverick's Beach, California. It was as challenging a ride as the "Pipeline."
 

New Jersey is beautiful and, for a good reason, it is known as the Garden State.
 

I didn't say Texas was the biggest state, but it is big. In the Northeast, you could drive 4 hours and be in another state. I know Alaska is much bigger. That's why it's up north. Theres' more room up there to be bigger. My little town used to have something I had never seen anywhere else. Boneless potato salad. The butcher would make salad packs and have these extra "boneless" stickers and start sticking them on things. And his label machine wouldn't do a hyphen so "T-bone" became Tgbone." Another guy wanted to sell tomatos from a produce stand. His own hand painted sign should have read "home grown 'maters." He, however, had spelled "home groin 'maters," which brought mind a different image.
 
As for pasties, sure I could probably find them at a local festival. But it would be better to have one in England. For example, when we went to New Jersey last year, I bought a "Princeton" t-shirt while I was there. Now, I could buy that same t-shirt most anywhere in Dallas. But the one I have was bought in New Jersey, I was there. A memento, if you will.
 

I was born and raised in Las Vegas. People always ask me the silliest questions like what hotel did I live in and they are astonished to hear that there are schools, grocery stores, parks, etc just like in a normal town.
Oh yes how could I forget my favorite- Were you a stripper?

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I was born and raised in Las Vegas. ...
Oh yes how could I forget my favorite- Were you a stripper?

ROFLMAO!! You should say, "No, but my dog was."[:-]

I'm not sure what the state population is but Dallas and Houston are the most densely populated, in the millions somewhere. Interestingly enough, Texas has 24 electoral votes, which is why every candidate comes here.

Ron - I could send you a pasty but it would be pretty soggy by the time it got there.  And the home groin maters thng has me laughing my head off at 8 am. 

There are so many places I'd love to visit in the US.  So far I have only been to Michigan, upstate New York, Manhattan and Cape Cod.  I'd love to see some of the west coast and the south...uhh...everywhere lol.  Maybe when I move to British Columbia I will get the chance.  Now I know what is accurate and what's not! Heeee!

Kate

I always seem to shock people when I mention that it's hot in Colorado in the summer... just as hot as any other place, if not hotter lmao... I guess they think Colorado is a cold, barren, wintery place...

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I always seem to shock people when I mention that it's hot in Colorado in the summer... just as hot as any other place, if not hotter lmao... I guess they think Colorado is a cold, barren, wintery place...

Oooooo! Do you live in an igloo, too? [sm=eek.gif]