Journal Ethelred Unraed's Journal: Defending Ohio 18
In response to StB's slanderous attack on my mother's home state:
See my comment to baby_head_rush. Basically, it was more the comment than the place.
Ya, I know.
But I'm obliged by my mother to vehemently defend the honor of Roundontheendsandhighinthemiddleland.
I sort of half grew up there, since my mom's family is from Logan County and we visited a lot when I was growing up in Virginia. Some years ago I was visiting my brother and my parents joined us in Virginia, and we drove from there to Ohio, taking much the same route we'd taken when I was little (before the nearby stretch I-64 was finished, so we had to take back roads through much of West Virginia to get to the WV Turnpike further north). It was pretty strange, in a way, going along the same roads we had when I was a kid and seeing how things had changed -- and how in many ways things hadn't changed at all.
I noted that they finally had new rest areas. See, Ohio was the first state in America to have paved roads and highways, back in the late 1800s. (Matter of fact the county seat of Logan County is the site of the very first paved road in America.) When I was a kid in the 1970s, most of the rest areas literally hadn't changed since then. Just open wooden pit toilets (I remember the unbelievable stench in the summer and being terrified that the sludge would splash up and hit me when I took a dump) and an old rusty hand water pump. When we drove through Ohio on my last visit, they finally seemed to have gotten into the 20th century -- new buildings with flush toilets and drinking fountains.
And you know what? I found myself missing the wooden toilets. Go figure.
So there you have it. Ohio, to me, is an open toilet, and I defend it anyway.
Ohio doesn't need defense (Score:2)
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Dacron, Ohio (Score:2)
at least we have toilets (Score:1)
uhhhhh (Score:2)
Most Worst Boring J/E Evah.
Plus Cleveland has the ugliest humans per square foot.
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I could comment on Ohio, but the time I drove through I didn't stop (mostly out of fear). Oh wait, maybe that was the Tenn. hill country I am thinking of.
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Would you like your money back, sir?
Cheers,
Ethelred
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Over in Toledo we'd always refer to Cleveland as "The Mistake By The Lake".
Sandusky's pretty cool though - entirely due to Cedar Point.
But Cleveland? The Drew Carey show lied: Cleveland sucks. Look at their sports teams: The Indians, The Browns, The LeBron James^H^H Cavaliers...
At least Toledo has the Mud Hens, currently one of the best AAA teams in the minors, and they'll always have the single greatest chili dog EVER: Tony Packo's. Jamie Farr
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FEMALES:
J. Simpson [hissandpop.com]BR>
Z. Andrich [blast.net]
T. Hatcher [delight.com]
MALES:
K. Urban [timeinc.net]
M. McConaughey [boxofficeprophets.com]
R. Crowe [momloveu.com]
On the other hand, there's people who I think are quite good looking and they don't really get much notice:
FEMALE:
A. Donohoe [answers.com]
F. Balk [idolpleasures.com]
D Minogue [sing365.com]
MALE:
[cornerhouse.org]
R. Saka [asphodel.com]
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Oh and you're right about Hootie and the Blowguns.
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Ohio is where East Coast meets the Midwest (Score:2)
and it combines the friendliness and down-home charm of the East Coast with the sophisticated cosmopolitanism of the Midwest.