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02-21-2018, 03:02 PM #1
do you live in the middle of nowhere?
read it here:
http://wapo.st/2oiOJwM?tid=ss_mail&utm_term=.00d47e546046
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02-21-2018, 03:06 PM #2
I think Battle Mountain, NV's tagline is/was "halfway to anywhere" aka middle of nowhere.
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02-21-2018, 03:16 PM #3mental projection
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I've been to triangle point number one, in the middle of the Frank Church Wilderness.
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02-21-2018, 03:17 PM #4
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02-21-2018, 03:19 PM #5
I've been from Tuscon to Tucumcari
Tehachapi to Tonapah
Driven every kind of rig that's ever been made
Driven the back roads so I wouldn't get weighed
And if you give me: weed, whites, and wine
And you show me a sign
I'll be willin', to be movin'“When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something." Rep. John Lewis
Kindness is a bridge between all people
Dunkin’ Donuts Worker Dances With Customer Who Has Autism
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02-21-2018, 03:22 PM #6
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02-21-2018, 03:25 PM #7
I think I got a girl named Mary down in Susanville
Waitin' for me to come home and make her my wife
I know I got a load of somethin' goin' to somewhereville
But I can't remember which to save to save my life
With a load to Mr. Johnson in Watsoville
Or is that a load to Mr. Watson in Johnsonville?
Well, anyway, after several days I don't know what or if it mattered
Just a load of placer to Cedarville, or a load of cedar to Placerville
Or a container full of things up to Diamond Springs for an indoor swapmeet
Is that a cargo of hay south to Northfork, Some plastic forks north to Hayfork
Or a bunch of men's nugget watches straight through to Pixley
Or Apple Jacks down to Fall River Mills or honor snacks up to Downieville?
Well, the white girls are cute that I've met in Blackbute
But I'll stick to the road and finish my beer and coffee
Now I am marrying Jan from Susanville
Or am I suing Jane from Mary'sville?
OR
I've been to Reno, Chicago, Fargo, Minnesota,
Buffalo, Toronto, Winslow, Sarasota,
Wichita, Tulsa, Ottawa, Oklahoma,
Tampa, Panama, Mattawa, La Paloma,
Bangor, Baltimore, Salvador, Amarillo,
Tocopilla, Barranquilla, and Padilla, I'm a killer....
I've been to Boston, Charleston, Dayton, Louisiana,
Washington, Houston, Kingston, Texarkana,
Monterey, Faraday, Santa Fe, Tallapoosa,
Glen Rock, Black Rock, Little Rock, Oskaloosa,
Tennessee to Hennessey, Chicopee, Spirit Lake,
Grand Lake, Devil's Lake, Crater Lake, for Pete's sake.
I've been to Louisville, Nashville, Knoxville, Ombabika,
Schefferville, Jacksonville, Waterville, Costa Rica,
Pittsfield, Springfield, Bakersfield, Shreveport,
Hackensack, Cadillac, Fond du Lac, Davenport,
Idaho, Jellico, Argentina, Diamantina,
Pasadena, Catalina, see what I mean-a.
I've been everywhere, man.
I've been everywhere, man.
Crossed the desert's bare, man.
I've breathed the mountain air, man.
Of travel I've a-had my share, man.
I've been everywhere.
I've been to
Pittsburgh, Parkersburg, Gravelbourg, Colorado,
Ellensburg, Rexburg, Vicksburg, El Dorado,
Larimore, Admore, Haverstraw, Chatanika,
Chaska, Nebraska, Alaska, Opelika,
Baraboo, Waterloo, Kalamazoo, Kansas City,
Sioux City, Cedar City, Dodge City, what a pity.It makes perfect sense...until you think about it.
I suspect there's logic behind the madness, but I'm too dumb to see it.
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02-21-2018, 03:28 PM #8Banned
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KQ has it right. Lowell George, FTW.
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02-21-2018, 03:31 PM #9
Hmm, looks like I'm only at the edge of nowhere. Better move I guess.
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02-21-2018, 03:33 PM #10Funky But Chic
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I just read up on it a little..."halfway to anywhere" wasn't mentioned, but they have another nickname, "the armpit of America", which was bestowed by Washington Post humor writer Gene Weingarten back in 2001. At least they have a sense of humor, for a number of years after that they had an "Armpit Festival" which they got Old Spice to sponsor...
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02-21-2018, 05:00 PM #11Is it radix panax notoginseng? - splat
This is like hanging yourself but the rope breaks. - DTM
Dude Listen to mtm. He's a marriage counselor at burning man. - subtle plague
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02-21-2018, 05:11 PM #12
Oh, wow! Presidio, TX made the list. That's where my grandfather grew up in the 1910s-20s. It still is in the middle of freaking nowhere. He grew up speaking Spanish because as he put it, "It was the language of the playground." The border there is still practically just a formality.
Looks like a lot of us in Montucky are in the sticks too, that's for certain.
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02-21-2018, 05:14 PM #13Registered User
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02-21-2018, 05:22 PM #14
There are a lot of places that could take that crown. But hey, there are two armpits
IIRC - they switched away from the armpit slogan to the new one, but it's been a long time since I've been through there. Used to be a regular stop on the drive from SLC to the Bay Area that I did a few times a year.
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02-21-2018, 05:29 PM #15
Wife has fam in Colby, KS. Not much to do but just committed a weekend trip out there this spring to pick up some old barn wood for a project. Activities on the docket are: drink beers, shoot guns, drink beers, water ski, drink beers, more guns, drink beers..... come home hung over.
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02-21-2018, 05:47 PM #16
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02-21-2018, 05:49 PM #17Registered User
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02-21-2018, 05:55 PM #18
Battle mtn has a busy ass airtanker base.
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02-21-2018, 06:27 PM #19
Gawdamn!. I love that song so much, have for many years
Anyway, where's the Alaska Map? Hawaii?
I've spent more time at that base in BM than I care to think about. But I like Elko - the Rubies...and some fond memories of the woman helitack firefighter foreman there.
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02-21-2018, 06:33 PM #20
The best things about Battle Mountain:
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02-21-2018, 06:36 PM #21Registered User
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Not living in the middle of nowhere
but you can see nowhere from hereLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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02-21-2018, 06:39 PM #22
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02-21-2018, 06:42 PM #23Registered User
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Cassiar IS the middle of nowhere, about a days drive narth of here
Lee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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02-21-2018, 06:44 PM #24
Smithers? Kitwanga?
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02-21-2018, 06:47 PM #25
Eagle plains or I guess Inuvik is about the closest I've been to the middle of nowhere. Metro of over 75000 is a foreign concept.
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