Let's bash North Dakota!!!

[SmileyBoy]

Ya can't do it, can ya??? Ya can't bash a state that doesn't have ANY FRIGGIN PEOPLE LIVING IN IT!!!!!:-):-):-)

There's nothing to bash, cause there's NOTHING HERE!!!!! What, you going to bash... that FIELD, or... that TELEPHONE POLE (North Dakota's state tree), or that GRAVEL ROAD????

You JUST CAN'T DO IT. C'mon. I DARE you...

(Just for the record, I technically move back to Fargo on Saturday - I'm still in Minneapolis - to attend college. I grew up in Fargo and Wahpeton for half my life.)

[Bunny]

1. Hey! My brother and his kids live in Minot!

So stop saying that!

[SmileyBoy]

2. Coincidentally, Minot is the only major ND town I haven't been to.

I saw a pic of the skyline on some website, and I was MAJORLY impressed. For North Dakota standards, anyway. Minot looks a LOT bigger than an average city of 37,000. Another ND town that looks bigger than it actually is is Williston (pop. 15,000).

[procopia]

15. I thought Minot was pretty...

but what do I know? I live in OK.

[wellstone_democrat]

3. Longest year of my life: Minot North Dakota

I don't even want to remember it.

Fargo? That's like Las Vegas or something!

ND: state bird is the mosquito

[Parche]

7. Minot AFB

That was the longest 3years of my life

[Bunny]

8. My brother spent nearly 20 years

at Minot AFB. He's continued to live there since he retired from the USAF in '96, but he's supposed to be moving back here to PA at the end of September. Now that his kids are grown and on their own, he doesn't want to deal with any more -40 winters! What do they say about that? 40 below keeps the riffraff out?

[wellstone_democrat]

14. Yep, it was the AFB

otherwise, I think you are required to be a native or married to one to live in Minot.

It seemed like 3 years to me...or 30...but it was only one!

[SmileyBoy]

13. Oh, yes. You got THAT correct about the mosquitoes.

Ever been fly-fishing on Devils Lake?? It's friggin' India for mosqitoes on the land that's like Siberia for humans.

[KamaAina]

4. They share a so-called "Peace Garden" with Soviet Canuckistan!!

They're domestic terrorists up there, I tell you: both of them!

</sarcasm>

[SmileyBoy]

5. That's why we're the "Peace Garden State"!!!

Also, ND has the only US town that touches the Canadian border on land. Portal, ND (pop. 150) and North Portal, SK (pop. 100) are basically one 250-person town in the middle of a field with a national boundary cutting straight through it.

[goobergunch]

6. It's got Repuke Gov. Hoeven! (n/t)

[carolinayellowdog]

9. Least favorite American state according to surveys

Seriously, a friend from Ontario claimed to have read somewhere that when asked which state you'd least want to live in, Americans replied North Dakota more frequently than any other state. SD was next.

[SmileyBoy]

10. A recent economic survey showed ND as number 17 in "most liveable states".

Minnesota was number 1, and South Dakota was number 10. That was an economic study in the quality of life and standard of living. For example, you can buy a fucking BRAND-NEW MANSION in Fargo on the grounds of a country club for $250,000. you can't purchase a studio LOFT in San Francisco for that much.

[leftist_rebel1569]

11. Okay...

This is my impression of North Dakota...



























There, I'm done. Have fun up there, staring at nothing...:P

[RC]

12. Hey now!

It only looks like that in the winter. This is still Summer.

[disgruntella]

16. growing up in montana...

... I got the impression that other states made lots of Montana jokes. And our consolation prize was that we got to make North Dakota jokes. But I don't remember any of them.

Actually, I have never been there -- flown over it several times though.

[Tom Kitten]

17. I always wondered why we needed two Dakotas...

I mean, put them back together and you might approach Montana in population and size, eh? For that matter, do we really need two Carolinas?

[SmileyBoy]

18. The combined pop. of the two Dakotas is 1,400,000.

I figured out that "Dakota", as I put it, would be very similar in size and shape to New Mexico.

[Palacsinta]

19. Sorry...can't bash! ND is perfect!

At least the two days we were there in June. We camped on Lake Sacacawea this summer. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. What are those silver-leaved bush/trees growing everywhere? and the fields full of bright yellow flowers....they weren't sunflowers.....what were they? Was that petrified wood on the shore? Amazing!!!! and the air smelled SO SWEET!