dear mr. president, there are too many states. please eliminate three..

[frylock]

i am not a crackpot.

[7th_Sephiroth]

1. yeah

florida, texas and california

[Ellen Forradalom]

6. Yeah, Florida and Texas are outta here

but California?

[kalian]

8. California too....give these States to the Mexicans....

what say?

[roguevalley]

18. Perhaps, if justice is what you want. That would mean also Arizona,

New Mexico and Texas.

Just cut Hawaii and Alaska loose. We'll join up and cover
all the pertinent (weather) highs and lows. :)

Or better yet. Divide Oregon at Eugene and California at
Redding and make the state of Jefferson. Southern Oregon
and Northern California could charge admission and make a
mint.

[fortyfeetunder]

26. I agree.

Good thing they can be physically separated from the rest of the Continental US...In CA's case, a few more earthquakes should take care of that!

[elperromagico]

2. "I'll be deep in the cold cold ground before I recognize Missour-a"

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

10. Yeah, that state would be Missouri WITH AN I !!!

unless you are from east of Jeff City... that is.

[WildClarySage]

13. You can't get rid of Missouri! It's

the one state that us folks from West Virginia are allowed to make fun of! And then what would we say instead of "Thank God for Missouri!"?

[Gore1FL]

20. At first I was incensed

But then I realized We did give the world John Ashcroft.


BUT

We do have the Rams the Blues, the Cardinals, They Royals etc. So back off!! :)

[elperromagico]

21. We all understand that that's a Grandpa Simpson quote, don't we?

[ronnykmarshall]

23. Go on Grandpa Simpson!

[peekaloo]

3. my story begins in 19-dickety-two

We had to say ‘dickety’ cause the Kaiser had stolen our word ‘twenty’. I chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety-six miles.

[jimbo fett]

4. Just consolidate the states with Northern, Southern and Eastern varieties

North and South Dakota need to be consolidated. Heck, they don't have enough people to fill one state, let alone two.

North and South Carolina should be consolidated, too.

And then West and (plain) Virginia.

That would get rid of three states numerically but keep the real estate and citizenry still a part of the US.

[elperromagico]

5. I say it's time to privatize states.

Sell each state to a corporation which contributed to the Bush campaign. We won't need to regulate these corporations; they are of course honest and trustworthy.

Each state can be renamed to fit the new corporation owning it. Washington can become Gatesland or Microsoftville. Alaska can become North Halliburton, while Texas can be South Halliburton. In honor of Kenny-Boy Lay, California can become Layscrew.

Residents can pay a nominal monthly fee to remain in the state, and each state can be plastered with advertising.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

11. How much more plastered with ads can we be?

[cosmicdot]

25. well, I have room on my shirt for my state sponsor

:)

privatizing states ... now, that's good ol'murkin texas-enron-style thinking

of course, with cyberspace, can't we just pick sides regardless of our geographical location? sorry, you can't tell me to do anything ... I'm a blue ... ciao ...

[frylock]

7. Anyway, about my washtub. I’d just used it that morning to wash my turkey,

which in those days was known as... a walking bird. We'd always have walking bird on Thanksgiving with all the trimmings: cranberries, injun eyes, yams stuffed with gunpowder. Then we'd all watch football, which in those days was called "baseball"...

[CanuckAmok]

9. "Gimme five 'bees' for a quarter, you'd say..."

Ahahahahahaha...I'm a livin' joke!

[frylock]

12. not many people know this, but I owned the first radio in springfield.

Not much on the air then, just Edison reciting the alphabet over and over. 'A' he'd say. Then 'B'. 'C' would usually follow..

[Bill of Rights]

14. Get rid of

North Dakota
Utah
Mississippi

[TheMightyFavog]

15. Time to get rid of...

Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas.

[The Undertaker]

16. Texas, Alabama, and Mississippi.

No need to elaborate.

[Bundbuster]

17. Take out the PNAC trash

Texas
Florida
Wyoming

[wanderingbear]

19. The Pacific Northwest will vollenteer..

We dont really want to be in the Union anyway.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

22. New York should be annexed to Canada

:D I want to be Canadian!

[LibertyBe11e]

27. Michigan could secede to Canada

right after I move back there.

Only get rid of THREE? geez...

yes, I agree with the person who said the Dakotas should become one, and so should the Virginias and the Carolinas should go back together.

And if you really want to clean up the map... how about merging ALL of the Northeastern states into one. We could call it "New England."

Now, the three states I would get rid of altogether (after we relocated all the good liberals, o'course) would be Florida, Texas, and Virginia (the born agin state).

[CanuckAmok]

24. "Well, I did wear a dress for a period in the Forties...

...OH, they had designers then!"

[denverbill]

28. "we used to wear onions on our belt. It was the style at the time."

[CanuckAmok]

29. "...We didn't have white onions, because of the War..."