17 Reasons to Live in the Midwest!

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This from the More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About the Number 17 site. http://www.vinc17.org/d17_eng.html Since we have such a large Midwest (US) contingent on the board, I thought I'd give it it's own thread.

From a postcard:

Seventeen reasons to live in the Midwest:

>pot roast every Sunday
>best pesticide commercials in the country
>free and available parking
>wholesome, unjaded youth
>more Catholics than you can shake a stick at
>freedom from fear of falling off the edge of the continent
>access to little-known fine beers such as Schaeffer, Hudepohl and Stag
>dynamite homegrown
>birthplace and still best place for jazz
>no typhoons
>the people are mostly good eggs
>no big hills to climb so better gas mileage
>greater chance of seeing UFOs
>quaint native customs - tractor pulling, flag waving and cow tipping
>basketball is at least as important as football Sparteye?

>lots of silos and barns for pastoral landscape painters
>home of Bunny Bread - "That's what ah said..."

My main reasons for being a Midwesterner:

>freedom from fear of falling off the edge of the continent
>the people are mostly good eggs
>greater chance of seeing UFOs
>access to little-known fine beers such as Schaeffer, >Hudepohl and Stag (Although I have never heard of any of these, I have tried, and liked, Leinenkugel(sp.?)Bell's Porter, Arcadia, and Bad Frog beers)

pot roast every Sunday
yeah, whatever
free and available parking
free?!? not in Cinci
wholesome, unjaded youth
you obviously haven't met the people I know
more Catholics than you can shake a stick at
that's a good thing?
birthplace and still best place for jazz
I don't recall New Orleans being in the Midwest
greater chance of seeing UFOs
I don't recall Roswell being in the Midwest
home of Bunny Bread - "That's what ah said..."
huh?

Jazzo, I think you might have been just a precocious toddler when Michigan was in the throes of UFO sightings galore

, although I heard that Kingsley, Michigan had some sightings a couple of years back.

edit: Kingsley is not far from where I grew up [Traverse City, Cherry Capitol of the World] and still closer to Mesick, Mushroom Capitol of the WorldHi WO'N

Mesick, Mushroom Capitol of the World

Yeah, that pretty much sums up how I feel about mushrooms.

birthplace and still best place for jazz
I don't recall New Orleans being in the Midwest

Excuse me for arguing with a Jazzoctopus, but, how about Kansas City or St. Louis? See the third paragraph in: http://www.centralhome.com/ballroomcountry/jazz.htm

Granted, I agree that New Orleans is the birthplace, but maybe the writer read this article. By the way, I truly enjoyed the Kansas City jazz band that played for our group when I was there in November. Very different from New Orleans jazz.

dynamite homegrown

Can you really have that in the same place as

wholesome, unjaded youth

our are we not talking about what I think we're talking about

Yeah, Count Basie and Charlie Parker came from St. Louis, and Louis Armstrong became most famous in Chicago, but jazz has most of its roots in slave songs and then Creole music in New Orleans. Their hockey team was called the New Orleans Jazz as well, until they got traded to Utah. Winton Marsalis is from New Orleans too.

hockey team was called the New Orleans Jazz as well, until they got traded to Utah.

That would be basketball team....

[shaking-head-at-the-sad-state-of-our-youth e]

until they got traded to Utah.

What were they traded for?

And on another front: Sparteye, can we agree that "Utah Jazz" belongs in the Oxymoron thread?

1. Washington DC

2. Los Angeles, CA

That would be basketball team....
[shaking-head-at-the-sad-state-of-our-youth e]

hey, I don't live in Utah!

Not that I would care anyway. Look at me, I spend my free time here.

Dear Rapunzel,

You wrote:

Mesick, Mushroom Capitol of the World

Yeah, that pretty much sums up how I feel about mushrooms.

Gave me a grin, I'll tell you! And it's not a bad mnemonic either for recalling the Mushroom Capital!

Best regards,
Dub

I beg to differ about the mushroom capitol. As nearly everyone knows, the Mushroom Capitol of the U.S. is Kennett Square, PA, a small town just north of Maryland and southwest of Philadelphia.

A second good reason for living on the east coast is that you are under the flyways of migrating birds. Maryland is host to migrating geese which stop (and are shot in large numbers) on their way north and south.

I read today in the newspaper that we are just starting the season for migrating small birds and one of their favorite places to take a break is near Cape May NJ. How about giving us the scoop, WO'N?

Uh, BYB, with all those birds flyin overhead, will a scoop do?

Kennett Square - mushroom heaven!

You're right about that, Boby! My sister and her family lives in West Chester, PA, and we go out to Kennett Square all the time to buy fresh 'shrooms, and chow down at one of the mushroom specialty eateries they have there. Mmmmmm! wait'll Connie sees this!

I read today in the newspaper that we are just starting the season for migrating small birds and one of their favorite places to take a break is near Cape May NJ. How about giving us the scoop, WO'N?

Well, Boby, here's something that oughtta "hold ya" for awhile...the good news is it's pretty comprehensive, the bad news is I hope you have a few extra hours

set aside before you open this link:

THE CAPE MAY BIRD OBSERVATORY:
http://www.njaudubon.org/Centers/CMBO/

Here's another: CAPE MAY BIRDS AND BIRDING:
(on this link make sure you click on "Cape May Birds by the Month for the Entire Year", and then click on April and May)
http://www.capemaytimes.com/birds/home.htm

BIRDING GUIDE FOR SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY:
http://www.pressplus.com/content/birds/wheremap.html

IMPORTANT!: The Horseshoe Crab Egg/Migratory Bird Connection...each Spring it's a feast! One of the best Delaware Bay spots here in Cape May is Reeds Beach. Here's the story and photos (ALL BIRDERS AND NATURALISTS SHOULD KNOW THIS!)--"In the last 2 weeks of May, the Delaware Bay beaches sometimes have between 500,000 and 1,500,000 shorebirds alone!":
http://www.k12.de.us/warner/birdrelationship.html

And, once again, let me take this brilliant opportunity to say to all you "Jersey jokesters" out there:

"GET OFF THE TURNPIKE!"�

Posted By: consuelo Mesick, Mushroom Capitol of the World - 03/30/02 04:12 PM

Seeing is believing, eh, Juan?

http://www.mesick-michigan.org/events.htm
Get ready to drool, Juan!
http://morelheaven.com/
Eat yur hart out. Geez, they want 20 bucks to be a member
http://morelmushroomhunting.com/

Posted By: WhitmanO'Neill Re: The Infinite Mushroom - 03/30/02 04:56 PM

The Infinite Mushroom

http://www.bluehoney.org/Mankind1.htm

http://www.bluehoney.org/Mankind.htm

And who's Juan?

Posted By: Angel Re: Mesick, Mushroom Capitol of the World - 03/30/02 06:40 PM

OK, Connie! Are you sure you didn't mean this for the "Do you see what I see?" thread? Some of them mushrooms remind me of some fungi's I know!

Posted By: consuelo Re: Mesick, Mushroom Capitol of the World - 03/30/02 07:51 PM

Here's a fun thread we had going about mushrooms last fall. Enjoy!
http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=47807