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..."
