Bad things happen in North and South Dakota

[Hexxenhammer]

If you are even aware of their existence, it would seem that nothing good ever happens in either state.

Dru Sjodin (http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/4258063.html) who worked at the same mall I did when I went to UND is almost certainly dead.

Bill Janklow (http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/4255577.html) probably on his way to jail for driving like an idiot.

[Tmy]

ya know whats whacky, the Dakotas have 4 Senators and a couple of Congressmen (well minus one now) while 2 million DC residents have no representataion.

[Hexxenhammer]

Yeah, the combined population is around 1 million people. Probably less. And shrinking all the time as natives like my wife and I flee to the big city (or not so big city in the case of Minneapolis).

My point is just that they might as well not exist as far as the world goes unless something tragic happens. i.e. the flood of '97, which I was present for and a victim of (was actually a pretty fun time).

Do you people know that the pasta you eat was most likely made from durum grown near my home town of Devils Lake, ND?

Which reminds me of the other recent time Devils Lake made the news. They got rid of the the high school's Devils Lake Satans mascot. That time we were a laughing stock.

I'm ranting here.

[Richard G]

while 2 million DC residents have no representataion.

Thats easy to correct. Don't live in D.C.

[Hexxenhammer]

See? Even in a thread about ND and SD people talk about the East Coast.

[geni]

Originally posted by Richard G


Thats easy to correct. Don't live in D.C.

No they should all get their guns and go and demand representataion.

[Hexxenhammer]

ARGH!

[Aoidoi]

Originally posted by Hexxenhammer
ARGH! So, how bout them Yankees? ;)

Think of it this way, if not for Mt. Rushmore nobody would even have a single trivia fact to throw at the Dakotas. :D

And don't forget North Dakota's attempt to remove "North" from it's name. Another laughingstock moment.

Feel better now? ;)

[Hexxenhammer]

Originally posted by Aoidoi
So, how bout them Yankees? ;)

Think of it this way, if not for Mt. Rushmore nobody would even have a single trivia fact to throw at the Dakotas. :D

And don't forget North Dakota's attempt to remove "North" from it's name. Another laughingstock moment.

Feel better now? ;)
Hey, ND has the Peace Gardens. To commemerate all our wars with Canada I guess.

Teddy Roosevelt is our adopted president. He liked us.

SD has Sturgis for all the bikers.

And for Geni:

This Onion article (http://www.theonion.com/onion3904/north_dakota.html) is hilarious if you're a native.

[geni]

Originally posted by Hexxenhammer


And for Geni:

This Onion article (http://www.theonion.com/onion3904/north_dakota.html) is hilarious if you're a native.

Damn had just deleted my post so I could put in a new one linking to that article

[Aoidoi]

Originally posted by Hexxenhammer
[B]Teddy Roosevelt is our adopted president. He liked us.
Let's be fair, he liked the Dakotas because he liked to shoot things indiscriminantly and in the Dakotas it was less likely he'd end up with a murder charge leveled against him.

:D

[WildCat]

But you can always get free ice water at Wall Drug. (http://www.walldrug.com/) And then buy one of those nifty stuffed jackalopes.

[Wolverine]

Originally posted by Hexxenhammer
Bill Janklow (http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/4255577.html) probably on his way to jail for driving like an idiot.

It appears this is long overdue.

Dexter Ford, Motorcyclist magazine; December 2003

Everybody makes mistakes. But behind the wheel, Janklow makes a whole lot of them. Between '90 and '94 he was cited for speeding 12 times. He was involved in three separate accidents in '93 alone, and a total of seven reported accidents since '92. In those seven accidents, he was cited just once. Why do his tickets seem to stop coming around '95? Well, he was the governor from '05 to '03. You do the math.

Janklow seems to have developed an effective technique for dogding responsibility for his many reported accidents -- he simply repeats the magic words that he "swerved to avoid another vehicle." This was his initial excuse after the fatal crash with Scott -- even though nobody else at the scene reported anything of the sort. His own son and passenger, Russell Janklow said, "He was talking about other vehicles being in the accident, and it made absolutely no sense." After each of his three '93 accidents, he said the same thing -- one report told of a mysterious "phantom vehicle." Amazing, that in one of the most wide-open, least-populated states in the nation, you would have to do that much emergency swerving -- and be so unable to control your car afterward.

Send him up the river already.

[Hexxenhammer]

Originally posted by Aoidoi
Let's be fair, he liked the Dakotas because he liked to shoot things indiscriminantly and in the Dakotas it was less likely he'd end up with a murder charge leveled against him.

:D All North Dakotans like to shoot things indiscriminatly.
But you can always get free ice water at Wall Drug. And then buy one of those nifty stuffed jackalopes. Ah, the Jackalope. A few years ago in Devils Lake there were many sightings not of jackelopes, but of giant jack rabbits the size of german shepards. Made the paper and everything, complete with blurry pictures. Turned out to be regular sized jackrabbits.

What do you want? It's a town of 7,000.

[specious_reasons]

Originally posted by Wolverine


It appears this is long overdue.

Send him up the river already.

Soon after this last accident, Janklow's driving record was investigated. The man has some dysfunction in regards to driving.

I'm glad that the jury didn't buy his defense. He claims he lost control because he was diabetic, didn't eat that day, and other medicines kept him from knowing how bad off he was.

Even if it were true, he clearly didn't handle his medical condition responsibly, and should not have been driving. The responsibility still falls back on him.

That defense touched a nerve: My grandmother refused proper medical treatment and caused a few minor accidents before she stopped driving.

[Aoidoi]

I also feel the need to note that when I read this thread title "Dueling Banjos" started playing in the back of my mind...

;)

[Snide]

In both cases you linked to, the bad things happened to a Minnesota person.

[Hexxenhammer]

Originally posted by Snide
In both cases you linked to, the bad things happened to a Minnesota person. I noticed that too. Both are examples of fat ugly guys killing Minnesotans. Of course, Dru's killer is from Minnesota too.

The Dakotas are a harsh place not for the faint of heart. As George Carlin said when I saw him at UND in concert, "It's nice to be in a place where the main physical feature... is the horizon."

I also feel the need to note that when I read this thread title "Dueling Banjos" started playing in the back of my mind... No banjos here buddy. Just accordians.

[Snide]

Originally posted by Hexxenhammer
Do you people know that the pasta you eat was most likely made from durum grown near my home town of Devils Lake, ND?
For those of you who've always dreamed of a lake home, I'd do some research before considering Devils Lake (http://www.hubbellpowersystems.com/powertest/tips_news/pdfs_best/Dec03-2-4.pdf)!!

:D

[boooeee]

All of you are forgetting South Dakota's most magnificent cultural achievement:

The Corn Palace (http://www.cornpalace.org)

Almost exciting as it sounds. I believe the signs on the interstate advertising it start somewhere around the Indiana-Ohio border.

[Tricky]

Originally posted by Hexxenhammer
I noticed that too. Both are examples of fat ugly guys killing Minnesotans. Of course, Dru's killer is from Minnesota too.

Hmm.... why does the movie Fargo (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Fargo-1070612/about.php) come to mind? Another case of life imitating art?

[whitefork]

two words: Lawrence Welk.

[Hexxenhammer]

Originally posted by Snide
For those of you who've always dreamed of a lake home, I'd do some research before considering Devils Lake (http://www.hubbellpowersystems.com/powertest/tips_news/pdfs_best/Dec03-2-4.pdf)!!

:D No kidding. My parents house is very close to the lake. This was great when I was a kid, now all my childhood memories are under 12-20 feet of water. But the lake can't really get any higher without flooding the town, so their house is safe.

I know just where those power lines in that link are. By where my grandpa used to have some lakefront property which is now under about 100ft from shore (in the lake!)

two words: Lawrence Welk. Hence the accordians.

Hmm.... why does the movie Fargo come to mind? Another case of life imitating art? I was in college at UND when Fargo was being filmed. It was quite the big deal. The scene where Steve Buscemi stops by the side of the road to bury the money in the snow and looks up and down the highway to find a landmark, and of course see's only horizon, so he sticks the quintessential North Dakota tool, the ice-scraper, into the ground to mark the spot was filmed just north of Grand Forks. That was quite the run-on sentence.

[sackett]

North Dakota howls. In Panhandle Nebraska (the western part) every so many years somebody starts a movement to annex themselves to Wyoming. They yearn to be part of something larger and more civilised, you see.

[Hexxenhammer]

Originally posted by sackett
North Dakota howls. In Panhandle Nebraska (the western part) every so many years somebody starts a movement to annex themselves to Wyoming. They yearn to be part of something larger and more civilised, you see. You can't claim that just part of a state is pathetic for this competition. Your whole state must be pathetic. In ND, even Fargo is pathetic. It's a craphole. Grand Forks is nice, but small. Every other town is even smaller. There's even a tiny-weeny town named after my family. It has a grain elevator and 3 trailer houses. THAT's pathetic.

[sackett]

Dick Cheney's father came from Nebraska!

Guess that'll hold -you- for a while.

[Snide]

Originally posted by Hexxenhammer
I was in college at UND when Fargo was being filmed. I work next to a UND grad. We're both Hockey fans. Gophers are kinda down this year (so far), and the Sioux looks like the team to beat.

He was up there last week for the football game, but he's not making the trip to Alabama this weekend.

[Hexxenhammer]

Originally posted by Snide
I work next to a UND grad. We're both Hockey fans. Gophers are kinda down this year (so far), and the Sioux looks like the team to beat.

He was up there last week for the football game, but he's not making the trip to Alabama this weekend. I'm not a sports guy but whenever I hear the national anthem I always hear "and the hoooome of the....SIOUX!"

[Snide]

Originally posted by Hexxenhammer
I'm not a sports guy but whenever I hear the national anthem I always hear "and the hoooome of the....SIOUX!" I'm not even a Sioux fan, but that's what I hear too!! :)

[Ladewig]

Time to say something nice about the Dakotas.


Hmmmm. I've known more strippers named Dakota than strippers named for any other state.

[Hexxenhammer]

Originally posted by Ladewig
Time to say something nice about the Dakotas.


Hmmmm. I've known more strippers named Dakota than strippers named for any other state. Ironically, to see good strippers, we had to go to Canada. Granted, the bar in Emerson, Manitoba was only about a 1/4 mile into Canada.