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The 1 Weirdest Thing You Never Knew About Your Home State

by TLTheLiberator
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The 1 Weirdest Thing You Never Knew About Your Home State

I didn't know my adopted state is very responsible for starting the Beatles phenom in America and my original home state was home to Napoleon Bonaparte's private part.
  • Profile picture of the author garyv
    California has an interesting one - Studios including Paramount and Universal moved west to Hollywood to escape Thomas Edison's Patents. Kind of ironic that they now use their own copyrights and patents as offensive weapons to stifle progress.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeTucker
    Bwahahahahahaha *sigh*

    Oh, Texas...
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    • Profile picture of the author KimW
      Originally Posted by MikeTucker View Post

      Bwahahahahahaha *sigh*

      Oh, Texas...
      Don't mess with Texas...let Texas mess with you.
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    • Profile picture of the author MissTerraK
      Hahahaha!

      We apparently sell licenses though a University to hunt unicorns! Seriously? What the heck?


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      • Profile picture of the author MissTerraK
        Oh, Kim...

        Seeing you post just reminded me that Colon, Michigan is home to the world's largest manufacturer of magic supplies.


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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    I'm so relieved to know I can hunt unicorns legally when I go home this summer. It'll give my dad and I something to do. You'll have to load up your Sauer and come with us, Terra.
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    • Profile picture of the author MissTerraK
      Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

      I'm so relieved to know I can hunt unicorns legally when I go home this summer. It'll give my dad and I something to do. You'll have to load up your Sauer and come with us, Terra.
      LOL!

      Count me in! The one named Riffle is mine.


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  • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
    The most surprising one to me was that two towns in Arizona still receive mail by mule train.
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeTucker
      Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill View Post

      The most surprising one to me was that two towns in Arizona still receive mail by mule train.
      I used to own some property in New Mexico,
      and every once in a while they delivered with
      a donkey "because of the mud slides".

      Don't ask me how a donkey is better than a Jeep,
      they couldn't answer that one. :confused:
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      • Profile picture of the author HeySal
        Originally Posted by MikeTucker View Post

        I used to own some property in New Mexico,
        and every once in a while they delivered with
        a donkey "because of the mud slides".

        Don't ask me how a donkey is better than a Jeep,
        they couldn't answer that one. :confused:
        Serious? You haven't done much 4 wheelin' out there, then. When it's wet it's not a road. Donkeys don't have to stay on a road - they can travel uphill and around rock outcrops when the roads are soaked down. That's how they're better. I've been out to 4 wheeling terrain in the west many a time where horses and donkeys are being used by the rock hunters when their 4WD couldn't get through on roads. Some are used to pull the vehicles out of the mud bogs.
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        • Profile picture of the author MikeTucker
          Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

          Serious? You haven't done much 4 wheelin' out there, then. When it's wet it's not a road. Donkeys don't have to stay on a road - they can travel uphill and around rock outcrops when the roads are soaked down. That's how they're better. I've been out to 4 wheeling terrain in the west many a time where horses and donkeys are being used by the rock hunters when their 4WD couldn't get through on roads. Some are used to pull the vehicles out of the mud bogs.
          Soka... I figured it was something like that, but didn't
          hear it from anyone who knew what they were talking about.
          (I'll take the word of an accomplished rockhound ont his subject!)
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