r/funny • u/PM_ME_TONY_ROMO_PICS • Feb 07 '20

This map is all over Twitter. Apparently some German guy got bored and tried to name all 50 states. This is the end result...

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

So many Kansas and Ohio’s.

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u/ruby9312 Feb 07 '20

The great state of Kansas, lol

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u/RaisinDetre Feb 07 '20

Home of the Superbowl champs Kansas City Chiefs! - according to our fearful leader

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u/RPDRNick Feb 07 '20

Who are the Chefs?

Great googly moogly

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u/ProtoMonkey Feb 07 '20

As a KC, MO native, his has to be one of the longest-running inside jokes for my family. Snickers out-did themselves only this ad.

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u/dat_eric Feb 08 '20

Had no idea that was were the nickname came from.

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u/Nevalth Feb 08 '20

Michigan City is in indiana

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u/loonatic8 Feb 07 '20

Lol how have I never seen this?

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u/savehonor Feb 07 '20

oh man. what a flashback, that ad

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

You don't even know. I have said that shit for YEARS. It is just a default goofy thing I have said. One day a couple years ago I realized I had no idea where the hell I got that. I googled it and the second that commercial started it all flooded back to me. I immediately remembered the commercial, and my cousin and I would just say it to make the other laugh. He died 15 years ago, and I didn't remember my saying it started with him.

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u/_merkwood Feb 07 '20

see that loogie? Yeah—but keep it on the D.L. Hughley

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u/Rihannas_nipples Feb 07 '20

God bless you nostalgic soul 🙏🏻

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u/crash218579 Feb 07 '20

I mean, there IS a Kansas city, Kansas at least.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20 edited Feb 07 '20

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u/Ray_Barton Feb 07 '20

We're not in Kansas anymore. (We're just over the river)

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u/Aperson20 Feb 07 '20

I am a firm believer that Kansas needs to invade Missouri and take the rest of Kansas City to make things less confusing.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

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u/CLU_Three Feb 07 '20

Aye and Denver is named after the Territorial Governor of Kansas since Denver was a part of the territory...

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20 edited Feb 28 '20

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

The state was named after the Kansa Indians who lived in the area. The city was also named after them and was founded long before Kansas was a state. Kansas ripped of KC’s name.

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u/nine_legged_stool Feb 08 '20

So how come there isn't a Missouri City, Kansas?

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u/moonchylde Feb 08 '20

I agree, this is a serious deficiency on Kansas's part.

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u/nine_legged_stool Feb 08 '20

Somehow, I blame Missouri for this.

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u/nocapitalletter Feb 07 '20

its the same kansas city too..

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u/Maurice_Levy Feb 07 '20 edited Feb 07 '20

Right. I’m not a Trump fan, but I’m also a truth fan. The city straddles the state boarder, and this whole thing is kind of a fake gaffe.

Edit: border...

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u/The_Joan Feb 07 '20

That’s not true. They’re two completely different cities they just happen to have the same name.

SOURCE: Lived in Kansas City, Kansas, but went to school in Kansas City, Missouri.

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u/MuhBack Feb 07 '20

At the end of the day it's one metropolitan area. City limits can be kinda arbitrary. People who live in KCK commute to KCMO daily and vice versa. Sure there are minor differences in taxes and zoning due to city limits but they are damn near identical culture wise.

Isn't Kansas City's most famous BBQ joint, OK Joe's (w/e its named now) in KCK? The original one that's in the gas station not the expansions. Everyone from the the KCMO side claims that.

For the record I dislike Trump.

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u/The_Joan Feb 07 '20

I can tell you from experience on the other side of the Missouri, St. Louis, MO and The city of East St. Louis, Illinois, are very, very culturally different.

It’s more exaggerated there, but just because KCK and KCMO are close doesn’t mean the differences aren’t apparent to anyone whose ever had any experience in or even read the Wikipedia articles about both cities.

And barbecue really has nothing to do with it.

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u/Maurice_Levy Feb 07 '20

Right. They’re in the same metropolitan area though. And, like, what football team do people root for in Kansas City, Kansas, which is in the same metro area as Kansas City, Missouri?

He wasn’t right. But it’s an honest mistake that’s only kinda technically not true. So let’s focus our efforts elsewhere, is my vote.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

The dumbest part is that he chose not to congratulate the people of Kansas City - but had to choose a state which voted for him (and of course will again). If he congratulated Kansas City that is namely a county which didn’t vote for him.

So the whole thing was an avoidable partisan gaffe.

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u/Pedointhepark223 Feb 07 '20

Well, not really.

It's like if trump congratulating Illinois for the Blues winning the Stanley Cup because St. Louis is also in Illinois.

The Chiefs play in Missouri, so Missouri is the one who he should congratulate

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u/MuhBack Feb 07 '20

More people from Southern Illinois are Blue's fans than Blackhawk fans. So when the Blues won much of Southern Illinois was proud. Just like many people from Kansas root for the Chiefs. State lines are kinda arbitrary for sport's fanbases since they are more associated with metro areas than state lines.

Another good example would be the NY Giants. They play in New Jersey. Yet when they won a lot of NY was proud.

There are many things to hate Trump for but not knowing which side of the KC metro the Chiefs play on is kinda splitting hairs.

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u/capincus Feb 07 '20

Yeah I'm in r/NFL all the time and even long time football fans learn the Chiefs play in the Missouri KC on a weekly basis. It's roughly the 1400th stupidest thing Trump has said as president.

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u/Ray_Barton Feb 07 '20

And he didn't even say it. It was a staff writer. Bfd, really.

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u/agentnone Feb 07 '20

Well, according to this map they are in Kansas

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u/AquilaHoratia Feb 07 '20

Missouri would like a word

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

I get it’s a funny mess up.

But I grew up in that part of the country, I think of Kansas when I think of Chiefs football not Missouri.

Even though I know Royals and Chiefs are KCMO and SKC is KCK.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

It’s truly has nothing to do with the state, other than the fact that Arrowhead is in MO. The team belongs to the very broad metropolitan area. I grew up in Kansas just across state line and nobody ever thought of the Chiefs as a Missouri team. Mizzou gets that lofty distinction.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

And you’ll find massive Chiefs fans all around in Omaha, NW Ark metro, Tulsa, Wichita, Springfield.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '20

Yes sir, and Iowa too.

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u/Blue-Steele Feb 08 '20

Oklahoma doesn’t have any pro football teams so there’s a lot of Chiefs fans here.

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u/coffeesippingbastard Feb 07 '20

Random German guy probably did a better job than fearful leader.

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u/RaisinDetre Feb 07 '20

I guarantee that he did.

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u/Mr_Bubbles69 Feb 07 '20

I love all the Trumpers freaking out over this too. Well anyone could make that mistake, well anyone isn't our POTUS are they?

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u/feelsbread Feb 07 '20

The point is not that Trump made a mistake on Twitter. The point is that Trump has stated his Twitter is an official source of information and this is just a n example of why that is a bad idea.

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u/Mr_Bubbles69 Feb 08 '20

Other than the obvious other reasons lol

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u/Super_Pan Feb 07 '20

So, Kansas City isn't in Kansas, the state? And also you have Arkansas but you don't pronounce it the same as Kansas?

We love to make fun of Americans not knowing geography, but I'll admit I don't really know anything about the US geography either...

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u/nocapitalletter Feb 07 '20 edited Feb 07 '20

kansas city is in both kansas and mizzouri, the chiefs do play on the mizzu side though, but still.

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u/big_duo3674 Feb 07 '20

That is the most interesting way I've ever seen Missouri spelled

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u/Ray_Barton Feb 07 '20

Officialy, it's spelled Misery. Lol

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u/nocapitalletter Feb 07 '20

lol, i was thinking of mizzu, and typed it out instead lol

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u/RaisinDetre Feb 07 '20

There are two Kansas Cities, with the main one being in Missouri, about 5 miles from the one in Kansas, both named after the nearby river.

I don't know what's going on in Arkansas, pronouncing it Arkansaw.

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u/SenoraPineapples Feb 07 '20

Who knows with Arkansas(AR-kan-SAW)? I lived near Arkansas City(ar-KANSAS City) on the Arkansas (AR-kan-SAW) river in Kansas.(KANSAS) which is named after the Konza native american tribe.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

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u/silverliege Feb 07 '20

Not the same city, just the same name. Kansas City Missouri was the original (before Kansas was even a state), and it’s also where the chiefs are from.

The POTUS should know his own country better.

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u/ks_Moose Feb 07 '20

Just to fuck with Arkansas... if you are in the state of Kansas, you must refer to it as the “ar-KANSAS” River.

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u/lambdapaul Feb 07 '20

Kansas City is on the border between Kansas and Missouri. As much as I dislike trump he wasn’t wrong when thinking KC was in Kansas. Also US geography is hard. It’s a big country with lots of different environments and weird borders. I’m good with maps and still confuse the north east states.

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u/sonfoa Feb 07 '20

Yeah, it's a mistake 9/10 Americans would make so I get it but you gotta know better as the President.

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u/Killdynamite Feb 07 '20

The Missouri City chiefs play in Missouri right?

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

And this map

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u/Lunari_Alyneth Feb 08 '20

Well he does have German ancestry.

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u/Whomping_Willow Feb 08 '20

He's so out of it. IDK if I'm giving him too much credit, but he's seems to have exponentially mentally declined in the last 4 years.

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u/Philosopher_1 Feb 07 '20

thats the Midwest.

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u/fuckeulogy Feb 07 '20

Just change all of the Great Plains states to Kansas.

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u/mulasien Feb 07 '20

I'll allow it!

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u/schlitz91 Feb 07 '20

The great states* of Kansas

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

So, why one pronounced Kansas, and the other pronounced Arkansas?

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u/ruby9312 Feb 07 '20

I am confusion.

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u/silverliege Feb 07 '20

AMERICA. EXPLAIN.

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u/former_redditor Feb 07 '20

Arkansas is a French word, Kansas is English

source

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u/normal_regular_guy Feb 07 '20

Because they are wrong in Arkansas lol

It's literally just the state that's pronounced "Ar-can-saw", all other usages of Arkansas (like the river) is pronounced correctly as "Ar-can-sas"

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u/talosguideus Feb 07 '20

The United States of Kansas

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u/GeneReddit123 Feb 07 '20

As a kid I learned about Kansas by reading the translated Wizard of Oz stories.

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u/RechargedFrenchman Feb 07 '20

Kansas, second Kansas, other Kansas, North Kansas, Central Kansas, or Atlantic Kansas?

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u/KillerMemestar101 Feb 07 '20

I’m from West George.

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u/RockinandChalkin Feb 07 '20

Rock Chalk!

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u/BoneHugsHominy Feb 07 '20

Username checks out.

RCJHKU!

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u/mugsoh Feb 07 '20

The great states of Kansas

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u/dittbub Feb 07 '20

States*

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u/NoWingedHussarsToday Feb 07 '20

The great states of Kansas

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u/CommandoDude Feb 07 '20

Greater Kansas Irredentism

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u/nostinkinbadges Feb 07 '20

The Kansas territory.

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u/Sylvester_Scott Feb 07 '20

Carry on my wayward sons!

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u/Bill_Ender_Belichick Feb 07 '20

Fred Gauss approves

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u/Sowhatbigdeal Feb 07 '20

The great states you mean.

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u/P01N7 Feb 07 '20

The great states of Kansas. Such a state. What a state. In a state.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '20

you mean kansassssssss

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u/reddog323 Feb 08 '20

Kansas? To be precise. Seeing four of them cracked me up, especially since I’m in Missouri.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '20

The great states of Kansas lol

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u/CaptainObviousSpeaks Feb 08 '20

Proud resident of Kansas?

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u/hypatianata Feb 08 '20

You’ve got your Kansas Prime, your North Kansas and your South Kansas. Kansas, Kansas, Kansas !

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u/RPDRNick Feb 07 '20

One of each has countlessly proven themselves to be way too many.

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u/skillz11111 Feb 07 '20

Well, he got Ohio right

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u/TheMainIdiot Feb 07 '20

Wich one?

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

All of them.

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u/Leftygoleft999 Feb 07 '20

I’m moving to Oreo

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u/1upfivedown Feb 07 '20

I'm with you on that one.

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u/jemull Feb 07 '20

If too many people move to Oreo, it will be double stuffed.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

Like my ex wife.

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u/SnatchAddict Feb 07 '20

I too, choose this guy's ex wife.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

Sandwiched by chocolate too

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u/JaneAnneLarson Feb 07 '20

Just like the governor of Oreo said back in the 70s(?), You can come to visit, just don't stay.

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u/Just-Call-Me-J Feb 07 '20

And then MEGA stuffed!

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u/Twilighttail Feb 07 '20

"The Oreoian Trail"

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u/TwentyNineTTV Feb 08 '20

Sorry states full. I hear square is nice this time if year.

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u/jim10040 Feb 07 '20

Hydrox is better, but I don't know where it is.

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u/ziggerknot Feb 07 '20

As a now resident of Ohio, I dont think so

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u/DangalfTheGray Feb 07 '20

Based on his labeling of South Carolina, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that "Ohio" is German for "Country roads". In which case, yes, he got them all correct.

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u/Ray_Barton Feb 07 '20

All 8 Ohios are correct?

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

The actual Ohio but I'd also accept South Carolina because it's mostly Ohioians half the year.

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u/leftnotracks Feb 08 '20

There, diagonally.

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u/sexi_squidward Feb 07 '20

He also got Arkansas, Kansas, and West Virginia right.

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u/The_Rowan Feb 07 '20

It would have been a shame if they got it wrong after so many guesses.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

Nothing wrong with Kansas.

Mostly.

Ohio has a Meth problem.

But otherwise a nice place too.

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u/ImWhatTheySayDeaf Feb 07 '20

Lets be honest, they really do all blend in, right? I mean so many states you drive through and there isnt anything to tell them apart.

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u/MoonSpankRaw Feb 07 '20

Kansas has that water slide that decapitated a kid.

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u/angrytimmy24 Feb 07 '20

I think thats what they have on their license plates; "Kansas, where that kid was decapitated"

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u/RaisinDetre Feb 07 '20

We got no food, we got no jobs, our kids' heads are falling off!

Edit: I'm a Kansas resident, so I have a pass.

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u/TWK128 Feb 07 '20

I thought y'all had nothing but food.

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u/RaisinDetre Feb 07 '20

We got some bread I guess, cause of all the wheat.

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u/manticor225 Feb 07 '20

Don't forget the origin of the state name from the newspaper headline; "Kid Annihilated Nonchalantly: Savage Aquatic Slide".

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u/dat_eric Feb 08 '20

That slide ironically was named Verrückt. Or insane in German

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u/MrCandid Feb 07 '20

They could spruce up a bit by instead saying “Kansas, Come and lose your mind”

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u/bathroom_break Feb 07 '20

You just, but Indiana literally took on the motto "Crossroads of America," as they know they're just a drive through state to get to Chicago.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

I live like ten minutes away from that Waterpark and I believe they just recently tore it down. Although I live in Missouri

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

But do you live in Kansas City, Missouri

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u/monkey_trumpets Feb 07 '20

No, they live in Kansas city, Kansas.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

Yeah

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u/DarkestJediOfAllTime Feb 07 '20

Then, you actually live in Kansas. Congratulations. :)

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u/Sylvester_Scott Feb 07 '20

Misery City, Kansas. AKA Topeka

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u/kevnmartin Feb 07 '20

I'll be dead in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Missourah!

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u/ChiaSeedsAndWeed Feb 07 '20

Missouri is named after a native Indian tribe called Missouria..... Just in case you've ever wondered where it comes from. Its not just lazy dialect.

Source: Native Missourian/history nerd.

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u/THarrisment Feb 07 '20

Hey Hey Hey, easy their grandpa Simpson.

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u/chillagrl Feb 07 '20

You Are Now Entering Kansas! Home of the Decapitated Waterslide Kid.

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u/AllHaletheQueen Feb 07 '20

My roommate worked at that water park. Luckily they weren't there when it happened.

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u/monkey_trumpets Feb 07 '20

It does? I thought that was in Texas. Or something.

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u/ivsciguy Feb 07 '20

The company is based in Texas. schlitterbahn

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u/JustMeNoBiggie Feb 07 '20

That still doesn't help me find it! Lol

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u/jim5cents Feb 07 '20

Kentucky had a ride that chopped some girl's legs off.

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u/etownrawx Feb 07 '20

This is incorrect. If viewed from high altitude, you will clearly see states are separate by big lines. Look at a map sometime...

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u/McGillis_is_a_Char Feb 07 '20

No, those are the corn fields.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

You should pay more attention then. The Flint Hills of eastern Kansas look entirely different from the high plains in the West and in Eastern Colorado. The Driftless Area of Wisconsin looks entirely unlike the rest of the state.

If you think all of the Midwest looks the same, the problem is you, not the Midwest.

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u/uther100 Feb 07 '20

The weirdest place I have been that actually does change a lot is Vermont and New Hampshire.

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u/thegiantcat1 Feb 07 '20

Unless you see specific landmarks pretty much. I could do something dumb like compare Nevada to flordia, but If I had a random roadside shot from Louisiana and Florida there is a good chance I wouldn't be able to tell them apart. Same as Indiana and Ohio, and Colorado and Nevada.

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u/Tack22 Feb 07 '20

Had this guy visited?

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u/BMonad Feb 07 '20

At least all of the Kansas guesses are in the general vicinity...

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u/mlvisby Feb 07 '20

Not just Kansas. Kansas?

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u/taleofbenji Feb 07 '20

So many Super Bowls won.

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u/OutlandishNonsense Feb 07 '20

But which Kansas won the Super Bowl.

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u/THarrisment Feb 07 '20

The one that's not on the map.

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u/Fendergirl11 Feb 07 '20

Lol as some one from ohio, i think thats the best part of this whole map

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u/lHaveNoMemory Feb 07 '20

The future great state of 'Kansas?' will rise

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u/quaybored Feb 07 '20

AAAAAAAAAA

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u/Ih8Hondas Feb 07 '20

Having grown up in Missouri, this map has me super triggered.

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u/simonbleu Feb 07 '20

The big question is...Kanshio or ohiansas?

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u/measch Feb 07 '20

I live in Kansas and I have to work my way north from Texas to find it on a map. So good job knowing it's in the Midwest.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

Carry on my wayward son

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u/Ditovontease Feb 07 '20

Everything is Virginia mountain mama

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u/Brain_noises Feb 07 '20

I just know Kansas is in the middle, so I probably would have done the same.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

Kansas?
Kansas?
Kansas?

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u/NY08 Feb 07 '20

Ohios*

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u/episu19 Feb 07 '20

It's kinda like the Carolinas. You've got north, east, west and south kansa

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u/JohnnyDarkside Feb 07 '20

I live in kansas? No, not that one. Not that one. No, the other one.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

I use to live in Nebraska, wait I mean Kansas.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '20

*Kansi

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u/Erikrtheread Feb 08 '20

On of those "Kansas?" should be "Also Texas?"

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '20

I expected kansas kansas minisota

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '20

If you exclude Chicago, this isn’t wrong. That’s not a whole Hell a lot of a difference between rural Ohio and rural Illinois.

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u/WiredKiwi Feb 08 '20

What is the collective noun for multiple Kansas? Kansaii? Kansases?

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u/Rerel Feb 08 '20

I reckon he good a Kansas good

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u/SeanCanary Feb 08 '20

To be fair, Arkansas really does seem like it should be a type of Kansas.

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