Originally Posted By Mr X ***Des Moines, IA Metro Area Population: 443,396*** Wasilla, AK Metro Area Population:9,780 (5th largest in state) Wow...by using silly metrics like these, even Des Moines sounds huge and exciting. (just kiddin with ya RT...I'm sure Milwaukee is a jammin town...I spent some time in Madison, as a matter of fact...cool college town vibe...good cheese...good beer (cool beer hall called "brat and brau" too)...lots of cornfields, natch)
Originally Posted By RoadTrip I've had quite a few great times in Madison. Some of them I actually remember.
Originally Posted By Ursula Los Angeles Proper: 3,834,340. Los Angeles County: 9,948,081 So do I win the contest?
Originally Posted By DAR <<I'm sure Milwaukee is a jammin town>> Jammin and a bar on just about every corner. Seriously there's like five or six I could walk to in my neighborhood.
Originally Posted By Mr X Metropolis of Tokyo: 12,790,000 Daytime population: 15,000,000+ Greater Tokyo Area: 35,676,000 ***So do I win the contest?*** What do *you* think? ;p
Originally Posted By alexbook I think The Onion summed it up nicely: >>For Gay Couple, Fulfilling Lifelong Dream Of Marriage Not Worth Moving To Iowa April 30, 2009 NEW YORK—Having their sworn commitment to each other and all related rights therein recognized by the highest court of a sovereign U.S. state is ultimately not worth the hassle of moving to Iowa, longtime partners Danny Mindlin and Alex Small determined Monday. "Alex and I want to grow old together, but we'd have to drive six hours just to get a mezzaluna at Restoration Hardware," said Mindlin, who claimed he "couldn't survive" without a strawberry frosted cupcake from Amy's Bread after yoga every Thursday. "And where would we summer? Dubuque? I think we'll just buy a townhouse and live in an unrecognized union with beautiful granite countertops instead." The couple told reporters that their plans to adopt also weighed heavily in the decision, since they want to raise a child who is healthy, balanced, and "not tacky."<<
Originally Posted By BlueDevilSF RE: #75 I beg to differ. Iowa brought us Maytag Blue Cheese, a little bit of heaven on earth.
Originally Posted By TMICHAEL >>>What does IOWA stand for?<<<< Drum roll please........... I diots O ut W andering A round Can I have one of them rainbow cookies now too?!
Originally Posted By TMICHAEL gods I hate when the punchline doesn't line up properly after you send it. LOL Now just as an aside, late last month, Corona del Mar H.S. drama dept here in SoCal was putting on the musical RENT. WELL, on the first day of the show, that disgusting PIG Fred Phelps (yes, the same hate monger that pickets the funerals of soldiers, spitting the vile notion that they deserve to die because they are fighting for a country that is accepting of homosexuality) sent 8 of his family/idiot followers, to picket the high school as it was concluding its school day. All because this multi award winning work of contemporary art contains gay, lesbian and HIV positive characters. GUESS WHAT, while his 6 followers were on their little rant march across the street, approximately 50 parents.....AND THE ENTIRE STUDENT BODY.... were on school grounds with signs of equality and acceptance!!!!!!! I got very, very proud and a little teary eyed just driving by them and honking in support. (and the swim team out in their speedos were a complete surprise and treat! Can I be considered a dirty old man at 46?) LOL
Originally Posted By DAR I guess when you don't have a real job you have time to do these protests. Personally I would protestant Rent because I think its terrible. Well at least the movie version was, I fell asleep during that.
Originally Posted By BlueDevilSF No. I've been to two HS productions of "Rent" and they absolutely MANGLED it.
Originally Posted By u k fan I'm with DAR, I think I'd just be protesting against the fact that Rent was being performed! I hate to go back over old posts, but I'm new to this discussion so you'll have to indulge me! I was so disappointed by Josh's response in Post 18. It does nothing for understanding of either side when the best you can come up with is a random scripture that is completely out of context and given none. It comes across as if there's some kind of instruction in the "Mormon Handbook" that says please quote scripture y when in situation x and makes him seem less than the intelligent human being we know him to be. I wouldn't have agreed with him if he'd put forward a reasoned argument, but I might have respected it. It seems that the LDS faith is setting itself up to become a marginalized minority again. So sad.
