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[The North One]

This is literally exactly what my brother does every time I forget to shave.

[Centropolis]

Originally Posted by Dralcoffin

Speaking of Iowa, new Sporcle quiz!

did you mention that you did missouri? just noticed that.

[Centropolis]

i got 158 out of 172 for missouri. somehow university city completely slipped my mind which is absolutely insane considering that u-city is an integral part of the "soul of st. louis." maybe that was why i didn't guess it, it feels not much different than the intact sections of st. louis city in its eastern parts. the rest of them i probably wouldn't have guessed... but i thought that ste. genevieve was somewhere in there. another brain-fart was that later during the course of the quiz i realized that i had forgotten about the bigger SW missouri cities...which admittedly feel like they are in a different state.

[Centropolis]

i need to start flying to the coasts more. i tear up more ground than the u.s. army, mang.

[ChiSoxRox]

Ste. Genevieve is almost certainly on the lists before the 1840s, which is right when the Census records start being available consistently. The Census is very meticulous about county population, but a consistent tally of city populations doesn't arrive until the mid 1800s, and the 1830 and 1840 Censuses aren't online, meaning I have to do some detective work to find those numbers.

Also, Webster Groves was a new name to me. I'd heard of the other KC and STL burbs before putting the quiz together.

Here's Indiana.

I have quizzes for AL, CA, CO, FL, IL, IN, IA, LA, MA, MO, NJ, NY, OH, PA, and TX. Next up are WA and MN.

If I can find the numbers, I'd love to do Ontario and maybe some of the other provinces.

[Centropolis]

i should do a photo thread of older st louis suburbs. webster groves is very charming and has three seperate downtowns. kind of like what you would find outside
of chicago proper but the street grid is much more curvilinear and
mish-mosh for some reason. theres several old commuter stations there, too.

[Centropolis]

88/177 for Indiana. I was brain-farting on the big Indy burbs and a couple others. The old Ohio River port cities I wouldnt of got other than Evansville (which I did).

bad run for me for such a close state.

[ChiSoxRox]

Washington state cities: a quiz for Microsoft programmers and Boeing engineers to play as they drink coffee and listen to grunge in the rain...

[wong21fr]

Can we be cynical about the phrase, "Never Forget" on 9/11 yet? I'll say that the 27th anniversary will be about the time that everyone forgets.

[vid]

Originally Posted by wong21fr

Can we be cynical about the phrase, "Never Forget" on 9/11 yet? I'll say that the 27th anniversary will be about the time that everyone forgets.

35th, actually. That's the point where the number of people alive who don't remember 9/11 will surpass those who do.

[rockyi]

Earlier when someone asked me what I was doing on that tuesday 11 years ago, I said I was working at the same place doing the same job with all the EXACT same tasks that I did today. That was a terrible day in our history......and it looks like I'm in a major life rut.

[Lipani]

^ Luckily you're still on my free beer and/or house list if I win the lottery!

[LMich]

Originally Posted by wong21fr

Can we be cynical about the phrase, "Never Forget" on 9/11 yet? I'll say that the 27th anniversary will be about the time that everyone forgets.

This is my favorite of the cynical and irreverant tributes to 9/11:


posterrevolution.com

[Ayreonaut]

Originally Posted by vid

35th, actually. That's the point where the number of people alive who don't remember 9/11 will surpass those who do.

I don't remember anything listed prior to Clinton's reelection.

[touraccuracy]

sweet, i remember oj simpson's trial.

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my life is really shitty romantic comedy. i stumbled across a website where my very recent ex has been making comics for a while. many of them are about me. what the fuck.

[rockyi]

Originally Posted by Lipani

^ Luckily you're still on my free beer and/or house list if I win the lottery!

Well, I've been in the same home for 23 years, I could use something different.


Speaking of remembering things, my earliest memory (that I can date) is when my brother was born. April 6, 1963. I vaguely remember Kennedy being shot. But I CLEARLY remember Batman coming to TV in 1966.

[ChiSoxRox]

My earliest memory is my third birthday cake in 1995 -- I was all excited because it had Lion King figurines.

(I'm the young un, I guess.)

[Buckeye Native 001]

This might explain a lot about my personality, but one of my earliest memories was of watching TV news coverage of the Pan Am/Lockerbie Scotland incident in December 1988 (I was 5). I also vaguely remember watching TV with my dad when President Reagan was on TV for some reason (don't remember why, probably around 1987 or 1988).

[rockyi]

I remember watching Vietnam coverage on TV with my dad....not bacause I wanted to, but it always seemed I somehow got in trouble while he was watching the news and I was forced to sit next to his chair as punishment. That coverage was a bit gory for me since the rest of '60s TV was so sanitized.

I guess that explains a lot about my personality also.

[Centropolis]

tom brokaw/a garden apartment with shag carpet decorated in "spanish bachelor."