I remember being in Pennsylvania one summer during their idea of a heat wave. It got to 85. Back home in MS, it was 103 that day. The next morning, in July, it was 53. That was dang near winter for a poor southern kid!
I remember being in Pennsylvania one summer during their idea of a heat wave. It got to 85. Back home in MS, it was 103 that day. The next morning, in July, it was 53. That was dang near winter for a poor southern kid!
An argument I used when I was in college, and how you can determine that New Jersey is in fact the worst state in the union, is when you make that statement, all NJ residents can do is say, only half sucks, and are unable to refute the initial claim. All they can do is argue which half of the state is 49.5 and which half is 50th...
Hmmm, some good comments. However, having grown up in Pa. and travelled a bit throughout the U.S. just not really all that much in the "Mid-Atlantic States" like N.Y. residents, most residents of Pa. will avoid the turnpike if they can. As bad as the toll is, the really bad thing about the turnpikes is as has been mentioned....they are VERY OLD. They pretty much follow routes that were established in COLONIAL times, and often feel as though that is when they were built. For me, the truely scary parts of the turnpike were those stretches where the opposing lanes were seperated by only the guard rail. I'm guessing they are nowadays few and far between. Unfortunately, there is often not an alternative route that is as fast.
I can't speak for all states, but usually when an interstate is "born" restaurant chains stake out areas that they feel will give the best return on investment...hence, all interchanges seem to have the same 5 or 6 fast food stops.
As far as DD versus KK, I grew up in the '50s-'60s. The first doughnut shops I visited were DDs. You got a doughnut that was slightly crisp/crunchy on the outside and vaguely cakey on the inside. In 1960 I visited my first KKs. I was so taken by their excellent doughnuts that several times a month I would splurge and spend all my weekly allowance there. KKs in the '60s were light/airy doughnuts with a slathering of glaze. Strangely, I don't remember eating them warm...but never had them stale at a store either. In the last decade or two DDs and KKs have changed their recipes. DD used to claim they were made fresh every 3 or 4 HOURS. They aren't anymore. Often they are frozen and defrosted. KKs? Not so light and airy, just airy and the glaze tastes cheap. I'll drive to wherever I have to when I want a DD, a KK? I won't cross the street for one.
FWIW, NYC puts up those cross walk signs to keep the tourists from getting killed.
mad_machine wrote: personally.. I have been to OK.. drove there from NJ to Ponca City. The southern half of the state is nice.. loved the big resevour with the fossils.. but up in the North East corner.. well, I remember standing on my friend's back porch the day I left and looking out at all the miles and miles and miles and flat scrub brush.. and wondering why ANYBODY would want to willingly live there
You must be confused, northeastern OK is called "green country" because of how green and hilly it is compared to the rest of the state.
Anything outside of the 918 is flat and tan.
Ponca city is not in the southern or northeastern part of the state. It sounds like you are confusing KS with NE OK.
Bobzilla wrote: 4.) NYC... interesting place to visit, but soooooooo many berkeleying people. How do you not go insane?
Who says we hadn't gone insane? We just try to behave around visitors.
Lesley wrote: First thing I do when I get back to Canada is hit a Tim Horton's.
I'm with you, Lesley. There's a Timmies on Huron-Church in Windsor. It's the first place I stop after crossing the bridge from Detroit ,whenever I'm driving back to southwestern Ontario. Two old fashioned plains and a large,double-double !!
"2.) NH... why so many cops? 121 driven miles in your state and 19 cop cars spotted. Seriously... with a state motto of "Live Free or Die" I don't get it. "
NH doesn't collect sales or income tax. They have to make money somehow =)
Massachusetts.... what is your fascination with Dunkin Donuts? EVERY exit has at least one. Seriously.... they're not that good.
If you think that's a lot, come to Ontario. There are streets here (lot's of them) with a Tim Hortons directly opposite another one, and they're both packed.
There's a reason it's been largely a failure in the US. The stuff's not very good, and it's too expensive. Considering that coffee is their business, they don't do a very good job of it.
SyntheticBlinkerFluid wrote: As a midwesterner myself and have being to MA a couple times, they do have an avid love for Dunkies (as my friends from MA call it). The entire road system was created from whatever footpaths were winding through the woods in the 15th century (I have a good sense of direction and I got lost 10 minutes being in the car). Roundabouts, motherberkeleying roundabouts. The pronunciation of Arby's is enough to make a sane man go crazy (PseudoSport knows what I mean
) I hate that I had to pay a deposit on a 20 oz bottle of Coke. Other than that, beautiful areas scenery, awesome seafood, and an awesome history.
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Zomby woof wrote:There's a reason it's been largely a failure in the US. The stuff's not very good, and it's too expensive. Considering that coffee is their business, they don't do a very good job of it.Uh huh... and macs suck too. Matter of taste.
Lesley wrote: Uh huh... and macs suck too.
Not mine
Or lack thereof.
Zomby woof wrote:Lesley wrote: Uh huh... and macs suck too.Not mine
You're right Mike, yours blows 
Zomby woof wrote: If you think that's a lot, come to Ontario. There are streets here (lot's of them) with a Tim Hortons directly opposite another one, and they're both packed.
I was at a Tim Hortons that was located in the bathroom of a Tim Hortons once.
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:Zomby woof wrote: If you think that's a lot, come to Ontario. There are streets here (lot's of them) with a Tim Hortons directly opposite another one, and they're both packed.I was at a Tim Hortons that was located in the bathroom of a Tim Hortons once.
AHAHAHAHAAAH!
z31maniac wrote: Ponca city is not in the southern or northeastern part of the state. It sounds like you are confusing KS with NE OK.
It could be.. it has been ten years since I have been there.. but where we were (about ten miles from Ponca City) it was flat nasty scrub land... but I will admit it was also early spring.. so it may have just been a case of still being brown from winter.
The drive from Ponca City to Oklahoma City didn't look all that much better.. lots of reservations
Sorry you didn't enjoy PA. The Turnpike has it's merits over I-80/I-78, namely the rest stops are something other than vending machines and (dirty) bathrooms. And it's roads aren't nearly as bad as some other PA roads. And I don't know what limited access road you were on that was 55...every toll road I can think of is 65 by now.
Oh, and I agree with you on just about everything else. Jersey, CT, and MA suck. Really the only good parts of New England are NH and Maine, but even those make me pull my hair out because of the colonial-era road setup.
Dunkin used to be good, when they made all the donuts at the locations. Now they're shipped in frozen. They're terrible. And they changed their coffee, it's pretty bad too. Local coffee shops remain the only place to get a decent cup, anymore.
If southern NJ looks like middle GA, I'll mark that off my list. I've seen PLENTY of middle GA.
Wally- I'll hold you to the exception because you seem to be a cool guy and all- but I swear, everyone i've ever spoken to that's been raised in NYC is a complete jackass. To the point that I once found a car in NYC for a VERY reasonable price and I still wouldn't go get it because I refuse to set foot anywhere near there. Is there a reason for this? Seems to trickle south as well, until you get about an hour north of DC where everyone mellows out a lot.
mndsm wrote: Wally- I'll hold you to the exception because you seem to be a cool guy and all- but I swear, everyone i've ever spoken to that's been raised in NYC is a complete jackass. To the point that I once found a car in NYC for a VERY reasonable price and I still wouldn't go get it because I refuse to set foot anywhere near there. Is there a reason for this? Seems to trickle south as well, until you get about an hour north of DC where everyone mellows out a lot.
You shut your face.
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:Zomby woof wrote: If you think that's a lot, come to Ontario. There are streets here (lot's of them) with a Tim Hortons directly opposite another one, and they're both packed.I was at a Tim Hortons that was located in the bathroom of a Tim Hortons once.
Don't give them any ideas.
Meh, I don't eat their donuts. Just like the java.
Ontarians - best donuts ever are those at the Tyrone Mill Bakery, just around the corner from Mosport.
92CelicaHalfTrac wrote:mndsm wrote: Wally- I'll hold you to the exception because you seem to be a cool guy and all- but I swear, everyone i've ever spoken to that's been raised in NYC is a complete jackass. To the point that I once found a car in NYC for a VERY reasonable price and I still wouldn't go get it because I refuse to set foot anywhere near there. Is there a reason for this? Seems to trickle south as well, until you get about an hour north of DC where everyone mellows out a lot.You shut your face.
Are you in NYC now? No. So you shut YOUR face. Even New Yorkers wanna leave.
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