Idon't know if this is a spoof or not but I got it in an email:
Steve are you OK?
Herb
I think that in the Obama health care bill, Kansas was given to New Braska to get their vote to pass the bill, this map just reflects the new United States, but that makes 49 states not instead of the previous 57.
Best
Gus
No Kansas.............
And the problem is?????
That map must have been made by someone from either the east or west coast. Most of us fly over Whatever state that is, so we don't quite understand where it would be located on the map. Those states look the same from the air.
Norm
Darn old hurricane took'em right off the map. Hasn't Kansas suffered enough? Wherever you are Steve, I hope yer alright !!
Garnet
Just click your ruby red slippers together and keep saying "there's no place like home"
Norman - They all look about the same from the ground too! ha,ha,.....harold
I love Kansas. I still have all their 8-track tapes. Blowing in the wind is one of my favorite songs. so sad that Kansas is gone. no more T Tours there.
Global Warming - it melted.
As dry as it's been, it probably blew away.... Maybe Steve will send us a postcard from an alternate universe.
Toto, I don't think we are in Kansas any more. . .because there is no Kansas.
Actually, Kansas has been wanting more water from Nebraska via the Republican River. Nebraskan told them that to get more wanter, Kansas would have to change its name to Nebraska.
Dust in the Wind?
C'mon Ed, All we are is dust in the wind....most likely not your style of music.
You messin with my head.Now I gota look at another map and see just where Kansas WUZ.
I drove about fifty miles this afternoon and didn't notice any more corn than usual, so I don't think we're Nebraska yet.
This is nothing new. Many years ago the morning edition of thew Los Angeles Times had a map showing the southern California coast, and off to the left in big capital letters it said ATLANTIC OCEAN. Unfortunately somebody noticed, and they corrected it for the second edition.
Steve,
That post about the Atlantic Ocean reminded me of when we spent a week on the coast New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts. Every day I thought I was going North when I was really going south, because the ocean was on the wrong side! And in Hawaii, I couldn't tell which way I was going in the middle of the day, because the sun was just about directly overhead. Now some day I would like to visit Australia or New Zealand!
Norm
Norman, I know your feeling. I spent a month one week in NZ, and the sun rose in the east ok, but then it tracked across the north side of the sky!
Just musing out loud here: Before the Model T, most people had been less than 50 miles from home, and so they had little feel for distances and geography.
Now, surrounded by computers, I wonder if young people are traveling less, and shrinking their worlds?
rdr
I drove across Nebraska (North) in June and when returning I crossed a corner of Nebraska (South) to get back to Colorado but they hadn't changed the signs yet evidently as they indicated entering and then leaving Kansas.
Gordon
Hey Rob, did you know that Glinda the Good Witch suffered from Sadistic Personality Disorder?
She was the cause of everything that happened to Dorothy and her friends in OZ, AND she knew all along that all Dorothy had to do was click her heels together to get home. What kind of sick individual makes a kid go thru all that crap just to get home, when they know the answer from the very beginning??? LOL
Clarification:
I spent a month one week in NZ, and the sun rose in the east ok, but then it tracked right to left across the north side of the sky!
Mr Ricks, you are now correct. Im sitting on the tailgate of my 'ute' right now having lunch, checking the forum on my wee cellphone (no fancy iphone for this bloke) and the sun is right in front of me, at due north. You guys have lost Kansas ? Try being a kiwi travelling around the US, we struck people who didn't know New Zealand existed. Hope you guys are all ok up there. Doesn't look too good on the news. Regards, Bede.
Maybe they sold it?
If there isn't a Kansas anymore, it means two things: We're back to 49 states (unless it is replaced by Guam or Puerto Rico), and Model T Haven must have found a place in heaven.
The cornhuskers have beat Kansas so many times the state ceased to exist.........
It's a way to create jobs......with them gone we will need to take one star off of all the flags.......that will take people, jobs ......unless they gather up all the flags and send them back to China for star removal........then we might as well kept them......Gosh I hope Steve's OK.......
I'll have to take a class and learn to speak Nebraskan.
Steve,
Since it appears we have acquired the late, great state of Kansas, you'll need to learn your new state anthem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RudxjzBMwg&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Enjoy,
Rob
(now we finally get a basketball team)
And I forgot to mention, in Nebraska, sunflowers are just a weed.
What's a "Nebraska"?
Ah, but that's not the anthem. This is the official state song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6ADhHMLgZk&feature=related
I think Kansas has the better one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArgMK2kAjzw&feature=related
Larry - Does that mean the Republican River is the River of Life for Kansas?
Not a political statement -Just a question!
Gustaf, Did he not say he had been in 57 states and had two more to go?
He is just such a smart guy you know.
This is just another example of how much the media doesn't know about what we learned in school in the 50's and 60's. When the great MO. River Flood Of 2011 began, I think it was the Diane Sawyer newscast that showed a picture of Hamburg Iowa on a map on TV. The problem was, on the map of Iowa, it said Ohio. Dave
I once knew some guys who had a band called "Kansas Queen" .. I think their big hit was "Another one bites the dust in the wind".............