True story. My granddaughter told me that she really tried to be friends with the "different" girl

[Horse with no Name]

at school but she just didn't like her.
I sighed and prepared a lengthy explanation of liking people that are different than us....blah blah blah.:)

So, I asked her why this girl was different. She told me it was because she was.....












from Ohio.:wow:

I'm sorry. I really had to laugh and didn't take this as a teaching opportunity.:rofl:

[damntexdem]

1. Well, after all, what can you do with a kid from a state where ...

three-fourths of the letters in its name are vowels?

I mean, even Hawaii only has two-thirds of the letters in its name that are vowels.

[KamaAina]

3. Four-sevenths

the name of the 50th State is properly spelled "Hawai'i"; the ' ('okina) is considered a consonant, pronounced as a glottal stop, like in "Uh-oh" or the way East Coasters pronounce "Trenton" or "New Britain". :-)

[trof]

4. Alabama - 4/7ths vowels and all the same one.

;-)

[Morning Dew]

5. Iowa as well.

As a Minnesotan, I know how "different" those Iowegians are.




OK, just kidding. I'm originally from Wisconsin - I'm already living among the "different".

[postulater]

8. My sympathies for being forced to leave Wisconsin.

No one would leave voluntarily especially for Minne****.

[Morning Dew]

26. Absolutely true.

Wisconsin is great. I'm so glad I grew up there.

[Warpy]

2. When you can manage straight face, maybe by next week,

you can tell her she gets to like and dislike who she does, but that basing that only on the fact that someone is a little different or because the other people she knows are picking on that person is wrong.

But yeah, I've met a few people from Ohio who were, uh, different. They're no weirder than people from anywhere else, but yeah, it was different.

We didn't call it "the full Cleveland" for nothing.

[EFerrari]

6. LOL

:hi:

[Berry Cool]

17. Funny, I've never seen anyone from Cleveland wearing the alleged "Full Cleveland."

Yet people from other places think we wear it all the time. I guess they have no better way to pretend they're superior to those of us living in The Best Location in the Nation. Pity.

[EFerrari]

27. People always have something to say about their neighbors over the hill.

That doesn't mean they're ever right. :hi:

[struggle4progress]

7. I moved from Yankeeland to Dixieland as a kid: it was culture shock

For me, a 45F or 50F dry sunny day meant: short sleeves, short pants, a good sweater and a hat. In Dixie, they thought it meant a blizzard was acomin in

We often couldn't understand each other: for them, "pen" and "pin" were homonyms

In my old school, you were supposed to aski questions; in my new school, you weren't

For about the first three years, everybody who met me asked me what country I was from

[Warpy]

29. I had an Aunty from St. Louis who moved to NC

and was completely flummoxed when a man told her the car needed awl. Then she got thrown into complete culture shock when a supermarket clerk told her the applesauce was over there, by the canned payas.

People there were always asking me if I was from England.

[Missy Vixen]

9. We're Seattle natives

Our closest friends are East Coast transplants, and it's happened repeatedly.

IMHO, but we've found that East Coast transplants tend to socialize more, among other great personality traits. Plus, they seem somewhat tolerant of the idiosyncrasies of people in this area (shirtless guys on sixty-degree days, socks and sandals, no umbrellas, and we wait at the crosswalk till the light changes).

The disdain towards people from Cali#$(@* seems to have faded somewhat as well.

[Soylent Brice]

10. she is totally justified, IMO.

:rofl:

[madmom]

11. I know how true this is, really. I moved to Ohio when I was a teenager,I am now

in my 50's. ALL my close friends are from other states. We agree people from Ohio are "different".:hide:

[Motown_Johnny]

12. Clearly you have never met anyone from Ohio

[hootinholler]

13. Well Ohio is the home of "Touchdown Jesus" n/t

[Sinistrous]

18. (Actually, that would be Indiana - South Bend, to be exact)

[Berry Cool]

20. Please, don't bother this one with facts.

Some people on DU have nothing better to do than to ridicule all of us Ohioans and call us backwards Jesus freaks.

[hootinholler]

25. Where exactly did I do that?

As to facts, check out post #24.

As to the Talibornagain, they have a strong presence in most states and are deserving of much ridicule, for many valid reasons.

-Hoot

[hootinholler]

24. South Bend may well have a "Touchdown Jesus," however, the one I was referring to is in Ohio...

Near Cincinatti:

Monroe, Ohio

Jesus has risen near the interstate north of Cincinnati. A 62-ft. high sculpture of Christ appears to explode from the dirt behind the amphitheater at Monroe's Solid Rock Church. From the waist down, he's underground....

All he needs is a shirt and a whistle.

-Hoot

[Sinistrous]

28. OK. But that is only half a TJ.

:hide:

[Ron Green]

14. Working in a hamburger joint in Texas years ago, I looked out the front window and saw

two big buses carrying a school group from Ohio pull into the parking lot. One of the old hands immediately went into the walk-in and got a gallon of ketchup, because he knew we were gonna need it.

[seabeyond]

15. that is funny. i, too, have had experiences just like that with kids. nt

[profile this]

16. Arizona

When we moved to Arizona my pre-teen said she didn't know what was wrong with the kids here. She said they seem like they were in the past. True story.

[FLPanhandle]

19. LOL. Well, any place where people say "please" instead of "excuse me" is different.

Then there is the Ohio State cheer where they spell the state. Guys, it's only four letters. That's not an impressive display of your education.

[Arugula Latte]

21. Yabbut, it's round on the ends and hi in the middle!

[a la izquierda]

22. Hah!

One of my best friends is from Cleveland. I love her to pieces, even her weird accent.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

23. Them's fighting words!!!!

Proud daughter of a daddy born in Ashtabula. Said he learned to swim about the same time he learned to walk, being right on Lake Erie.

He got smart when he escaped to Texas because he was sick of shoveling snow. That showed good sense.

Native Texan here.

I always felt closer to his brother and sister than I did to mom's family (east Texas born, grand-units migrated out of Mississippi).

[undeterred]

30. Well, whats she going to do when she meets someone from TEXAS?

[Horse with no Name]

32. LOL

We live in rural East Texas.:)The belly of the beast!

[boomerbust]

31. You missed a good teaching opportunity

"At least she wasnt from Arizona":evilgrin: