h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'm from the Midwest myself. It's not as fun or pretty as Texas. Just a lot of corn and soy beans and flatness.

I'm not so much a , but more of a quirky .

Wow... I missed this post compleatly. It must have fallen victim to the great Ham(p)ster revolt that was plaguing this site for so many recent months.

I'm going to guess you're in Kansas or Nebraska or thereabouts. I've never been in the midwest. My father lived in Liberal for a while though.

Oh, thought you were just blowing me off ...

Actually, I live in Illinois where it's all soy beans and and so flat I can see five miles in each direction on a clear night.

Really, really, terribly boring.

I don't think I know anyone else from Illinois, except Ferris Beuller and Bob Newhart. Of course, that's just Chicago (one of the few cities I actually want to visit one day. I can skip L.A. and N.Y.). I've had relatives that lived in flat boring Ohio though. Is that pretty similar?

Dunno. I've never been to Ohio. Chicago is pretty cool. It has a few awsome museums and everyone should visit the pier at least once--it's really awesome.

Texas has just about every kind of landscape. Where I live, near Galveston, its at least as flat as it is there. I'm on a flood plain. And yet they still managed to name a nearby town "Alto Loma" (high hill). The only hills I see are at construction sites and golf courses. The Houston area is pretty ugly. Just flat urban sprawl. There are some nice bayous and parks out of town and beaches along the coast. Austin is awesome. Beautiful hilly country, very nice. Austin also has the largest colony of urban bats in the world just in case you wanted to know. Dallas is ok... But us folks from around Houston have to hate Dallas, it's the law. Fort Worth is a bit smaller, but nicer. Of course you have to listen to country music in Fort Worth. Between there and Amarillo is a whole lot of nothing but flat farmland. You'd probably recognize it. East Texas you can't see the forest for the trees. South Texas is arid low hills to flat prairies dotted with mesquite trees. The Big Bend region is absolutely beautiful with a mountain desert motife. In West Texas they grow football players in the dry prairies. Anyway, that's a general overview of Texas. If there's an area you don't like, drive a few hundred miles in any direction and it will probably be completely different.

No fair!....


your state's way better than mine


Oh, well-I never liked Illinois anyway.
I actually consider myself from Missouri since that's where I was born and I've spent a great deal of my life there (it's where my dad lives)

It's absolutely beautiful there. There are so many trees and forested areas and natural rivers and springs. My dad lives in this small town called Doniphan in southern Missouri. It has the most beautiful river going through it called the Current River. If you love nature, then you should really check it out one day!

Ok, so I'm lurking around today since I don't really want to clean my house and came across this.

Liberal, Kansas? That Liberal? My orthodontist was in Liberal. I used to live not far from there. On a clear day (most of them were) we could see 10 miles in any direction. On the 4th of July we would go out on a blacktop road that led to our house and watch fireworks in two towns.

PS - southern Missouri and northern Arkansas really are beautiful. Lots of trees and winding roads - the trees are wonderful in the fall.

My step grandmother is from "Missourah". Somewhere in the Ozarks. She used to go back there every year or so. I think she may have been from the Branson area. I'm sure that's changed compleatly since she was a young farm girl.

When I was a kid she still raised chickens. She always made the best scrambled eggs from those fresh eggs.

I'd heard stories about pigs she'd raise as well. This is in my hometown. It's a quaint little residential town. She'd name the pigs and put ribbons on them and take them for walks down the main street. Then some Sunday when all the family was at their house she'd string up "Bessie" and cut her throat and serve up a huge pork feast.

I'm such a suburbanite. I'm so glad I never saw that. Seeing her snap the necks of a chicken dinner was bad enough.


Wow... you just mention "Missourah" and that's where my mind goes.

My grandpa is from a family of 16 kids and my great-grandmother used to kill two chickens at once by swinging them around in a circle by their necks. Then she would cut their heads off and hang them by their feet on the clothesline. *shudder* I'm glad the local river-polluting chicken farm does all that before I buy it in a cellophane wrapped package at my airconditioned super mega mart. Still, just thinking about it makes me want to eat a salad.

My dad used to hunt a lot when he was a kid. Mostly squirrel.

I always feel like such a hick when people knock eating squirrels and I'm the only kid in the area who's ever tried it.

It's actually very ...

I've tried it. I shot two when I was a kid on a hunting trip with my dad. (I've never hunted since but I still fancy myself quite an accurate shot.)

I wasn't fond of squirrel. I think it may be an acquired taste. Tasted a bit wild for me. I'm not fond of duck for the same reason.

That's wierd. I love that gamey taste. Espcially venison

Venison's different... I love that.

It would be awful not to.

Do you ever find yourself having to defend hunting?
There is a suprising amount of animal activists in these parts who find hunting cruel and openly bash it between giant mouthfuls of McDonald's Quarter Pounders.

Nah... I don't hunt myself but most folks around here either do or are tolerant of it. Although the local paper has been getting some flack for publishing photos of young kids and they're kills.

There are some ranches here in Texas that sponsor "canned" exotic hunts which I find deplorable. They bring in exotic animals from Africa mostly, keep them caged up until some corporate types drive up in SUVs, step out, get their guns ready and then they release the animals and usually have to prod them to leave the cage where they are shot within seconds. Since this is a very profitable business and most of the clients, like I say, are corporate types with lots of lobbying power these hunts are unlikely to end without more public pressure.

DISGUSTING!!!!

people make me sick