Which is Better, The American South or North?

[pimpdave]

not as we know it today, natives were playing it on grass when europeens arrived, etc ... but seriously montreal is the hometown for it, please read history, and it was not squirrels head that they used before the puck was invented it was frozen piece of shit, for real ...

Yeah, no. It was Long Island. Please read history.

please re-read your history first indoor game 1875 -> montreal
outdoor 1820-40's -> nova scotia, Canada, even a guy from boston newspaper talks about it in 1840's and he's not mentioning Long island ...he's mentionning Halifax
thanks for your time dave

Yeah, you're wrong. Invented on Long Island.

You don't even belong in this thread, you're from Canada, the least significant place in the universe, except when we need someone to blame. Even worse, the french part...

[thegreekdog]

not as we know it today, natives were playing it on grass when europeens arrived, etc ... but seriously montreal is the hometown for it, please read history, and it was not squirrels head that they used before the puck was invented it was frozen piece of shit, for real ...

Yeah, no. It was Long Island. Please read history.

please re-read your history first indoor game 1875 -> montreal
outdoor 1820-40's -> nova scotia, Canada, even a guy from boston newspaper talks about it in 1840's and he's not mentioning Long island ...he's mentionning Halifax
thanks for your time dave

Yeah, you're wrong. Invented on Long Island.

You don't even belong in this thread, you're from Canada, the least significant place in the universe, except when we need someone to blame. Even worse, the french part...

Soon to be reported by colton...

[pimpdave]

Okay, for the record, I'm allowed to pick on ANY LOCATION anywhere for the simple fact that I am from New Jersey. It's international law.

Our chief exports are Bon Jovi and Guidos. With all the disrespect I get on a daily basis (waaaaaay more than Rodney Dangerfield), I think the rest of the world can cut us some slack when we take them down a peg or two.

[Woodruff]

This thread has been reported... seriously, it's been reported.

But how would you know, unless...you tried to report it! <grin>

[Neoteny]

In defense of the south, we have Pantera, Lamb of God, and Mastodon. Cannibal Corpse if we can claim Florida. ZZ Top, Allman Bros, Elvis, Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, Fats Domiono. Well, hell, we pretty much invented rock music, jazz, and the blues.

Faulkner and Harper Lee, and I think we can claim Twain.

I'm a pretty big fan of southern cooking.

Also, EO Wilson is kinda cool.

Finally, a worthy opponent. I give you the music. Recently, the crunk sylings of Lil' Wayne are really good too (and the dirty south hip hop of Outkast).

However, we have Run DMC, Biggie Smalls, The Roots, Black Star, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Common, Nas, and Jay-Z. Hell, even Eminem.

Also, as great as Cannibal Corpse is, it is completely nulled by the existence (and greater fame *shudder*) of both Limp Bizkit and Creed. Sorry, mate. Florida is honestly a state no one really wants to claim.


Moving on, we have Kurt Vonnegut, Ernest Hemingway, Paul Auster (a Jersey boy, even), Sinclair Lewis, and of course Edgar Allen Poe.

I didn't even think of OutKast. Good call.

I know I'm fighting a losing battle here, because the south has enough antiheroes to even things out (probably only very slightly more than the north), and because we have people like colton singing the praises of NASCAR, but I'm going to go ahead and claim Thomas Jefferson and call it quits.

Also, Deliverance was a good movie (closet Burt Reynolds fan?); the subject matter involved is not necessarily limited to the south. I would like to cite Ohio and their wonderful history (Dahmer, Harvey, recently Sowell, and how many others, not to mention their state universities...).

[Neoteny]

Okay, for the record, I'm allowed to pick on ANY LOCATION anywhere for the simple fact that I am from New Jersey. It's international law.

Our chief exports are Bon Jovi and Guidos. With all the disrespect I get on a daily basis (waaaaaay more than Rodney Dangerfield), I think the rest of the world can cut us some slack when we take them down a peg or two.

I lol'd.

[thegreekdog]

Okay, for the record, I'm allowed to pick on ANY LOCATION anywhere for the simple fact that I am from New Jersey. It's international law.

Our chief exports are Bon Jovi and Guidos. With all the disrespect I get on a daily basis (waaaaaay more than Rodney Dangerfield), I think the rest of the world can cut us some slack when we take them down a peg or two.

What's wrong with Guidos? Some of my best friends are guidos.

[Army of GOD]

Okay, for the record, I'm allowed to pick on ANY LOCATION anywhere for the simple fact that I am from New Jersey. It's international law.

Our chief exports are Bon Jovi and Guidos. With all the disrespect I get on a daily basis (waaaaaay more than Rodney Dangerfield), I think the rest of the world can cut us some slack when we take them down a peg or two.

What's wrong with Guidos? Some of my best friends are guidos.

EVERYTHING.

[pimpdave]

What's wrong with Guidos?

Video Status

Guido Beach

MTV is even in on the act

So, in summation:

1) Roids
2) Fist pumping
3) Spray-on tans
4) That hair
5) They revel in negative attention

[Neoteny]

I (wish) would like to note Guidos as a particularly northern phenomenon.

[Army of GOD]

What's wrong with Guidos?

Video Status

Guido Beach

MTV is even in on the act

So, in summation:

1) Roids
2) Fist pumping
3) Spray-on tans
4) That hair
5) They revel in negative attention

I repeat.

EVERYTHING.

[AAFitz]

Odd... I always thought S. Dakota and N. Dakota were pretty much the same.

Also...Almost all of the US is south of Canada...does that factor in...

and better...the only section that really isnt is Palins little block...

So... Is the North always better?

[john9blue]

You guys spent a page talking about hockey?!

There seems to have been a recent influx of guidos into my area of residence. It may be just that I spend more time at malls.

[bedub1]

Canada is North America. Canada for the win!

[mpjh]

Well, got to admit, they got health care.

[thegreekdog]

Well, got to admit, they got health care.

So does the United States.

[mpjh]

No we don't. We have health insurance, designed for the profit of a few and the early death of thousands.

[thegreekdog]

No we don't. We have health insurance, designed for the profit of a few and the early death of thousands.

That's funny, because I just got me some health care last week for some flu-like symptoms and went to the dentist a few weeks ago. Also, I know some doctors who actually practice healthcare here in the United States. Strange that you insist we don't have healthcare.

I think maybe you meant to say that Canada provides health insurance for everyone. I don't think healthcare and universal health insurance are the same thing.

[mpjh]

That's funny, my brother works full time (for 25 years steady), pays his bills, keeps his son in college, yet cannot afford health or dental insurance.

[thegreekdog]

That's funny, my brother works full time (for 25 years steady), pays his bills, keeps his son in college, yet cannot afford health or dental insurance.

So the United States does not provide health insurance to your brother. So, I think what you wanted to say was "At least Canada provides universal health care to all its residents."

[keiths31]

Let's take stock of the accomplishments of each:

football (first game was in NJ), hockey (invented on Long Island),

Well hockey was not invented on Long Island...that claim is laughable. It was invented in Canada. To say otherwise is showing your ignorance.
And football...well...the first gridiron version of football was played in Canada in 1861 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. And the first version of what is now American football played in the USA was when McGill University (from Montreal) played Harvard in 1874. It was adapted to fit the smaller field at Harvard. Walter Camp set up the modern rules for the game though a decade later.
Lay off the French in Canada, merci.

[pimpdave]

Hockey= Long Island
Football= New Jersey
Baseball= New York
Basketball= Connecticut

kthxbai

And tell the rest of your McGill classmates to stop making up history all the time.

[Snorri1234]

Everything was actually invented in Scotland.

[pimpdave]

If it's not Scottish, IT'S CRAP!

[thegreekdog]

Everything was actually invented in Scotland.

I think you meant to type "Greece" instead of Scotland.