Defining oneself (or one's state) not on its own terms, but with its relationship to another more popular (or populous), bespeaks of an inferiority complex.
Seeing the beauty of the local Wisconsin coeds when compared to the southern belles at U. of Southern Mississippi., it is no wonder that Bret Farve has left for greener pastures.
We don't do that stuff in California. And people from your states that hate that stuff, move here, undergirding our freedom from inflamed provincialism.
I lived in Madison for a summer 10 years ago (it was bliss - ahhh beers on The Terrace) and one of the first things I learned was to curse out FIBs while driving. Of course it's all a joke in a way, but I found it fun and it made me feel like Mad City insider immediately.
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Defining oneself (or one's state) not on its own terms, but with its relationship to another more popular (or populous), bespeaks of an inferiority complex.
Man, is she a cheesehead babe, or what?
She's a major cheesehead. Wisconsin people call Illinois people FIB's too.
Maine people call Mass people Massholes and Mass people call Maine people Maniacs and Maintards.
They warned us there'd be commie Red Shirt enforcers on every street corner if Obama got elected.
Must be some kind of cryptic, Chicago political machine code:
"Illinois Is Blow Us"
I presume she means "below" in the geographic sense of "south of," as otherwise her sentiment makes no sense.
Seeing the beauty of the local Wisconsin coeds when compared to the southern belles at U. of Southern Mississippi., it is no wonder that Bret Farve has left for greener pastures.
Sign of an alien civilization found today, Area 51 Central Ohio.
The shirt says "Illinois is b'low us."
When I was at Illinois they sold t-shirts that said Muck Fichigan.
We don't do that stuff in California. And people from your states that hate that stuff, move here, undergirding our freedom from inflamed provincialism.
Can you you send some bookkeepers, please?
I lived in Madison for a summer 10 years ago (it was bliss - ahhh beers on The Terrace) and one of the first things I learned was to curse out FIBs while driving. Of course it's all a joke in a way, but I found it fun and it made me feel like Mad City insider immediately.
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