Althouse: I like the way he starts with Alabama, like he's going to do the states in alphabetical order...

August 23, 2018

I like the way he starts with Alabama, like he's going to do the states in alphabetical order...

... and then has all kinds of random ways to connect one state to the next until he's got through all 50. I found the whole thing riveting, though I laughed out loud only once.

31 comments:

rehajm said...: ...and Clayton. Sidney. Jugdish, Mohammet, Lonny--

-We already met.

-Super! Then you'll have lots to talk about.; 8/23/18, 12:22 PM
rehajm said...: Puerto Rico you're missing out!; 8/23/18, 12:23 PM
rhhardin said...: Contacting North Dakota is hard. I even talked to Guam before I found a North Dakota.; 8/23/18, 12:37 PM
The Crack Emcee said...: That's kind of like the history of the entire world, i guess; 8/23/18, 12:41 PM
Clark said...: I get sound when I play the embed, but no video. If I copy the url I get https://youtu.be/ancuYECRGN8. If I manually plug that into my browser (Chrome) I get video. But no luck with the embed. What's up with that?; 8/23/18, 12:49 PM
gadfly said...: Shortest Street is in Bellefontaine, OH (at 28 feet) which is not pronounced "Bell-fon-tane" by Buckeyes who call the city (located 16 miles west of the Marysville Honda plant on U.S 33) "Bell-fount-en."; 8/23/18, 12:50 PM
Chris of Rights said...: Did you laugh out loud on the bit about Pennsylvania bordering Minnesota?; 8/23/18, 12:53 PM
traditionalguy said...: Peachtree City, Ga with its golf carts is in the Little League World Series semi finals. The predominant demographic is Airline pilots/personel for the worlds busiest Airport located a 30 minute drive away.; 8/23/18, 12:59 PM
Skippy Tisdale said...: What Clark said...; 8/23/18, 1:02 PM
rehajm said...: Every State in the US

Try this one...; 8/23/18, 1:07 PM
Brian McKim and/or Traci Skene said...: I'm sorry, I blacked out from boredom and ditched after about 60 seconds or so.; 8/23/18, 1:09 PM
Darrell said...: Jury of their peers.
How about "A fair and impartial" jury.
This is my guess for the Althouse guffaw.; 8/23/18, 1:14 PM
Art in LA said...: You should watch or read "How the States Got Their Shapes" ... really fun too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_the_States_Got_Their_Shapes; 8/23/18, 1:15 PM
Ralph L said...: Were any states missed?; 8/23/18, 1:16 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Seriously???... all 57 of em?; 8/23/18, 1:24 PM
Jaq said...: I wonder how many people are booking "second honeymoon/hunting trips" to Yellowstone.; 8/23/18, 1:28 PM
'TreHammer said...: ...what made you laugh?...; 8/23/18, 3:42 PM
Ann Althouse said...: What made me laugh was the smallest park in the country (in Oregon).; 8/23/18, 4:01 PM
Darrell said...: What made me laugh was the smallest park in the country (in Oregon).

I doubt that single planter was the park. Plus you could see greenery behind it.; 8/23/18, 4:30 PM
Ralph L said...: The tiny park was probably a spot of importance to a well-connected person. Roadmiddle memorial?; 8/23/18, 4:38 PM
Ralph L said...: That video has the largest number of facts in 13 minutes.
I'm used to slower talkers so I had to pause several times.

Wiki says there's no Washington in Washington state. Does any other state NOT have one?

Aside from NY, does any state have a city of the same name? Island of Hawaii and Oklahoma City don't count.; 8/23/18, 4:46 PM
exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil said...: T liked the town with a population of 1, where the mayor and sole resident grants herself a liquor license annually.; 8/23/18, 4:50 PM
Ralph L said...: It's called Mill End Park, and it looks like a hollowed out mill stone, which would mean the end of the mill.; 8/23/18, 4:53 PM
Earnest Prole said...: I doubt that single planter was the park.

From Wikipedia, In 1948 the site that would become Mill Ends Park was intended to be the site for a light pole. When the pole failed to appear and weeds sprouted in the opening, Dick Fagan, a columnist for the Oregon Journal, planted flowers in the hole and named it after his column in the paper, "Mill Ends" (a reference to leftover irregular pieces of wood at lumber mills).; 8/23/18, 5:24 PM
Darrell said...: So what's that greenery in the background? Another park? Does Mills End have a park superintendent and staff? Are they somebody's brother-in-laws?; 8/23/18, 6:05 PM
Virgil Hilts said...: As I am sure other Nebraskans will point out, the longest street is O which runs through Lincoln (not that puny little Colfax stretch in Denver). And O has no curves or jogs. O is perfectly straight and just keeps going.
http://bowjamesbow.ca/2008/12/29/does-lincoln-bo.shtml; 8/23/18, 6:16 PM
robother said...: I think this presentation would be a lot more effective with pictures or video. Other than that, I give it an 8, its got a good beat and I could've danced to it, when I was a dancer.; 8/23/18, 6:17 PM
gilbar said...: rhhardin said...
Contacting North Dakota is hard. I even talked to Guam before I found a North Dakota.

How about Wyoming? Many hams there?

Ralph L said...
Aside from NY, does any state have a city of the same name? Island of Hawaii and Oklahoma City don't count.

I'm pretty sure it's NYC in NY. But i guess i see what you mean. The Iowa City police cars (and their badges) say: City of Iowa City, which is the Exact Opposite if what you mean

Us Cyclone fans (GO CYCLONES!) who hate and despise Everything Hawkeye related, refer to the Hawkeye school as: The University of Iowa City; 8/23/18, 9:20 PM
gilbar said...: Island Park Idaho claims to have the longest Main Street in the World (35 miles long).
Idaho law (at least used to ) requires ALL liquor licenses to be inside city limits; so all the dude ranches on US-20 incorporated into the town of Island Park: which consists of US-20, its ONLY street; 8/23/18, 9:26 PM
SweatBee said...: Since when is Kansas City not in Kansas? Did the Missouri one annex it when I wasn't paying attention?; 8/24/18, 12:16 AM
Sammy Finkelman said...: There are two Kansas Citys. There is kansas City in Missouri and asmaller one in Kansas.; 8/24/18, 4:38 PM