Why I won’t be moving back to Indiana
I currently live in Illinois (AKA “New Jersey West”), and I feel perfectly free to comment on it – and few of my comments are complimentary. For example, you cannot – by law – buy a car in Illinois on Sunday. I guess that means The Lord doesn’t want you to buy a Chevy on the Sabbath. How 19th century of them.
Normally I avoid making fun of or speaking badly of Indiana – many people I like live there and I don’t wish to upset them – but come on, folks!
This is too embarrassing to ignore. Apparently you can do worse than Dan Quayle.
November 24th, 2004 at 7:42 am
Didn’t you have a t-shirt in college that read “I 69 to Ball U”?
November 24th, 2004 at 9:43 am
Stupid, stupid, stupid… Sheesh, just because it carries a sexual connotation that’s the reason to spend millions of dollars to change the signage? And people will STILL call it 69.
Why not use that money instead to improve the road? There are places in Ft Wayne where it looks like a fire road!
I cannot believe…well, yes I can. There’s a difference between naming your highway, “Dirty Dan’s Oral Sex Highway” and calling it Indiana 69. I can’t once remember hearing anyone in any of the churches I’ve attended complain about it, but now this guy gets some laughs from some kids and the party’s over? WTF???
November 24th, 2004 at 12:26 pm
Hoosier Gazette is satire, jimbo. Ye’ve been suckered.
November 24th, 2004 at 2:02 pm
Wh…why did it come up as “Jimbo”? That’s really weird…
I’m glad to hear I’m just gullible and this wasn’t serious.
November 24th, 2004 at 6:12 pm
I changed it. Don’t worry. I’ve changed it back to Sir.
Yeah, apparently Hoosier Gazette ran a story about Purdue being forced to give a starting position to a 5’6” guy due to scholarship regulations. ESPS picked it up and then several newspapers, tv and radio shows featured it. A San Diego newspap had to print a retraction. The creator of HG was quite surprised.
November 24th, 2004 at 9:08 pm
Took a look around at the site today at work (seeing as how there wasn’t any actual WORK to be done) and they’re pretty funny for Hoosiers. But everyone knows for real funny you need to hire sitcom writers.
November 24th, 2004 at 9:09 pm
Bah! I see the problem now and have corrected it. Stupid Safari autofill.
November 26th, 2004 at 8:36 pm
I don’t care if it is fake. I’m still not moving back to Indiana.
Besides, Dan Rather said it was real.
November 27th, 2004 at 9:59 am
Turns out, the story was real, Dan Rather was not. Go figure.