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 Message 17,622 of 19,133 
 Wilhelm Noeker to Lardy Girl 
 Re: The 50 US states (long) 
 23 Jun 15 12:16:27 
 
From: wnoeker@t-online.de

Lardy Girl wrote:

> Do you think this would work better:
>
> Iowa:                     "A cow. Again."
> North Carolina:           "A pig..."
>
> ...as if someone were looking out a car window while driving through?

Excellent idea. That works very nicely.

>> What could I do with just the letter codes of the 50 states? See
>> for yourself:
> [...]
>> Excavating caveman finds mammoth lizard.
>> Savvy downtown communists kidnap my jackal.
>> What rich men want: Drink only milk.
>
> A tricky task and a fun solution.

Thanks! (And thanks to Phil, too.)

 > I like the idea of milk, rather than oil, being such a driving force.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. :-)

> I doubt I'd come up with anything relevant _and_ good.  But here's a
> quick stab, with liberal input from the stereotype pot:
>
> AL AK AZ AR CA CO CT DE FL GA HI ID IL IN IA KS KY LA ME MD MA MI MN MS
> MO MT NE NV NH NJ NM NY NC ND OH OK OR PA RI SC SD TN TX UT VT VA WA WV
> WI WY
> =
> Flag-wavin' KKK dad and many-chin momma, downtown mall, v. trashy TV,
> rich Jews in country's cockpit, Vietnam.mil, damn amazin' sex.

Oh yes, that's 'em, for sure. All the US stereotypes that will fit on
two lines or less. Your long anagram was much kinder.

And me, I feel kind of foolish now for having actually typed vietnam.mil
in my browser. (kkk.org does exist, btw., but only redirects to an
apparently unrelated commercial site.)

ObAnag:
ParkingMonetization.com = Con took me in - amazing trip!

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 * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)

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