I don’t think you emphasized the pure suck that is living in state of Oohi enough.

That state is godawful, except for Cedar Point, which is on an island in the lake anyways, so It’s sort of not part of the landmass.

it’s much more palatable to be a fan when you don’t have to live in Ohio (see moniker).

Vegas is a lot like living in LA, the people are superficial, the weather doesn’t sucks (as long as you drink yourself forgetful during July and Aug) and there isn’t endless rows of corn. Also, just like LA, you could die driving.

@1 – What the hell are you talking about Cedar point is the largest congregation of white trash in the state.

I grew up in northwest Ohio, you got the angry right but not the sad.

Having just escaped from seven eternal years there to come back out to LA in the last 18 months I can now feel some sort of tingling sensation returning to where my life used to be. That place could suck the soul out of anything.

Ohio is great! [/ohiofanhopelesslyswimmingagainsttideofthread]

Rather live there than Florida trash jorts! [/forgettingweliveinGA]

Georgia is full of racists and thieves! [/umwellyesyouhaveapoint]

During my time in the heavenly bubble (Oxford) protecting from the anger and sadness that enveloped the rest of Ohio, I became accustomed to the very Essence that you speak of, Orson.

While listening to the radio one day, I believe that it was a 30 second used-car-no-financing-even-if-you-have-worse-credit-than- MCHammer advertisement that told Ohio citizens to:

“DO SOMETHING RIGHT FOR A CHANGE!”

My roommate and I, both proud Pennsylvanians, just shook our heads with mixed feelings of pity and disgust.

MC Hammer : Ohioans :: my father : me

[Uncontrollable sobbing]

Don’t hate on Jersey!

“Georgia is full of racists and thieves! [/umwellyesyouhaveapoint]”*

And they all work for the Atlanta City Council or the Clayton County School district

Don’t make me quote Lewis Grizzard…

a huge dose of pure Essence of Ohio

Sir —

To make future references more vivid, this substance likely is known locally as either “goetta” or “Skyline chili.” Either would have the effects described elsewhere in your article.

Best, etc.
DG

Hey! I grew up in Ohio and . . . left at the first opportunity. Hmm. Carry on.

Obviously, some people haven’t really been around Ohio much. Cedar Point?

Now I’ve been to LA, and it sucks. San Fran? Big Sur? Monterey? Nice. LA? Sucks.

Columbus is the true oasis in Ohio. A white collar city that is still growing, unlike Cincitucky or Cleveburg.
Unless you are some sort of communist and dislike Ohio State, in which case, you should probably move.

Communist? You’re the dumbfucks walking around dressed head-to-toe in red and following a maximum leader.

Don’t get me wrong. I think Ohio is a great place to be from . . . as long as you now live elsewhere.

I mean they do call them flyover states for a reason….
I personally like to call them carpet bombing states, nuclear testing states, nuclear waste deposit states, and/or where your soul goes to die states…

Mussburger; “You’re looking LIVE at the winter of my discontent”

(and #10, goetta is an incredible hangover cure)

Best comment as the clock was ticking down on 41-14 in Glendale, “The worst part is they all have to go back to Ohio while we get to go back to Florida.”

So pants, according to you Cedar Point > Disney+Universal+Bush Gardens+Sea World+The Holy Land Experience? Damn, I need to take myself to Ohio!!

Re: #13

Tressel does have a Kim Jong Il quality about him.

@#14,

I also call it the place where I can stretch my legs away from all you “better” people who have so much more to do with your obviously fulifilling lives. You stay where you are, I’ll continue to stretch my legs, ktkxbai.

Caveat: yes, I left the state of my childhood from 96’ to 03’ in search of that “better life”……….had fun in California, realized people are pretty much the same wherever you go………..a few good ones, a few bad ones, and alot of sad ones.

Having left Ohio to live in Georgia, I traded states but not loyalties. I’ll always be a Buckeye, but I am not moving back.

I think all Tress needs to do is ship some Lonz’ Winery spirits to USC to have with their Friday dinner. The hangover they will experience will be so bad that they will be near comatose for the game and tOSU will win in a blowout.

Maybe LSUFreek is familiar with Lonz and that is what he refers to as ‘essence of Ohio’.

1. If Satan himself ass-raped a wretched, canker-infested whore, the resulting mixture dripping from her bleeding, wrecked anus would be a rough approximation of the horror that is Skyline Chili.

Tressel just concluded his weekly luncheon and it appears that Beanie is going to play. He would have to be closer to 100% than 50% for JT to bother putting him in, so we have that going for us, which is nice.

1. — too funny, I actually made almost that exact comment to my dad before the game as we were searching for a ticket outside the stadium. Except I believe mine was more like “No matter what happens in that stadium tonight, they have to back to Ohio and we get to go back to Florida. No game necessary, we still win.”

I Resemble That Remark (about LA) Dept:

1. McPanties: Three Questions:

1) If LA sucks so much why is this place flooded with so many expatriates from all sorts of places from the Mid-West, South, Hawaii and New York City? (Notice few go back to the sticks once they are here with the beautiful people like Ms. Keibler and me.)

2) Why are LA women so much prettier and fit than the McFatties from your neck of the woods?

3) Is not the Armpit of America --> Louisiana, and not Ohio?

gotta go…

Just catching up for the day, see this and just about lose it. Orson, you have no idea. A decade in Akron, Ohio proves that Dante had no idea. There is an eleventh level to hell and it is NE Ohio. My wife is born and raised here and doesn’t want to leave family. Until last week, when she decided that NC is the place to be. If it gets me outta here, I will swear allegiance to Duke football. Hell, they put up more yards than ‘Bama last weekend. Can’t be that bad… Right?

First off, I’m from Ohio and bleed scarlet & grey. And I completely agree with Harris’s assessment of the abomination that is Cincinnatti Chili..

What does everyone and their brother think that if there is a female and their not from California…oh man, they are an ugly fat bitch.

Don’t you think it maybe, kinda, sorta, possible that good looking women reside in other places?

Yeah I grew up in Ohio, and got the F outta there.

/now live in Indianapolis

Choosing between Ohio and Baja California del Norte is like choosing between a life of spirit-choking boredom and one of numb, unsatisfying consumption.

@21

Ewww

Gross

That is all.

1. - No, no one is saying that. What they are saying is that all the hot ones move to other places and leave the fat ones behind.

Isn’t the “essence” simply polluted water from that flaming river of theirs? Or Lake Erie?

As someone who has lived and gone to school in both LA and Ohio, I have a lot of agreement with both Pants @12 and jab @ 19.

Much of Ohio is depressing but parts, including Columbus are quite nice. Overall I enjoyed living in Columbus more than living in LA, but the beach cities in Orange County or San Diego are way better than either.

 I’ve also lived in Colorado and Michigan and liked them too, except for the winter part.

Yeah, I can see waxing on about the virtues on living in LA, San Fran, NY, Chicago……but Florida, the same Florida where the average age of the populace is deceased? Come on, it’s not like some super awesome state with mountains or scenic areas ’n shit. And how many times can you actually go the beach? And dudes, the fact that Disney is there does not help.

PS. The people who are from LA…..tend to be on the uninteresting side. Not too much in way of personality.

after reading this thread, Lloyd Carr thinks maybe he should sell his vacation home outside of Cincinnati

“Georgia is full of racists and thieves! [/umwellyesyouhaveapoint]”

…and Floridians, etc.

“…‘cause the Cuyahoga River
Goes smokin’ through my dreams
Burn on, big river, burn on…”

Screw Ohio & LA — come on up to beautiful Northern California. Women are attractive, beer flows freely, and white trash/soulless monsters are kept to a bare minimum.

Northern California has free beer??? Bullshit – nothing is close to free in California…….

People live in trees in Norcal, no thank you.

We’re the 7th most populous state. I don’t know why or how either.

Why all the hate for Skyline Chili? Stuff’s delicious. Cincinnati is a nice town, especially for families.

Columbus isn’t bad, but OSU’s campus is about as bleak and boring as you get, and the dorms are all 50 years old, with no air conditioning.

The rest of Ohio is god awful.

No word on whether Pete rewards players with sex with Britney Spears, or the Jonas Brothers.

Skyline is the only thing worthwhile that’s ever come out of Cincinnati. Cinci is by far the worst city in Ohio. Most people outside of Cincinnati would prefer we give the city to Kentucky so we don’t have to claim it as our own.

OSU’s campus is a lot of fun. It might not be very scenic but there’s a bit of something for everyone. They do have a lot of older dorms but they’re building a brand-new student union, main library, and they have a huge state-of-the-art athletic center.

Someone from Cincinnati saying it’s a great city and the rest of Ohio sucks is about he most absurd thing I’ve ever heard.

I was born in Columbus, raised in Columbus, and moved back to Columbus from college in Kentucky. Yes, there are parts of Ohio that are less than spectacular, but seriously, every state has its good and bad.
I have been to every state in the US, and can remember thinking “this place is ugly”, but also seeing a place that is nice, as well. Come on, you’re telling me the whole state of Louisiana, or Death Valley (CA), or Las Vegas is gorgeous? No way! But each state has very nice areas.
Grow up people. Generalizing whole states and groups of people gets you nowhere in life.

Not from Ohio, but LA is a big demoncock

/Patton Oswalt

check the 2:15 mark

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh7IZhSnavk

Truer words never spoken.

I have lived in Cleveland all my life, although a nice suburb on the westside. It has been nothing but the greatest thing. Reading these other comments from people who have lived in Ohio leaves me clueless. I have never once been bored in Ohio, but maybe it is just because of my location. And from what I have seen people generally care about others, though I am sure that is true of people in all states.

1. 17 – First of all, are you trying to compare the relative awesomeness of states of the union by virtue of their theme parks? Also, did you just list the Holy Land Experience as one such theme park that bolsters Florida’s claim to said comparative awesomeness?

Please, please: stay in Florida.

/Thinks Ohio is a place where dreams go to drink Steel Reserve until they piss on themselves and die.

My only experience with LA involved two days spent in Hollywood while visiting a friend on a cross-country road trip. I hit a good record store and ate some good Thai food, but that place is just fucking seedy in the worst possible way on the whole. I ended up hanging out with a couple of friends, a wannabe actor and his emaciated cokehead girlfriend my last night there. It was the opposite of fun. We were so anxious to get as far away as possible we drove 15 hours a day to get back home. I’m sure there are some nice parts of LA, but fuck if I’m going to try to find them.

On the other hand, I live in Jacksonville, a city that forces you to drive everywhere and has the worst downtown of any million+ city in the country (a guess, but it’s probably right), along with a swanky new escalating crime rate, so who am I to judge?

@28
Now THAT’S funny!

Has anyone else actually gone to school at The Ohio State University? I have.

First thing. The rooms do have air conditioning. Not sure where you get your info, but from all the dorm rooms I have seen, OSU has some of the nicest conditions.

Second thing. The inner part of the campus is full of great areas to hang out. We have Mirron Lake, 2 Ovals (quads for everyone outside of Columbus) and numerous recreation areas.

Third thing. The area outside the campus has been revitalized as of late. Not to mention all the work that has been paid to the downtown area’s around the hockey arena and the new baseball stadium.

Just thought I would offer an opinion from someone who actually went to school there.

Cincinnati was rated a top ten party city in the nation by forbes. If you dont believe that come to oktoberfest. We serve beer at every sporting event except uc mens baseball. I heard the “Overrated Sports University” (OSU) in columbus doesnt serve beer at their games, thats reason enough for me to never want to go to one one their games. GO BEARCATS!!!!!!!!!

Let’s take a look at California for a second:

Mulholland Dr.: named after William Mulholland who diverted rivers from fertile valleys hundreds of miles away turning them into deserts so that LA could exist. Also, by the way Mid-westerners, States like California were actually trying to obtain rights to get water from the great lakes (which would probably cause them to drain) to provide water to their citizens. The same citizens who chose to live out west where it is primarily a desert/desert like climate but still want green lawns. People from Georgia, Florida, and parts of the Carolinas should be able to tell us how excessive pumping of bodies of water work out (BTW how is that drought treating you?).

California, a state with people who build homes on hill sides which are prone to landslides after heavy rains and/or earthquakes and want to rebuild in the same spot.

California, a state which if I recall correctly, teaches Ebonics alongside real languages.

The only reason Cinci can serve booze at games is because they don’t have enough money to build their own facilities. NCAA rules prohibit an NCAA OWNED facility to serve it. Call us when you want to be a big boy program and have your own place to call home, not sponge off of the Bengals.

Cedar Pt’s largest market isn’t Ohio, it is SE Michigan. Where else do you think all the line smokers, and Ted Nugent/Kid Rock/Eminem look alikes come from. Certainly not Ohio!

Who puts these stupid pieces together anyway? Media school washouts from UCLA or USC or something? Damn, at least be a little funny or something.

As for SoCal, I’ve spent a fair amount of time there and if you’re interested in vanity and shallowness, that’s your place. Pretty much a land where people tell each other how important they are, how good they look, and how much other people wish they were them.

My reaction? Thank you. Please keep telling yourself that and keep to your little area…let the rest of us enjoy the good parts of the country. :)

What a Bunch of DumbAsses. You guys swear that your not inbred. Hopefully all of your brothers, cousins, uncles and fathers (all the same person), left our state and went back with your homes in tow. Until next year, when we go spank that ASS again. In 2009 we will make an effort to infuse your gene pool with some intelligence. Fight On Putos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!