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(ABC News) Amusing NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg enjoying the beautiful mountains and weather out in "Salt Lake City, Idaho."   (abcnews.go.com) divider line 75
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studebaker hoch 2008-07-11 05:17:43 PM  
That's OK, the Eastern US is so different from the Western US that they may as well be two different countries.

 
Sapper_Topo 2008-07-11 05:18:07 PM  
Boise Utah you say? Or was it Reno California?

 
moops 2008-07-11 05:18:21 PM  
What's the goddamn difference? Idaho, Utah, it's all Mormon hell to me.

 
PrezidentCamacho 2008-07-11 05:19:18 PM  
Georgia's in Florida.

Dumbass.

 
Ace Frehley's Ghost 2008-07-11 05:19:27 PM  
Sapper_Topo:Boise Utah you say? Or was it Reno California?

It was Carson City, Arizona.

 
henryhill 2008-07-11 05:19:41 PM  
To a Jew from NYC, everything west of the Hudson River is the same thing

 
HeadLever [TotalFark] 2008-07-11 05:20:07 PM  
It is so funny when high profile east coasters decide to visit us in the flyover states. Hours and hours of amusement.

 
John_From 2008-07-11 05:20:15 PM  
Happy naked day !!!

All women get naked and celebrate.

 
zekebullseye 2008-07-11 05:20:29 PM  
One of those western states starting with a vowel. Same difference.

 
Bren_34 2008-07-11 05:20:47 PM  
PrezidentCamacho:Georgia's in Florida.

Dumbass.


www.gifs.net

 
bukketmaster 2008-07-11 05:20:55 PM  
Somebody should give him a map. Because some people out there don't have maps. And it would really help all the US Americans and the Iraq if we could give them more maps, to end world hunger. Or something.

/nevar forget

 
LineNoise [TotalFark] 2008-07-11 05:21:20 PM  
home.comcast.net

 
sub_harmonic 2008-07-11 05:22:22 PM  
good god, hatin' on jews, hatin' on mormons, good thing I'm a mormon-married jew from Phoenix, Colorado!

 
skinink 2008-07-11 05:22:43 PM  
At least you can understand Bloomberg. Mayor Tom "Mumbles" Menino can barely be understood, and when he can be understood, well you can listen for yourself.

 
SharkInfested 2008-07-11 05:23:20 PM  
I came for the New Yorker map.

I leave without disappointment

 
HeadLever [TotalFark] 2008-07-11 05:23:27 PM  
moops:What's the goddamn difference? Idaho, Utah, it's all Mormon hell to me.

Just the south side of Idaho. Get any further north than the 44th and the Mormons per capita number declines quickly.

 
HatchedFromAnEgg [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-07-11 05:23:56 PM  
I heard that he's a very self defecating person.

 
manybrews 2008-07-11 05:24:19 PM  
publish.comcast.net

 
sniklacg 2008-07-11 05:24:30 PM  
bukketmaster:Somebody should give him a map. Because some people out there don't have maps. And it would really help all the US Americans and the Iraq if we could give them more maps, to end world hunger. Or something.

/nevar forget


Keyboard. Working from home today so it's mine too! Damn you.

 
TeddyRooseveltsMustache [TotalFark] 2008-07-11 05:24:42 PM  
Since when is it a crime for politicians to be idiots?

www.sanfranciscosentinel.com

Oh, right.

 
sub_harmonic 2008-07-11 05:26:37 PM  
HatchedFromAnEgg:I heard that he's a very self defecating person.

sometimes I like to masturbate large words into sentences, even if I don't know what they mean.

 
culebra 2008-07-11 05:28:16 PM  
Man, subby, you're easily amused.

 
Anonymocoso 2008-07-11 05:28:44 PM  
moops:What's the goddamn difference? Idaho, Utah, it's all Mormon hell to me.

You can buy wine in the grocery stores in Idaho.

You have to buy it at the state liquor stores in Utah.

That's the only difference that matters.

 
Kongressman Grandma 2008-07-11 05:29:15 PM  
FTA: It was just the latest on a long list of mayoral malapropisms that the Harvard-educated billionaire has coughed up during his six years in office, tormenting his staff and entertaining various observers and the City Hall press corps.


This guy went to Harvard, Bush went to Yale. Abe Lincoln taught himself to read with dirt, logs, rocks and sticks.


Home Schooling +1
Ivy League Education -50

 
elcahun 2008-07-11 05:29:44 PM  
Actually, it's Boise, Utah.

Idaho is an interesting state. The reason for the Panhandle was the Mormons realized that they were locked in with Utah. When Idaho became a state they wanted to be certain there was a route to Canada.

And yes, I know Idaho became a state first.

Use to live in the panhadle. A popular bumper sticker was "Keep Salt Lake City out of North Idaho.

/If Idaho were laid flat, meaning all mountains pushed down and all lakes and valleys risen up, it is the largest state.
//Idaho and Utah were the 2nd and 3rd states to allow women to vote
///The Navy tests sub sonar on Lake d'Oreille

 
HeadLever [TotalFark] 2008-07-11 05:33:10 PM  
Also how hard is it to confuse Salt Lake, which is nearly surrounded by a huge salty lake, with Sun Valley, whose biggest lake is located on the Elkhorn golf course.

 
moops 2008-07-11 05:34:58 PM  
Anonymocoso:moops:What's the goddamn difference? Idaho, Utah, it's all Mormon hell to me.

You can buy wine in the grocery stores in Idaho.

You have to buy it at the state liquor stores in Utah.

That's the only difference that matters.


I can't buy wine in grocery stores in MA, so I stand grossly corrected. Who knew that Idaho was more civilized than even my own home state?

 
farkingatwork 2008-07-11 05:35:23 PM  
HeadLever:Also how hard is it to confuse Salt Lake, which is nearly surrounded by a huge salty lake, with Sun Valley, whose biggest lake is located on the Elkhorn golf course.

What, haven't you ever heard of passover? We dip eggs in salt.

/I'm jewish and I'm getting a kick in the schmuck from these replies

 
Robert1966 [TotalFark] 2008-07-11 05:35:32 PM  
Kongressman Grandma:FTA: It was just the latest on a long list of mayoral malapropisms that the Harvard-educated billionaire has coughed up during his six years in office, tormenting his staff and entertaining various observers and the City Hall press corps.


This guy went to Harvard, Bush went to Yale. Abe Lincoln taught himself to read with dirt, logs, rocks and sticks.


Home Schooling +1
Ivy League Education -50


Um, yeah - that thing about Lincoln? Pretty much a myth. Dirt, logs, rocks and sticks? He didn't attend regular schooling, but he did read a great deal and did have access to pen and paper.

 
robbiedo 2008-07-11 05:36:00 PM  
studebaker hoch:That's OK, the Eastern US is so different from the Western US that they may as well be two different countries.

I did a lot of business travel for a couple of years (2003-2005). I was amazed at how homogenized America has truly become. Same chains, same malls, same restaurants, same TV, same radio, same newspapers, same clothing. Same everything! Regional differences are becoming less noticeable with every passing day.

I really expected to see God fearing, Bible thumping, rednecks, and I just really didn't see much.

It seems to me that the professed political power these religious fundamentalists is a chimera. I am not saying that they don't have political power, they do, but it is not a fact of numbers, but heavy participation by a motivated minority.

 
keylock71 2008-07-11 05:36:32 PM  
In all fairness, one's known for potatoes, the other for mormons...it's hard to tell the difference.

www.granitegrok.com

www.global-b2b-network.com

 
DVD 2008-07-11 05:37:59 PM  
Is it Sun Valley's high school that graduates more than 6 people this year? (with no dropouts, it's just that small, if I remember correctly.)

 
Rapmaster2000 2008-07-11 05:37:59 PM  
HeadLever:Also how hard is it to confuse Salt Lake, which is nearly surrounded by a huge salty lake, with Sun Valley, whose biggest lake is located on the Elkhorn golf course.

I think it's pretty obvious that he just misspoke. I don't think he's actually so dumb that he was like "oh, I'm in Salt Lake City, hey why is everything so far away when I look in these binoculars!"

 
Kongressman Grandma 2008-07-11 05:39:46 PM  
Robert1966:Kongressman Grandma:FTA: It was just the latest on a long list of mayoral malapropisms that the Harvard-educated billionaire has coughed up during his six years in office, tormenting his staff and entertaining various observers and the City Hall press corps.


This guy went to Harvard, Bush went to Yale. Abe Lincoln taught himself to read with dirt, logs, rocks and sticks.


Home Schooling +1
Ivy League Education -50

Um, yeah - that thing about Lincoln? Pretty much a myth. Dirt, logs, rocks and sticks? He didn't attend regular schooling, but he did read a great deal and did have access to pen and paper.


Relax, I know this guy. I was exaggerating his rustic self-educated roots.

 
studebaker hoch 2008-07-11 05:39:56 PM  
robbiedo

I start noticing a serious difference around Louisiana, and from there, it seems to get more and more European-influenced as I go east.

NYC seems to be as much a European city as a US one.

 
otterrr 2008-07-11 05:40:14 PM  
HeadLever:moops:What's the goddamn difference? Idaho, Utah, it's all Mormon hell to me.

Just the south side of Idaho. Get any further north than the 44th and the Mormons per capita number declines quickly.


Yeah, they don't want to share the north with all the white supremacists.

/From Boise orginally
//Hates the whole state

 
darkjezter 2008-07-11 05:41:07 PM  
HeadLever:It is so funny when high profile east coasters decide to visit us in the flyover states. Hours and hours of amusement.

This. I remember once talking to an upper class Bostonian I met during a trip to Vegas, and he was under the impression that the majority of males who live in the western US (not west coast, I'm talking places like Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, Texas, etc) wear cowboy hats and six-shooters on their hips. And he was serious.

I lol'd.

 
mikaloyd 2008-07-11 05:42:51 PM  
How can even you expect somebody from New York New York to remembercity AND stae names?

When the Feds finish fencing out the Mexicans they should fence in the New Yorkers.

 
mikaloyd 2008-07-11 05:45:12 PM  
studebaker hoch:NYC seems to be as much a European city as a US one.

Im no fan of NYC but theres no call to bad mouth them like that.

 
Lollipop165 2008-07-11 05:51:15 PM  
LineNoise

I actually have that image framed in my living room!

mikaloyd

How can even you expect somebody from New York New York to remembercity AND stae names? When the Feds finish fencing out the Mexicans they should fence in the New Yorkers.

Personally, I believe in fencing out the illiterate.

/u be goood at spellingz

 
AlwaysRightBoy [TotalFark] 2008-07-11 05:52:06 PM  
More important......is that Jessica loves the sausage!
i221.photobucket.com

 
Walking Eagle 2008-07-11 05:53:08 PM  
Typical New Yorker. They don't give a shiat about anyone or anything else besides themselves. Completely self-absorbed, self-important, selfish assholes. This doesn't apply to all of them obviously, but this is by no means unique to him.

Me me me, want me, love me, shower me with kisses!

 
Arkanaut 2008-07-11 05:54:06 PM  
New Yorkers aren't claiming him - Bloomberg's from Boston.

 
BMulligan 2008-07-11 05:55:52 PM  
elcahun:The Navy tests sub sonar on Lake Pend d'Oreille

FTFY. How the hell did you get the hard part right and screw up the easy part?

/Raised in d' Alene.

 
Bagelox-99 2008-07-11 06:00:57 PM  
Walking Eagle:Typical New Yorker. They don't give a shiat about anyone or anything else besides themselves. Completely self-absorbed, self-important, selfish assholes.

FTFY.
frostfirezoo.com

/representin' Ames, Ohio, in da 914
//or sometimes Ames, Idaho

 
sniklacg 2008-07-11 06:03:13 PM  
I grew up in Idaho and now live in Utah. Getting a kick out of these replies.

 
cretinbob [TotalFark] 2008-07-11 06:05:13 PM  
Bah everyone knows it's Salt Lake City,Iowa.

Almost got arrested because I was trying to buy beer in New York and I pointed out to the moran clerk that the abbreviation for Idaho was ID, not IA.

 
BMulligan 2008-07-11 06:05:15 PM  
sniklacg:I grew up in Idahoa frying pan and now live in Utahthe fire.

 
sub_harmonic 2008-07-11 06:12:39 PM  
Kongressman Grandma:

Relax, I know this guy. I was exaggerating his rustic self-educated roots.

wut?

/Lincoln was an asshole, anyways.
//farking giantism.

 
Rodeodoc 2008-07-11 06:15:53 PM  
But he's never been to Manhattan, Kansas.

 
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