I hear the winds whistle down the plains there.

Nabb1 posted this in a thread a couple of days ago, and I thought it was appropriate:


_{(My sister lives in Ohio, so I had to send it to her.)}

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
The Pro Football Hall of Fame
The Wright-Patterson Aerospace Museum
The amazing roller coasters at Cedar Point
The restaurants of 'Iron Chef' Michael Symon in Cleveland
The West Side Market in Cleveland

Look, there are some things worth seeing in Ohio.
And at least it's not that hell-hole known as Orlando, Florida that so many people want to visit.

Well most people from Indiana, Michigan, West Virginia and Kentucky can't afford Florida and have to go somewhere on vacation.

The Ohio tourism slogan should be: marginally better than all the other flyover states!

w11113: Good corn at the right time of year.

Northern Ohio sweet corn after August 1st. You will never have better.

In all seriousness, I don't have any real complaint with Ohio - I've lived here all my life and can't really imagine living anywhere else. The only place here I really dislike is Cincinnati, as it is the only city other than Los Angeles that has given me bronchitis. (Seriously. The people there are proud of breathing brown air.)

usbport: The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
The Pro Football Hall of Fame
The Wright-Patterson Aerospace Museum
The amazing roller coasters at Cedar Point
The restaurants of 'Iron Chef' Michael Symon in Cleveland
The West Side Market in Cleveland

Look, there are some things worth seeing in Ohio.
And at least it's not that hell-hole known as Orlando, Florida that so many people want to visit.

Don't forget Great Lakes Brewing

As a child of North Olmsted, I have fond childhood memories of Ohio,... taking family drives out toward Parma,... dressed in our finest white tube socks,... eagerly anticipating the flocks of plastic pink flamingos and shiney garden balls while munching on kishkas and pierogies...

/good times, good times

Fubar Snafuson: The Air Force Museum in Dayton is awesome. I still wish they'd snagged a shuttle, but there's still lots of incredible exhibits from the beginnings of aviation to modern planes.

Definitely worth the stop if you'r passing through. It's free. Best aviation museum I've seen, but then again, I'm partial. I like it much more than the National Air and Space in DC.

madgonad: Cedar Point
Rock n Roll Hall of Fame
NFL Hall of Fame


That. Plus Kings Island

Chili in Cincinnati
Dear God, NOT that. That shiat is vile.

And you Ohioans need to do something about your state troopers. They are farking assholes.

Three words that describe why people should come to Athens, Ohio.

Ohio Brew Week

/Yes I know other places have this
//Any Farkers that come will get a free beer from me

bump: As a child of North Olmsted, I have fond childhood memories of Ohio,... taking family drives out toward Parma,... dressed in our finest white tube socks,... eagerly anticipating the flocks of plastic pink flamingos and shiney garden balls while munching on kishkas and pierogies...

/good times, good times

Eagles suck. Go Demons!

States I hate. In order.

1) New Jersey
2) Ohio
3) Texas
4) Florida

I have visited or lived in all four.

I'm sitting in downtown Toledo in a dreary cubicle right now, so I'm getting a kick out of these comments.


/Ohio is God's country
//and He can have it

We have winter (especially in the northern part of the state) so in some peoples minds it's an arctic tundra.

We have quite a bit of farmland so in some peoples minds we are no different from Iowa.

Fewer people live in the city centers than 60 years ago when the steel mills were a huge part of the industrial might of the entire country so people assume everyone else has moved out even though the population of the state is still growing.

Unless you are "New York" big city living or nothing it's quite nice here, especially the burbs of the major cities but don't let that stop you from remembering that one incident 60 years go from thinking the entire place is an industrial wasteland.

NASAM: And you Ohioans need to do something about your state troopers. They are farking assholes.

QFT. Gestapo in white cars.

/I Godwinned an Ohio tourism thread!! I rule!!

I'd only go to Ohio to see the Ohio river catch on fire. I heard it's a fairly regular occurrence.

GORDON: labman: Of course people go to Ohio.

Two words:
CEDAR POINT

Not even 2 words: Walleye.

NASAM:And you Ohioans need to do something about your state troopers. They are farking assholes.


So not even one word, just punctuation: ! *

ZAZ: I used to go the the Origins gaming con in Columbus.

Other than that, it's drive-through country.

Getting myself geared up for that right now. Just three more weeks...

Of course, I live here, so that doesn't count as tourism.

Eatin' Queer Fetuses for Jesus

Wow. "Acres of parks?" Just booked my plane ticket to Cincinnati, as I don't think I've seen that in any of the other states.

Yeah, but you gotta go to Winton Woods, Sharon Woods or Miami Whitewater to see what I'm talking about. The Hamilton County Park District really does the damn thing and Cincinnati Park District is no slouch either when they can get around racist folks aren't trying to close all the pools in the black neighborhoods or stop black kids from going to the "white" pools.

My family is from small town Ohio. I do like getting back there when I can just for the peace. I mostly only get up there now for weddings and funerals.

NASAM: And you Ohioans need to do something about your state troopers. They are farking assholes.

The OSP has to escort John Kasich, the guy that called them idiots. Go figure.

Ohio's a prime convention location, due to cheap renting prices. It gets a lot of convention business, with the biggest probably being the Origins gaming convention. It also has one of the biggest and best Zoo/Aquariums in all of the USA in the Columbus Zoo(with a nice water park right next door), three first rate amusement parks in Cedar Point, King's Island, and Six Flags. We also have Seaworld Ohio, several great museums like the aviation museum at Wright Patterson Air-force Base. Parts of Ohio are Amish country as well, so you get people visiting them for goods.

However, we also have a Honda plant. This means Ohio gets a lot of visitors from Japan, ether visiting the plant on various business or visiting family that has taken root in surrounding area. The end result is that it's really easy to find good Asian food in Ohio.

cetacei: I'm sitting in downtown Toledo in a dreary cubicle right now, so I'm getting a kick out of these comments.


/Ohio is God's country
//and He can have it

Make no mistake - you're not in Ohio. You're in Meatchicken.

"...And Youngstown
And Youngstown
My sweet Jenny I'm sinkin' down
Here darlin' in Youngstown

When I die I don't want no part of heaven
I would not do heaven's work well
I pray the devil comes and takes me
To stand in the fiery furnaces of hell..."

Memoryalpha: I'd only go to Ohio to see the Ohio river catch on fire. I heard it's a fairly regular occurrence.

Seriously you let one river catch on fire just once, and then people expect all your rivers to catch fire all the time.

/It was actually the Cuyohoga River that caught fire back in 1969. To my knowledge the Ohio River has never caught fire.
//Still rivers catching fire in general isn't something that's that's supposed to happen...ever.

My bet is that number goes up by 10% this year with four casinos opening. The "Christmas Story" casino opens in Cleveland on Monday, May 14.

fark you, Ohio.

Wasted too much time in both Athens and Columbus. You're bad and you should feel bad. There's a reason I only visit you once every ten years:

BECAUSE I HAVE TO.

And you don't even have Big Bear or Giant Eagle anymore. Only thing you have going for you is DP Dough and they even expanded outside of your nightmarish black hole of awful.

Aar1012: MrJesus: Only thing you have going for you is DP Dough and they even expanded outside of your nightmarish black hole of awful.

DP Dough sucks. Athens has a much better selection of food

They were great 11 years ago. I went to OU for a trimester.

That's all there is to say about that.

Memoryalpha: I'd only go to Ohio to see the Ohio river catch on fire. I heard it's a fairly regular occurrence.

They only do it for special occasions.

AshburnerX: ...and Six Flags.

Gone.

We also have Seaworld Ohio,

Long gone.

Where the fark have YOU been?

Marley'sGirl: I actually really like living in Ohio, but I'm not sure I would say there was anything worth making a trip for. We do have a pretty awesome zoo in Columbus, Cedar Point if you're into amusement parks, and Lake Erie has a lot of fishing and wine. Personally, I like to vacation at the beach which we do not have.

Between Toledo, Columbus, and Cincinnati, Ohio has three very good zoos.