Dechristo Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005 :bottom-o-pit-o-hell: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratboy Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005 When you get to Van Horn, it's been at least a 100 miles since you've seen another car. when you leave the road is straigtht and flat for the next 100 miles complete with the reassuring sign "next services 93 miles". Â You just descibed the entire western half of Texas. I put in a vote for the entire state of Kansas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005 Any town on that interstate through nebraska. I remember taking a trip through there on the way to Escalante, UT from Minneapolis, MN with a friend from NYC. He gets out of the van at a desolate gas station, looks around at the sea of corn fields in every direction, then fires out, "Yo, this is the heartland." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
selkirk Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005 who was it that said "Hell is other people" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dechristo Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005 In the southern part of the state, Nebraska has the largest zoo in the world. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â It's called Kansas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dechristo Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005 who was it that said "Hell is other people" Other people Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005 Jean-Paul Sartre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaskadskyjKozak Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005 I'll bet that Hell, MI freezes over on a regular basis. I also bet that its residents have heard this quip before. Â That saying must have been thought up by people who never read Dante... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005 pretty cliche, but: Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005 "You reckon hell, who leave me out." -WSB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ireneo_Funes Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005 S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse A persona che mai tornasse al mondo, Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma perciocche giammai di questo fondo Non torno vivo alcun, s'i'odo il vero, Senza tema d'infamia ti rispondo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
underworld Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005 hell is anywhere but seattle, of course. where else are people so open-minded, green, well-read and p.c.?!?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squid Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005 Dorothy Parker. Â Hell is north Philadelphia. Who bombed this neighborhood? Why are they shooting at me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpinfox Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005  I have lived in 11 different places all across the country, and I pretty much agree with Jay that anything east of I-25 is suckland. I have a special hatred for south central Pennsylvannia, but that's for personal reasons. All of East Texas is about as horrible a place as I can imagine living in the US.  This song is by James McMurtry (son of Larry McMurtry - "Lonesome Dove" novelist) and deals with his feelings about East Texas.  Levelland - James McMurtry from "Where'd You Hide the Body" 1995  Flatter than a tabletop Makes you wonder why they stopped here Wagon must have lost a wheel or they lacked ambition one On the great migration west Separated from the rest Though they might have tried their best They never caught the sun So they sunk some roots down in the dirt To keep from blowin' off the earth Built a town around here And when the dust had all but cleared They called it Levelland, the pride of man In Levelland  Granddad grew the dryland wheat Stood on his own two feet His mind got incomplete and they put in the home Daddy's cotton grows so high Sucks the water table dry Rolling sprinklers circle round Bleedin' it to the bone And I won't be here when it comes a day It all dries up and blows away I'd hang around just to see But they never had much use for me in Levelland They don't understand me out in Levelland  And I watch those jet trails carving up that big blue sky Coast to coasters watch 'em go And I never would blame 'em one damn bit If they never looked down on this Not much here they'd wanna know Just Levelland Far as you can point your hand Nothin' but Levelland  Mama used to roll her hair Back before the central air We'd sit outside and watch the stars at night She'd tell me to make a wish I'd wish we both could fly Don't think she's seen the sky Since we got the satellite dish and I can hear the marching band Doin' the best they can They're playing "Smoke on the Water", "Joy to the World" I've paid off all my debts Got some change left over yet and I'm Gettin' on a whisper jet I'm gonna fly as far as I can get from Levelland, doin' the best I can Out in Levelland - imagine that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlpineK Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005 I'll bet that Hell, MI freezes over on a regular basis. I also bet that its residents have heard this quip before. Â That saying must have been thought up by people who never read Dante... Â Yeah, but it's only icy in the 9th circle. There are a few other circles where it's pretty hot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ireneo_Funes Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005 It's not the temperature so much as the company. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaskadskyjKozak Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005 Yeah, but it's only icy in the 9th circle. There are a few other circles where it's pretty hot. Â the deeper you go, the colder/worse it gets. I still remember images of guys buried to their necks in ice, getting tripped over and having their faces kicked off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minx Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005 thinking back, i think hell was the 600 sq ft, 2 bedroom appartment i shared with spouse, kid, 2 cats, 8 newborn puppies, and 4 large dogs--1 nursing bitch, 1 dump as post hyperactive 90# beast, 1 with an ear infection and 1 that was missing it's owner, in the winter of 1999 while waiting to close on our house. Then the cable went out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murraysovereign Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005 the deeper you go, the colder/worse it gets. Â Yeah, but it's a dry cold. Â My Hell was a year spent in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, working on an oil rig. Which also brought about my longest commute - Lloydminster to the Okanagan Valley for my days off. As I recall, it was about a 16 hour drive each way. Work 3 weeks, drive back to BC for a week off, then back to "Lloydmonster" for another three weeks of work, then drive back to BC... repeat until you just can't go on anymore. Anyhow, one of my fellow rig pigs couldn't understand why I'd drive all the way back to BC for my days off, and asked why I didn't stay in Lloyd - "here in God's country" is actually what he said. I told him the only reason it was God's country was because no-one else would have it. A brief scuffle ensued, but no one got hurt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005 I found hell too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
selkirk Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005 hmmm, once spent a 4 hr drive in the middle of the summer, without air conditioning, with 4 people in the mazda equivalent of a geo-metro. Â Oh, and I forgot to mention that our dog had just been skunked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Double_E Posted November 22, 2005 Share Posted November 22, 2005 I used to work for a company called CH2M Hell. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whoohoonickieclimbs Posted November 22, 2005 Share Posted November 22, 2005 Interesting............there are not answers.........bahhh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpinfox Posted November 22, 2005 Share Posted November 22, 2005 Interesting............there are not answers.........bahhh! Â Whooohoowhatever is the new Divot/Crampon. Â LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whoohoonickieclimbs Posted November 22, 2005 Share Posted November 22, 2005 Haaa haaa....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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