Ohio State Game

My dog demands a morning run tried to get ahead of it so went early
As we were about 15 mins from home the sleet started. By the time we got back,him dried off watered fed and hot chocolate made it had changed to a snow mix
Now it is snowing steadily. Not sure if there was enough sleet to coat roads
If so it will be dicy driving
DFW and Love lead the nation in cancellations.
Any buckeyes still needing to get here are likely not going to make it
 
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Ohio. Once the center of industrial commerce and then unionism that went from the steel belt to the rustbelt. A pro-business attitude was replaced with an attitude of arrogance that limits their ability to make the changes needed to keep companies from moving South. I know that attitude well have spent many years with one of their older companies from the 1800's.
 
bystander said:
On one visit up there, me and a friend of my brothers who joined us went to see The Go Go's.
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I saw the Go-Go’s in Houston in 1981, maybe their first tour but they were pretty new then. Great show. Opening act: A Flock of Seagulls!

It was the most 80s thing ever.

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Chop said:
Ohio seems to me to be a bit on the "bland" side. However, one interesting/quirky thing they have in N.E. Ohio is a belt of descendants of Eastern Europeans that extends into Western Pennsylvania. Interesting sub-culture. I've known a few of them, who call themselves "Rusyn" or "Roosin" (not Russian, but something pretty close).

And the Polish belt extends from Buffalo through Erie to Cleveland an on to Detroit and Chicago. Pierogies can be delicious, although I associate that food more with Detroit than Ohio. Same with "poochkies" served right before Lent. The young women tend to be beautiful blonds, but they can really pack on some pounds as they age.
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Mobsters too in that area Eastern European belt.
 
Chinstrap said:
Ohio. Once the center of industrial commerce and then unionism that went from the steel belt to the rustbelt. A pro-business attitude was replaced with an attitude of arrogance that limits their ability to make the changes needed to keep companies from moving South. I know that attitude well have spent many years with one of their older companies from the 1800's.
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Unions run strong up there, and many believe they overreached.

That being said, the decline wasn't helped by our national policy of allowing Asian companies to dump steel on the U.S. market below the cost of producing it. That royally screwed over Ohio, Pennsylvania, W. Virginia, N.W. Indiana, etc. in a way that just gutted the place. It still hasn't completely recovered--to this day.

But the people up there certainly rallied around their Steelers, Buckeyes, Browns, Penguins, etc. (I don't think anyone rallied around the Cleveland Indians--they've sucked 80%+ of the time).
 
Chop said:
The dividing line is the Mississippi River. That's why that arch in St. Louis is the Gateway to the West.

Texas is most definitely NOT Eastern.
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I don’t think they were trying to make some definitive or geographically-precise statement with the graphic, just kind of a this-side-of-the-country vs that-side-of-the-country generalization. But if your anal retention is flaring up today I can see how it might trigger.
 
EMJ426 said:
Well, Kathy Valentine was born in Austin, so maybe she can get some Texas love.
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The best Go-Go. And Textone. She’s still at it on the independent music scene in Austin. She came back home to Austin after her Go Gos fame.

Her book is also a good read. Late 70s-early 80s Austin was something else. Then there was Hollywood.
 
Chop said:
The best Go-Go. And Textone. She’s still at it on the independent music scene in Austin. She came back home to Austin after her Go Gos fame.

Her book is also a good read. Late 70s-early 80s Austin was something else. Then there was Hollywood.
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Yeah. I was in Austin during that timeframe. It was fun.... maybe too much fun, at times.
 
Chop said:
Late 70s-early 80s Austin was something else.
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A piece of Austin died when they turned the Armadillo World Headquarters into a parking lot. That was a HUGE middle finger to the conservationists / environmentalists from the developers.
Another piece died the 1st time Barton Springs was closed because of E. coli contamination.
 
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