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[GooooMarquette]

I am currently in a state of confusion.

[UWW2MU]

I'm still not convinced Delaware is a real place

Has anyone ever actually met a person from Delaware?  I've never met anyone that has met someone from Delaware.

[tower912]

Yes.   

[forgetful]

I'm still not convinced Delaware is a real place

I think the same about North Dakota. Never met a person from there. Never been there. Pretty sure it's fake.

[StillAWarrior]

Are there states you haven't heard of?

Well played.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

I think the same about North Dakota. Never met a person from there. Never been there. Pretty sure it's fake.

Visited a friend across the border at University of Minnesota-Moorhead once. Went across the river into Fargo. Looked just like Minnesota. Pretty sure the whole North Dakota thing is just a cover.

[Herman Cain]

Donte DiVincenzo is from Delaware.

I spend a lot of time in North Dakota.

[warriorchick]

Has anyone ever actually met a person from Delaware?  I've never met anyone that has met someone from Delaware.

Absolutely true story :

I was a transfer student to Marquette from St. Joseph's College in Rensselaer, IN (RIP). I had a friend there who was from Delaware.

At Marquette, I met another girl from Delaware when we were GDLs together. I told her, "In my entire life, I have have only met one other person from Delaware, So-and-so from my old school, St. Joe's".

The girl looked me straight in the eye and said, "That's my sister".

35 years later, I have yet to meet another person who was from Delaware.

[GooooMarquette]

I honestly doubt the existence of any states. In all my travels across the USA, I have looked - from airplane windows, while driving in my car - for actual lines between "states." And I never see any; I just see sign after sign telling me they exist.

[real chili 83]

I honestly doubt the existence of any states. In all my travels across the USA, I have looked - from airplane windows, while driving in my car - for actual lines between "states." And I never see any; I just see sign after sign telling me they exist.

There is definitely a line between Minnesota and Iowa.

Why do all the trees on the southern border of Minnesota bend to the south?

Because Iowa sucks.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

There is definitely a line between Minnesota and Iowa.

Why do all the trees on the southern border of Minnesota bend to the south?

Because Iowa sucks.

Every once in awhile though, the trees will bend to the north.... because Iowa also blows

[Jockey]

There is definitely a line between Minnesota and Iowa.

Why do all the trees on the southern border of Minnesota bend to the south?

Because Iowa sucks.

They're making an attempt to get out of Minny the only way they know how?

[GooooMarquette]

There is definitely a line between Minnesota and Iowa.

Why do all the trees on the southern border of Minnesota bend to the south?

Because Iowa sucks.

I really want to believe you, but I have crossed that "border" so many times, and all I ever see are signs. No border or physical demarcation of any kind.

Call me a skeptic.

[rocket surgeon]

Driving between Nevada and Arizona, ya always knew when ya strayed into and out of California by the gas prices

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Has anyone ever actually met a person from Delaware?  I've never met anyone that has met someone from Delaware.

I went to Marquette with a guy from Delaware.  Bart Nemmers

A friend of my daughter's is heading to UDel in the fall.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Has anyone ever actually met a person from Delaware?  I've never met anyone that has met someone from Delaware.

This one always confuses people when they aske where my company has other locations. 
I have a sister factory location in Delaware, Ohio and to confuse things further it's on Pittsburgh Drive.

[GooooMarquette]

At Random is on Delaware Avenue.

[real chili 83]

Seedy looking group. 

[Newsdreams]

Sad day 
Mad Magazine will effectively cease publication after 67 years

(CNN) - Once a cultural touchstone, Mad Magazine is halting the publication of new content and vanishing from newsstands.

[warriorchick]

Driving between Nevada and Arizona, ya always knew when ya strayed into and out of California by the gas prices

Nevada gas is no bargain, either.

[VegasWarrior77]

Nevada gas is no bargain, either.

No it's not.  Clark County (Las Vegas) imposes many taxes.

[GooooMarquette]

Gas is (relatively) cheap in the Kansas City area, where my daughter lives, as both KS and MO have low gas tax rates.

If you're a penny pincher, you have to shop strategically. The gas taxes are slightly lower in KS, so you want to get your gas there. But MO has lower general sales taxes, so you're better off doing your shopping there.

[Lennys Tap]

Sad day 
Mad Magazine will effectively cease publication after 67 years

(CNN) - Once a cultural touchstone, Mad Magazine is halting the publication of new content and vanishing from newsstands.

Must read growing up. Lots of good stuff, Spy vs Spy was my personal favorite.

[Herman Cain]

Must read growing up. Lots of good stuff, Spy vs Spy was my personal favorite.

Mad was a true institution. For me it was second after Sports Illustrated. I still refer frequently to Spy vs Spy in business.

[source?]

So the scoop operating theory is that Delaware doesn't exist. In that case the most plausible conspiracy I can come up with is major corporations needed a "US based" tax haven and got to work. Think teams of thousands of employees amending history books, putting out news stories, full on media blitzes. With the tax savings they were even able to pay young employees to attend colleges for a semester at a time and proclaim themselves "native Delawarans". This, I believe, is a far more likely explanation for why two people attending different schools to claim to be related (went through  the training program at the same time) than a chance meeting of two siblings from a supposed state of a million people at two different schools in different states.