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Or the ones that ask your favorite color. I'm pretty sure the correct answer is beige.

In the '70s, lots of people around Columbus had snowmobiles. Now you almost never see them. I saw some snowmobile tracks in Pickaway County last week and had to look 3 times to check if they were real.

Old BMX bikes of the non-Kmart variety are really tough to find and expensive. There's always lots of old road bikes at the resale shops but never any BMXs.

That may be true near campus, in Clintonville, Downtown and in Grandview, but the South, East and West Sides probably ruin things. Also, the average person gets married quite young here as compared to the coastal cities, reducing the number of singles.

I don't know about that; it's a big minus for me if a girl past college age lives with her folks.

And Delaware ranks worst in work environment even though (or because of the fact) that lots of giant corporations are headquartered there and it has very low taxes.

Did he really really buy a house in Grove City? Why Grove City? I'd like to ask him. Of all places... he works in L.A. and is strongly identified with Cleveland. Honestly, besides the fact that he's an Ohioan, I can't fathom it.

You always struck me as a Reese Witherspoon. I bet she does listen to a lot of Maiden and knows how to interpret camshaft specs.

One of my old roommates also had a similar couch.

I pronounce Akon Ack-run.

Is it true that only old people say choice 4?

When people say "East Livingston Avenue". OK -- West Livingston Avenue is one block long and has maybe two addresses max, perhaps zero at this point. I won't get lost, I promise.

Cleveland still has Earl Schieb? I had a '79 Trans Am painted at the East Columbus (Livingston Ave.) one that burned down in the late '90s.

I always tried to pull in WTUE-FM out of Dayton when I lived in Cincy to escape 'EBNs annoying nu-metal/nu-rock and 92.5s Styx and Foreigner. It was no problem at my apartment on the 3rd/4th floors at the top of the hill on Short Vine, but sometimes an issue when I lived in Oakley.

Maybe if most of the actors weren't female, I knew more about paintings and actually had more of the life experiences listed I wouldn't have come out as a Ranch.

Now, this is incredible. I'm already trapped in the vortex. See you in a few months.

Holy schinkies, the Ecto-1 is in there!

I remember thinking the Vine St. Kroger was just a warehouse when I first passed it.

What a stinker. It's a shame that I sometimes actually kind of like buildings like that when they are properly maintained and haven't had five shabby remodels. They look like Eastern Bloc housing; golly, I wish I had better taste.

Epic fail

Those kind of districts go through diesel like water.

^does that last line have a double meaning? ahahahaha, maybe I'm the only one seeing subtle extra humor there. I'm not going to elaborate.

Even a shop vac in blower mode can get rid of light stuff at least close to the house.

There is actually already a glut of graduates in the field. The market will ensure that compensation does not fall too far in the same way that it will ensure that it does fall some: it balances the supply with the demand. That applies to the labor market as much as to any other. That is certainly true in Ohio, but not necessarily true in other states. I know that southern states have a shortage -- perhaps those states' overemphasis on sprawl has kept the young teachers away.

Indeed, the suburbs and exurbs are slowly sliding into irrelevancy. Obviously, it's been happening for quite a while (probably since the mid-80s or so) but the overall national consciousness didn't really notice until that first big fuel price spike in 2004. Since young people spend more time talking amongst themselves (on the internet, in person and on the phone), playing video games and listening to music than the TV generations that preceded them, TV hasn't been effective in cramming its auto-dependent propaganda down their throats.