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Yeah - you don't have to sneak around drinking until you're 21. Indeed, so kids don't make it their prime directive to get as hammered as possible.

Anybody find any chicks taking showers yet?

Me. Yep, there are a lot of hippies in Cincinnati. Though no music genre dominates the Cincinnati scene, there probably are more jam bands and other types of bands that cater to hippies and neo-hippies than anything else.

In Europe, college certainly isn't like this.

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Kids really do do this. At one of my previous jobs, an 18-year-old co-worker handed me his phone and said "Dude check out this chick I've been talking to." I'm like "OK", figuring it was just going to be her face -- nope, she was naked. She turned out to be 15-16 years old. I said, "You can't walk around with pictures of naked young girls!" He said rather casually that he had lots of pictures that girls that he knew from school or whatever sent him of themselves. A lot of kids think it's normal!

^ Like in 1989 when then-mayor of Columbus Buck Reinhart jumped on a piece of equipment and started tearing down the Ohio Pen himself.

^ Perhaps a thicker extension cord. I'm not kidding.

The riot looks like it was a sausage fest.

I remember seeing one of those during a Looney Tune when I was a kid and wondering what it was. It wasn't a week before I was walking in Clintonville and got to see one work in real life. It made my day as a tyke.

What are kids buying instead? It seems like Iron Maiden shirts mostly. Maybe they're just not buying anything.

It looks like a building meant to house an R/C raceway or construction equipment.

^ They could have developed an Cobalt replacement that was at least as good as an early '90s Corolla and didn't look dorky.

I'd say you're "from" Columbus.

I didn't know how full of transplants Columbus was until I began working. It seems that very few people I have worked with in town are actually from here. It seems that people from the Columbus area leave after they finish school, while people who live in Columbus now came here for work or school. How many natives do we have here. BTW, I grew up in Groveport and have lived in Ashville, Lancaster, Portsmouth, Huntington WV, Washington DC and Cincinnati. I now live in Bexley (no, not the wealthy part).

I think this may actually be just a economic correction. By the '90s, we in the U.S. had turned into a bunch of pigs. I think it peaked in 2005. Will living like we did in the '70s really be that bad?

^ Funny part about Florida is that it has a lot of older people who are stuck with the car mentality, yet they are always getting killed on the highway because they are too old to be driving. Or they have to get someone to drive them everywhere. Inter- and intracity rail is what they need most!

^ I have always found buses' unpredictable behavior irritating and I think others do as well. Streetcars solve that problem.

^ The main hall at Sharonville is really small for a main hall. A lot of the facility's space is meeting rooms.

These situations were the impetus for the world of heavy metal.

Even at 32 years old, the Atari 2600 is still the most reliable video game system. I have lots of work-level experience with almost every system ever made (I used to work at Game Swap). N64 is a close second. Today's systems are made of paper mache compared to those tanks.

Strip mining is pretty dirty, but it does leave some interesting sights behind. The strip mined are north of Zanesville is a moonscape of hills, highwalls, wide gravel roads and occasional undisturbed graveyards. I think it's about as lost as you can get in the State of Ohio.

No fur coats at this show?

I see.

^ mmmm, Florence