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That actually sounds pretty sweet!

I'll admit it -- I don't like dogs very much. There go my chances of being a politician.

Sounds like a good thing. I hate it when people who miss half their classes are allowed to let it slide.

^^^We have gotten to the point that we send too many people to college for things that won't get them a job. "Dressed up voc-ed" stuff is the future. One thing that makes skilled labor so expensive today is that kids don't grow up working on cars or making things in woodshops, so they don't develop skills that can be translated to a trade. They just play video games. Then, when it's time to go to college or get a job, of course they go to college for something general, like business management or psychology that won't get you a job until you're 40. Kids don't go to trade school because they won't get to live in the dorms, go to parties, do drugs, get laid and all that other stuff that makes college so great. If you can give someone the opportunity to have a traditional college experience, with a full general ed program and have them walk off with a skill such as fabricating things out of metal, working on cars, being a carpenter or electrician (fields that sorely need people and pay well right off the bat) you have created an extremely useful individual. Not only that, but the average level of proficiency will rise in these fields as more academic minded workers join the ranks, and the cost of labor will drop as businesses won't constantly find themselves short-handed. I know I speak of male-dominated fields, but women have already been doing this in health care for years.

I think it would have been just terrible to go to college without dive bars around. Luckily, Portsmouth and Huntington had plenty.

That is pretty high for local income tax. Most places hover around .5%-1%.

The drinking fountain thing -- I swear, Ohio is the biggest bunch of pussies about outdoor drinking fountains. "You never know, there be might be a FREEZE left!" People don't turn them on 'till July, if at all. "Well, there's only a couple months left till the next FREEZE." Bullshit, how often is there a hard freeze after May 1st or before October 15th, especially south of I-70? I'm looking at you, Cincinnati, Portsmouth, Jackson and Ironton. I bet Michigan leaves them on longer than we do!

Yeah, the Enquirer article on the closing alluded to that, except for the drugs part.

are you from the Portsmouth area? I lived there for four years while attending Shawnee.

Ahhh, Portsmouth. I miss it.

Didn't know about Merion Village, Hungarian Village or Schumacher Place even though I lived in Columbus for 20 years.

Good news for the Near East Side!

His phallus gets a lot smaller when he actually turns into a gun, though. All of him does, actually.

This should probably be merged with the discussion in the Transportation section.

Jesus, as if it's somehow Coleman's fault. Traditional malls in downtown areas just don't work. Anyone in the industry will tell you.

Washington D.C. is NUTS. I've never seen so many accidents actually happening, let alone all the aftermath that I saw.

SOMC is like Portsmouth's Sistine Chapel. A ton of people in that part of the state is in terrible shape or old, so SOMC rakes in the bucks and has to keep expanding. Still love Portsmouth though! I lived there for four years.

They're all out west.

Always dug Cambridge.

Gotta have a drive through! Don't want to have to WALK INSIDE!

They certainly don't look like rockers, but I've noticed that a lot of bands from Columbus are like that.

Most old British rockers "live" in the States to avoid the high taxes levied on successful people in the UK.

AHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!

Wow, didn't know Randy Newman had a song like that. Tool has a song called "Eleven" with a line that goes "Under a dead Ohio sky". Maynard, the singer, is from Ravenna.

Albuquerque? You gotta be kiddin' me!