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 Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 8:18 am
Glassram lilwashu2002 Glassram lilwashu2002 Myself...and I did a damn good job of it too. *pats self on back* mrgreen But dude...why does Canada have to have such messed up zip codes? eek We call them Postal codes. Besides, how are they mixed up eh? Cause they got letters and numbers in them. That's pretty twisted. domokun that's twisted? XP Damn straight, it's totally twisted. domokun
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 8:19 am
Vilith Stend You border buddy. domokun
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Vilith Stend Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 9:19 am
domokun You know you are. wahmbulance
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 5:27 pm
Vilith Stend domokun You know you are. wahmbulance You're just jealous cause the Mississippi River starts in my state. talk2hand
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Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 6:24 pm
lilwashu2002 Glassram lilwashu2002 Glassram lilwashu2002 Myself...and I did a damn good job of it too. *pats self on back* mrgreen But dude...why does Canada have to have such messed up zip codes? eek We call them Postal codes. Besides, how are they mixed up eh? Cause they got letters and numbers in them. That's pretty twisted. domokun that's twisted? XP Damn straight, it's totally twisted. domokun it's just letter number letter space number letter number not that hard...
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Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 8:19 am
Glassram lilwashu2002 Glassram lilwashu2002 Glassram lilwashu2002 Myself...and I did a damn good job of it too. *pats self on back* mrgreen But dude...why does Canada have to have such messed up zip codes? eek We call them Postal codes. Besides, how are they mixed up eh? Cause they got letters and numbers in them. That's pretty twisted. domokun that's twisted? XP Damn straight, it's totally twisted. domokun it's just letter number letter space number letter number not that hard... It might not be that hard, but it's got letters in it, that's what makes it so twisted. talk2hand
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Vilith Stend Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 2:34 pm
lilwashu2002 Vilith Stend domokun You know you are. wahmbulance You're just jealous cause the Mississippi River starts in my state. talk2hand Please, my state got to be named after it.
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Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 5:24 pm
Vilith Stend lilwashu2002 Vilith Stend domokun You know you are. wahmbulance You're just jealous cause the Mississippi River starts in my state. talk2hand Please, my state got to be named after it. Well, without my state, you wouldn't have a river. talk2hand
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Vilith Stend Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 8:16 pm
lilwashu2002 Vilith Stend lilwashu2002 Vilith Stend domokun You know you are. wahmbulance You're just jealous cause the Mississippi River starts in my state. talk2hand Please, my state got to be named after it. Well, without my state, you wouldn't have a river. talk2hand The river was there before your state. surprised
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Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 11:22 am
lilwashu2002 Glassram lilwashu2002 Glassram lilwashu2002 Cause they got letters and numbers in them. That's pretty twisted. domokun that's twisted? XP Damn straight, it's totally twisted. domokun it's just letter number letter space number letter number not that hard... It might not be that hard, but it's got letters in it, that's what makes it so twisted. talk2hand whatever...
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Vilith Stend Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 12:05 pm
Glassram lilwashu2002 Glassram lilwashu2002 Glassram lilwashu2002 Cause they got letters and numbers in them. That's pretty twisted. domokun that's twisted? XP Damn straight, it's totally twisted. domokun it's just letter number letter space number letter number not that hard... It might not be that hard, but it's got letters in it, that's what makes it so twisted. talk2hand whatever... You know y'all picked them from a scrable board anyway. domokun
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Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 5:27 pm
Vilith Stend lilwashu2002 Vilith Stend lilwashu2002 Vilith Stend domokun You know you are. wahmbulance You're just jealous cause the Mississippi River starts in my state. talk2hand Please, my state got to be named after it. Well, without my state, you wouldn't have a river. talk2hand The river was there before your state. surprised Yeah, well your state is named after my river. talk2hand And if you don't believe me, look it up.
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Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 1:21 am
Quote: A state of the northern United States bordering on Lake Superior and on Manitoba and Ontario, Canada. It was admitted as the 32nd state in 1858. First explored by the French in the mid-17th century, the area became part of the United States through the Treaty of Paris (1783) and the Louisiana Purchase (1803). St. Paul is the capital and Minneapolis the largest city. Population: 5,170,000.
Minnesotan Min'ne·so'tan adj. & n.
WORD HISTORY Minnesotans may tell you that Minnesota in Sioux means “10,000 lakes,” and they may attempt to prove it by pointing to the motto on their license plates. Minnesota in Sioux actually means “cloudy water,” an accurate description of the Minnesota River. Another popular etymology of a similar-sounding Indian name has Minnehaha meaning “laughing waters.” It doesn't; it means “waterfalls.” The misinterpretation began around 1849 when European settlers, not unreasonably, assumed that the Siouan –haha was an imitation of laughter just as in English, and hence that minnehaha meant “laughing waters.” The folk etymology caught on and wound up in 1855 as the name of the heroine in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem The Song of Hiawatha.
A state of the southeast United States. It was admitted as the 20th state in 1817. The first settlers in the region (1699) were French, and the area became part of Louisiana. It passed to the British (1763–1779) and then to the Spanish before being ceded to the United States in 1783. The Mississippi Territory, organized in 1798 and enlarged in 1804 and 1813, also included the present state of Alabama. Jackson is the capital and the largest city. Population: 2,910,000.
WORD HISTORY In a letter dated August 27, 1863, Abraham Lincoln wrote, “the Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea,” referring to General Grant's capture of Vicksburg, Mississippi. The sentence has all the simplicity and nobility of Lincoln's style, but Mississippi doesn't mean “Father of Waters.” This colorful but false phrase first appears in print in 1812, is repeated by James Fenimore Cooper in his novel The Prairie (1827), and thereafter was in common circulation. Our name for the river has a different source. In 1666 French explorers somewhere in the western Great Lakes region recorded Messipi as their rendering of the Ojibwa name for the river they had come upon, misi-sipi, “big river.” The French took the name with them as they went down Big River to its delta, and it superseded all the other names for Big River used by local Indian tribes and by earlier Spanish explorers. In 1798 Congress applied the Ojibwa name of the river to the territory of Mississippi, newly organized from lands inhabited by the Natchez, Choctaws, and Chickasaws. Still, “Father of Waters” is a happy error: “The Big River again goes unvexed to the sea” just doesn't have the right
The Mississippi River played an important role in the lives of many Native Americans who lived in the Upper Mississippi Valley, such as the Santee Dakota, the Illinois, the Kickapoo, and the Ojibwe, as well as those tribes in the southern valley, such as the Chicksaw, the Choctaw, the Tunica, and the Natchez. The name "Mississippi," meaning "great river" or "gathering of water," is attributed to the Ojibwe (Chippewa)
The Mississippi River actually begins as a small stream flowing from Lake Itasca, Minnesota. The river initially flows north and then east as the means of connecting several lakes in northern Minnesota. The river begins to flow southward near Grand Rapids, Minnesota, and is joined with the Minnesota River between the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. The muddy waters of the Missouri River flow into the clear waters of the Mississippi River just north of St. Louis, Missouri. At this point, the Mississippi becomes brown and muddy for the rest of the journey south.
At Cairo, Illinois, the Ohio River flows into the Mississippi, doubling its volume and creating the point that divides the Upper Mississippi from the Lower Mississippi. The Lower Mississippi Valley is a wide and fertile region. In this area, the river meanders its way south and over time has continuously changed its course, leaving behind numerous oxbow lakes as remnants of its past. As it flows in this southern region, the Mississippi deposits rich silt along its banks. In many areas, the silt builds up to create natural levees. South of Memphis, Tennessee, the Arkansas River junctions with the Mississippi River. Near Fort Adams, Mississippi, the Red River joins with the Mississippi, diverting with it about a quarter of the flow of the Mississippi into the Atchafalaya River.
Ojibwa(Chippewa)A Native American people originally located north of Lake Huron before moving westward in the 17th and 18th centuries into Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, western Ontario, and Manitoba, with later migrations onto the northern Great Plains in North Dakota, Montana, and Saskatchewan.
A member of this people.
The Algonquian language of the Ojibwa. Also called Chippewa. So we were a state first, the river is more important after it leaves MN, and the only connection to the name MN has is the Indians the name were borrowed from lived there and a handful of other states;but not even originally. They are'nt even your states natives. Then look at the one part...I see a whole lot of southern states mentioned...I don't know if I pasted the part about VICKSBURG! surprised As extra credit...notice how while our name was misused in an address, the name that happens to be based on a river with very humble origins in a place that was'nt even a state when it was named...notice that Minnesotans purposefully "cloud" the meaning of their own states name. (Cloud ha ha, that was a pun) razz Maybe it's those evil wheat thins you Northerly folk consume... sad xp xp xp Ps. Who did the French Own further along in history! rofl razz wink
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Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 7:57 am
talk2hand
But, I wonder. How exactly do you keep that pin on your chest? surprised
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Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 8:10 am
It's like the carnation Big Ben wore in the Miracle Man comics. Stabbed right into my still beating heart. surprised
Actually that was a weird comic...still ever seen a Man Called Horse. neutral
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