24 Astronauts and 7 U.S. Presidents

[infinite monkey]

Can't be wrong: they prove how many incredibly sensible and intelligent people come from Ohio.

So, individual bar owners cannot decide whether or not they want to allow smoking in their bar. They cannot weigh the options, whatever factors they want to consider, and make the decision to make their VERY OWN bar smoking or non-smoking, thus allowing the public to decide if they want to go into a certain establishment or not. Nope, The Gubmint says NO, thou shalt not smoke.

But wait! Individual bar owners shall soon not be able to tell people that they can't come into the bar packing heat. Of course, we trust that most people will follow the guidelines and not drink when they're packing heat but short of a patdown before said customer starts buying alcohol, how would we know?

So, you cannot kill yourself (thirty years later) in a bar that sanctions smoking but you can BE killed in twenty minutes by some gun-toting drunk.

Even the majority of thinking gun lovers thinks this makes no sense.

http://thinkprogress.org/security/20...-bars-alcohol/

GAWD I love the great state of Ohio. Not.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/20...843/ohio-guns/

[classicman]

That is pretty stoo-pit.

Then again - you can't drink in many states, yet you can join the services and go kill people ... or be killed


oHIo also has this guy - he is purty special.

The Ohio bank robber dubbed the "mullet bandit" by federal authorities appears to have struck again.

The latest heist took place on Wednesday morning at a Key Bank branch on Stringtown Road in Grove City, Ohio.

The FBI said a man matching the physical description of the mullet-wearing suspect sought in two previous holdups walked into the bank and handed a teller a note, saying he was robbing the bank, had a gun, and would hurt the teller if she did not cooperate.

The robber was dressed in the mullet bandit's garb, including Seattle Mariners baseball cap and large dark sunglasses.

Initial surveillance photos suggested he had shed his distinctive hairdo to evade detection, swapping out his mullet -- a style popular in the 1980s that is short on the top, tight on the sides and long in the back -- for something more up to date.

But subsequent images revealed the suspect had merely tucked his mullet up underneath his baseball cap.

"Tricky guy," said Harry Trombitas, the FBI agent tracking him.

Link

[jimhelm]

omg! someone on the internet is wrong about something!


8 presidents! 8!

Originally Posted by the above linked sites

William Henry Harrison

Ulysses Simpson Grant

Rutherford Birchard Hayes

James Abram Garfield

Benjamin Harrison

William McKinley

William Howard Taft

Warren Gamaliel Harding

[infinite monkey]

*snortle*

I probably forgot to count Harding. I'm not sure of his citizenship anyway, look at that middle name!

And damn, that's in the thread title, destined for posterity. Years from now someone will laugh at me.

[infinite monkey]

LOOK!!!!!

Welcome to Ohio, birthplace of seven U.S. presidents, birthplace of the first professional baseball team, and birthplace of that all-American favorite, the hot dog!

See, what it is thar, is that William Henry Harrison was actually born in Virginia and settled in Ohio...so he goes on and off the list depending on who cares.

So I wasn't exactly *wrong.* (preens and flips ponytail)

http://www.netstate.com/states/intro/oh_intro.htm

[glatt]

Well, it seems like if you add him to the president column, you would need to take the Wright brothers off that other column, since they went off to North Carolina to fly the plane they invented in Ohio.

Personally, I'd keep the Wright brothers and drop Harrison.

[infinite monkey]

Absolutely! I stopped at the gas station and there was a North Carolina tag, which reads: first in flight. Uh, no. First in the correct landscape for testing.

We'll lose Harrison. We still have way more prezzies. (Slinks away)

[sexobon]

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

... So, individual bar owners cannot decide whether or not they want to allow smoking in their bar. ... Nope, The Gubmint says NO, thou shalt not smoke. ... But wait! Individual bar owners shall soon not be able to tell people that they can't come into the bar packing heat. ... So, you cannot kill yourself (thirty years later) in a bar that sanctions smoking but you can BE killed in twenty minutes by some gun-toting drunk.

Solution: No Smoking Guns

(check the wording of the law to see if it specifies people)

[Griff]

The time frame of the Presidencies is interesting. Drop the outlier Harrison and they clump for some kind of Ohio Golden Age. 1869-1923

[Trilby]

Ohio has teh image problem.

Plus, it's a stoopit place to live. Too. Forking. Hot. (and humid).

[Griff]

Silly me, that time frame is pretty much The Gilded Age.

[ZenGum]

Originally Posted by sexobon

Solution: No Smoking Guns

How the heck do you get them to light?

[infinite monkey]

Ohio is home to 24 astronauts. Why so many? Perhaps it's because two great role models, John Glenn and Neil Armstrong, are from Ohio. Perhaps it's because Ohio is the birthplace of flight. Maybe it's the schools or the good-old midwestern work ethic. We're not exactly sure why we have so many, but Ohioans are proud of our astronauts!

Armstrong, Neil A., born in Wapakoneta
Bassett, Charles A., II →, born in Dayton
Cameron, Kenneth D. →, born in Cleveland
Currie, Nancy J. →, considers Troy her hometown
Eisele, Donn F. →, born in Columbus
Foreman, Michael J. →, born in Columbus
Gernhardt, Michael L. →, born in Mansfield
Glenn, John H., Jr., born in Cambridge
Good, Michael T. →, considers Broadview Heights his hometown
Harbaugh, Gregory J. →, born in Cleveland
Henize, Karl G. →, born in Cincinnati
Hennen, Thomas J. →, considers Columbus his hometown
Henricks, Terence T. →, considers Woodville his hometown
Lovell, James A., Jr. →, born in Cleveland
Low, G. David →, born in Cleveland
Overmyer, Robert F. → , considered Westlake his hometown
Parise, Ronald A., Ph.D. →, born in Warren
Resnik, Judith A. →, born in Akron
Sega, Ronald M. →, born in Cleveland
Springer, Robert C. →, considers Ashland his hometown
Thomas, Donald A. →, born in Cleveland
Walz, Carl E. →, born in Cleveland
Weber, Mary E. →, born in Cleveland
Williams, Sunita L. →, born in Euclid

http://history.nasa.gov/nauts.html

And the Age of the Astronaut (the assssstroNAUT, the assstronaut) didn't start until, like, the 60s.

[classicman]

→, →, →, →, I like the little arrow icon. Simple minds and all that. →, →,→, →,

[infinite monkey]

Cutted and pasteded!