Two Pepsi's, the river, and Goob... Out of the three, I think I like pepsi best...
the Omnipotent... Everybody loves SuperInsignificantBoy wrote this at 12:45 AM
Sunday, April 09, 2006
Two Pepsi's, the river, and Goob... Out of the three, I think I like pepsi best...
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What's the river called?
The Ohio River...
That's Kentucky on the other side..... we throw rocks across and try to hit Kentuckyans
Ah, so the Kentuckyans are like the enemy then?
Have you devised a scoring system for hitting them, like I have for driving into stuff? Like 20 points for hitting a trolley; 50 for an old person - and if you get a lady with a pushchair you win a free holiday? Mwhahahhahahahahahahah...
...in case you were wondering, yes I'd get banned from driving for life if I really did that...but it would make a great computer game...
they've already got that game... isn't it called grand theft auto?
In grand theft auto you don't get points for hitting people and stuff, you get the cops chasing you..... but it's a hell of a lot more fun than playing the right way if you ask me..... i just beat up random people and steal a car and drive around until I get killed or something....
right... well, like I said yesterday... we can legally kill transients in KY... that's an Ohio law... 'cause we don't like Kentuckians... so, we're allowed to chump-'em off in order to vicariously take out our aggressions against those people who lay claim on the river with our name...
Yeah, we have that here too...not so much where I live; it's all very nice and civilised 'round my way, but lots of areas have feuds:
Yorkshire v Lancashire
Devon v Cornwall
The "North" v The "South"
North London v South London
Scotland/Wales/Ireland v England
So you get the idea...
Okay, okay... it's not so much a feud at all really.. the whole country kinda looks down on KY... ha ha ha
I was just kidding... I like KY just fine...
In Cincinnati, it's the differing cities we have feuds with... like Cincy/Pittsburgh, Cincy/Chicago, Cincy/Cleveland, Cincy/Louisville, Cincy/St. Louis, Cincy/Lexington... stuff like that... they are old feuds that stem from the nineteenth century during the hey-day of canal/steamship transportation that is the route of this rivalry. All of these cities (with the exception of Cleveland and Lexington) are on the Ohio River, which was (and still is) a major channel for transporting goods throughout the nation (flows into the Mississippi)... Cleveland and Chicago were also competitors because of the Great Lakes and the shipping routes in the north. All of these cities competed for business/trade/commerce and the populations to make/work and buy the product goods in their own cities. Cincinnati, around 1850 or so, was the center of the whole nation... It wasn't until the damning of the Ohio and canalizing around the falls in Louisville, KY that St. Louis was then open in Missouri and Cincinnati's grip on this control was lost... Now we take out those past laid aggressions against each other today in the same manner we did back then, in professional sports. That is why the Midwest takes their sports so seriously around here, even when their teams are such pitiful losing bastards. We , as fans, just like to live out our aggressions vicariously through our home town athletes in hopes that they can pummel the other guys who represent our rival cities and therefore our rivals themselves...
But I am sure it is the same every where you go when it comes to professional sports... Like you guys and soccer/football (whatever)...
When it comes down to it, everything as far as competition is concerned can find its very route in economic competition (i.e. war and such, and even nature itself)...
Um... I meant root... [slaps forehead]
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