state by state speak your mind about...kentucky

[SwampG8r]

i like kentucky
i have family there and i love visiting
great geography sweet people very beautiful women and good food
add a tradition of great basketball and you have for some a total package
kentucky is one of the southern states(actually kentucky is a commonwealth)that did not leave the union
kentucky has a history going back to the beginnings of recorded time and has been home to some of our most flambouant if not distinguished citizens
the home of col sanders and the louisville slugger
a trip to kentucky is a fun time

[Renew Deal]

1. Yeah, I love it.

[2ndAmForComputers]

10. Bleh.

Tastes like cardboard.

(An insult much heaped upon hamburger chains when in fact it applies much more to KFC.)

[Major Hogwash]

15. Hahahaha!!!

It's the first thing that comes to mind.

[Honeycombe8]

2. I know almost nothing about it. Except they have horse races there, & make bourbon

or whiskey or something.

[Icicle]

13. Beam

Home to Jim Beam, a nice bourbon whiskey. And undoubtedly something that the gentlemen noted in post #4, below, are familiar with.

[jberryhill]

3. Great state name for limericks!

[Syrinx]

4. home state of Hunter Thompson and Johnny Depp

[limpyhobbler]

5. Home of the creation museum. Prepare to believe.

In Petersburg, right outside of Cincinnati...
http://creationmuseum.org/events/workshops/#notachance


Also Colonel Sanders was a genius.

[OriginalGeek]

6. Lived there the second half of first grade

and the first half of second grade.


I remember Walter with warts in first grade and I remember getting my ass beat by crabby Mrs Ockerman in second grade for daring to write my name in cursive when "we haven't learned cursive yet!" (My mom taught me early how to read and write. Too bad mom sucked at math. I still don't know any of that shit.).

I lived in Florence, KY which is close to Cincinnati so when I was 6 years old my dad took me to my first MLB game. I remember getting a bat because it was bat day. I once got in a 7.5 second fight with Bobby Tolan's son at the playground at our apartments. He swung once and I swung once and nobody connected and our mom's snatched us up quick. I have no clue what the fight was about.


So I don't remember much and I still don't forgive Mrs. Ockerman but I'd like to visit again.

[jlayson]

7. Well glad you like it

It's home for me ..

[Initech]

8. My dad is from there.

I've had many memorable trips there (including bonafide redneck fights, watching #1 UK basketball, and trips to bourbon distilleries) over the course of my life time.

[eridani]

9. An Illinois court once ruled that simply having Kentucky license plates--

--did not justify stopping and searching cars. This overturned a number of marijuana convictions.

[lostnote12]

18. I didn't know that Gatewood could practice in Illinois?..lol

[2ndAmForComputers]

11. Most unfortunate State abbreviation ever.

[pamela]

12. Very pretty state.

I've driven through there several times and visited there last August for a few days. A few years ago when we were driving through Kentucky we saw a sign that said Kentucky Folk Art Center and decided to make a quick stop to see it. What a find! We went back there this August and had more time to look around and it is so cool there. I could spend hours and hours in that place. If you're ever in that area (it's near Huntington, WV) check it out. I've mentioned before in these threads that occasionally, while traveling through red states, we find these amazingly progressive gems and I would put the Kentucky Folk Art Center at the top of that list. I love outsider art and this place has one of the most amazing collections I've ever seen.

[Renew Deal]

16. I agree that it's pretty

It's the greenest state I've been in other than Vermont. There was lush green everywhere.

[Owlet]

14. Has the best State song

and two of the worst US Senators. We here in CT. have the distinction of the Worst U.S. Senator - the not-so-honorable Joe Lieberman.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

17. tabacco, horses and bourbon and all those stone walls and the blue grass

what's not to love.

[lostnote12]

19. Like many native to KY I have a love/hate relationship.....

.....oddly enough the majority of the state I believe is very receptive to Democratic Party initiatives however on the national level they are hoodwinked by the patriotic jingoism of the Republican Party.....much of the landmarked history of KY has already been destroyed.....Heck the UK basketball dormitory is bought and paid for w/ coal money as well is the title of the building......The bluedogs control the Democratic machine and the radio is inundated with RW bullshit.....again it's a love/hate relationship for me.....lol

[era veteran]

20. Kentucky is a special place,the Dark and Bloody Ground,

Dan'l Boone and Mingo, Kentucky Derby, Ali, Lincoln and Davis, basketball, bourbon and belles. Fundy churches and Hunter Thompson, Divine Right and his trip. The marijuana plantations of Central Kentucky, Ft Knox gold, many rivers , dirty coal and dirty Larry Flint, creation museum (Failing BTW) and creation at Red River Gorge, Mammoth Cave, Big Bone Lick, Green River and Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County down by the Green River Where Paradise Lies.
AHHHHH Kentucky, where the corn is full of kernels and the Colonels are full of Corn.
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