Is that those 25 astronauts were trying to get as far away from Ohio as humanly possible...

Just kidding you nutty wolverine or whatever your silly state animal is.

(And yes, I know it's buckeyes )

TlalocW

And now we have another as our governor!

There really was a border war between the two state. The only recorded casualty was a pig. Ohio and Michigan still argue over who won as Ohio ended up getting Toledo, made famous by a John Denver song and home to The Mud Hens and Jamie Farr.

Along with an outsized chunk of Lake Superior. Look at a map and notice that Isle Royale is much farther from Michigan and closer to Minnesota and Canada. Michigan controls all that water from midway between Isle Royale and Minnesota/Canada to the UP.

When the "water wars" heat up, Michigan could well find that when they "lost" Toledo, they screwed Ohio(and Wisconsin and Minnesota) over in a large way.

Ohio lost and was given Toledo as the boobie prize.

At the time, though, Toledo was the prize.

and announcing that he'd won a sales contest.

First Prize: A week in Toledo.

Second Prize: Two weeks in Toledo.

Left in 1977 for NYC, now live in SoCal.

I could never live in Ohio again, even though all 5 of my siblings still live there.

I've been to better places, but i've also been to worse.

the places they've lived (Tenn. being the worst IMO) after they "dumped" me here ( I was married before they moved again), I'm glad I am here!

edited just to add..they've just recently moved back to Ohio...lol

What state is round on both ends and high in the middle?

Grew up in Pennsylvania and the people there had a low opinion of Ohio drivers for some reason never explained to me. I know the folks in Pittsburgh bitched mightily about the power plants in Ohio blowing smoke and fine-air particles over the city giving it a haze that it fought to get rid of for many decades. Of course, Pittsburghers get their revenge by claiming the mighty Ohio river is born at the Golden Triangle at the joining of the Allegheny and the Monongahela rivers and sending that off with all of its pollution . However, I believe they've been cleaned up lately with all the steel mill and coal mine shut-downs.

You forgot that Ohio is the birthplace of The Funk!

In the Republican stronghold of John Boehners district nonetheless. I truly believe Ohio is tied with Florida as the most important state in the Presidential Elections, and will be for a long time to come. So as opposed to wasting your time and energy defending the importance of our great state to people who's mind will never change about it, I encourage you to instead put your passion, your energy, your intelligence, and your integrity into volunteering for one of the many important Campaigns here in Ohio....

Good on you for stepping up as well!