An obviously untenable dichotomy

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Years ago, the conventional wisdom was that the Earth was flat. Now, of course, it's much more fashionable to believe that it's round. However, in my own experience, it seems to be a bit of both--otherwise there'd either be no decent place to park your car at a ski slope, or no decent skiing once you got it parked. So, who foisted this obviously untenable dichotomy on us, and to what end?

― Kansas Sam, Sunday, 14 March 2004 04:24 (twenty-one years ago)

You aren't really from Kansas, are you Sam.

I live next door, in Missouri, and I happen to know that Kansans really do belive that the world is flat.
It is rumored that they stand on their porches, facing west, hoping for a tornado that will take them "over the rainbow". Any truth to that?

― Zen Clown (Zen Clown), Sunday, 14 March 2004 09:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Here's proof: http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20040323_1034.html

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

I can't believe they're called "Kansans". "Kansasans", or "Kansasians", or even "Kansasicans" maybe. (As in "Texicans", The Alamo, John Wayne, Richard Wydmark.) But Kansans? Breaks all the rules of etymology.

― Dorien Thomas (Dorien Thomas), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

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