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Re: ask a townie
« Reply #300 on: March 18, 2015, 11:46:26 PM »
The Jones' are shitty folks.

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« Reply #301 on: March 18, 2015, 11:49:15 PM »
you guys are listing names like it means something to me. "oh Gary Jones is rich" wow great story.

Manko. Owned by the Jones family. Big $$$, fwiw

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« Reply #302 on: March 19, 2015, 01:57:54 AM »
As someone who has been away for quite a while, I'm fascinated by the hyperbolic LHC Bill Snyder lore that has apparently been taking hold.

KSU had like a 10k enrollment too. Mhk has changed more since 88 than most cities (imho)

50% of the entire population of a pre-LHC Bill Snyder western kansas town

Actual KSU enrollment in 1988: 19,000
Actual Manhattan population in 1990: 43,000


http://www.k-state.edu/registrar/statistics/resnon.html
https://www.google.com/#q=manhattan+ks+population+1990

The town has dramatically changed in the last 15 years and is one of the fastest growing towns in KS.
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Re: ask a townie
« Reply #303 on: March 19, 2015, 07:05:00 AM »
As someone who has been away for quite a while, I'm fascinated by the hyperbolic LHC Bill Snyder lore that has apparently been taking hold.

KSU had like a 10k enrollment too. Mhk has changed more since 88 than most cities (imho)

50% of the entire population of a pre-LHC Bill Snyder western kansas town

Actual KSU enrollment in 1988: 19,000
Actual Manhattan population in 1990: 43,000


http://www.k-state.edu/registrar/statistics/resnon.html
https://www.google.com/#q=manhattan+ks+population+1990

The town has dramatically changed in the last 15 years and is one of the fastest growing towns in KS.

So I've heard!

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Re: ask a townie
« Reply #304 on: March 19, 2015, 08:37:17 AM »
you guys are listing names like it means something to me. "oh Gary Jones is rich" wow great story.

Manko. Owned by the Jones family. Big $$$, fwiw

They also host the morning radio show Manko in the Morning.

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Re: ask a townie
« Reply #305 on: March 19, 2015, 01:15:40 PM »
lol

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Re: ask a townie
« Reply #306 on: March 19, 2015, 05:14:49 PM »
Just spitballin' here, but don't you think the number of Manhattan residents you know is a pretty big factor in your townie status? I think one could argue that it's THE factor of townie status.

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« Reply #307 on: March 19, 2015, 05:21:21 PM »

Just spitballin' here, but don't you think the number of Manhattan residents you know is a pretty big factor in your townie status? I think one could argue that it's THE factor of townie status.

I can't disagree with this sound logic.

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Re: ask a townie
« Reply #308 on: March 19, 2015, 05:37:37 PM »
Just spitballin' here, but don't you think the number of Manhattan residents you know is a pretty big factor in your townie status? I think one could argue that it's THE factor of townie status.

Service industry transplants are the cream of the crop among non-native townies. They're almost their own community.
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Re: ask a townie
« Reply #309 on: March 19, 2015, 05:40:48 PM »
Someone could know every Manhattan resident without ever setting foot into town.

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Re: ask a townie
« Reply #310 on: March 19, 2015, 05:52:33 PM »

Someone could know every Manhattan resident without ever setting foot into town.

Don't be an idiot, no they couldn't.

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Re: ask a townie
« Reply #311 on: March 19, 2015, 05:57:47 PM »
I think mhk connections definitely help move people from transplant to townie status
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« Reply #312 on: March 19, 2015, 06:21:24 PM »
I'm just trying to tell you guys that that's not going to fly with RD. But if you guys want to make a seperate thread for non-townies to be non-townie subject matter experts, no one's going to stop you, I guess.

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« Reply #313 on: March 19, 2015, 06:34:49 PM »
what's a more desirable status? townie or non-western kansas native? because you can't be both.  :Wha:

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Re: ask a townie
« Reply #314 on: March 19, 2015, 06:37:30 PM »
what's a more desirable status? townie or non-western kansas native? because you can't be both.  :Wha:

Look bad person, I was born in Colorado and lived in Texas before moving to Kansas  :curse:

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« Reply #315 on: March 19, 2015, 06:41:32 PM »
what's a more desirable status? townie or non-western kansas native? because you can't be both.  :Wha:

Look bad person, I was born in Colorado and lived in Texas before moving to Kansas  :curse:

not a townie

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« Reply #316 on: March 19, 2015, 06:47:00 PM »
what's a more desirable status? townie or non-western kansas native? because you can't be both.  :Wha:

No one ever even talks about being a non-Western Kansas native let alone tries to contort the rules in an attempt to qualify as one. It's just some make believe status, I'm afraid.

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Re: ask a townie
« Reply #318 on: March 19, 2015, 09:33:10 PM »
Also, by my calculations, only five townies have posted in this thread.

Also, remember what bad person Mocat said about Curtis?

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Re: ask a townie
« Reply #319 on: March 19, 2015, 09:34:15 PM »
Also, Endacott Lighting sponsored one of my baseball teams. I realized a few years later we weren't the Endacott Lightning.

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Re: ask a townie
« Reply #320 on: March 19, 2015, 10:21:40 PM »
Also, Endacott Lighting sponsored one of my baseball teams. I realized a few years later we weren't the Endacott Lightning.

man oh man do i have some endacott stories.

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« Reply #321 on: March 19, 2015, 10:31:51 PM »
Just spitballin' here, but don't you think the number of Manhattan residents you know is a pretty big factor in your townie status? I think one could argue that it's THE factor of townie status.


great point. john currie is a townie. good call stevesie.  :flush:

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Re: ask a townie
« Reply #322 on: March 19, 2015, 10:33:20 PM »
Rick Daris is being a townie as great as it seems?

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« Reply #323 on: March 19, 2015, 10:43:06 PM »
Rick Daris is being a townie as great as it seems?

i ate a bunch of boneless wings, chugged some 8bits and watched bball games with stevesie, kk and _fan this afternoon in aggieville, so you tell me.

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« Reply #324 on: March 19, 2015, 10:46:07 PM »
Rick Daris is being a townie as great as it seems?

i ate a bunch of boneless wings, chugged some 8bits and watched bball games with stevesie, kk and _fan this afternoon in aggieville, so you tell me.

while I was at a bar alone in kc....... :putsHouseOnMarket: :LooksForJobsInManhattan: