Kansas geography discussion, Jayhawkers welcome

[pissclams]

draw a line straight north/south right after exit 313, make everything west of it part of oklahoma.  give lawrence back to the indians.  plow pittsburgh down into those salt mines they have down there or whatever those mines are.  boom, roasted.  perfect kansas.

'clams, that would put Kansas State University in Oklahoma, which seems like a bad idea.

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[john "teach me how to" dougie]

We frickin' GAVE away the mountains.  We don't deserve the rectangle.

pls explain further. tia.

The Kansas Territory originally included most of Colorado.

Having to take eastern Colorado wasn't worth getting half the mountains. All the good ski resorts are on the other side.

[SEK_EMAW]

We frickin' GAVE away the mountains.  We don't deserve the rectangle.

pls explain further. tia.

The Kansas Territory originally included most of Colorado.

Sure would be nice to be able to say: "I'm headed out to the panhandle for a few days of skiing."

[Ghost of Stan Parrish]

Manhattan's delegate to the Kansas Constitutional convention (1859) argued the borders of the State of Kansas should extend "to the summit of the Rocky Mountains," in part so that Kansas would be a large, self-reliant state in the event of civil war (which of course started 2 years later).  He lost that argument.  But Manhattanites have always known what's what.

Did you witness this first hand? 

Nope, somebody else wrote it down.  I was off hacking up proslaverites at the time.  (BTW, that was Samuel D. Houston, namesake of Houston Street in MHK.)

[ben ji]

Some dumbass Kansan in 1860- "You see all these poors moving out to the mountains looking for gold? Dam peasants nearly trampled little suzy on her way to school. I wish we could just focus on growing wheat and not worry about gold and mountains and all that stuff"

[_33]

Have you seen the trash on the other side of the river? Do not want.

 

 

[The1BigWillie]

How awesome would it be to shove the Denver, KS Broncos up  (Kansas) City, MO's ass every year??   

[TheHamburglar]

Do you guys remember in the early 90s when there was a push by some in SWK to succeed from Kansas?

They tried to get Grandpa Hamburglar/Westside involved in that as Secretary of Ag or something like that in the proposed state leadership structure.  #fanningbrag

[star seed 7]

Some dumbass Kansan in 1860- "You see all these poors moving out to the mountains looking for gold? Dam peasants nearly trampled little suzy on her way to school. I wish we could just focus on growing wheat and not worry about gold and mountains and all that stuff"

those gold boys were rough sum bitches, us kansas folk do things the right way.

[EMAWmeister]

draw a line straight north/south right after exit 313, make everything west of it part of oklahoma.  give lawrence back to the indians.  plow pittsburgh down into those salt mines they have down there or whatever those mines are.  boom, roasted.  perfect kansas.

'clams, that would put Kansas State University in Oklahoma, which seems like a bad idea.

Gundy would kick our ass SO MUCH HARDER on the recruiting trail.

[j-dub]

We frickin' GAVE away the mountains.  We don't deserve the rectangle.

pls explain further. tia.

The Kansas Territory originally included most of Colorado.

Sure would be nice to be able to say: "I'm headed out to the panhandle for a few days of skiing."

moved away filly wouldn't have had to move away. those dumbasses