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Hollywood seems obsessed with promoting ignorance by continually generating D-grade films about West Virginia inbred mongoloid slashers. The latest offering they've pinched off is a little masterpiece called "Timber Falls", airing on the Sci-Fi network on Saturday, 9 p.m. EST. I apologize for the non-musical post, but I figured, since this work of brilliance takes place in Kumbrabow park-20 miles from my home-Y'all can see what kind of people I am. I'm sure you'll see people I went to school with.

P.S. "Deliverance" took place in Georgia, not dub-V. Sorry, Craig.

"You got a perty mayouth"

LOL

Ain't it ridiculous? There was a computer program some outfit was selling to elementary schools nationwide that taught about the states. They made up icons for the states. WV's icon was an outhouse. There was a lot of ppl understandably upset over that one.

There are some facts about WV that I find disturbing, like being #1 in obesity & type 2 diabetes & smoking, or that we are 97% caucasion. (I'm not sure if these things are 100% up to date, but that's what I've read about it over the last 24 yrs I've lived here that's supposed to be true.)

I'm not a native. I was born in PA & raised in MD, for the most part. I haven't really explored my state, but from what I've seen, it isn't hillbilly hell. I have a lot of relatives up around Wheeling that seem kinda normal.

Cpl years ago the STICKMASTERS took a lil trip to Princeton, WV, way down in the south of the state. It was a sadly depressed area after the coal mines had closed. Trailers outnumbered houses about 25 to 1, yet everyone seemed very house proud, with yards much better than mine & flowers & landscaping that looked good. We stayed with a friend who'd just moved there, & we were right next to a trailer park. It was spooky quiet. No noise. No TV sounds or radio or stereo noise at all.

The drive there & back was through some of the most beautiful country I've ever seen. Blackwater Falls & Seneca Rock were two places we just had to stop & see, & all I can say is, if you've never been there, you've missed something. I still haven't made it to Dolly Sods, but it's gotta be one of the wildest (literally) places left on the East coast. It's a sort of mesa that was created by glacial ice, & there are animals & plant life there that can only be seen elsewhere much farther north, like snowshoe hares & such. This year I am DEFINITELY gonna make it there during blueberry season, so's I can pluck to my heart's content in the blueberry bogs (whilst keeping a wary eye out for black bears!)

That is definately Gods Country, some day I hope to go to West Virginia to see gods country in person so far I have only seen it in pictures.
People alway's have negative things to say about you no matter where you are from, I am from Texas and you probably have heard the things they say about us, but I am Texan and Proud and no matter where you are from you should be proud also as I am sure you are, I like to keep an optimistic attitude and ignore the pesimists let em keep on hatin they'll get over it eventually " They're just jelouse because you live in West Virginia and they don't" Yee Haw!!!!

Thats because wheeling is really Ohio. Except for a small technicality.
Hey, I've never been to WV. (Yet.) But it's fun to play up the stereo types... If I lived there, it would be just as much fun to me.
Id probably tell any non-WV people that I met all sorts of crazy stories

It does bother me when people are truly arrogant about where the happen to live though... *cough* San Diego *cough*
... Boise has always had this little problem where they think they are the bees knees, but really have no clue about the outside world. Myopic.
All the natives proclaim how great of a place it is to live.
Think they have everything handled and they know everything. A lot like teenagers.
I was probably guilty of the same stuff when I was growing up... then I got out and about. Now I see it for what it is. A little hole in the desert next to some foothills.

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I guess I'd just like to see one movie where my neighbors aren't portrayed as extras on "Hee Haw."

Hey Bro, I am proud to be your neighbor, neighbor is one of a Texans favorite words. and I am not at all afraid to say I was a fan of Hee Haw!

Thanks J, uhh, I mean, Neighbor!

Hee Haw?

Ok ok so I watched HH also. Man that Roy Clark, he can play man.

And lots of crips favorite twins as well.

Buck Owens FTW!

West Virginia's icon was an outhouse? Maybe they should make Illinois' icon an outhouse for all the sh*t that goes on there. Later...

Maybe the state capitol building in Illinois should be remodeled to represent a giant outhouse in honor of Governor Blowabitch. Later...

LOL
I'm not a native. I was born in PA & raised in MD, for the most part. I haven't really explored my state, but from what I've seen, it isn't hillbilly hell.

Hell no Philbey!
It's like that 'ol non flyin' dead boy, Denver said... ALMOST heaven!

By the way, I have a few connections in the Keystone Commonwealth. Maybe We'll let ya come on back to good ol' Pennswood iffin' ya'll been behavin' yerself!

HJ - I get up around Gettysburg & Chambersburg occasionally. Did a gig for a S&M swinger's club benefit a few years ago just outside of Philly, in Runnymeade, NJ. I still have a lot of relatives in Pittsburg, Johnstown, Claysville, etc, but I haven't seen any of 'em in a long time. I should prolly try to fix that one of these days.

I like it here in WV, though. It got me away from the traffic in Annapolis MD back in '84, & I haven't missed it at all, really. I've found that I REALLY don't like MD much at all anymore. Yep, I'm happy in my lil cabin the the woods. I do miss being nearer the ocean & the bay, though. The Potomac just doesn't cut it, ya know?