ahh Vincennes the place where Hoosiers go to at least once a year to honor George Rogers Clark by eating large turkey legs and shooting off Revolutionary War era cannons

and vats of oil in which to fry thewm big ol' turkey legs!!

You learn something new every day. I knew Burnside became Senator from Rhode Island, but not until today did I know that he was immediately succeeded by Nelson Aldrich.

and then of course we come to Tippecanoe County known for Purdue University and the Battle of Tippecanoe (yeah more William Henry Harrison!) by the way I recommend anyone who gets the chance should go visit Grouseland if ever in the region

but anywho I could go on for awhile on the military history of Indiana, my personal favorite being the tale of the 38th Infantry Division, the Avengers of Bataan in the Second World War, granted the division also included Kentucky and West Virginia troops at that time

Hey, my mom went to Purdue ... I am there once a year basically plus I wave to it another time every year going to Chicago ... and my daughter here in CBus once played Wm Henry as a famous "Ohioan"!!

your mom went to Purdue? that's awesome, that's actually where I'm going to be going in the fall

yep, her friend is like the dean of deans or some shit, Vice Chancellor of the whole place or something, I can find out for you if it ends up mattering or helping you ... my 17 yr old daughter has no interest in Purdue or else I'd fix you up with her

well I appreciate the offer, my sister used to work in the financial aid department up there before she had her kids and her husband is doing graduate work while simultaneously working in one of the dorms

@KA - I did 130 mph on the autobahn when I was in Germany during Oktoberfest. Does that give me bonus points?

"Wir fahren fahren fahren auf der Autobahn" -- Kraftwerk

@gopher and all - forgot to mention profession. I consult to governments on how they can better meet their strategic needs online (usually covering improving customer experience, reducing costs etc.) In my spare time I make variants for here ;-)

You just don't get better facial hair than Civil War generals.

Civil War Generals or Fin de siècle Mitteleuropa-ian aristocrats.

mexico city, failed mathemathician

I'm from Connecticut, in the US -- I'm a writer and editor of magazines and web content. And some of the best facial hair is thanks to business tycoons of the early 20th century.

Not Teutonic militarists?

nope. far too conservative.

@Shep - before you get to Purdue, you might want to learn that "going to be going" is both redundant and repetitve and redundant. :-)

It's just:
That's where I am going in the fall.

How about hitting 167 mph across the Butler Regional Highway at 1AM in my 93 Corvette? Or averaging over 125 MPH all the way across PA on the PA Turnpike in a 95 LeBaron GTC with the top down? I had that one floored at 134 (wouldn't go any faster) the whole time just slowing down at the tunnels and stopping for gas, restroom breaks, and some McDonalds at one point.

167 on that little highway connector over to Hamilton, OH?!

@ YCHT well no one ever said I was English major :p actually what you just said reminds me a lot of my English teacher, tell me do you have the tendency to run around in your birthday suit and sing to people on their birthday?

*an English major (I tend to type too fast)

@Rancher - Yepper's. My perent's lived (and the hous eI grew up in) in Bethany on Cinci-Dayton road, so I used to run from Bypass-4 to their place across BRH when we lived in Fairfield the first time. My Corvette, after I chipped and ported it, would do 0-60 in 4.3 seconds and topped out over 180 MPH. I only ever did that fast on a track though.

@Shep - You may not be an English major but your profs will grade you on grammar as much as on content and you *will* have to study English in some form at Purdue. And I am not an english major either. I'm a software developer. So just be prepared to get mediocre grades or improve your grammar skills in the next 6 months.

The biggest mistake I see people make on the internet, grammatically, is "of" instead of "have." I didn't parse for an example, so I made up this sentence, but it's really an epidemic.

I would of gone to Purdue.

No.

It's I would HAVE gone to Purdue. Technically, you're making a contraction and it's would've, but that's considered an improper contraction by most anyway. EVERYONE seems to make this mistake.

its the internet, where people don't really give two pieces of crap about what they type or how they type it...

Which is why your generation cannot communicate in the written form. Not an insult, just a painful fact. The failure started with my generation and instant messaging in the late 90s as we graduated high school, but the problem has grown far worse in the subsequent decade. I read emails from family members your age and they can neither spell nor craft proper sentences.

@Sacred, it's because the individuals in question don't actually know what they are saying. Spoken quickly, "I would've gone..." sound exactly like "I would of gone..." Simply peruse the comments section of a site like Yahoo or CNN and you'll find lots of examples. And lots of really ignorant comments. Fun times.

I love reading newspaper article comments and trying to decipher some of the spellings contained therein. Yeesh!

I like to read the comments on newspaper articles and try to figure out how people got such stupid opinions lol
but then I just get mad because they don't understand the very thing they are talking about