Once upon a time in the Kingdom of Heaven, God was missing for six days.

Eventually, Michael the archangel found him, resting on the seventh day.

He inquired of God, "Where have you been?"

God sighed a deep sigh of satisfaction and proudly pointed downwards through the clouds, "Look Michael, look what I've made."

Archangel Michael looked puzzled and said, "What is it?"

"It's a planet," replied God, "and I've put Life on it. I'm going to call it Earth and it's going to be a great place of balance."

"Balance?", inquired Michael, still confused.

God explained, pointing to different parts of earth, "For example, northern Europe will be a place of great opportunity and wealth while southern Europe is going to be poor; the Middle East over there will be a hot spot.

Over there I've placed a continent of white people and over there is a continent of black people," God continued, pointing to different countries.

"This one will be extremely hot and arid while this one will be very cold and covered in ice."

The Archangel, impressed by God's work, then pointed to a large land mass and said, "What's that one?"

Ah," said God. "That's INDIANA, the most glorious place on earth. There are beautiful lakes, rivers, sunsets and rolling hills.

The people from INDIANA are going to be modest, intelligent and humorous and they are going to be found traveling the world. They will be extremely sociable, hard working and high achieving, and they will be known throughout the world as diplomats and carriers of peace."

Michael gasped in wonder and admiration but then proclaimed, "What about balance, God?" "You said there would be balance!"

God replied wisely, "Wait until you see the idiots I'm putting around them in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, & Illinois.

 

that's funny.

 

heh

 

That's pretty funny.

 

Interesting story. And all this time I thought the only reason Indiana existed was to keep Lake Michigan from flooding Kentucky!

MR (grew up in the Chicago area)

 

Got dern it, dems fighten words yank....wers my muzzloder


runnert

 

Hey 36fan, right now the hand in the mitten of michigan is giving Indiana the finger.
All of us up here know we are above any Indiana people.

Sled...

 

Tat thure iz it my Hoozur freind. Wez gonna comm oer ere andd kik sum indianer bootee.

 

All right, I'll admit Kentucky has it's redeeming values:

1) There's nothing sexier than a hot chick w/ a Kentuckian southern draw- mmm...

You know what they say about KY - home of fast women and good looking horses - or something like that...

2) bourbon is made in KY

3) Some Ford trucks are assembled in KY

4) ummm ... I'll have to get back with you...

 

yeah and
Ford testing grounds and engine plant is located in Romeo MI.
Ford HQ, and Henry Ford museum is located in Dearborn MI.
Chirs Rock, eminem, Bob Segar, and Ted Nugent live in MI.
We got big cities, small towns, farm land, lakes, forests, all 4 seasons, and constantly wave a big hand at everyone.
So there!

 

OK - MI has it good points, too
along with you mentioned, your our first line of defense when the Canooks invade!

As for OH and IL, well ... uhh ... ???
I'm sure someone will tell us...