giovedì 8 ottobre 2009

Mission Wisconsin

This is a pledge, that if all goes balls up and I lose either my job, or my mind, or both, I shall go to Wisconsin.
Upon careful study it has occurred to me that Wisconsin is the best state from whence to begin my great travel book '50 States in 50 Years'. Here are ten reasons why I should visit the Dairy State forthwith!

1. It's the Dairy State(well, actually its the Badger State apparently)! They make, live, eat, breathe, sing cheese. Endless jokes! Endless cheese!
2. Bradley Whitford, son of Madison. If they make men like that there, its my kinda state. (Also Frank Lloyd Wright and Houdini!)
3. They have a brilliant Senator.
4. They have great slang, they call water fountains "bubblers" and their border the "cheddar curtain".
5. A woman in a gorilla suit stole plastic bananas from a gas station in Wisconsin. Clearly they have a highly developed taste for humour.
6. Recent titling of the Wisconsin Tourism Federation "WTF?" debacle. Again, GSOH.
7. Its beside Iowa, when I get bored of cheese, I can hop over the cheddar curtain for some corn.
8. It hosts a scarecrow festival. And a giant pumpkin festival in a place called Nekoosa.
9. The amusingly titled Kickapoo Valley.
10. The world's biggest mustard museum.

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