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[bobbychalkers]

Ladies and gentlemen: The South.

 

[CadetMahoney]

florida-lite

kek

 

[BodiesWithoutOrgans]

Should've tried cardboard first.

 

[Zibrahim]

The "This made matters worse" part had me raising an eyebrow

or two.

 

[Couleurs]

Having grown up in Missouri, it's not that crazy to consider parts of it as "the south". It was a slave state, and there is effectively no difference between the southern part of the state and Arkansas or Tennessee.

 

[ffdgh]

Where has common sense gone...

 

[Akuun]

Amazing that this wasn't Florida Man.

Obviously there should be explosives in every van in America so that the explosion will snuff out the fire. That guy needed more explosives in the van, not less!

 

[Earendil]

For once it wasn't Florida.

I came in to say this very thing.

 

[sixteen-bit]

what could go wrong?

 

[Tobor]

Missouri is the Florida of the Mid-West.

 

[Mizerman]

Where has common sense gone...

In this case? It went to a galaxy far, far away to a planet that hasn't been discovered yet.

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

You cannot make this shit up

 

[EdwardTivrusky]

He obviously didn't clap hard enough. The shockwaves of Freedom would have put the fire out in no time.

 

[Retsudo]

Cardboard man and now Van man, thank you both so much, for making my stomach cramp from so much laughter!

 

[Escape Goat]

Possible nuke area

 

[thesuperfunk]

Fight fire with fire

Spoiler

power

fixed.

 

[Tobor]

Possible nuke area

You wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

 

[Unmasked Ferret]

Wow Missouri Man trying to outdo Florida Man!

 

[Duane Cunningham]

Having grown up in Missouri, it's not that crazy to consider parts of it as "the south". It was a slave state, and there is effectively no difference between the southern part of the state and Arkansas or Tennessee.

It was mostly a slave state, except for a sliver up the western border, and the "panhandle". That vertical line actually goes right up the middle of the town I was born and partially grew up in (which is why the area had its share of fighting, despite being further north than a lot of the battles).

Possible nuke area

You wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

Oddly, I just finished reading the Wiki article about a movie that really disturbed me as a kid, even though I witnessed some of it being filmed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After

...I was only six when they were filming it, and I remember it being a big deal in town. But I didn't really understand what was going on, and when it finally aired, it was probably a year later and I didn't really understand that the movie we were watching was the same thing I'd seen being created a year earlier. But It was unbelievably distressing and stuck with me permanently. I had nightmares for years over it, and I think maybe I still do occasionally. (Sorry for the buzzkill, lol)

 

[XiaNaphryz]

Virginia is considered part of the South, and is about on-line with Missouri geographically. That said, not all definitions include Missouri.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_United_States

The Old South: can mean either the slave states that existed in 1776 (Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina) or all the slave states before 1860 (which included the newer states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas).

 

[Poodlestrike]

Someday, someone will be injured while strapping guns to an Eagle. It's only a matter of time. Believe.

Strapping guns to an eagle... while eating a bacon double cheeseburger.

 

[XiaNaphryz]

Strapping guns to an eagle... while eating a bacon double cheeseburger.

 

[Killer Queen]

Some of the responses in this thread are gold

 

[Team Alucard]

 

[Busaiku]

If he had his gun on him, he could've killed the fire.

 

[jackal27]

I'm so proud of my state you guys.

Virginia is considered part of the South, and is about on-line with Missouri geographically. That said, not all definitions include Missouri.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_United_States

Yeah we were neutral during the Civil War I believe (not a good look, we should have joined the north) there were lots of skirmishes and looting around the border with Arkansas. They even captured a town called Cassville, Missouri (used to live there) and made it the capital of the Confederacy for like a week before townspeople killed most of them. There's still a big rivalry with Arkansas today. Arkansas jokes are Missouri's pastime.

 

[Currygan]

 

[Tonguer]

I just want to thank the OP for a great, great laugh over that thread title.

 

[Rajack]

Before we have bugs saw off Missouri can I escape to a friendlier state first please?

 

[Generate]

This seems like a very Missouri thing to do

 

[Duane Cunningham]

I'm so proud of my state you guys.



Yeah we were neutral during the Civil War I believe (not a good look, we should have joined the north) there were lots of skirmishes and looting around the border with Arkansas. They even captured a town called Cassville, Missouri (used to live there) and made it the capital of the Confederacy for like a week before townspeople killed most of them. There's still a big rivalry with Arkansas today. Arkansas jokes are Missouri's pastime.

My old grandpa (who's been gone for a few years now) was from Koshkonong, a tiny rural Missouri town basically on the Missouri/Arkansas border. He was a great, wonderful man, but he definitely had his funny way of talking and looking at things. Once he told me, describing an argument with someone, "I knocked that old boy over the fence". I never knew if he meant it as a baseball metaphor, or if maybe the guy was literally leaning against a fence and he knocked him over it or what, lol.

Anyway, another time, I remember him telling me:

Him: I don't care what anyone calls me. As long as they don't call me a peckerwood.

Me: Huh. Yeah, that wouldn't be cool.

Him: I don't want anybody confusing me with no peckerwood.

Me: ... wait, what exactly is a "peckerwood" in this case?

Him: Don't you know?

Me: ...?

Him: A peckerwood is what they call somebody from ARKANSAS!