By My friend Tracy brought this Onion piece to my attention: 30 Years of Man’s Life Disappear in mysterious “Kansas Rectangle.”
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My friend Tracy brought this Onion piece to my attention: 30 Years of Man’s Life Disappear in mysterious “Kansas Rectangle.”
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OH NO! Does this mean that I’m living with a figment of my imagination? And living within a figment of my imagination too? And you all are just figments of my imagination? None of you exist?
Where am I? Who am I?
well, I think this is supposed to be funny, but it’s slightly insulting….
Ele, it’s from the Onion. They do satyr and a lot of their stuff is a bit insulting. I took it as funny, but yeah, I could see the other side too.
First of all, we do know that Kansas is not flat and the same all over. It has the reputation for being flat, but only part of it is actually flat. It isn’t all the same either. We have regions and different things to see. This is an amazing state, but somehow got the rep for being flat and brown.
The article was just a play on that.
The perception of the Great American Desert by those in the East goes back into the 19th century. This was probably fomented by stories of the hardships experienced by those crossing the prairie on the way to the gold rushes on the west coast before trains connected East with West.
Promoters of settlement in the lands west of the Mississippi River had to be inventive and often stretched the truth a bit suggesting this was a Garden of Eden and the Land of Milk and Honey.
Kansas – The Lily of the West
Come all you folks of enterprise
Who feel inclined to roam
Beyond the Mississippi
to seek a pleasant home.
Pray take a pioneer’s advice,
I’ll point you out the best-
I mean the state of Kansas,
the Lily of the West
Whether satire, sarcasm, or just plain old facetiousness, those Onion folks up in Madison, Wisconsin, do have a way of putting things.
Kind of like the guy who said he spent a week in Toledo one day.
That was John Denver – “Saturday night in Toledo Ohio is like being nowhere at all….”
Oh, yes, the “Onion,” –that didn’t even register but I do know about it. weird….
My work at the ESU Memorial Union includes offering a check cashing service for students, faculty and staff. About twenty years ago we had a student who always tried to slip checks to be cashed made payable to the Memorial Onion. Some times we caught it and sometimes we didn’t, bad handwriting.
You would be amazed what can be cashed as it goes third-party to the bank. First party writes the check and presents it to be cashed. We cash it becoming the second party. We present the check to the bank which becomes the third party. The bank becomes the fourth party presenting it to the bank it was drawn on. Two-party personal checks presented from grandma? Add one along the line.