Saturday, June 25, 2011
Selling point
Lots of unfortunate folks in Minot are deciding they've had enough.
Seems to me that Spokane could bring in some ND refugees and businesses. ND has bad winters and bad summers; we have bad winters and beautiful summers.
Here's a song the Chamber of Commerce could use if they wanted to sound really dumb:
We got snowstorms in the winter, we got windstorms in the fall;
We got thunder in the springtime, but our summer's best of all.
We got colleges and industries and bikers wearing studs;
What ain't we got? We ain't got floods!
[Strictly speaking that's not quite true; the Spokane River does run over its banks nearly every Spring. But the topography is such that it hardly matters. Only a few parks and a few dozen houses are "down by the riverside", and those homeowners know what they're doing.] ¶ 8:25 AM
Seems to me that Spokane could bring in some ND refugees and businesses. ND has bad winters and bad summers; we have bad winters and beautiful summers.
Here's a song the Chamber of Commerce could use if they wanted to sound really dumb:
We got snowstorms in the winter, we got windstorms in the fall;
We got thunder in the springtime, but our summer's best of all.
We got colleges and industries and bikers wearing studs;
What ain't we got? We ain't got floods!
[Strictly speaking that's not quite true; the Spokane River does run over its banks nearly every Spring. But the topography is such that it hardly matters. Only a few parks and a few dozen houses are "down by the riverside", and those homeowners know what they're doing.] ¶ 8:25 AM
