Originally Posted by maryb119
Originally Posted by peaceandjoy
Originally Posted by Rhonda
All Iowans are not HICKS!! And we don't live in the sticks!! A lot of us have actually been to college!!! And we don't all run around barefoot all the time(But I do! LOL).
The thing that irritates me is when they want to make a character sound like he is going into the back of beyond they use Iowa as the place he is going to! We do have culture and it isn't all hog farms and corn fields!! LOL
And there are more towns in Iowa than just Des Moines and Davenport. BTW Des Moines in pronounced D-Moyn Not Dez Moyns.
Hmmm.... You reminded me of a 4-H exchange trip I took as a teenager. Wish I could remember the surname of the family I stayed with. When I arrived at their house (on the hog farm with the corn fields), they were having a cockroach race. OMG. No way to leave, stuck there for a week.
Actually had a good time, for the most part. It was an adventure! And participated in my first and only Chinese firedrill...
You don't pronounce Iowa as Ioway. That happened when I moved to Texas. Love the Chinese fire drill but be careful not to lock the car doors when everybody gets out. That happened downtown at the Main Street corner. I was in the car behind that car. I never laughed so hard in my life!!!
My DGS and I were just talking about Indian words used as place names in Iowa. I looked it up just a few minutes ago. Iowa named for the Indian tribe Ioway and it is assumed it is a version of the Sioux word Aiauy meaning This is the place or The Beautiful Land. Just a bit of trivia I thought was interesting!