South Carolina is the Greatest State in the Union. This is made possible through her people.
I will attempt to explore, though the use of modern technological Youtube aids, the foundations that make our state great: Education, Politics, Sportsmanship, and Culture.
If you live in, have lived in, or have visited South Carolina, feel free to add your own items proving why this state . . . is what it is.
If you haven't been to SC, but have something funny worthwhile to say with a hilarious valuable Youtube clip, add it anyway.
We take education very seriously in SC. Our public schools are, in fact, ranked within the top 50 for all states of the US.
We personally believe in education so much that we feel the US Americans should, uhm, help the US with the South Africa, The Iraq, and The Asian Countries, and Such As. For the Children.
Miss South Carolina, a contestant in the Miss Teen USA 2007 pageant, illustrates this belief more eloquently than I:
Leaders from SC hold important sway in national politics. We even have someone running for president in 2008. Sure, he might be a racist and a Nazi, but doesn't everyone have their flaws? At least he didn't exhale.
Enter John Taylor Bowles, "The White People's Candidate", and a Son of South Carolina. Here, he gives a moving speech in front of our State Capitol Building.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the next President of the United States of America. Heil President Bowles!
South Carolina's athletes set a new bar for good, clean sportsmanship and competition.
Here, two of our local Universities are seen engaging in a "Brawl for Honor." Sportsmanship is so sacred here, both teams gave up their rights to play in any Bowl games in order to settle this matter of honor.
It might look like a street brawl between thugs and lowlifes to you, but to me it looks like Honor, Dignity, and Sportsmanship. May the best team kill the other one.
I had a hard time finding anything for my culture entry. Then, I remembered . . . THE SHAG, the dance we all love, started right here in South Carolina!
Who doesn't want to watch a bunch of old people shag?
If you observe the foot movements carefully, you can also learn how to walk across the Dunes of Arrakis without summoning Shai-Hulud!
A fellow who worked where I used to work had the task of driving from Clemson to the Greenville-Spartanburg Jetport (that's what we called it until they had a big PR campaign a dozen years back or so to call it an "airport"). Anyway, this fellow was to pick up some company visitors from somewhere in the U.K.
Time was tight and the plane was late. When the three visitors hopped in his car for the ride back to Clemson, he said he'd love to have dinner with them but that he had to get back quickly because he had to make it to his Shag lesson.
The visitors were very puzzled indeed. They asked for clarification to make sure they understood his accent properly. "Did you say 'shag lessons'?"
"Yep. I started taking up shagging a few weeks ago and I don't want to miss a session."
"Well, I wouldn't want to miss that either. Are you saying they teach you to shag in a classroom?"
"Not a classroom, it's a room big enough to dance in."
"Really? Are there more than two people there?"
"Of course. You wouldn't learn much with just two people in the room."
This went on for awhile and the poor fellow from our office, who really did project the backwoods local yokel image, never did find out that shagging has a whole different meaning outside of South Carolina.
But around here, it's not uncommon for someone to talk about their love of shagging, ask friends if they want to go out shagging, etc.
Let's not forget that it took until the 21st century to remove the flag of a failed apartheid nation from the state house dome... And get this: the compromise was to put it in a much more prominent position right on the ground as you drive/walk up to the state house. But the little bitty square that it sits in is like, you see, a shrine or museum or something. It's not really a display of affirmation for the Confederacy, just because it's right in your face. Oh no. It's not that. N'uh-uh.
Anyway, I don't do the You Tube with sound, so I have no idea what's being said in this video.
Great list. I should do one on my state, but I just can't think of anything uniquely funny about Utah.
As a fellow Utard, I can think of a few. Our entry for Culture would focus around green Jell-O with orange shavings or the all-encompassing "fry sauce". Shall we head south towards the Arizona border and see how families life is conducted? (I know, that's a touchy one... us cultured folk noth of Cedar City don't want the whole state to be seen like that one corner...) Politics? We may be the only state that still supports Duhbya. And noone outside the boundaries of our many corners could conceive of letting Chris Buttars being their neighbor, much less their public representative. The list could go on.
Great list. I should do one on my state, but I just can't think of anything uniquely funny about Utah.
oh that's right! Since the greatest 'source' of entertainment from your'n place, just so happened to MOVE from there and it was this 'guy'!: "Timotayo"! -('click') and check his "contributions" for some GREAT discourse!
I thought I would never stoop so low as to laugh at someone who suffers from ADD, but GROGnads just pushed me over the threshold - by pointing me to that link, ...
As a resident of the Low Country, I would have to agree with most of your assessment . . . SC, a state where the folks want everything but don't want to pay for anything, so they end up with nothing much, other than some great food and natural beauty.
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As a fellow Utard, I can think of a few. Our entry for Culture would focus around green Jell-O with orange shavings or the all-encompassing "fry sauce". Shall we head south towards the Arizona border and see how families life is conducted? (I know, that's a touchy one... us cultured folk noth of Cedar City don't want the whole state to be seen like that one corner...) Politics? We may be the only state that still supports Duhbya. And noone outside the boundaries of our many corners could conceive of letting Chris Buttars being their neighbor, much less their public representative. The list could go on.
But none of that YouTubes all that well.
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