Why did we have to memorize these in grade school? What purpose could it possibly serve other than to familiarize children with drudgery?

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I probably still have at least 47 or 48 memorized. Like MJ, I like to know where things are.

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You drove to the Illinois one to cut in line for your clot shot

Gen Z: There's really only one capital to memorize #Chicagopride

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Successful calls:

Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

2013 CSFMB ROY

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...because every once in a while you need to pull a Mt. Pelier outta your ass.

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If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Damn impressive. Olympia is my go to.

How do you pronounce the capital of Kentucky? Louieville? Lou'llville? Luuville?



Answer; Frankfort

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I thought it was Lexington. My kid was at UK for 2 years. I guess I should have looked around more.

This list is from memory (honest injun)

Alabama - Mobile (WRONG, Montgomery)
Alaska - Juneau
Arizona - Phoenix
Arkansas - Little Rock
California - Sacramento
Colorado - Denver
Connecticut - Hartford
Delaware - Dover
Florida - Tallahassee
Georgia - Savanah (WRONG, Atlanta)
Hawaii - Honolulu
Idaho - Boise
Illinois - Springfield
Indiana - Indianapolis
Iowa - Des Moines
Kansas - Topeka
Kentucky - Frankfort
Louisiana - Baton Rouge
Maine - Portland (WRONG, Augusta)
Maryland - Annapolis
Massachusetts - Boston
Michigan - Lansing
Minnesota - St Paul
Mississippi - Jackson
Missouri - Jefferson City
Montana - Helena
Nebraska - Lincoln
Nevada - Carson City
New Hampshire - ? (WRONG, Concord)
New Jersey - Trenton
New Mexico - Albuquerque (WRONG, Santa Fe)
New York - Albany
North Carolina - Raleigh
North Dakota - Bismarck
Ohio - Columbus
Oklahoma - Oklahoma City
Oregon - Salem
Pennsylvania - Harrisburg
Rhode Island - Providence
South Carolina - Columbia
South Dakota - Pierre
Tennessee - Nashville
Texas - Austin
Utah - Salt Lake City
Vermont - Montpelier
Virginia - Richmond
Washington - Olympia
West Virginia - Charleston
Wisconsin - Madison
Wyoming - Cheyanne

45/50 pretty good, if a bit rusty.

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I thought Massachusetts was Lexington

Carson City is a nice one

I knew that one. Pa Cartwright taught me

Harrisburg was the one I always messed up.

you boys are from Arkansas, huh? Little Rock is a fine town...

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'Your AT&T Universal Card has arrived'? Oh God, Kick-fucking-ass, I got a Master Card! I don't believe it, man. Life is kinda cool sometimes.

My town! We have Hershey! The civil war museum! Three Mile Island!

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Someone in my wife's social circle is homeschooling their children and have made a goal to visit to every state capitol. Why? She's a dumbass Trumper so we're not too surprised.

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Lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be.

if capitols had pronouns what would be madison's?

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the world will always the world. your entire existence is defined by your response.

Remember well having to pull out a black piece of college ruled paper and a pencil at the begging of 6th grade English class and write down 20 prepositions, once you got it you were done, but the kids that didn't had to keep doing it every day until they passed.

It ended up being fairly lucrative for me because my buddy Kevin would ask me to write down a few so he could pass, he would give me a dollar each time, it took him five times to pass, so it was a nice chunk of change for me back then.

We also did state capitols, Preamble to Constitution, and of course the good old timed match stuff, they were big on memorization back in the day, but I really hated having to write sentences when the class got in trouble, having to write, "I will not talk while the teacher is talking", 100 times on a sheet of paper was not fun, wonder if they still do that today?

We had to do the amendments in 8th grade. The teacher who retired right before I got there would give everyone pins that said "I Passed the Amendments" but I never got to get one.

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Detroit was the capital the State of Michigan for the first decade of statehood, holding over from territorial days. And then they moved it to the middle of the state out of concern about Ohio or maybe Canada invading and literally taking the capitol, like some sort of real life game of Risk.

Chillicothe served as Ohio's state capital until they realized it's built on top of some massive sacred Indian burial grounds and the placed is fucked (even more so than the rest of god-forsaken Ohio), so they moved it to some other shitty town temporarily before settling on bum-ass Columbus.

Indiana originally had its capital down along the Kentucky border, but similar to Michigan's rationale soon moved it to the center of the state. Like anyone other than brain-dead idiots would ever want to take over Indiana.

Illinois' capital and capitol used to be across the Mississippi, in Kaskaskia. Next up was Vandalia, which got a 2 decade deal to serve as the state capital but wasn't able to get it renewed, Vandalia was too ramshackle, according to the yelp reviews of the day.

When the time came to move on from Vandalia, the argument was primarily between Jacksonville and Springfield. The latter near Lincoln's log cabin, the former home to that Stephen Douglas. Alton actually won a state-wide voter referendum on where to build the next state capitol. But no one in the Illinois legislature cared much what Illinois voters wanted. Eventually Stephen Arnold Douglas and Jacksonville took the L vs Abraham born-too-poor-to-have-a-middle-name Lincoln.

Belmont for Wisconsin, but possibly only when it was a territory. Might've carried over long enough for the state legislature to officially vote to gtfo of Belmont.

Ramshackle. It sounds just like it's definition. Like Larry Bird actually looks like a bird.