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Nebraska - Better than Kansas (And The Rest of the Big 12!)

I noticed our buddy TB over at KSU Blog Bring on the Cats was congratulatin' hisself about Kansas being one of the 10 healthiest states in the nation.

Nebraska's State Seal.
Is that Tom Osborne swinging a hammer, hard at work? Darn tootin!  

Where is Kansas on that list?  At #10. Where is Nebraska? At #6. Iowa? At #7.

In fact, Nebraska was the tops of the entire Big 12, beaten out only by a bunch of smallish North Eastern states like Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire that are inhabited by very white rich people. Minnesota was the only non-Northeastern state above Nebraska on the list.

I think it's obvious to every Nebraskan why it's a darned healthy state. Although we drink a fair amount of beer, we're also a hard-working state, unlike Colorado, that came in at #28. No doubt that's because they don't get much exercise and from of all the sulfur fumes frequently escaping the gateway to hell located in Boulder.

Missouri is at #34. I find that surprising. The only thing I can think of is that there's a fine line between blindness and death when you're adding the anti-freeze to some of that stuff people down there drink and they keep getting it wrong.

Dead last in the Big 12 is Texas at #43. We shouldn't fault them too much for it. Texas is so big and wide and people are constantly getting ran over by enormous pickup trucks. With big appetites, big guns, big beef with big horns to impale you and black widow spiders nesting in big hair, it's amazing anyone makes it past 40 there.  

One more reason as to why Nebraska is truly The Good Life!

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Nail on the head
Man, that was funny.

My favorite part?

"Texas is...big guns."  North Korea is less obsessed with its weapons than the average Texan is.

We'll carry the banner high!

by TB on Nov 6, 2007 11:12 PM CST reply actions  

Nebraska does pretty well

in some of the other rankings on that website.

#11 in the rankings of Most Livable States

Though we are beaten by Iowa there.

#37 in the rankings of Most Dangerous States

Well, potential for bad weather does count for something.

#11 in the rankings of Smartest States

Again, Iowa is ahead of us.  But what in the world is Montana doing ahead of us in this ranking anyway?  There's barely enough people in Montana to get ten IQ points for every acre of the state.

Kansas is #15 in Smartest States, #27 in
Most Dangerous States, and #17 in Most Livable States.  Not bad, but could do better.

Texas does pretty badly.  #12 in Most Dangerous States, #25 in Smartest States ("Well, at least we isn't Arizona!"), and #39 in Most Livable States.  Continuously talking about how great Texas is, apparently, doesn't make it any better of a place.

GBR!

by Nous on Nov 7, 2007 8:02 AM CST reply actions  

Most Dangerous

I'm guessing a lot of the most dangerous rankings for Nebraska come from farming accidents.

Go Big Red!

by Jon Johnston on Nov 7, 2007 9:05 PM CST up reply actions  

The cattle in NE...

...are extremely healthy, since they eat most of the corn.

--'za blang thang-- --"don't TAZE me, bro"--

by Ze Robertinho on Nov 7, 2007 6:55 PM CST reply actions  

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