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[–] tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)
[–] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Rapid city, South Dakota.

44.0958, -103.1491

[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I dare not say how I found it. The rabid masses will track me down because I used forbidden technology.

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Why anyone would start to Wyom, much less continue and name a state after that is a mystery

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"We're gonna go live over there "

"Why? OMG."

Then whyomg

Wyomng

Wyoming

None of that's true, but it could have been if history happened differently.

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"O.M.G. Could our wagon horses go any slower"

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

TIL: Chandler's ancestors were equally sarcastic.

[–] FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Wyoming, the state, was named after Wyoming, the region in Pennsylvania.

[–] gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

In Wyoming this is considered a city.

[–] FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I thought specifically Cody Wyoming in one of those rare moments when the grass is green and not yellow, but then i remembered Cody only has a Taco Johns.