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cyrocksmypants said:
Are we talking size or population? Or territory. I believe if you include the Square footage of the entire Hawaii state borders (is not necessarily all landmass) it's the biggest state in the US.
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I highly doubt that since Alaska has a hell of a lot more land mass and includes a huge coastline as well as a whole crap load of islands. If this is true, I would sure like to see the source because this kind of crap interests me way more than it should.

EDIT: I think you are wrong since Hawaii to the Kure atoll is about 1500 miles while Attu to Ketchikan is almost 2200 miles as the albatross flies and that doesn't even take into account how the Aleutians curve or the continental Alaskan coastline curves. It also doesn't take into account the 663,000 square miles of land that we would have to add to that open ocean and coastline area.

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San Francisco to Oklahoma City on I-40 = 1626 miles.
 
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BoxsterCy said:
Only hugging the gals?

Not that I come from a hugging family. It's that damn SMALL TOWN IOWA German background where even a pat on the shoulder was too much physical contact!
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Yes, only hugging the gals, but I'll be honest, it'll probably turn into one of those hugs that one person holds too long and it gets awkward.

Where I'm from, your home town is a large town.

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ImJustKCClone said:
First husband graduated with 37. Second, with 19.

My class was 500+, WAY TOO BIG.

There's a happy medium in there somewhere!
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Mine was like 186 which was the second largest ever at my school. I think the year before our class was largest and then it started all going back down hill. It was nice to be able to give whatever sport or other extracurricular activity you wanted a try rather than having to specialize in one sport and still have to try to make a team. We had a basketball squad of like 25 or something like that but everyone who went out got a spot on the roster. Playing - well that was a different story.
 
VeloClone said:
I highly doubt that since Alaska has a hell of a lot more land mass and includes a huge coastline as well as a whole crap load of islands. If this is true, I would sure like to see the source because this kind of crap interests me way more than it should.

EDIT: I think you are wrong since Hawaii to the Kure atoll is about 1500 miles while Attu to Ketchikan is almost 2200 miles as the albatross flies and that doesn't even take into account how the Aleutians curve or the continental Alaskan coastline curves. It also doesn't take into account the 663,000 square miles of land that we would have to add to that open ocean and coastline area.

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San Francisco to Oklahoma City on I-40 = 1626 miles.
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It's east to west the widest state in the US. That's what it was. I had to look it up. I knew there was some weird stat about it.
 
VeloClone said:
Mine was like 186 which was the second largest ever at my school. I think the year before our class was largest and then it started all going back down hill. It was nice to be able to give whatever sport or other extracurricular activity you wanted a try rather than having to specialize in one sport and still have to try to make a team. We had a basketball squad of like 25 or something like that but everyone who went out got a spot on the roster. Playing - well that was a different story.
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That's why we chose to live in one of the smaller surrounding towns rather than here in Ames when we moved to Iowa. My school, you had to specialize. My boys were able to try pretty much everything they wanted to try (although like you said, varsity or actual playing time was another thing), and they still had AP class options. About the only thing they had less of was a variety of foreign language options. They had options for French & Spanish...that was pretty much the extent of it.
 
coolerifyoudid said:
It's sad that the wife and I had a discussion this weekend about having to drop one of my daughter's activities (soccer versus gymnastics) because they were getting too time consuming. I applaud couples that have multiple kids in multiple activities with both people working. I have no idea how they do it and still get anything else done around their house.
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I was going to chime in, but realize we don't both work. That helps a lot in the shuttling game, but we still need help sometimes. On Thursdays our oldest has softball in DSM starting the exact same time as the next one has gymnastics in Ames. We are able to carpool meeting at a half-way point point for softball and hubby works in DSM so bringing her home is usually no problem. The two youngest aren't in activities yet.

I have two friends with 5 kids each (the moms stay at home) and all their older kids are in multiple sports--dance and soccer and basketball and baseball and diving lessons and gymnastics. Seems a bit extreme for kids under 11. And once we hit middle school we found that homework increased. We said from the beginning she had to be able to still get work done/do well in school to participate in multiple sports.
 
ImJustKCClone said:
That's why we chose to live in one of the smaller surrounding towns rather than here in Ames when we moved to Iowa. My school, you had to specialize. My boys were able to try pretty much everything they wanted to try (although like you said, varsity or actual playing time was another thing), and they still had AP class options. About the only thing they had less of was a variety of foreign language options. They had options for French & Spanish...that was pretty much the extent of it.
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French, Spanish, German, Russian, and Latin. You could take four years in any of them. They've added at least one year of ASL, maybe two.

Edit: So I just checked one of the high school campuses (Yes, my high school is multiple high schools now) and they've dropped Russian, you can take a fifth year of French or Spanish, and they've added two years of Mandarin.
 
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cyrocksmypants said:
It's east to west the widest state in the US. That's what it was. I had to look it up. I knew there was some weird stat about it.
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It also has the highest record low temperature, and the lowest record high temperature of any state. That's right...Alaska has gotten hotter, and Arizona colder than Hawaii has.
 
Nothing says "I'm new with technology" like leaving on the "Sent from my iPhone" signature.

(yes, I got a new phone today, and no, it wasn't me....got an e-mail from a guy at work.
 
Sort of a double post from Rulzz championship game thread.

Watching all of the pre-game hype has convinced me of one thing; if ISU ever makes the championship game I will check myself into a hospital before the game as a preventative measure. I pretty sure there is a HIGH probably of that game producing a heart trauma reaction in Boxstercy.
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