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Florida Named Strangest State; NYC & Lincoln, Nebraska Named Strangest Cities
« on: November 24, 2009, 10:04:36 AM »
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Tableseed.com, a new service that helps restaurants get more customers using birthday email clubs, has analyzed nearly 2,000 Associated Press (AP) “strange news” stories that were released in the past year. After segmenting all of the news stories by location, the state of Florida was the runaway winner of Tableseed.com’s strangest state award.

Further analysis led to the conclusion that the three strangest cities in the US over the past year were New York City, New York; Lincoln, Nebraska; and Madison, Wisconsin respectively. ...

1 Florida
2 New Hampshire
3 Alaska
4 Wyoming
5 Maine
6 Wisconsin
7 Vermont
8 Pennsylvania
9 North Dakota
10 Ohio ...
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Strangely no Florida city makes it into the top 10, clearly the madness is spread far and wide rather than being concentrated into key areas.  :-)
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Re: Florida Named Strangest State; NYC & Lincoln, Nebraska Named Strangest Cities
« Reply #1 on: November 24, 2009, 10:07:53 AM »
I find it fascinatingly odd that NH is second. What's Sparky been up to ??  :fuelfire:
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Re: Florida Named Strangest State; NYC & Lincoln, Nebraska Named Strangest Cities
« Reply #2 on: November 24, 2009, 10:20:16 AM »
Quote from: Thor on November 24, 2009, 10:07:53 AM
I find it fascinatingly odd that NH is second. What's Sparky been up to ??  :fuelfire:

Just the fact that the little glow-bug is there isn't sufficient?  :cheersmate:
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Re: Florida Named Strangest State; NYC & Lincoln, Nebraska Named Strangest Cities
« Reply #3 on: November 24, 2009, 10:32:44 AM »
Woohoo!  My town made the top ten!  SCORE!   :hyper:
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Re: Florida Named Strangest State; NYC & Lincoln, Nebraska Named Strangest Cities
« Reply #4 on: November 24, 2009, 10:34:51 AM »
No surprise that Floriduh made number one.
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Re: Florida Named Strangest State; NYC & Lincoln, Nebraska Named Strangest Cities
« Reply #5 on: November 24, 2009, 10:38:17 AM »
Quote from: IassaFTots on November 24, 2009, 10:32:44 AM
Woohoo!  My town made the top ten!  SCORE!   :hyper:

I'm curious what scoring mechanism they used...

Denver (#19) scored more strange than Boulder (#26).  That just ain't right.
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Re: Florida Named Strangest State; NYC & Lincoln, Nebraska Named Strangest Cities
« Reply #6 on: November 24, 2009, 10:48:12 AM »
Quote from: DefiantSix on November 24, 2009, 10:38:17 AM
I'm curious what scoring mechanism they used...

Denver (#19) scored more strange than Boulder (#26).  That just ain't right.

Agreed.  I always thought Mork was the wierdest thing to come out of Boulder.  And then I went there this year. 
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Re: Florida Named Strangest State; NYC & Lincoln, Nebraska Named Strangest Cities
« Reply #7 on: November 24, 2009, 11:13:42 AM »
The issue with this study is that in truly strange cities, such as San Francisco and Berkeley, strange is the new normal, so it doesn't make the news anymore   :mental:
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Re: Florida Named Strangest State; NYC & Lincoln, Nebraska Named Strangest Cities
« Reply #8 on: November 24, 2009, 03:41:48 PM »
It's all his fault!

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Re: Florida Named Strangest State; NYC & Lincoln, Nebraska Named Strangest Cities
« Reply #9 on: November 25, 2009, 12:11:01 PM »
California is number 19???!!! I am shocked!
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Re: Florida Named Strangest State; NYC & Lincoln, Nebraska Named Strangest Cities
« Reply #10 on: November 25, 2009, 12:44:08 PM »
Quote from: SilverOrchid on November 25, 2009, 12:11:01 PM
California is number 19???!!! I am shocked!

Like I told IassaFTots; I'm curious what scoring criteria they used.   :mental:
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Re: Florida Named Strangest State; NYC & Lincoln, Nebraska Named Strangest Cities
« Reply #11 on: November 25, 2009, 12:52:23 PM »
Quote from: DefiantSix on November 25, 2009, 12:44:08 PM
Like I told IassaFTots; I'm curious what scoring criteria they used.   :mental:

It sounds like they based it on strange news reports that came out of cities and states.  Like I said above, that automatically reduces the strangeness of the really weird cities.  I would bet that a man who disguises himself as a tree and scares people would make the news in most parts of the country.  In San Francisco, he barely gets a second glance (unless you are the person he is scaring). 
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Re: Florida Named Strangest State; NYC & Lincoln, Nebraska Named Strangest Cities
« Reply #12 on: November 25, 2009, 01:12:56 PM »
I suppose the article leads to what do we consider as "normal". What may appear to be "normal" in one part of the country may be considered "strange" or "absurd" in another. If a "normal" person is in a room full of clinically insane people, then who really is "abnormal" ??
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