Rhode Islanders want to change name of state to apologize for slavery

[MadImmortalMan]

I read it wrong, meant Provincetown.

Yeah when MiM first said Providence, I started thinking he really meant Provincetown.

Indeed.  Providence is the greaseball and scumbag capital of the East Coast.  Well, except for Boston.

Quite. I got them mixed up. Point conceded: Rhode Island is in the third world.








Anyway, taking the Providence part out of the name is a bit like calling the entire UK "Northern Ireland", isn't it?

[jimmy olsen]

I read it wrong, meant Provincetown.

Yeah when MiM first said Providence, I started thinking he really meant Provincetown.

Indeed.  Providence is the greaseball and scumbag capital of the East Coast.  Well, except for Boston.

If by greaseball you mean Italian I gotta object, Rhode Island is by far the most Italian state in the nation.

[Neil]

I read it wrong, meant Provincetown.

Yeah when MiM first said Providence, I started thinking he really meant Provincetown.

Indeed.  Providence is the greaseball and scumbag capital of the East Coast.  Well, except for Boston.

If by greaseball you mean Italian I gotta object, Rhode Island is by far the most Italian state in the nation.

But when you add in the scumbags, Boston wins out.

[jimmy olsen]

Seemed I exaggerated when I sad by far, we just edge out Connecticut.

[garbon]

Both Boston and Providence are lovely, that is all.

[garbon]

Quite. I got them mixed up. Point conceded: Rhode Island is in the third world.

At any rate, I'd assign Manhattan to be gay capital of the east.  Provincetown is a village.

[jimmy olsen]

Both Boston and Providence are lovely, that is all.

[Josquius]

Its not an island, Rhode island is just a tiny part of it; a part I was unaware even existed until I looked up why it had such a name.

Dude, THAT'S WHY it is "Rhode Island and Providence Plantations".

Rhode Island = Rhode (Aquidneck) Island
Providence Plantations = mainland

Exactly.
That's why dropping the second part of the name is stupid

[Caliga]

Seemed I exaggerated when I sad by far, we just edge out Connecticut.

I would assume you only just edge out New Jersey as well.  Seems like more than half of the white people I know from Jersey have Eye-talian last names.

[Caliga]

That's why dropping the second part of the name is stupid

I thought you were saying that it's stupid that the state is named "Rhode Island" (or rather generally known as that).

[Josquius]

That's why dropping the second part of the name is stupid

I thought you were saying that it's stupid that the state is named "Rhode Island" (or rather generally known as that).

It is a bit but the official name helps explain it. To change the official name to the common name though would just leave it totally daft.
It's like someone from Northern Ireland saying they're British. It makes no sense, they're from Ireland; until you see the country is called the UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

[jimmy olsen]

Seemed I exaggerated when I sad by far, we just edge out Connecticut.

I would assume you only just edge out New Jersey as well.  Seems like more than half of the white people I know from Jersey have Eye-talian last names.

New Jersey 17.9%, Connecticut 18.6%, Rhode Island 19%.

[KRonn]

Much of Rhode Island has sea shore; lots of beaches. I think it's a rule there that everyone has to have a nice beach within a certain distance of their home.   

[garbon]

Much of Rhode Island has sea shore; lots of beaches. I think it's a rule there that everyone has to have a nice beach within a certain distance of their home.  

Of course we're talking about Northeast which is on the Atlantic. Nice beaches in that part of the world are rather impossible.

[Caliga]