Hey, that’s not my opinion! I just picked it up from Maddox, who runs The Best Page In The Universe (some pretty funny reading you got there, Maddox, especially the one making fun of bloggers like me).

…Idaho, where there’s so little going on that they proudly proclaim how famous their potatoes are on their license plates. Are you kidding me? Celebrities are famous. Landmarks are famous. The starchy, underground stems of plants that are used for deep frying side dishes are not. Wow, your state vegetable is a tuber. SNORE.

I propose that we give Idaho back to the British, since that’s who we got it from in the first place. I don’t think it’ll be too much of a problem because there aren’t a lot of people in Idaho. According to the 2004 Census report, Idaho’s population is 1,393,262. Just for comparison, there are 1,970,000 cows in Idaho. New rule: if your state has more cows than people, you don’t get to be a state anymore.

Now I don’t advocate giving Idaho to the Birtish. I just advocate Balkanizing its parts and merging them with the surrounding states that closely match them in geography, culture, and economics (see map above).

And if that don’t happen, then I’m going to continue my dream of someday becoming rich enough to buy Bliss, Idaho (motto: 2nd-most ironic town name in Idaho*) and renaming it Udapimp. (*2nd to Mountain Home, which is about as far as you can get from a mountain and still be in Idaho.)