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26. A-oh, way to go, Ohio...

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Tue Sep 4, 2018, 12:51 AM

Sep 2018

Cuyahoga Falls gets a mention in this great song by the pretenders:

"My City Was Gone"

I went back to Ohio
But my city was gone
There was no train station
There was no downtown
South Howard had disappeared
All my favorite places
My city had been pulled down
Reduced to parking spaces
Ay, oh, way to go, Ohio

Well, I went back to Ohio
But my family was gone
I stood on the back porch
There was nobody home
I was stunned and amazed
My childhood memories
Slowly swirled past
Like the wind through the trees
Ay, oh, way to go, Ohio

I went back to Ohio
But my pretty countryside
Had been paved down the middle
By a government that had no pride
The farms of Ohio
Had been replaced by shopping malls
And Muzak filled the air
From Seneca to Cuyahoga Falls
Said, ay, oh, way to go, Ohio

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Who'd Be on Your Spaceship? A School Exercise Backfires in Ohio [View all] left-of-center2012 Sep 2018 OP

The question is moot ProudLib72 Sep 2018 #1

Lolololololololol! [Inhales] Hahahahahahahaha! [Rolls on floor] KCDebbie Sep 2018 #5

What a dumb idea Beakybird Sep 2018 #2

A good exercise, just not for middle school kids. mwooldri Sep 2018 #3

Encouragement of the development of and use of critical thinking skills can be disturbing... KCDebbie Sep 2018 #4

I am uncomfortable with this collection of gross stereotypes. A REAL "think piece" would be... Hekate Sep 2018 #20

He should have left off the adjectives. Except for maybe race. Blue_true Sep 2018 #22

It's a variation on an old ethics challenge. In a freshman Honors English class at Penn State tblue37 Sep 2018 #6

The child and pregnant woman. Well, at least the old priest is paired with his future partners. TheBlackAdder Sep 2018 #28

Philosophy classes often use a version of this exercise. PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2018 #7

None of them. 8 is far too small to maintain a viable breeding population NickB79 Sep 2018 #8

My inner sci fi reader told me that, too. Hekate Sep 2018 #11

Well, 1 is most definitely too small a sample ... so of course you'd bring SOME others ... mr_lebowski Sep 2018 #27

Oh come off it, we all know the richest person will buy up all the seats on the space ship Farmer-Rick Sep 2018 #9

This isn't "diversity": it's a collection of gross stereotypes. Did they include a "dumb Polack"... Hekate Sep 2018 #10

Because they can't include those without adding "drunk Irishman", of course... JHB Sep 2018 #18

I remember doing a similar exercise at middle school age Cairycat Sep 2018 #12

I got kicked out High School English when my teacher didn't like my answer to similar exercise. Midnight Writer Sep 2018 #13

Good for you! MineralMan Sep 2018 #14

used to be bomb shelter/tornado shelter/ except then it was choose 5 people msongs Sep 2018 #15

Collapsing cave. Pick five classmates. Instead I asked if we shouldn't choose who we wanted to die. Midnight Writer Sep 2018 #16

A fan of CBS' Salvation taking things way too far? Roland99 Sep 2018 #17

They don't call it Caucasian Falls for nothing . . . n/t Ms. Toad Sep 2018 #19

I think the intention was right. But the actual execution sucked. Blue_true Sep 2018 #21

I'd make sure none go. roamer65 Sep 2018 #23

Morality test. edbermac Sep 2018 #24

As it's obviously God's Will that humans are exterminated... hunter Sep 2018 #25

A-oh, way to go, Ohio... unblock Sep 2018 #26

As is my custom, I'll add some pertinent musical accompaniment ... mr_lebowski Sep 2018 #29

Well if we're going with the Cuyahoga theme,...: unblock Sep 2018 #30

Two songs about the same event, REM is just a bit more abstract it lol ...nt mr_lebowski Sep 2018 #31