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42. I have lots of issues with this--ie, Marty McFly over Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe?

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Wed Jan 13, 2016, 08:55 PM

Jan 2016

...Michael Corleone for New Jersey...or even Nevada? Atticus Finch has been mentioned. But Norm Peterson over Yog Sothoth? Or even Cthulthu? (Yeah, they're both from Mass. Cthulthu even has a Yankee accent. Believe me, I know... ) As for New York...by God. Barbie? How about Kojak, or Jack McCoy, or Nathan Detroit? Or a hundred others? Oh well...it's a personal list, and advertised as such...

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This Map Shows The Most Famous Fictional Character From Every U.S. State [View all] steve2470 Jan 2016 OP

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Whoever Daisy Duke is? Motown_Johnny Jan 2016 #3

Seriously. dixiegrrrrl Jan 2016 #4

C'mon, Dukes of Hazzard! n/t PasadenaTrudy Jan 2016 #5

NM was easy! n/t PasadenaTrudy Jan 2016 #2

Mr Deeds? mikeargo Jan 2016 #6

Thank you n/t sarge43 Jan 2016 #7

Wiley Coyote, Jamaal510 Jan 2016 #8

Charlie Brown's creator was originally from Minnesota Art_from_Ark Jan 2016 #17

Don't fuck with Delaware!!!! LynneSin Jan 2016 #9

Marty McFly? Is he the back to the future dude? mackerel Jan 2016 #10

yes NewJeffCT Jan 2016 #15

Shouldn't Ronald Reagan have been named for DC...? First Speaker Jan 2016 #11

Beavis and Butthead kentauros Jan 2016 #12

Chilly Willy? Bullshit! Sarah Palin by a mile gratuitous Jan 2016 #13

Robocop? catbyte Jan 2016 #14

Beavis&Butthead in TX, rather than Augustus McCrae? Paladin Jan 2016 #16

What about J.R. Ewing? Art_from_Ark Jan 2016 #28

No, thanks. (nt) Paladin Jan 2016 #34

Hey, Paul Bunyan's from Minnesota Art_from_Ark Jan 2016 #18

Not to mention Rocket J Squirrel MrsMatt Jan 2016 #24

Yeah, what's up with that? Art_from_Ark Jan 2016 #25

I think Mary even edges out Moose and Squirrel. hifiguy Jan 2016 #39

So said my grad school roommate from Bemidji n/t TexasBushwhacker Jan 2016 #32

Bobby Munson for Nevada?? Have these people never heard of the Cartwrights? Gidney N Cloyd Jan 2016 #19

Interesting that the actual set for the series Art_from_Ark Jan 2016 #26

Aunt Bee for West Virginia? Gidney N Cloyd Jan 2016 #20

And what about the McCoy family? Art_from_Ark Jan 2016 #27

Being from Western Pennsylvania............ mrmpa Jan 2016 #21

So, no Rip Van Winkle for NY? Seriously? Nt July Jan 2016 #22

Or Ichabod Crane? Art_from_Ark Jan 2016 #30

Charlie Brown? What about Rocket J. Squirrel and Bullwinkle J. Moose? hobbit709 Jan 2016 #23

I also have to question Clarice Starling for Virginia. How about John-boy Walton? Gidney N Cloyd Jan 2016 #29

And she was from WEST Virginia n/t TexasBushwhacker Jan 2016 #33

For Arkansas, I nominate the Fouke Monster Art_from_Ark Jan 2016 #31

"Rocky" over "Holden Caulfield" of Pennsy Prep? Please! WinkyDink Jan 2016 #35

I thought the character from my state (LA) . . . fleur-de-lisa Jan 2016 #36

Wait, Indiana Jones isn't from Indiana? NV Whino Jan 2016 #37

Clarice Starling went to UVA but was from West Virginia not Virginia Va Lefty Jan 2016 #38

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I was expecting something a LOT fuckin' better than this... Blue_Tires Jan 2016 #41

I have lots of issues with this--ie, Marty McFly over Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe? First Speaker Jan 2016 #42