A city that makes small towns even more irrelevant
A city that steals the thunder of small towns everywhere by constructing duplicates of every crazy roadside attraction in the country and putting them all in this one city. And, of course, making all of them slightly bigger.
Want to see a giant ball of yarn, a golden statue of popeye, a circus performer’s mass grave, the world’s largest cat, a 2-story outhouse, Elsie the Cow’s grave, a watermelon monument, the world’s largest ketchup bottle, mini-golf in a funeral home, a pancake house mural, and Abraham Lincoln’s lucky nose? Forget driving all over the country and stopping this way and that… just go to this one city!
And say bye-bye to irrelevant small towns forever.
Chicago seems like the best city for this, since Mayor Daley seems obsessed with sprinkling the city with random weird things and taking credit for them.
Speaking of that, my brother Miles thought of a good pun the other day. We were IM’ing about Chicago, and how our friend Luc wants to move there. I mentioned that Daley seems to put his name on every single thing in the city, and Miles said, “Yeah. I’m surprised there’s not a Daley Newspaper.”
I looked it up on Google, and turns out that brilliant pun is completely original. Congratulations, Miles Southan, on one of the best puns ever!
6 years ago