re: In Vietnam, "you #1" was a compliment

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I was flying from New Orleans to DC last week. Idly looking out the window, I noticed something… while over Alabama, the fields, farms and towns were neatly laid out, geometric lines in squares, rectangles of various size. Upon crossing the border, all that changed. It looked like a kindergartener had randomly scrawled the shape of property. I suspect this is related to why the shape of Tennessee has that squashed rectangle look… its likely the Tennesseans charged with surveying the boundaries were so moonshine drunk they couldn’t draw a right angle. Some things never change.

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You might also take into account that there are hills and mountains and rivers in Tennessee that make it much harder to square off property lines.

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One of the few things Tennessee is famous for is country music, and I do mean kow-one-tree. I heard this years ago. As you know, Johnny Cash wrote the song “Ring of Fire” when he started living in Nashville. But did you know “I fell in to a burning ring of fire…” referred to moving to Tennessee and going to hell?

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As you obviously don't know, "Ring of Fire" was written by June Carter Cash.

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