I think they got Des Moines wrong. In the Miami tongue, it means The Shit-faces.
Which would look pretty funny on the map in the "Land of the Pale-Faces," squatting right there between the Southern Land of Friends and the People Who Talk Normally.
Those injuns understood Iowa: when we aren't pale-faced, we're shit-faced.
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I think they got Des Moines wrong. In the Miami tongue, it means The Shit-faces.
Which would look pretty funny on the map in the "Land of the Pale-Faces," squatting right there between the Southern Land of Friends and the People Who Talk Normally.
Those injuns understood Iowa: when we aren't pale-faced, we're shit-faced.
Chicago: Stink Onions.
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