Since we're in the habit of discussing rankings (good and bad) here on ToledoTalk, here's an...um, interesting...one:
THE TOP TEN
The manliest U.S. cities, according to a study by author and researcher Bert Sperling:
1. Oklahoma City
2. Columbia, S.C.
3. Memphis
4. Nashville
5. Birmingham, Ala.
6. Houston
7. St. Louis
8. Toledo
9. Cleveland
10. Charlotte
Comments ... #
Greatest part of the article had to be about Honda hurting a manliness score. Strop driving Honda and we could be number 1 haha.
posted by MrGlass419 on Jun 15, 2012 at 01:10:54 pm #
What a dumb survey. Did they also consider the number of reports of domestic violence, unkempt beards, and rusty trucks?
posted by brainswell on Jun 15, 2012 at 01:50:51 pm # 1 person liked this
Interesting. 8 out of ten are in what I would call "The South."
The other two are Toledo and Cleveland.
Wait... is this the same list as the misery index!?!?
What constitutes an "unkempt beards"? At times in my much younger years I sported the "Amish".
Wait... is this the same list as the misery index!?!?
Nah...Flint and Detroit are missing. LOL
posted by mom2 on Jun 15, 2012 at 03:05:04 pm # 1 person liked this
I'm wondering if our steak-to-sushi ratio has changed with the addition of Final Cut?
Perhaps we could have moved up a spot or two!
I drive a Honda, enjoy eating sushi, and admire the Oak Openings natives that I planted in our yard. I like places, such as the Downtown Latte and My Daily Grind. And no doubt the worst of all, I like art. I'm proud to do my part to impact negatively Toledo's knuckle-dragging score.
posted by jr on Jun 15, 2012 at 05:09:16 pm # 1 person liked this
Maybe you do all that JR, but I'm making up for you. McCaskey is giving me ignorance lessons and he says I'm coming along nicely. Pretty soon he says I can go to a sports bar and watch the game if I promise not to sit with him or his friends.
We have plenty of unkempt beards around here. Hockey beards that is!
posted by MrGlass419 on Jun 15, 2012 at 09:58:31 pm #
Let us not forget the availability of Tim Horton's. Out-of-town visitors get excited about the opportunity to get coffee & donuts there ... at least, MY visitors do. We exist at the southernmost boundary of Canadian hockey culture here, IMHO.
"Toledo, home to the rugged Jeep Wrangler and the city chosen by Taco Bell to test its manly Doritos Locos taco..."
Two things came to mind when reading that:
1) I have no idea how the writer was able to type out the last part of that sentence with a straight face.
2) If eating a Doritos Locos taco is a qualifying measure of manliness, then I'm with jr and am also proud to do my part to negatively impact Toledo's "knuckle-dragging score."
I'm not sure if it can be accurately quantified, but I'd like to see what these manliest rankings would look like after we toss in the number of "deadbeat dads" in a given city. Maybe it's just me, but that would seem to be a more appropriate representation of manliness than being a test market for a taco made from Doritos.
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