Idaho:
1. The governor of Idaho bought that strip from the Indians for $26 and a string of beads in 1891. He got the idea from the governor of New York.
2. According to my atlas, that strip is about an inch and a half long. Which is probably why Idaho suffers from a dreadful “insecurity problem”.
3. It takes about four and a half minutes to drive through the strip IF you drive the speed limit. Back in the days when neighboring Montana had no speed limit, people used to fly through that strip and only have a vague recollection of having been in Idaho because, God only knows, there aint actually anything there to see.
3. No one actually lives in those towns. Any humans you see on the streets are just cardboard people left over from when Mel Brooks took over the whole strip to film “Blazing Saddles”. Once filming was done, it was too much work to remove all of them so there they sit, taking up space on a map.
4. The people who live on the part of the strip that borders Canada are actually “CanaIdahons”. They carry both Canadian money AND American money and are generally considered to be totally insane. Dont EVER engage one of them fools in a conversation…you’ll need years of therapy to recover.
5. Potatoes do not grow in that strip. Papaya fruit does though. And tiny little gerbils. That eat the papaya and leave little shitballs on your lawn.
6. It’s difficult to know what to call women of “ill repute” in that area since ALL the women in that area are of “ill repute”. So I suppose most folks just call them “mom” and “sis” and “girlfriend”.

Walmart Radio Commercial
1. The commercial you refer to is a variation of one that is currently taking the nation by storm as Walmart tries to rehabilitate its image. The people in the commercials are different and tend to reflect the area where the commercial is being aired. For example, in your area, the woman is named Karen and has a heavy east coast accent. In my area, and, for once, I am NOT making this up, the woman’s name is “Sha” and the fucking lunatic sounds like she just got off the boat and hasnt had a good meal in weeks.
2. Havent heard your version so I dont know what word she is mangling. It’s probably “sucker”.

Introductory Paragraph
1 & 2. “Cream of the crop” refers to that which is expended by men during porn flicks. Most people think that stuff ends up on women’s faces and other places. That’s the FAKE er…stuff. The real stuff is actually carefully collected by refugees that used to work at Walmart. Then it’s processed and sold in stores as a household product commonly known as “mayonnaise”. Yeah, it’s true. The porn industry is the biggest producer of “mayonnaise” in the world.

Now….wasnt that “helpful”?

She was a produce stocker.

You make me LOL!

I used to have to spend a few weeks every year or so in the Idaho panhandle. The folks up their are really quite different from anything I had ever encountered. They struck me as being some of the most independent folks I had ever met in the U.S. of A.

The major industry from Couer d’Alene to Wallace is silver/zinc mining. They used to be some of the most productive silver mines in the world. Back in the 1980′s when silver prices were on a tear, it wasn’t unusual for miners to pull down 6 figures every year (a heck of a lot of money back then if you remember). However, it was really dangerous work (they have a much higher ratio of young widows there) due to underground rock blasts. Rocks that were under extremely high pressure for eons of years would spontaneously explode once the pressure was released. Workers going underground were always at risk of suddenly being killed or injured by these.

I would say that most of them identified with being from that little part of northern Idaho, although they did also feel like they were part of Spokane, Wa or Western Montana. I was up there during the famous Randy Weaver incident. I was amazed at how many people I met sympothized with Mr. Weaver (well over 50%). I would hate to be a Federal Agent up there. They really don’t like the DC crowd. They don’t carry Canadian money because their’s nothing in over the border in that part of the world they would be inclined to buy. They would mostly cross over to go hunting or fishing.

YOU would really like it there. There are probably more saloons per capita than any other place in North America. They do drink Canadian beer but not any more than anywhere else. As you might guess, if you told them you lived within a rifle shot of NYC, they would ask you why in the hell anyone would actually live in NJ. They think anyone who would choose to live in a highly populated place must be nuts.

Oh, and one last note. I don’t know this as fact, but I always had the impression that there were more Nazi skinheads there than in any other part of the US.

And I believe the Wal-Mart lady was a prostitute stalker. Mr. Sam like to keep track of the floor traffic.

Means Top of the Crop best. Crop being a universal idiom for any group.

From Cream rising to the top and been skimmed off.

Associated idiom “skim off the cream”

Darn I keep forgetting If I leave in my URL I have to delete it and do everything over again

As for any useful Idaho info… sorry.

Ain’t heard the Wally-World commercial, but prostitute does seem to make sense. ‘Specially when she’s got designs on being CEO. As far as Walmart stocking prostitutes… you never know. Folks say that those super centers have almost everything.

Cream of the crop? Creamy crops just sound plain nasty. No thanks.