Is Alaska a state?

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[hifiguy]

1. Is Bismarck a herring?

Is Batman a transvestite?

Who knows?

[bigwillq]

2. State of Denali

[Throd]

3. Yes, but Canada isn't really a country.

[PowerToThePeople]

27. Mothers against Canada

[Lint Head]

4. Is Alaska baked?

[Glassunion]

9. So many pot jokes... So little time.

Baked to me looks way better on an Alaska plate, than an Idaho one.

[BlueJazz]

5. A very wise Lady once said: "You can see Russia from Alaska."

That's good enough for me. She said it. I believe it. Case closed.

[hughee99]

7. Strangely enough, given her reputation, this is actually true

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diomede_Islands

[Wounded Bear]

14. Yeah, but was her house on that island?

The actual quote, IIRC, was that she could see Russia from her porch. I think that makes it an untrue statement.

[Blue_In_AK]

19. She didn't say that.

She said, "They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska" which is true. Not to defend Sarah or anything, but you're thinking of Tina Fey.

(But you know that already - I'm just teasing.)

[hughee99]

20. It's surprising that for someone who has said

So many dumb things, the one she's best remembered for wasn't even her.

[petronius]

16. That's the second time today I've seen a mention of those islands

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34066393

Interesting place...

[Arugula Latte]

6. of mind? Yes.

For women, they say "the odds are good, but the goods are odd."

[shenmue]

8. Is too

[Ilsa]

10. My MIL asked me this question last night.

She was in high school (a senior) when its statehood was announced. She even remembered the teacher talking about it. So I thought she was an idiot for asking it.

I'm surprised anyone on DU would answer that it isn't or that they don't know.

[egduj]

11. You have to touch a state to be a state.

[Arugula Latte]

15. No touching!

Please keep your borders to yourselves, kids.

[hughee99]

23. Hawaii will be disappointed to hear that.

Vermont and New Jersey, you're on notice!

[ellisonz]

12. Not sure.

I'm sure Hawaii shouldn't be though!

[Elwood P Dowd]

13. No. That's where Obama was born back when it belonged to Russia.

It borders Kenya. I know because I watch Fox News, and they are never wrong.

[rpannier]

17. I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I acknowledge Alaska

-A to Abraham 'Grandpa' Simpson

[Blue_In_AK]

18. Why do you ask?

Did you know that the area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is greater than that of South Carolina? Did you know that the two largest national parks in the country, Gates of the Arctic and Wrangell-St. Elias, are in Alaska? Did you know that Denali (formerly Mt. McKinley - thank you, Sally Jewell) is actually taller from base to top than Mt. Everest?

If Alaska isn't a state, it's definitely a state of mind.

(I just came back from 5 days in the Arctic photographing auroras. I love this place.).

[CTyankee]

21. Of course, it's our 49th state.

admitted to the Union in 1959. It has two senators, Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan and one Congressman, Don Young.

[Arugula Latte]

24. That's just crazy talk.

[AngryAmish]

22. This is a running joke.

Back when there were 48 states there was a movement to add Hawaii as the 49th state.

However, 49 stars on the flag looked funny, too symetrical. And besides, 49 is an unnlucky number. They put 50 stars on the flag to even things out. It simply looks better to the eye. Years before there was a desert called the Baked Alaska, and the flagmakers and cartographers thought it funny to call this nonexistent state "Alaska".

Since then all sorts of incredible details about "Alaska" have become part of common lore. Like the place is stuffed with grizzly bears, it has grown to a Bunyan-esque size that is half of the continental US, that Sarah Palin was rhe governor there of all things, even that they produce oil like Texas or Saudi Arabia. Some people think it is west of Canada.

Now I like a laugh as much as the next guy, but someone has to explain to kids that like the tooth fairy or Santa, Alaska does not exist.

[CTyankee]

25. well...

[AngryAmish]

26. Exactly. The whole thing is preposterous.

Next thing you will tell me is there are 8 foot bears on an Island of Alaska that eat fish.

Or show me a map how to get to your summer house in Brigadoon.