Diamond Select Toys is Shutting Down

When I was a kid, we moved from West Texas to Omaha. Questions I got on the regular:

"Did you have to sell your horses when you moved here?"

"Did you own an oil well?"

"Where is your cowboy hat?"

"Why aren't you wearing cowboy boots?"

Having the last name of "Gill", I used to get asked (sarcastically) if I was related to University of Nebraska football player Turner Gill. I'm a pasty white guy, and Turner was a big black dude...so of course I'd tell them I was. Loved to watch the confused expressions on their faces.

When I moved back to Texas in High School, people would ask me if I was related to Vince Gill. While this is more believable, I'd still go along with it. "Oh yeah, that's my cousin". If they were rednecks, I'd mess with them by telling them my "cousin" was secretly gay. I loved watching their heads nearly explode when they heard their favorite country artist was into dudes. After a while, I just started telling any redneck that I met that I was actually related to their favorite country artist (regardless of how plausible), and that they were totally in the closet. Watching homophobes nearly stroke-out is a great pastime!
 
Chooch555 said:
I may have one better. Not where I'm from, but when I tell people about the goings on in my personal life the response is generally a prolonged pause followed by "I'll pray for you." Never sure what to say there aside from thank you.
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You're nicer than I am. 'Thank you' is the last thing that comes to my mind when people tell me they'll pray for me.
 
Justice said:
Ooooh, does ALL of your salt come from the lake??
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Humorously, nearly all of our non-culinary salt does. They extract more than two million tons of it from the lake every year. Fun fact: we dump a small amount of sewage into the Great Salt Lake from one of the communities along the shore. When we get lake effect rain, it stinks like sewage. You'll hear some locals repeat a myth that the smell comes from all the dead brine shrimp in the lake, and there are a lot, but it's really the poop. Poop raining down on Salt Lake City. Pro tip: the Great Salt Lake is not a fun place to visit.
jonaskane said:
Wouldn't Yeti have been a better name than Mammoth?
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Yes, but the owner wasn't willing to fight Yeti Coolers for it, the coward. Who buys a hockey team and won't fight for it? A hockey team?!
 
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Giving this way too much credit. I'd bet most Americans couldn't even name 'Utah' if you asked them to name all 50 states. No one asks shit about Utah except 'where is that?'
 
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