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Henry Hudson was a brave explorer from yesteryear who demanded that Ohio be spelled with an ‘O’ at both ends. That really seems like a brazen waste of vowels to us. Not as bad as Hawaii though. Seriously – ‘Hawi’ would get the point across just fine – plus we heard their school system already teaches it like that. All we’re saying is the island state would probably fair better on the SATs if the answers more closely reflected the crummy curriculum.

And no doubt Henry Hudson, who we think we might have been talking about a second ago, would probably agree. As would the Gnomes he claimed to have happened upon in the Catskills.