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kookaburrakachoo t1_j0pq6xi wrote

My old science teacher told our class "The Mississippi River is the butthole of the United States." I'm not sure how relevant that is.

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HanMaBoogie t1_j0q3r12 wrote

The river itself is more like America’s colon. The MR watershed covers about 40 percent of the continental US and parts of Canada. Whatever trash, fertilizer or other agricultural chemicals that go on the ground within the watershed end up flushed down the river. In this metaphor, Port Eads, LA would be the butthole.

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