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Related: About this forumIowa News - 5/14/2016
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Iowa News - 5/14/2016 (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
May 2016
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xocet
(4,021 posts)1. Strangely enough, there is a Des Moines, WA (south of the Seattle-Tacoma Airport), too. It's not...
just in Iowa!
TexasTowelie
(118,758 posts)2. Yes, but the corndogs that
Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann ate at the State Fair are. Oops, I'm wrong but does Washington want to make such a claim?
xocet
(4,021 posts)3. I don't know if WA would want to make that claim....
I only know about Des Moines, WA, because of once driving to Seattle from Iowa.
At the time, my thoughts were: "Another Des Moines...isn't that odd?"