I went to high school in Lansing, KS. Of course, the most famous city named Lansing is the capital of Michigan. I went to college in Manhattan, KS. The most famous city named Manhattan is in New York. So while I always thought it was cool that K-State is in "The Little Apple", I never liked that there was a different city called Lansing. For some reason it just seemed like it was stealing my city's name and identity, even though Michigan's version was settled several decades prior to the Kansas version, and even though Lansing, NY, existed prior to both. Today I had to visit my nemesis city for work, as I was meeting with a potential customer there. I wasn't happy about it, as I don't want to encourage those name-stealers.
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