HOOSIER YOUR DADDY? GETTING A LECTURE FROM FOLKS IN INDIANA.(LIFE & LEISURE)

Byline: DAVE BARRY

Boy, am I in trouble with the Hoosiers.

1I will explain shortly. Unfortunately, I managed to get a batch of Hoosiers very upset recently, when I wrote a column about which is the stupidest state.

For the record, I did NOT say that Indiana is the stupidest state. I believe that many states, including mine, are stupider than Indiana. What I did say -- and I now realize that I was wrong -- was that ``Hoosier'' is a stupid nickname. My argument was that nobody seemed to know what a ``Hoosier'' is, so why would you go around calling yourself one? I stated that, for all we know, ``Hoosier'' could be a Native American word for ``has sex …