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    Re: Hijacking of hte English Language was: Re: Liberal Media (was Bush Knew?) —David Koudys
   (...) I don't think there is any part of the United States that is due north of any part of Canada, unless you're talking about that little wedge of land known as the pan handle of Alaska--that may be due north of Victoria Island. Alaska is more of (...) (22 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Hijacking of hte English Language was: Re: Liberal Media (was Bush Knew?) —Jude Beaudin
     (...) You also have to ignore embassies. :-) Jude BTW, Santa lives in Quebec (All postal codes beginning with H are in la belle province). (22 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
    
         Re: Hijacking of hte English Language was: Re: Liberal Media (was Bush Knew?) —David Koudys
     (...) Postal Services worldwide, being overwhelmed by lettters from the kids to Santa Claus, petitioned the Canadian Government for years to change a specific Postal Code(1). One of the last things PET did before he stepped down was to make an (...) (22 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
    
         Re: Hijacking of hte English Language was: Re: Liberal Media (was Bush Knew?) —Simon Bennett
     (...) With respect I was always told he lived in Lapland so I wonder if the Finnish government has fictitiously done something similar. (22 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
    
         Re: Hijacking of hte English Language was: Re: Liberal Media (was Bush Knew?) —Jude Beaudin
      (...) What do you mean fictitious? Jude (22 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
     
          Re: Hijacking of hte English Language was: Re: Liberal Media (was Bush Knew?) —Simon Bennett
      (...) I construed the asterisked part of David's post as saying that in fact Trudeau did no such thing. If he did then I guess I mean have the Finns actually done something similar. (22 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
     
          Re: Hijacking of hte English Language was: Re: Liberal Media (was Bush Knew?) —David Koudys
       (...) Yep, I have no idea if Pierre did anything of the sort--was a brief interlude into 'Dave's Little World (DLW)' wherein Santa is Canadian, I get payed playing EQ, we all get along the world over, and I get LEGO for Christmas every year of my (...) (22 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
      
           Santa's Postal Code (was: other stuff) —James Brown
       (...) Reality doesn't suck; it just predates Trudeau. :) (URL) postal code has been H0H 0H0 for more than 20 years, and for the last 18 years, postal volunteers help Santa answer his mail; last year over 1 million letters were answered in 26 (...) (22 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
     
          Re: Hijacking of hte English Language was: Re: Liberal Media (was Bush Knew?) —Jude Beaudin
      (...) I thought you were going to start arguing that Santa was not real. I am glad you didn't cause Suz would end up with having to deal with a possible flame war. ;-) Jude (22 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
    
         Re: Hijacking of hte English Language was: Re: Liberal Media (was Bush Knew?) —Lindsay Frederick Braun
     (...) The Dutch say Sinterklaas comes from Spain. With his little Moor, Zwarte Piet. No, it's probably best if we don't discuss *that* little tradition... best LFB (22 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Hijacking of hte English Language was: Re: Liberal Media (was Bush Knew?) —Lindsay Frederick Braun
   (...) Wrongo! I'm so disappointed. I thought Canadians had a better grasp of geography than Americans. Parts of southeastern Michigan--including much of Detroit--are indeed due *north* of Ontario. I'm sorry, we'll have to deduct 10 points from your (...) (22 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Hijacking of the English Language was: Re: Liberal Media (was Bush Knew?) —David Koudys
     (...) OMGoodness--Entirely didn't realize about Michigan... Now I'm looking at an Ontario map and holy moly, lookit all that Michigan to the north of Windsor! Wow, Dave gets a lesson in Geography today... So there you are. Dave (22 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Hijacking of hte English Language was: Re: Liberal Media (was Bush Knew?) —Steve Bliss
   (...) Heck, doesn't a large portion of the Canadian population live south of the 49th (going back to the phrase that started this subthread)? I don't have access to a good map right now (well, I probably do, but don't know where to surf to), but (...) (22 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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