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Re: Geography (was: We'll take in your poor....)
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Tue, 13 Jul 2004 00:27:52 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Frank Filz wrote:
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> "Purple Dave" <purpledave@maskofdestiny.com> wrote in message
> news:I0r5CA.243s@lugnet.com...
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Frank Filz wrote:
> > > Hmm, I think I could come reasonably close to pointing out the location of
> > > every city I've lived in without just a map of North America including major
> > > natural features.
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> > Have you ever lived in Kansas? ;)
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> No, and I admit, I would have a harder time placing Kansas with just a map
> of natural features.
Look for the place with no elevation contours. :-)
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> > > To the average American who has never left his home state
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> > Home state?!?!? I have a friend in NYC who says many people there live their
> > entire lives within an area comprised of a few city blocks! All across the US
> > there are people who, like Samwise, never leave their home town.
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> True.
What? False!!! Sam traveled Middle-earth from Mordor to the Grey Havens,
something very few in Middle-earth could say that they had done. Now his old
Gaffer, Hamfast, is given away by his very name.
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> > I'd probably
> > qualify as "well-traveled" in the US, as I've been to both Canada and Mexico,
> > and set foot in more than ten States (flying over them doesn't count).
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> Let's see, I'm reasonably well travelled:
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> 44 US states (perhaps 45 if I count driving on the highway through the edge
> of Alabama, I don't think we actually got out of the car)
> 4 Canadian provinces
> UK, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Yugoslavia
> (also Slovenia, Croatia, and I'm pretty sure Bosnia - I travelled back in
> 1972), Romania, and Austria.
Yeah, well I've been to Compton. All day. Easter sunday even. Nyahh! :-)
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> Of course that's piddly compared to some folks here...
Seattle to the north (visted the Evil Empire). Boston to the east. Hawaii to
the west. Only 10 states. Belize to the south (quick one day dash out of
Mexico). Tried to get the assignment that would have taken me to London, but
alas. So, I'm further down the "piddly" scale, I'm afraid.
-->Bruce<--
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| (...) I try to avoid doing that as much as possible. I may live in Michigan, but we've got sand dunes nearby, rolling hills, and lots of faux-elevation (i.e. trees in great abundance). (...) I was thinking specifically of the scene in TFotR, where (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: Geography (was: We'll take in your poor....)
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| (...) Downright provincial:-) Moi: Canada, Mexico, Spain, Portugal, France, (West) Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Israel, Egypt, Jordan; most of those countries on multiple occasions, and 34 states. JOHN (20 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Geography (was: We'll take in your poor....)
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| "Purple Dave" <purpledave@maskofdestiny.com> wrote in message news:I0r5CA.243s@lugnet.com... (...) of (...) major (...) No, and I admit, I would have a harder time placing Kansas with just a map of natural features. (...) their (...) the US (...) (...) (20 years ago, 12-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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