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Do You Know Where You Live?
An anonymous submitter writes "Thanks to GPS, it seems quite a few people are discovering they don't live where they thought. Prior to GPS, state, county and city borders were part law, part measurement, and part guesswork. Now, they're able to go back and discover where actual borders should be, and it's making many people unhappy. Some familes in Rhode Island are finding out they may actually live in Connecticut. Each state, county and city wants as much land as possible, because it means more tax income. The people caught in the middle simply want to know where they'll send their kids for school."
I think you screwed that up. It's a classic trick question, like "Why can't a man living in Michigan be buried west of the Mississippi River?".
Clever up, frood.
Last time I saw that happen, I buried the survivors in my basement. They stopped screaming eventually.
Well, if they are Canadian* - anywhere you like as they won't be missed.
(*=Substitute American here if you want)
Honestly, I think you're putting a little too much effort into this...either that, or too little...
Since I have never truly heard the 'pure' dialect of the english language. I guess it's hard for me to say that we do or do not speak it more so.
To us, Canadian's, our english sounds better then any other Nation's english. But that doesn't make it a more 'pure' dialect then the english nor the Americans.
On the other hand, if we define English as from England, American as from America, Canadian as from Canada, and so on. Then by definition, the English would have to have the more 'pure' dialect of english, whether wer agree or not.
I do know people who speak Welsh, and they consider the language alive and well. And these people are from Wales in Great Britain.
~ kjrose
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Evan (no reference in this message)
"$30 for the One True Ring. $10 each additional ring!" -- JRR "Bob" Tolkien
Right.
He was a news anchor of some sort, and then he went into politics. He ran for city council, and in Cincinnati, the city council member with the most votes becomes mayor.
All went well for him too until he went across the river to Kentucky and paid a prostitute with a personal check! It worked out for the best though.
But guess what, nowadays we could take England easily.
How many hundreds of nukes does the UK have? Might not be quite so easy.
48 are ready to be launched at any one time (sub based).