Re: Mountains Rush and Moore

From: Peter Stickney (peter_at_adelphia.net)
Date: 09/01/04 

Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 17:33:58 -0400

In article <slrncjca5f.t93.andrew.gray@compsoc.dur.ac.uk>,
        Andrew Gray <andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk> writes:
> On 2004-09-01, Peter Stickney <peter@adelphia.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Bought them from the Dutch I think.
>>>
>>> Denmark, no?
>>
>> Which still leaves Denmark as the largest Western European nation.
>
> Depends who you ask, mind <g>. Greenland has local autonomy in the most
> surprising ways - it left the EU, for example.
>
>>> (And lest that seem odd... the strangest people have colonised the
>>> Caribbean. Courland! The Knights of St. John!)
>>
>> There are still a couple of French-owned flyspecks off the coast of
>> Canada.
>
> No stranger than Newfoundland, I suppose, in principle.

A lot stranger than Newfoundland, from what I recall. At least
Newfies get the Newfie jokes. (Most of the time)

Census Taker: "Have you ever been bedridden?"
(Should be "Have you ever been bedridden, Eh?")
Old Newfie Maind: "No, but I did it in a dory once." 

-- 
Pete Stickney
 A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many
 bad measures.  -- Daniel Webster

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