[HPFGU-OTChatter] Texans (was geographical literacy)

[morine10 at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/19/01 11:45:02 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
aiz24 at hotmail.com writes:


> > --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., morine10 at a... wrote:
> >I also had to explain that Texas (regardless
> > > of what Texans may think <g>) is not a country.  Really, 
> > > one young man insisted that it was.
> 
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Jim Flanagan" <jamesf at a...> wrote:
> > Watch out, pilgrim, several of the moderators are from The Lone Star 
> > State.
> 
> If Mo disappears mysteriously, we'll know who to suspect.  (And we'll 
> know to look for her body under the Alamo.)
> 

I've let my friends know to look for me there.....in the basement. <bg>


> Vermont also used to be a Republic, and it's in our state constitution 
> that every so many years, we have to vote on whether to remain in the 
> Union.  As if anyone would care or notice if we seceded.  Maple prices 
> would skyrocket, that's about it.
> 

Well, since we're sharing info about our home states I'll throw in my two 
knuts about Delaware,  <ignores the teasing comments from her fellow shipmates
> the First State* to sign the Constitution.  And that's not just a horse on 
our quarter - it's Caesar Rodney, a founding father, who rode from the 
capital in Dover to Philadelphia to cast his vote to declare independence in 
July of 1776.  Oh and we don't have any sales tax either. :)

~Mo

~*~*Dungobombs Rule*~*~
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