What to do when there's no plastic sheeting

[Judy <judy@judyshapiro.com>]

I said:
>>> I prefer to imagine a "Midwest National Diplomacy Competition" as
a series of high-level talks, where Secretaries of State from all over
the US meet and try to end the horrible border war between Iowa and
Indiana. <<<

To which Jean and Anne objected, with Jean saying: 
>>>Whoa, hang on a minute. There is no way Iowa and Indiana can have
a border war. Mostly because a little state called Illinois sits
between them.<<<

Oh, but that's what makes the border war so horrible!  Illinois is
gone! It has been totally conquered and annexed! 

(I also liked Mel's suggestion that Illinois is "the Neutral Zone.") 

Actually, I had planned to check an online map to figure out who had a
border with Iowa, but my connection was too slow, so I gave up. 


-- Judy, who lives in Michigan, and has traveled many times in Indiana
and Illinois, but has a lousy sense of direction