<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 3/19/01 11:45:02 PM Eastern Standard Time,
<BR>aiz24@hotmail.com writes:
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter@y..., morine10@a... wrote:
<BR>>I also had to explain that Texas (regardless
<BR>> > of what Texans may think <g>) is not a country. Really,
<BR>> > one young man insisted that it was.
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<BR>--- In HPFGU-OTChatter@y..., "Jim Flanagan" <jamesf@a...> wrote:
<BR>> Watch out, pilgrim, several of the moderators are from The Lone Star
<BR>> State.
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<BR>If Mo disappears mysteriously, we'll know who to suspect. (And we'll
<BR>know to look for her body under the Alamo.)
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<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">I've let my friends know to look for me there.....in the basement. <bg>
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<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Vermont also used to be a Republic, and it's in our state constitution
<BR>that every so many years, we have to vote on whether to remain in the
<BR>Union. As if anyone would care or notice if we seceded. Maple prices
<BR>would skyrocket, that's about it.
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<BR>Well, since we're sharing info about our home states I'll throw in my two
<BR>knuts about Delaware, <ignores the teasing comments from her fellow shipmates
<BR>> the First State* to sign the Constitution. And that's not just a horse on
<BR>our quarter - it's Caesar Rodney, a founding father, who rode from the
<BR>capital in Dover to Philadelphia to cast his vote to declare independence in
<BR>July of 1776. Oh and we don't have any sales tax either. :)
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<BR>~Mo
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<BR>~*~*Dungobombs Rule*~*~</FONT></HTML>