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I'm sorry, that wasn't my intention. All I meant was I didn't know if it would be important enough to be taught there.

I said it surprised me because it's something that everyone in America knows, but truthfully I could tell you nothing about Austrailian history.

Except, I heard they found a live dinosaur there once, and that wild animals are permitted to just walk right into stores. (I head about a kangaroo in a hospital too).

Note to Cheeki-Bri: Don't believe everthing you read on the internet.

Especially if it's written by someone named Scoates.

Sorry Scoates don't mean to spoil your fun or anything. Howya doin' in the elections?

Just four votes. I think the current minimum is five votes if you want to make the final ballot. I'll write myself in though.

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when you said that you didnt learn much about our history you could have at least spelt the country name right.... anyway can i ask you a question the lastest round of american idol from over there.... is like 1/2 way through over here.. someone told me who won.. but they just got kicked out so they were obviously telling me something that wasnt the total truth.. anyway it would be good if you can help.... family debate!!!!


anyway dont take my statement the wrong way dont worry about dissing australia and no.... wild animals dont rome around freely... in the bush and the ourtback we have signs and alot of the animals rome freely but the city of sydney is probably like one of your busy towns..... and no there was never a kangaroo in the hospital... maybe a vet but not a hospital......


anyway reply and i will talk to you soon...

cheeki-bri xoxoxox

i dont know what time it is over there but i hope you get this message soon and please reply with any information that you might be able to answer for me....


thankyou so much

The states of the United States are: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticutt, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Texas, Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Nevada, California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Hawaii. Some one else can count that list to assure that i've gotten all fifty--i can't be arsed to do it myself. I never made an effort to memorize them, i can just see a map in my mind, and reel them off from there. At one time i did memorize the capitals of all of the states, but that was long ago, and is a pointless exercise.

In addition the United States has territories, Guam and Puerto Rico being the most notable, and some "trust" territories, meaning the world trusts us to administer them to the best interests of the inhabitants. I believe American Samoa is one the trust territories.

Scoates has been pulling your leg shamelessly about nearly everything since he came into this thread, Cheeki, but don't take it badly, he's become a politician, and you can't trust anything he says now--it just goes with the territory.

Edit: Damn, i left out Delaware.

Well, the winner of American Idol did get kicked off once, but he came back. Like Nikko. I'm guessing Carry hasn't quit yet.

Thanx Setanta.....

And SCoates what are you trying to tell me about american idol... who won!! it aint that hard a question.. anyway talk to you 2 soon


thanks again setanta...


i am glad that you missed out delaware that shows that you are a human being... hehhee

cheeki

I don't remember, I don't watch myself, but I think it was Constantine. He was voted out about half way through, but came back and won. Everyone thought it would be Carrie, but she got married to Anthony and they both left.

You're a very bad little pink blob with a questionable looking excrescence at the bottom of your avatar, Scoates.

dlowan... why is he a very bad pink blob??? and scoates as if carrie and anthony get married.... i mighht believe you about the whole constantine thing but yeh right about them 2 gettin hitched...


cheeki xoxox

Lol - he has been stringing you along with non-existent states and other teasings.

Actually - I realise I have answered a question you did not ask.

I told you why I have CALLED him a very bad pink blob - but you asked me why he is so.

Well, in sooth I do not know - but I would hazard a guess that the reason lies somewhere in his nature and/or nurture.

Let's try the Canajun provinces: Newfoundland-Labrador, Nova Scotia (named after a bank), Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Québec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta (Albert's my first name, they named that one after me . . . ), British Columbia (huh? Columbia's more than a thousand miles south ! Them boys is corn-fused.) and Nunavut (sp?). I can't recall if Yukon is a province or a part of Nunavut. I give up . . .

The Guess Who are arguably Canada's greatest rock band, except perhaps for Rush. The heart of The Guess Who were Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman. They're from Manitoba, the "postage stamp province" (because it's only about the size of Texas, instead of half the size of Australia, like the rest of the provinces east of the Maratimes)--they did a reunion concert in Winnipeg which was broadcast on CBC, against the dramatic backdrop of a thunderstorm out on the prairie behind them. (I rather think that was unscheduled, though--despite the fantasies of Canajun girls in the 60's, Burton Cummings is not god.)

Burton's got this to say about the prairies:

There's a province up in Canada that's right next door to ours. It's called Saskatchewan. And, uh, in that province there's a small town, uh, where nothing much ever happens, called Saskatoon. This is a tune about that town. This is called "Runnin' Back To Saskatoon".

Runnin' Back to Saskatoon, Cummings-Bachman

I been hangin' around gas stations
I been learnin' 'bout tires
I been talkin' to grease monkeys
I been workin' on cars

Moose Jaw saw a few, Moosomin too
Runnin' back to Saskatoon
Red Deer, Terrace and a Medicine Hat
Sing another prairie tune
Sing another prairie tune

I been hangin' around libraries
I been learnin' 'bout books
I been talkin' to playwriters
I been workin' on words, phrases

Moose Jaw saw a few, Moosomin too
Runnin' back to Saskatoon
Red Deer, Terrace and a Medicine Hat
Sing another prairie tune
Sing another prairie tune

I been hangin' around hospitals
I been learnin' 'bout dyin'
I been talkin' to heart doctors
I been workin' on disease

Moose Jaw saw a few, Moosomin too
Runnin' back to Saskatoon
Red Deer, Terrace and a Medicine Hat
Sing another prairie tune
Sing another prairie tune

This tune is home grown
Don't come from Hong Kong
This tune is home grown
Don't come from Hong Kong

I been hangin' around grain elevators
I been learnin' 'bout food
I been talkin' to soil farmers
I been workin' on land

Moose Jaw saw a few, Moosomin too
Runnin' back to Saskatoon
Red Deer, Terrace and a Medicine Hat
Sing another prairie tune
Sing another prairie tune

I been hangin' around camera stores
I been learnin' 'bout sight
I been talkin' to film makers
I been workin' on eyes

Moose Jaw saw a few, Moosomin too
Runnin' back to Saskatoon
Red Deer, Terrace and a Medicine Hat
Sing another prairie tune
Sing another prairie tune

This tune is home grown
Don't come from Hong Kong
This tune is home grown
Don't come from Hong Kong

(Moose Jaw, Moosomin, Red Deer, Terrace and Medicine Hat are all towns in Saskatchewan.)

setanta.... why may i ask did you tell me all these states of somewhere.. and then give me the lyrics to some weird ass song...


thanx


and dlowan how has he been stringin me along???? plz explain

Because it's very late at night here, and i should be in bed, but i'm not, so my mind is wandering off on tangents outward from earlier posts. Those are provinces of Canada, not states. The maratime provinces, on the Atlantic Ocean, are normal sizes, but the rest of them, all the way to the Pacific are HUGE . . . they dwarf the states of the United States in size.

I was just enjoyin' myself, and you can too ! ! !

If ya wanna . . .

Well, this is like explaining a joke - but stuff like:



See that on Set's list of American states?

right right... well i didnt actually look into it tooo much. anyway how was i meant to know whats the difference between provinces and states...??? is there a difference or are they different names for basically the same thing???

Dlowan is pointing out that Scoates was making up names of states, which don't really exist.

The issue of provinces and states is a separate one. In the United States, as i take it is true in Australia, the federal system is made up of several states. In Canada, you have provinces. Although they function the same as states do in Oz and the US, there is a critical difference. Canada did not become an independent nation until 1867. At that time, two colonial provinces of British North America had one parliament between them, Canada East and Canada West--today, we call those provinces Québec and Ontario. But in 1866, Irish veterans of the American civil war invaded Canada, and badly embarrassed the Canadian militia. It also spooked the Poms pretty badly, and they basically dropped Canada like a hot rock--o.k., kids, time to get out of the nest and fly on your own--shove, shove, shove, boot, boot, boot. The two Canadas then decided to form a confederation. They went to a meeting of the Atlantic maratime provinces, and convinced all of them, except for Labrador and Newfoundland, to join up. On July 1, 1867, the Confederated Dominion of Canada was born. Theoretically, any one of those provinces could leave the confederation. The French keep saying they'll become a separate nation, which gets on everyone's last nerve, including the French. The provinces in the western half of Canada were only added gradually. Newfoundland and Labrador did not join the confederation until 1949. Nunavut is a vast northern province, in which very few people live, and of those, only a tiny portion are white people--the rest are the aboriginal natives of that part of North America. That province used to be a part of the Northwest Territories, but was made a province in 1999. Canada is a far shakier house of cards than either Oz or the U.S.

Oh thanks for explaining..... Sentana I know you sound like a very smart cookie and you probably dont watch to much tv...???? But would you have any idea who won the latest american idol over in the u.s??? Scoates has been trying to tell me but he is making it hard for me to understand..... oh and may i ask... what state do you live in.... or do you live in canada cuz you seem to know alot about provinces and the like....anywhere pretty much all ui am asking is where do you live????


talk soon

cheeki cxoxoxo

No, Boss, I don't watch television. I have a television, but it mostly sits there silently--i use it to play the older console-type of video game. I'm not certain what American Idol is.

I was born in New York, which at that time was the largest city on the planet. Oddly enough, i don't like cities. My mother left New York when i was still very small, and i grew up in Virginia and Illinois. I have lived in those places, as well as Texas, Kentucky, New Mexico, North Carolina and Florida. I now live in Ohio. I've lived here for 17 years, which is longer than i've lived in any one place in my life.

My sweetiepie is Canajun, and as is always the case with me, i have therefore made it my business to learn everything i can about Canada. She and i met online about five years ago, and met in person a little over four years ago.