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Re: OT: baloney and cheese

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 19, 2003, 18:13
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From: "Roger Mills" <romilly@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 10:05 AM
Subject: Re: OT: baloney and cheese


> Joe wrote: > > > > Well, while we're on states - I don't have a clue about all those square > > states in western america. > > Easy-- there's only two, Wyoming and south of it, Colorado. Colorado in
fact
> appears to be slightly rectangular. All the others have at least one more > or less irregular boundary. > > As a child, I delighted in putting together a jigsaw puzzle of the US-- 48 > pieces at that time. An excellent learning tool. Presumably other > countries/regions could have such things too. The provinces of Colombia? > The shires of England?? (Hmm-- maybe someone should make a jigsaw puzzle
of
> Ill Bethisad.....) > > Extra points: which state (or states) is/are bordered by the greatest > number of other states? >
Well, they all look identical when skimming over an atlas. But what do you expect? I'm just some Pom from Limeyland ;-) I could probably name half the counties in England. Scotland, Wales, and NI, no way.

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John Cowan <jcowan@...>