Re: OT: baloney and cheese

----- Original Message -----
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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