# Any Furriners Here? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 9, 2000, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-furriners-here/13700 "2000-02-09T21:11:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-furriners-here/13700/21 "2000-02-10T01:55:00Z")
I have reason to suspect that CanadianSue is posting from a country other than the USA. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-furriners-here/13700/22 "2000-02-10T02:31:00Z")
Yo! Clog Boy checking in here šŸ˜‰ As stated alreadyā€¦ I must be the most famous Dutchman after Rembrandt and Van Gogh to you peopleā€¦ * * * **Coldfire** * * * _ **"You know how complex women are"** _ - Neil Peart, **Rush** (1993) ---
**Author:** ![Louie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Louie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Louie)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-furriners-here/13700/23 "2000-02-10T04:58:00Z")
Everyone in my house, including me, speaks Portuguese. Does that count as being foreign? ---
**Author:** ![Linney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/58956e/32.png) [@Linney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linney)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-furriners-here/13700/24 "2000-02-10T07:41:00Z")
Iā€™m from Indiana, does that count? ---
**Author:** ![Moonshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Moonshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonshine)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-furriners-here/13700/25 "2000-02-10T11:28:00Z")
Three Brit Three Brit Three Brit! Posting from the Netherlands too though, Land Of the Cold & Damp. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-furriners-here/13700/26 "2000-02-10T11:35:00Z")
Howā€™s this? Iā€™m a New Zealander (in fact, Iā€™m Maori) and I live in Australia. Thatā€™s a unique combination for this board! * * * **-PIGEONMAN-** [The Legend Of PigeonMan](http://www.hotkey.net.au/~guanolad/pigeonman/) - **Shadow of the Pigeon** Weirdo of the Night ---
**Author:** ![RussellM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed8c4c/32.png) [@RussellM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RussellM)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-furriners-here/13700/27 "2000-02-10T13:46:00Z")
Unless someone else is typing right now, I am Russell the Fourth of Britain and Russell the First of Scotland. I havenā€™t found any suitable MBs in this timezone. SDMB is usually pretty good - but yā€™all seem to be asleep for most of my working day (when I have easiest access). Russell ---
**Author:** ![Andy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@Andy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-furriners-here/13700/28 "2000-02-10T14:00:00Z")
Well I guess iā€™m Brit the Fifth then, although iā€™m working for HM Secret Service over here. ---
**Author:** ![PurpleCrackwhore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc348/32.png) [@PurpleCrackwhore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleCrackwhore)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-furriners-here/13700/29 "2000-02-10T14:50:00Z")
Wait a secā€¦Canada ISN"T an extension of the States only with itā€™s own funny money?? ::ducks from Canadian Sue and Moosiegrl:: * * * I really try to be good but it just isnā€™t in my nature! ---
**Author:** ![CanadianSue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-furriners-here/13700/30 "2000-02-10T15:28:00Z")
Displaying my best slab of Alberta Beef, Molsonā€™s Canadian and a big EHā€¦ yep, I definitely am from a different worldā€¦errr country. * * * We are, each of us angels with only one wing,and we can only fly by embracing one another ---
**Author:** ![the\_Scarlet\_Pimpernel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f1d935/32.png) [@the\_Scarlet\_Pimpernel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_Scarlet_Pimpernel)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-furriners-here/13700/31 "2000-02-10T15:58:00Z")
Im a Murrican, but I post from Wonderful Copenhagen. Got a work permit 'n ID number 'n everything. Oh, and Eve, we _do_ have a cool message board here in Europe. Itā€™s called the Straight Dope. _yuk yuk_ (Alright, so itā€™s a feeble joke, but Ive had a long day - go easy.) * * * Ass-Toaster Extraordinaire, SDMBSRC ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-furriners-here/13700/32 "2000-02-10T17:21:00Z")
Vermont is almost Canada, right? Iā€™d say it is the most Canadian of American states, but I think Minnesota has us one upped. * * * Habit rules the unreflecting herd. - Wordsworth ---
**Author:** ![shantih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-furriners-here/13700/33 "2000-02-10T19:26:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by tatertot: > **Iā€™m American, but my mother is Korean and Iā€™m posting from Germany, so can I be included? Me & Shantih can be the Kraut Lovinā€™ Americans of the Straight Dope Clique. šŸ™‚** All _right!_ Iā€™m in the Clique! Not that that sort of thing means anything to me, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-furriners-here/13700/34 "2000-02-10T20:36:00Z")
**Eve** , (enjoying belonging to a clique) Originally from Essex, then about ten years in Surrey and Hampshire, then five years in Edinburgh, now resident of London, the only British city where prolonged eye contact on the train is grounds for justifiable homicide. ## As far as I know, the nearest British equivalent to the SDMB is a column from **The Guardian** newspaper (aka ā€œThe Grauniadā€ thanks to a long history of typos) at [Notes & Queries](http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/notesandqueries/index.html). Itā€™s not a message board, though, just a general Q&A site. I never touched him, ref, honest! ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-furriners-here/13700/35 "2000-02-10T20:43:00Z")
canajan, checking in * * * and the stars oā€™erhead were dancing heel to toe ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-furriners-here/13700/36 "2000-02-10T20:46:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by mattk: > \*\*As far as I know, the nearest British equivalent to the SDMB is a column from **The Guardian** newspaper (aka ā€œThe Grauniadā€ thanks to a long history of typos) at [Notes & Queries](http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/notesandqueries/index.html). Itā€™s not a message board, though, just a general Q&A site. > > \*\* This site is pretty amusing. To the question: What is the difference between an herb and a spice? one fellow suggests: > [@](#): > > A HERB is a very talented jazz musician whose music has spanned decades.A Spice is one of five talentless women who are destined to spend the rest of their lives making crisp commercials with an equally talentless sports presenter. I think mattk has found kindred spirits for the Ummerikans! * * * Habit rules the unreflecting herd. - Wordsworth ---
**Author:** ![gary\_horaczek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@gary\_horaczek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gary_horaczek)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2000, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-furriners-here/13700/37 "2000-02-12T21:18:00Z")
Canada eh? ---
**Author:** ![CircusBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@CircusBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CircusBoy)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2000, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-furriners-here/13700/38 "2000-02-12T23:07:00Z")
Another Brit here, hailing from the sunny south west of Scotland. ---
**Author:** ![Andy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@Andy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2000, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-furriners-here/13700/39 "2000-02-13T00:47:00Z")
Youā€™d be a jock thenā€¦ šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2000, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-furriners-here/13700/40 "2000-02-13T01:24:00Z")
> [@](#): > > She says that when her mother was pregnant with her, she demonstrated ten Somersets she undertook on solid ground. Beatles fan: another feather to your cap, Uke. Such wit!! LOVE IT!!! Eve: I reside along the banks of the Outaouais (or Ottawa) River. As for other similar boards, must say Iā€™ve never really checked. Although I doubt there would be even a few of the same general caliber. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-furriners-here/13700.md?page=1)