No, it’s just off the coast of Baja on most maps.
OneCentStamp: Juneau is at sea level. Tourists get there by cruise ship.
It’s on an inland waterway. Elevation is determined relative to sea level.
Oh yeah. Right next to Hawaii.
The Baghdad Battery {which is actually kinda intriguing, as far as woo-woo theories go}, of course.
Indeed, stamps of the British Virgin Islands are denominated in U.S. currency.
Well, it can be argued that this is technically true, if one defines the word missile broadly enough. That airplane that did hit the building was certainly projected at its target.
Diosa: My great-uncle Arthur claimed he met the man who patented the Cornish game hen. Apparently Art had encountered either Donald Tyson or one of the Makowsky brothers. Although no patent files exist for the breed, the poultry breeders in question might have believed they did, in effect, “invent” that particular single-serving bird.
I love my aunts dearly, but this sticks out in my head as a truly blonde moment for them. Back in Thanksgiving '01, we were discussing 9/11, and the hunt for Osama Bin Ladin. One of my aunts said “I don’t see why they couldn’t just hire some enterprising young man to go over there and find him,” and the other one tittered “Oh yes, why couldn’t they?”
They’re both retired teachers who’ve travelled all over the world, so this struck me as really out of character for them.
Boy, you really don’t know many teachers, do you…
-JustAnotherTeacher
The office VP was cashing a fifty dollar check for me. He asked me if it was okay if he gave me a fifty dollar bill. I gave him my standard answer “Well, can I spend it?”
Guy did not have a clue what I meant.
According to the BVI’s website, the official currency of the British Virgin Islands is the US dollar. Hardly surprising, then, that the stamps are denominated in US dollars.
I really would like to know where the whole Mexicans don’t pay sales tax thing started. Is it because of the illegals being paid under the table and people are too stupid to realize that they still pay sales tax even if they aren’t paying state or federal taxes?
A lot of illegals are paying payroll taxes, but this was beyond that. She believes that it is official policy that they don’t pay taxes for five years. Five years? Why not six? Three? Even if true, they would have to out themselves as illegals to qualify.
I think that she works hard to get by and resents it when she sees someone she believes to be illegal driving a $30,000 truck. And to be sort of fair, in this case she may have been right. Still doesn’t make her ideas any less loony.
Right. I’ve heard the same thing from my stepmother and my cousin and now you so I’m guessing this is some sort of widespread myth and I’m baffled by how anyone can believe it though the reasons you gave are the likely cause.
Does it count if you read it? Check out the opening line in this news story.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/04/stuck.elevator.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
It’s a thin line between life and death, I tells ya. One less cough drop …
I can tell you the stupidest thing I’ve ever said.
A friend who was living abroad in Japan came abroad to visit. Since I’d just taken a course on Japanese literature (in English), I decided to impress him with all the miscellaneous things I’d learned about Japan from talking with my classmates and professor. My friend as well as everyone else present remained righteously impressed as I shared my insights.
Until he told me about a trip he’d recently taken from Japan to Cambodia.
‘‘How did you travel?’’ I asked. ''Did you drive?"
I swear I know Japan is an island. I really do. It just came out that way.
Interestingly, it’s possible (but rare) for fraternal twins to look like they’re from different ethnic backgrounds, if they were born to parents who are both themselves biracial. (example)
I had a roommate insist that there was such a thing as an “acidic base”, and offered as his support that there were bases that were corrosive. No amount of arguing could convince him that “corrosive” did not imply “acidic”, or that there was any real meaning to “acidic” other than “corrosive”.
Considering my dad is an engineer and was pushing 55 at the time, I think it was pretty stupid to try to invent the quadratic formula in that situation.
I used to go to all of my (female) best friend’s soccer games in high school. I had a thing for her hot little redheaded teammate, see, and I was also happy to take a soccer game any way I could get it. Unfortunately for my chances with the hot little redhead, everybody on the team who wasn’t in the know assumed that I was going out with my friend. She and I both vigorously denied the accusations–since, of course, they weren’t true–but all of her teammates “knew better” and one day one of them decided to find out for sure. I will call her Tuesday, because, I shit you not, that is her name. My friend was also there for this exchange, and for her part, put on a winning poker face.
Tuesday: Hey, so are you guys, like…living together?
Me: Yeah, we’re brother and sister.
Tuesday: Oh, OK. … Wait!
Me: What, don’t I look Vietnamese?
Tuesday: :eek: …Um…uh… 
The wife of a colleauge (she is a teacher BTW) insisted that the asians can’t pronounce "R"s because of a genetic difference in their tongues.
An ex-girlfriend of mine moved from Sacramento, California, to Choteau, Montana to live with me.
She, being a pure California native, assumed that Montana was essentially icebound year round.
Upon arriving, and basking in the upper 80’s were were enjoying that summer, she decided that it made sense that it would feel hot.
After all, we were closer to the sun, being at a higher elevation.
She also decided that she had not put on 10 pounds over the year we lived together, but that gravity pulled harder on her, again, due to the higher elevation.
Even being a minx in bed only lasted so long…
Similar to the comments about Montana’s elevation, when I was living in Jacksonville during a particularly hot summer, a roofer was interviewed for a fluff piece in the paper about how people were coping with the heat. He claimed his work was hotter than that done by, say, landscapers, because he was working on the roof and he was closer to the sun. Y
Yeah, 93 million miles minus 20 feet…
A person I knew who was proud of his Italian heritage and who fought in the Pacific during World War II hated the “dirty Japs”, but always insisted that the Italians were our allies during the war.