# Non-USA Dopers: Stand and be counted. Please.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 31, 2006, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707 "2006-07-31T14:02:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707/161 "2006-08-04T05:19:01Z")

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[QUOTE=fetus]  
I know we have a decent number of Montrealers, a few from Western Canada ( **featherlou** and **Larry Mudd** among others)…  
[/QUOTE]  
I’m planning to make that number of Montrealers a bit more decent as soon as I can possibly manage it. 😃

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**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707/162 "2006-08-04T06:42:39Z")

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Yet another Canadian. Currently living in New Brunswick but have lived in such varied places as Alberta - Saskatchewan - Manitoba - Canberra, Australia and Colorado Springs, Colorado!  
The joys of being an Airforce Brat 😛

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**Author:** ![Antonius\_Block](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@Antonius\_Block](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antonius_Block)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707/163 "2006-08-04T07:41:04Z")

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Here ya go, **Zeldar**. I loaded up the _Zeldarizer[sup]TM[/sup]_ with some Member Numbers (which don’t need a thread search to get the data), plus the names that have been mentioned since your last post (#133) – together with a couple more of my own recollection.

I clicked “Run” and after the smoke subsided, a little bit of editing gave me the following (I’ve included the ones from my post #159 above):

## _add to CANADA:_ Sam Stone Charter Member Join Date: Jun 1999 Posts: 15647 Location: Edmonton, Alberta Ms Macphisto Charter Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 954 Location: Victoria, BC Cerowyn Charter Member Join Date: Oct 2000 Posts: 1,870 Location: Toronto, ON elfbabe Charter Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 1,634 Location: Ottawa Cyros Charter Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 825 Location: New Brunswick Northern Piper Charter Member Join Date: Jun 1999 Posts: 5,745 Location: Regina, SK Gorsnak Charter Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 3,679 Location: Saskatoon, SK trupa Charter Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 442 Location: Calgary, Alberta meek Charter Member Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 1,043 Location: Edmonton, Alberta Larry Mudd Charter Member Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 12,412 Location: Vancouver, BC Muffin Charter Member Join Date: Nov 2000 Posts: 5,083 Location: Thunder Bay, ON (?) severus Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 361 Location: Gatineau, Québec RickJay Charter Member Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 11,625 Location: Burlington, Ontario

_add to BRITISH ISLES – UK & IRELAND:_  
rekkah Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 78 Location: Brighton, UK  
Myglaren Charter Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 393 Location: Washington, Tyne & Wear

## mtk\_ Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 27 Location: Isle Of Man

_add to AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND:_  
hawthorne Charter Member Join Date: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,859 Location: Melbourne, Australia

## jastu Charter Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 463 Location: Auckland NZ

## _add to EUROPE:_ flodnak Charter Member Join Date: Aug 1999 Posts: 2715 Location: outside Oslo, Norway

_add to ASIA/MIDDLE EAST:_  
China Guy Charter Member Join Date: Mar 2001 Posts: 4248 Location: Shanghai, China

Monty SDSAB Join Date: Feb 1999 Posts: 11,469 Location: Busan, Korea

## Noone Special Charter Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 1,305 Location: Tel Aviv, Israel

_[At some point, we’re going to need to turn this into a Google Earth .kmz file!]_

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707/164 "2006-08-04T12:27:10Z")

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Thanks, **Antonius Block** for the great work. I hereby offer control of this file to you. Your programming skills and obvious interest in the task make you a more fitting Master of the non-USA Dopers database. Please accept this offer. There’s little else my skills will permit.

After incorporating all “Zeldarized” data since the last summary was posted, and doing a manual (possibly flawed) count of the contents, I can happily report that we have now acquired 120 unique (I hope) names on the list. Of those, the breakdown appears to be:

Canada 35  
British Isles and Ireland 26  
Australia and New Zealand 20  
Remaining Europe 19  
Asia and Middle East 11  
Latin America 6  
Africa 3

Here’s the updated file. Please alert me to duplicates, omissions, corrections, names to be removed for whatever reason, etc.

Also, please verify the count.

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CANADA  
xnylder Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 44 Location: Montreal, Canada  
featherlou Charter Member Join Date: Oct 2000 Posts: 9,949 Location: Calgary, baby  
Sunspace Charter Member Join Date: Jun 1999 Posts: 8,291 Location: Toronto, Ontario  
Helen’s Eidolon Charter Member Join Date: May 2000 Posts: 3,374 Location: Montreal and/or PA  
Mindfield Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 947 Location: Right Hand of Og (Ontario)  
Jayn\_Newell Charter Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,506 Location: Halifax  
Antigen Charter Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 2,567 Location: Muppet Labs (or Montreal)  
the Lady Charter Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 566 Location: Calgary, Alberta  
Ludy Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 463 Location: In the Funhouse (Canada)  
borschevsky Charter Member Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 357 Location: Canada  
Lady Venom Charter Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 487 Location: Ottawa, Canada  
Rodd Hill Charter Member Join Date: Apr 1999 Posts: 1,762 Location: Victoria BC  
wisernow Charter Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 336 Location: at my desk (Canada)  
Nanoda Charter Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 2,404 Location: Edmonton  
Carlyjay Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 176 Location: Toronto, Canada  
PastAllReason Charter Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 711 Location: Western Canada  
qwest Charter Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 228 Location: NU (Canada)  
bob\_loblaw Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 246 Location: centre of the universe (Canada)  
percussion Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Posts: 225 Location: Newfoundland, Canada  
Kid\_A Charter Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 914 Location: Windsor/Scarborough, ON  
Foldup Rabbit Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 95 Location: Kamloops, BC, Canada  
Spoons Charter Member Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 1,507 Location: Calgary  
severus Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 361 Location: Gatineau, Québec, Canada  
Cerowyn Charter Member Join Date: Oct 2000 Posts: 1,870 Location: T.O. Or Tokyo. (Canada)  
Sam Stone Charter Member Join Date: Jun 1999 Posts: 15647 Location: Edmonton, Alberta  
Ms Macphisto Charter Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 954 Location: Victoria, BC  
elfbabe Charter Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 1,634 Location: Ottawa  
Cyros Charter Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 825 Location: New Brunswick  
Northern Piper Charter Member Join Date: Jun 1999 Posts: 5,745 Location: Regina, SK  
Gorsnak Charter Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 3,679 Location: Saskatoon, SK  
trupa Charter Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 442 Location: Calgary, Alberta  
meek Charter Member Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 1,043 Location: Edmonton, Alberta  
Larry Mudd Charter Member Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 12,412 Location: Vancouver, BC  
Muffin Charter Member Join Date: Nov 2000 Posts: 5,083 Location: Thunder Bay, ON (?)  
RickJay Charter Member Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 11,625 Location: Burlington, Ontario

BRITISH ISLES – UK & IRELAND  
Small Clanger Charter Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 1,388 Location: Milton Keynes (UK)  
Dervorin Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 304 Location: Hampshire, UK  
seosamh Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 866 Location: Claxby Pluckacre (UK)  
glee Member Join Date: Aug 1999 Posts: 5,105 Location: England  
Alive At Both Ends Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 109 Location: UK  
Revenant Threshold Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 2,633 Location: London, UK  
Mangetout Charter Member Join Date: May 2001 Posts: 23,590 Location: The Kingdom of Butter (UK)  
jjimm Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Posts: 13,779 Location: Oxford, England  
Sparrow Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 264 Location: London, England  
Chez Guevara Member Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 1,409 Location: Stow, UK  
Malacandra Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 4,421 Location: UK. I’m a dude, btw.  
Meurglys Charter Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 279 Location: Edinburgh  
Dominic Mulligan Charter Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,600 Location: Wigan / Edinburgh  
GorillaMan Charter Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 11,066 Location: Portman Road (UK)  
DaphneBlack Charter Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 210 Location: Oxford, UK  
Steve Wright Charter Member Join Date: Nov 2000 Posts: 3028 Location: Oxford, UK  
Pjen Charter Member Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,352 Location: In Scotland (but English)  
Staggerlee Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 243 Location: Bristol, Ingerland (UK)  
Pushkin Charter Member Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 2,325 Location: Belfast Northern Ireland  
Angua Charter Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 4,138 Location: …Uberwald (UK)  
Myglaren Charter Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 393 Location: Loonyland (England)  
rekkah Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 78 Location: UK

Lobsang Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 11768 Location: Isle of Man  
mtk\_ Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 27 Location: Isle Of Man, UK (ish)

yojimbo Charter Member Join Date: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,528 Location: Dublin, Ireland  
irishgirl Charter Member Join Date: May 2001 Posts: 4452 Location: Dublin, Ireland

AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND  
TheLoadedDog Charter Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 5,530 Location: Sydney, Australia  
don’t ask Charter Member Join Date: May 2001 Posts: 7,586 Location: Sydney, Australia  
jabiru Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 537 Location: Sydney  
C3 Charter Member Join Date: Jan 2000 Posts: 1,651 Location: American in Australia  
blinkingblinking Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 364 Location: Melbourne,Australia  
buns3000 Charter Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 589 Location: Melbourne, Australia  
cazzle Charter Member Join Date: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,635 Location: Victoria, Australia  
swirl-a-whirl Guest Join Date: Jul 2006 (Australia)  
ninevah Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 417 Location: Melbourne, Australia  
Cunctator Charter Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 3,740 Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia  
ellere Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 2 Location: Brisbane, Australia  
Askance Charter Member Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 2,283 Location: Sydney, Australia  
araminty Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 24 Location: Regional city, Australia  
What’s That Smell? Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 30 Location: Southport, Australia  
hawthorne Charter Member Join Date: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,859 Location: Melbourne, Australia

jastu Charter Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 463 Location: Auckland NZ  
Ice Wolf Charter Member Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 6,765 Location: Auckland, New Zealand  
calm kiwi Charter Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 3,828 Location: Auck, NZ  
MelCthefirst Charter Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,297 Location: New Zealand  
Banquet Bear Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 675 Location: Wellington, New Zealand

EUROPE  
Fish Cheer Charter Member Join Date: May 2001 Posts: 527 Location: Munich, EU  
kellner Charter Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 863 Location: Germany  
EuroMDguy Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 169 Location: Kensington MD (Germany)  
mkl12 Charter Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 405 Location: (Germany)  
tschild Charter Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 901 Location: Germany

Priceguy Charter Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 5,477 Location: Dislocated (Sweden)  
Charlie Tan Member Join Date: Mar 1999 Posts: 3,700 Location: Scania (Sweden)

MostlyClueless Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 27 Location: Dutchia (Holland)  
Maastricht Charter Member Join Date: Dec 2000 Posts: 1846 Location: Maastricht, Netherlands

Lazz Charter Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 80 Location: France  
clairobscur Charter Member Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 7747 Location: Paris, France

Kotick Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 124 Location: 63,36N10,23E (Norway)  
flodnak Charter Member Join Date: Aug 1999 Posts: 2715 Location: outside Oslo, Norway

auRa Charter Member Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 470 Location: Helsinki, Finland

Nava Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 1,511 Location: Thalassas (Spain)

Kyla Charter Member Join Date: Mar 1999 Posts: 5,436 Location: The Rose Valley, Bulgaria

yo han go Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 51 Location: Europe (Slovenia)

Tomcat Charter Member Join Date: Mar 2000 Posts: 2156 Location: Prague, CZ

Dog80 Charter Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 1610 Location: Athens, Greece

LATIN AMERICA  
No Me Ayudes Compadre Member Join Date: May 1999 Posts: 429 Location: Sentido & Malhecho (Mexico)  
DiggitCamara Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 145 Location: Right here. Right now. (Mexico)

Colibri SDSAB Join Date: Oct 2000 Posts: 7,204 Location: Panama

False\_God Charter Member Join Date: Oct 2000 Posts: 1005 Location: Lima, Peru

NaturalBlondChap Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 51 Location: (Argentina)

Ale Member Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 2,002 Location: Montevideo, Uruguay

ASIA/MIDDLE EAST  
Sublight Member Join Date: Aug 2000 Posts: 6,993 Location: Tokyo  
JpnDude Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 147 Location: Tokyo, Japan

China Guy Charter Member Join Date: Mar 2001 Posts: 4248 Location: Shanghai, China

Stark Raven Mad Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 897 Location: Hong Kong

Monty SDSAB Join Date: Feb 1999 Posts: 11,469 Location: Busan, Korea

DataZak Charter Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 226 Location: Malaysia

Tabby\_Cat Charter Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 920 Location: No Gum Here (Singapore)

gouda Charter Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 1,282 Location: Dubai

Dottygumdrop Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 62 Location: Sand Central (Bahrain)

Alessan Member Join Date: Jul 2000 Posts: 4,137 Location: T&A City, Israel  
Noone Special Charter Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 1,305 Location: Tel Aviv, Israel

AFRICA  
MrDibble Charter Member Join Date: Mar 2001 Posts: 1566 Location: Cape Town, South Africa  
Mellivora capensis Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 480 Location: South Africa  
DangleYourModifier Guest Join Date: Jul 2006 (South Africa)

even sven Member Join Date: Nov 1999 Posts: 5156 Location: Mbalmayo, Cameroon

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**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707/165 "2006-08-04T12:38:39Z")

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[QUOTE=Pjen]  
I can think of no area where the British Government would allow the CI or IOM to do anything that seriously threatened the UK. How would the CI or IOM challenge such a decision.  
[/QUOTE]

Sorry for the hijack - but what if they pushed for full independence?

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**Author:** ![Pjen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Pjen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pjen)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707/166 "2006-08-04T12:56:42Z")

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[QUOTE=GorillaMan]  
Sorry for the hijack - but what if they pushed for full independence?  
[/QUOTE]

They are British citizens and have no international standing as a nation. They would need very strong backing to overcome British hegemony. International law would be against them. Unless it was in British interests, they would not be allowed to secede.

Problems for them:

No legal case  
Problems of supply of goods- where do their food and basics originate.  
Problems of transport- almost all air and sea transport is from the UK.  
Britain controls the sea arond them.  
Britain controls their air space.  
They have no armed forces.  
European countries would be prohibited under the EC from assisting a breakaway.

The only possibility that I can see is if for some reason the US was in favor of independence and this out-weighed the US’s need for continued British cooperation.

In the real world they are screwed.

However, for the time being, it suits both the islanders’ and British needs to maintain the status quo.

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**Author:** ![antechinus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@antechinus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antechinus)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707/167 "2006-08-04T12:58:41Z")

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I live in a city called Sydney. It is in Australia.

There are a couple of other Aussies that haven’t yet reported in; something like … GoYouBigWhiteAmbulance from Brisbane and … um … 1920sLaserBeam or something, from Broome. Then there is LeachBabe. Is Blake from Australia?

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**Author:** ![yelimS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/54ee81/32.png) [@yelimS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yelimS)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707/168 "2006-08-04T13:04:59Z")

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I live in Norway, the capital of Scandinavia. We ride polar bears and such. Be sure to tell your friends!

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**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707/169 "2006-08-04T13:07:03Z")

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Yet another Canadian… Posting from Windsor Ontario, just across the river from Detroit.

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**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707/170 "2006-08-04T13:11:29Z")

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I see that I am the longest posting member from the UK. 🙂

Carry on.

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**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707/171 "2006-08-04T14:34:12Z")

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I just saw this thread. I am a Canadian, but I live in the US (not that it should matter).

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**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707/172 "2006-08-04T14:37:04Z")

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:: waves ::  
Please add **Kythereia** to the list of Canadians.

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**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707/173 "2006-08-04T14:43:28Z")

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**Grey** Charter Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 2,916 Location: Ottawa, Canada

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**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707/174 "2006-08-04T14:44:31Z")

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[QUOTE=Pjen]  
No legal case  
[/quote]

Really? (And what would have been the legal situation, for example, if Bermuda had voted for independence in 1995?)

> [@](#):
>
> Problems of supply of goods- where do their food and basics originate.  
> Problems of transport- almost all air and sea transport is from the UK.  
> Britain controls the sea arond them.  
> Britain controls their air space.

I assume you’re describing the potential for a blockade, and not suggesting that the general economic situation would prevent the existence of a small state?

> [@](#):
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> They have no armed forces.

Ditto.

> [@](#):
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> European countries would be prohibited under the EC from assisting a breakaway.

Surely only prohibited from assisting a breakaway of a part of a member state, which does not apply here.

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**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707/175 "2006-08-04T14:48:43Z")

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Englishman here living in Manchester…Gods city 😃

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707/176 "2006-08-04T15:03:37Z")

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[QUOTE=Sunspace]  
:: waves ::  
Please add **Kythereia** to the list of Canadians.  
[/QUOTE]

If you will provide the data (Member Status, Number of Posts, Location) I will add **Kythereia** to the list.

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707/177 "2006-08-04T15:05:46Z")

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[QUOTE=adam yax]  
I just saw this thread. I am a Canadian, but I live in the US (not that it should matter).  
[/QUOTE]

Since I’m maintaining (at present) both summary files, I need you to decide which group you want to be counted in. Not both, surely. 😃

Are you a Canadian or a Texan? I mean now, not in spirit.

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**Author:** ![Future\_Londonite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9dc877/32.png) [@Future\_Londonite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Future_Londonite)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707/178 "2006-08-04T15:56:40Z")

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ADD to Europe Other  
Scoundrel Swanswater Member Join date: oct 2001 Posts: 635 Location: Netherlands

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707/179 "2006-08-04T15:59:45Z")

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[QUOTE=EuroMDguy]  
ADD to Europe Other  
Scoundrel Swanswater Member Join date: oct 2001 Posts: 635 Location: Netherlands  
[/QUOTE]

Done. Thank you.

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/366707/180 "2006-08-04T16:05:36Z")

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[QUOTE=Sunspace]  
:: waves ::  
Please add **Kythereia** to the list of Canadians.  
[/QUOTE]

I grabbed this on  
Kythereia Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 6,106 Location: Toronto, Canada

and added it to the summary file.

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