For free gas? Hmmmm… let’s think about this–would that be a bargain?
:rolleyes:
and had you said that, I’d have not replied,:rolleyes: back atchya.
How many people have actually counted all the states on a map, to be sure everybody isn’t shitting them?
I had a 50 state jigsaw puzzle when I was knee high. I counted.
But she had graduated high school. In junior high, we had to memorize all 50 states and their capitals.
Anyhow, it is a little :dubious: to me that someone could spend 18 or so years in Massachusetts and not know that Rhode Island, just to our south, is a separate state.
A friend of mine, going to the Texas DMV, encountered a clerk who didn’t know that Alaska is a US state. Said my friend would have to take all the tests, and fill out a lot of other paperwork “Because we don’t accept driver’s licences from foreign countries.” Would NOT believe Alaska was part of this country. My friend had to get her supervisor, and said even that woman seemed suspicious, but let her do the simple form because she didn’t seem to want to bother any further.
That’s okay. In the middle of a Trivial Pursuit game, after being told the correct answer to her question, my SIL blurted out, “But I thought Canada was part of the United States.” We haven’t played the game with my husband’s family much since then.
She had it backwards. 
(BTW, Trivial Pursuit was developed by Canadians, so don’t trust the answers.)
Sorry to jump in so late on this, and doubly sorry if someone else has pointed it out already (although I did look, and didn’t SEE anyone mention it), but a month is not four weeks long. It is 4.3 weeks long. (If you doubt me, please note that a year is not 48 weeks long, it is 52 weeks long.) If you count months by assuming that they are a uniform 4 weeks long, some dicrepancies are bound to creep in.
Carry on.
I guess you didn’t read my post. Why would anyone living in Florida drive to Mexico for free gas from a gas station? It wouldn’t be worth the trip.
Was this whole thing a whoosh? 
:dubious:
apparently you’re the one who failed to read your post, not me (seond time I’ve quoted it) It’s right here on (edit) the same page you asked me about this even. (/edit) had you posted about how stupid it was to drive all the way to Mexico, just to get free gas, I’d have not replied. I even pointed that out.
you posted about the lack of a bridge. I replied to that. clear now?
Really? Look at a map of New England; then look at a map of the country. Look at Nevada; it’s not surprising some people don’t realize Rhode Island is a state.
I live in New England (almost my whole life) and Rhode Island is one of those states I always forget when I try to name all fifty states.* Besides, she might be confused because there were only five New England states orginally.
- I learned the states in geographical, not alphabetical, order. There is something to be said for rote learning.
My daughter tried once to incubate a duck egg between her breasts.
It really was weird for sure. I have never heard of such a thing before or since. My two aunts, who saw the bird, vouched for the truth of the situation.
So okay, here’s the song. You got to know I’ve been dying to post it.
“Parakeet eat your feet,
So tasty and so sweet!
Nibble on your nubs,
Gnaw them down to stubs.”
What’s the funniest thing, to me, is that I had forgotten I made up that song until the boyfriend I had at the time totally randomly called me long distance at two am from the West Coast and sang the song onto my answering machine. Now I can’t get the song out of my head.
What - you’re pregnant so you don’t care if your arithmetical calcualtions are nitpickingly accurate?
faints
See this is how it works in my household…
Friend: So, I hear you’re pregnant. How far along are you?
Me: Well, the DOC is January 3rd and it was a Wednesday and it’s the second of March today so I’m just about to head into my second trimestre which I’m hanging out for because that’s the good bit so that’s thirteen weeks and two days exactly, or just a bit less than three months and … hey! You still awake?
(this post brought to you by: person who will concede that if you go a full two weeks overdue you’re marginally closer to ten months than nine, but I’m still calling it nine-and-a-half)
But, see, it isn’t. Albany ISN’T important, except for being the capital. New York City is half the state’s population and it’s one of the most important cities in the history of civilization.
But Edmonton and Calgary are of equal size. And we only have ten provinces; it’s not nearly as hard as remembering the state capitals.
A couple of cousins and I were driving into Vegas to go shopping a few years back and I made some reference to Judaism. Maybe we’d been discussing religion, though I honestly can’t recall how the topic came up. What followed next, however, will be seared into my brain for life.
Cousin: Ugh. I hate Jews.
Me: [baffled and vaguely horrified] Excuse me? What do you have against Jews?
Cousin: They killed all those people during WWII!
Me: …what?
Cousin: You know, those camps where they sent people to die.
I did my best to explain that she seemed to have the Holocaust exactly backwards, but I’m not sure what good I did. This same cousin argued with me that Gypsies weren’t real people and the people calling themselves such were just posers (though she believed Wiccans were the victims of the Salem witch trials). Also, Chihuahuas are a type of rodent.
Well, that part IS true 
That could be a problem when it hatches, and believes that the first thing it sees is mom.
OK, I give.