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I agree, Sandy: Contiguous makes sense; Continental doesn't!

And now my fears have come to fruition: got an email from Alaska asking us to go there. Alas, much as I'd like to, don't think even the trusty PT Cruiser can make it to Fairbanks as well as New Brunswick in the same trip.

Too bad, I'll be in the maritimes too late for Quilt Canada this year too: I really enjoyed seeing what Canadian quilters have to offer when Nanaimo hosted Quilt Canada a few years ago.

One of my friends lived in Atlanta when the 1996 Olympic games took place there. She told me about a story in the newspaper about one of the people taking ticket reservations for the games. Someone called from New Mexico to order tickets. The reservationist would not believe that New Mexico was a state & not a country. It was quite an embarrassment. Hard to believe!!

Pauline Northern California

Very easy to believe. Kidlets graduated from a NM HS.....the out-of-state college and universities told them they had to apply as Foreign Students. DD would ask them...what is the name of the state that is between Texas and Arizona. you wouldn't believe the hemming and hawing on the other end. Even if they had heard of then Gov Bill Richardson--they thought HE lived in Mexico, too! She got the names of the ppl she was talking to and sent them maps of the USA with New Mexico circled...with a note: to save you from further embarrassment when other graduating Seniors called.

Butterfly (how do some ppl KEEP their jobs?)

I'm sort of good with North and South America, but some of those in Central America have changed their names since the 1950s. And Africa, well name changes, boundary changes! The same with eastern Europe and the Mid Mast.

Imagine my surprise when I found out that the Tigress and Euphrates were now in Iran!

I'm still pretty good with rivers, they haven't moved (much) but the countries that they are in might have changed names or boundaries.

I know that DSILs hubby is a Brit but not from London or Blackpool, and they are now living in Calgary, and their daughter is in Melbourne and now that she has bought an apartment and her "bloke" has moved in, well we don't expect her to move back to either Canada or the USA.

But I do like geography and I just bought SO a globe for his birthday. He has admired my competency in the subject as we watch Jeopardy. I can't spell to save my life, but I can use a dictionary and read.

And, Elly on North Coast Scotland, across the Pentland Firth from Orkney, between North Sea and Atlantic Ocean somewhere in the North Hemisphere, I know where Scotland is but Not where you are. Have to go look it up.

Bonnie, in Middletown, VA

DH gave me a really nice atlas back in the early 80's. About a week after I got it there was an article in the paper about a name change of an African country. The world changes fast and it sometimes can be tough to keep up on every nutty coup.

DD is a professi> I'm sort of good with North and South America, but some of those in

for more infor on location of Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, which are mostly in Iraq, not Iran.Recently finished Colleen McCullough's "Antony and Cleopatra", lots of geography in that! Roberta in D

"Bonnie Patterson" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

splains why so many decide to home school their kids, eh. i wonder if they also thot New York, New Hampshire, New Jersey were int'l too. well all those places (minus the New on each one) are in the UK afterall. doh!! j.

"Butterflywings" wrote..

It's not just the US. When I lived in France, I had trouble getting my permit to stay for the year from the local officials. Why? Because I had a US passport that listed my place of birth as California. They wanted an explanation as to why I wasn't travelling on a California passport.

(The lady handling the paperwork never did believe me that California isn't its own country, as much as we act like it at times. She finally just got tired of arguing with me, and decided it was easier to approve the paperwork than to call the embassy and have them argue with her, too.)

Yep. Me too. I was particularly good in social studies. To the point that the state came in and audited the American History regents the year I took it because I blew the curve. Of course it wasn't graded on a curve, but when they graph the scores they audit where there are kinky spots. I was good in science and OK in everyhing else, but social studies was my chance to shine.

NightMist

DH and I have been to Ucluelet many years ago. Lovely place. Took the MV Lady Rose from Port Alberni to Ucluelet for a wonderful day on the water. Donna in Bellevue, WA USA

My mum used to work in Washington - Washington, County Durham (it's in the north of England). Maybe there's more than one Washington, I never checked, but I always imagined it could be where George's ancestors came from, which sort of makes it the ancestor of the capital city in USA. It's a tiny village, or was when mum worked there.

We don't teach kids how to count back change because it's not a college-prep math task.

As to your final sentence (question): Yes, I did. PAT in VA/USA

Well, now *I* feel foolish! I have never gotten the guidelines on this utube stuff. Granted, I've only tried to look about three times. So, I can never open the utube video under discussion. I clicked on the link, then the page showed up with the title, picture of Kellie, etc, but I cannot get the video to operate. What's up with that? Am I supposed to pay for this, or register, or what?

TIA, PAT, born blonde but NOT dumb, (however, I do know some dumb blondes, also appalling stupid brunettes, clueless black haired and even dopey red haired people) in VA/USA

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Sandy: Your mean to tell me that those little ladies do NOT actually quilt that toilet paper?? What a rip off!!!

PAT, mad in Virginia!

I would have thought by now everyone would know it's knitted. :)

JA

Some people embroider on toilet paper. I found this mystifying and asked (on an embroidery group) why anyone would do this. The reply: "To make money!"

So apparently people will buy embroidered toilet paper.

Iris (not one of those people)

Howdy!

I tell the clerk, no matter the age (because many "older" clerks don't count back the change, either), "Always count back the change: your till will never be short that way." pr "The best way to keep your till straight is to count back the change."

Usually I get a grimace-smile, sometimes a "yeah, I know" and even a few "Really? No one told me!"

I used to train check-stand clerks, used to do retail bookkeeping, had to tally/balance dozens of tills every day to fill out reports, make bank deposits, send reports to the home office. Some companies are better at training, some are pitiful. Yesterday I was getting a drink at a local mini-mart, the total was $1.39, just as it has been the 100s of times before I've bought it. The clerk, without even looking at the register, said, "$1.50", and gave me 50-cents change from $2.00. He never thought about it, didn't pay any attention, his mind was elsewhere. For 11-cents I wasn't going to disturb him. But I laughed as I left; how many times will he do that? The till won't ever balance. But he doesn't care. Btw, the 11-cents didn't come out of the quilt account.

Cheers! R/Sandy -- human cash register: I can "make $change$" without thinking about it ;-D

It's probably a good thing, all in all. I often will accidentally leave a pin or two in mine.... OUCH!!!!

ME-Judy