Here's Your Sign

[davedove]

Although they are sort of humorous, the comments about New Mexico and West Virginia are sort of sad too. I could understand someone from another country not knowing the difference, but these were people from the States.

What that is showing is that many in the US not only don't know about other countries, they don't even know about their own.

[Smayniac]

Although they are sort of humorous, the comments about New Mexico and West Virginia are sort of sad too. I could understand someone from another country not knowing the difference, but these were people from the States.

What that is showing is that many in the US not only don't know about other countries, they don't even know about their own.

I wonder if the state quarters will have any effect on this? Scooby is very into them, and I imagine many other kids are as well. It certainly can't hurt.

Bob

[Ian.MacAllan]

Do you walk to school or take your lunch?

That was a reasonable question in many places in the USA during World War II because almost anything (e.g., gasoline, rubber, steel) used to build, operate, or maintain any kind of wheeled vehicle (even bicycles, tricycles and children's wagons) was rationed in support of the war effort. It took my father fully four months just to find me a bicycle in 1944, and it turned out to be made of parts from four different brands of bikes.

FYI, I walked. It was only three blocks, but it was uphill both ways---there was a ridge in the middle. Dad wouldn't let me ride my bike lest it be stolen while I was in class.

Those who rode carried their lunch so they'd need to make only one round trip per day. Food rationing made a school lunch service too complicated to be practical.

I think it was during the 1960's that the US Senate Postoffice briefly refused to deliver franked mail to New Mexico on the grounds that the Senators' franking privilege applied only to domestic mail.

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[Southern Breeze]

As a landscaper I've heard a LOT of stupid things.

For example, we were laying fescue sod and a neighbor asked "Is that grass?" Here's your sign.

I went out on a service call to fix an irrigation system once. The problem? It was getting the grass wet.