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Originally Posted by vivaldirules
Good point, RCR. So I have edited my profile details. But may I just say that this seems odd coming from someone who could say he was from "Melbourne, OZ" and everyone would have known exactly what you meant.
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Well, everybody knows that Oz is New Holland...
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Originally Posted by Sparrow
I don't mind obscure abbreviations myself - I got over that in my teen years after watching some US TV shows, and then spending many fruitless hours looking for a place called Ellay in my atlas.  |
It took me the entire thread to figure out what Ellay was!
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Originally Posted by Donnageddon
Surely everyone knows where "Seattle-ish" is.
It is Oregon's Russia.
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I don't mind people saying they're from state AZ, or CA or NM, I know most of the bigger ones anyway thanks to an insatiable curiosity!
(besides, I've lived in Roswell, NM for a year... and who doesn't know where that is!)