http://nmallory.exit-23.net/20060502/where-in-the-world-is-iraq & Other Discombobulated Thoughts Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:39:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 http://nmallory.exit-23.net/20060502/where-in-the-world-is-iraq#comment-2145 Andy Tue, 02 May 2006 21:44:56 +0000 http://nmallory.exit-23.net/20060502/where-in-the-world-is-iraq#comment-2145 I was in a diner in Delaware a couple of years back and the placemat had one of those puzzles - fill in the names of US states based on how many started with each letter - It gave you how many "N's" there were (for example) and you had to list them. I got them all except for this single 'N' which I was struggling with - bearing in mind I'm from England - and just as the waitress came with the order I got it - New Mexico. She witnessed me writing this final state name and said ' Oh yes - New Mexico - that's one of the new ones - I think they joined about 5 years or so ago'. Priceless! But.... I wonder how many English schoolkids could put the county of Rutland on the English map with any degree of accuracy. I was in a diner in Delaware a couple of years back and the placemat had one of those puzzles - fill in the names of US states based on how many started with each letter - It gave you how many “N’s” there were (for example) and you had to list them. I got them all except for this single ‘N’ which I was struggling with - bearing in mind I’m from England - and just as the waitress came with the order I got it - New Mexico. She witnessed me writing this final state name and said ‘ Oh yes - New Mexico - that’s one of the new ones - I think they joined about 5 years or so ago’.
Priceless! But…. I wonder how many English schoolkids could put the county of Rutland on the English map with any degree of accuracy.

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