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15 Feb 02 - 03:54 AM (#650663) Subject: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: Mikey joe We were having a conversation last night over a couple and the talk turned to what nationality meant to people. Then we wondered well if we couldn't be Scottish/Irish/Australian/French whatever where would we like to be from? The results were very interesting, and based on peoples hobbies and climate preferences before things like standard of living and employment prospects. Where would you like to be from if you culdn't be your current nationality? Mj just-a-wondering |
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15 Feb 02 - 05:19 AM (#650683) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: kendall Canadian or Scot. |
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15 Feb 02 - 05:59 AM (#650690) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: gnu If I couldn't be a Canuck ?... like, if they catch up to me and I GOTTA go ?. Yank. Maybe I'd go on an exchange program with Kendall. |
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15 Feb 02 - 07:47 AM (#650717) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: GUEST,swirlygirl I'd stop being Scottish and become Italian...cos then I'd at least have a chance at learning the bloody language properly... :) xxx (And it's warmer there!) |
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15 Feb 02 - 08:13 AM (#650724) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: Midchuck I always thought the Aussies had a good attitude toward life...even though they walk around upside down all day, and,in the immortal words of the National Lampoon "Foreigners Around the World" issue from the '70s, "...some of the native forms of wildlife have up to nine assholes." Peter |
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15 Feb 02 - 02:10 PM (#650954) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: CarolC Canadian. No surprise there, eh! |
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15 Feb 02 - 02:17 PM (#650959) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: gnu CC... you are honourary already, no ? And with a handle like CC, you gotta be ! |
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15 Feb 02 - 02:21 PM (#650962) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: Clinton Hammond I'd like to be from the planet Earth, with no borders or divisions please... |
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15 Feb 02 - 02:22 PM (#650965) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: Kim C Turkish. |
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15 Feb 02 - 02:29 PM (#650975) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: Jolene I'm a bit of everything, but always wanted to be wholly Irish. Truly though, anywhere with clean water and warm weather would do nicely. |
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15 Feb 02 - 02:36 PM (#650979) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: Miken Canadian or Irish. |
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15 Feb 02 - 02:58 PM (#650988) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: JeZeBeL Irish, or Plutonian, or French Canadian!! |
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15 Feb 02 - 03:10 PM (#650997) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: gnu Be ye an Acadian or be ye a Quebecois ? |
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15 Feb 02 - 03:46 PM (#651021) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: JeZeBeL Quebecois je pense, mais chais pas!! |
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15 Feb 02 - 04:39 PM (#651061) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: Ebbie Clinton, Bravo! |
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15 Feb 02 - 04:43 PM (#651063) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: Rick Fielding American or Scottish. (oh...and never need health care!) I almost moved to New England a few years ago....and I absolutely loved Perth Scotland. Rick |
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15 Feb 02 - 05:26 PM (#651093) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: Clinton Hammond Ta, Ebbie... ;-) |
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15 Feb 02 - 08:43 PM (#651220) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: michaelr Greek - those people know how to live. |
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15 Feb 02 - 08:55 PM (#651231) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: Lepus Rex Well, I guess I'd want to be a Kazakh, because their traditional music kicks half a dozen kinds of ass. But I really wouldn't want to live in Kazakhstan. So... I'd be an ethnic Kazakh, living in Norway. But I'd buy a good dombra before I immigrated. :) ---Lepus Rex |
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15 Feb 02 - 09:23 PM (#651245) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: Little Hawk Like Clinton said. Planet Earth. Any place would be fine. Still, I do prefer warmer climates, given the choice, and that's because I'm thin and not very well insulated. - LH |
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15 Feb 02 - 10:28 PM (#651271) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: Bill D well, much of my ancestry is Scottish, so thats a good choice...but I also like a LOT of what I have learned about Australia in the last 5 years..and they have some of the most interesting WOOD in the world, and that's my profession (turning it)....so.... other interesting choices are Swiss and Belgium (for the beer & chocolate) |
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16 Feb 02 - 01:49 AM (#651346) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: Kaleea If I couldn't be heinz 57 from America, perhaps a polynesian girl from the south sea islands? A life of singing, dancing, strumming ukes & sipping coconut & rum while counting my $$ from my million dollar resort as I gaze across the azure sea. |
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16 Feb 02 - 02:06 AM (#651350) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: JudyR I think I lot of us Americans(I'm guessing), would like to be Scottish because that's where so much of it comes from. The music, I mean. That's what occurred to me first. |
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16 Feb 02 - 02:04 PM (#651600) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: GUEST,mgarvey@pacifier.com I think I have a parallel life as a Palestinian refugee. I think in a past life I was a Ukranian woman, killed in the 1930's in some war or uprising or something. Way long ago I was a slave of the Vikings..maybe I was Scottish or something. I think I was a tanner of hides or something similar. mg |
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16 Feb 02 - 02:06 PM (#651602) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: Clinton Hammond "Way long ago I was a slave of the Vikings" So THAT'S where you got to! I've been looking all over for you! LOL! |
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16 Feb 02 - 03:01 PM (#651647) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: Mudlark Italy. Oh, to be a gorgeous, smokey-eyed, raven haired Italian beauty, listening to that glorious language in which car park directions sound like love sonnets. Rome, Tuscany, somewhere around there, not northern. And I want to live in the villa where Enchanted April was filmed. |
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16 Feb 02 - 04:16 PM (#651685) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: Janice in NJ An electrician. Unfortunately, when I was growing up that wasn't a real option. |
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16 Feb 02 - 05:30 PM (#651726) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: Deckman Suomilainen ... because that's where my values came from. Bob |
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16 Feb 02 - 10:48 PM (#651867) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: Bobert Yeah, Clinton... Earthling works fine for me... |
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17 Feb 02 - 05:09 AM (#651981) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: Liz the Squeak Welsh. Don't know why, just Welsh. And no it isn't the sheep, we had sheep in Dorset (lovely black faces and legs like they were wearing stockings..... creamy fleeces, deep, resonant voices.....), although I came from a dairy area. Or Mauritian. Cos I've always wanted to go there. I always wanted to BE a painter and decorator, but they didn't take girl apprentices then (this was just before the Sex Discrimination act... by the time that came it, I was already on my career path to frustrated secretary and general dogsbody)... I could have been that annoying woman from the furniture makeover show who paints everything pink or lime green!!! LTS |
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17 Feb 02 - 12:42 PM (#652149) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: kendall Been thinking it over, and, the Yap Islands sound good too. I understand the women still go out in public naked from the waist up? |
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17 Feb 02 - 12:57 PM (#652163) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: Midchuck Kendall - is that a good thing in all cases? P. |
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17 Feb 02 - 01:14 PM (#652175) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: brid widder I have trouble enough just being naked from the neck up! I'd like to be Irish...I'd love to have family to visit over there...anybody want a cousin? |
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17 Feb 02 - 01:15 PM (#652176) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: allanwill If I couldn't be an Aussie, I guess I'd have to be a Kiwi - us antipodeans would like to stay as far away from the worlds trouble spots as possible. Mind you, if it all ends up like the film "On the Beach" its not going to matter much in the end! Allan |
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17 Feb 02 - 01:32 PM (#652186) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: Tone d' F Polynesian with shears |
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17 Feb 02 - 09:30 PM (#652417) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: kendall Midchuck, I've never met a pair that I didn't like! |
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18 Feb 02 - 02:43 PM (#652796) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: JeZeBeL My fiends Kiwi....Bizzarre....very amusing person though!! |
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18 Feb 02 - 03:13 PM (#652815) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: Mickey191 Mudlark, everything you said-except I'll take the Villa & move it to Sorrento. Love being Irish American, but not to worry about sunburn and freckles,would be a treat. |
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18 Feb 02 - 04:49 PM (#652873) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: Gareth Ah ! LtS - Join Gods chosen people here in Wales. Gareth |
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18 Feb 02 - 08:40 PM (#653064) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: Clinton Hammond Which god? And chosen for what? Judging by the language, they're not too happy with ya... ;-) |
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19 Feb 02 - 02:45 AM (#653206) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: leprechaun Are there leprechauns in Australia? |
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19 Feb 02 - 09:09 AM (#653306) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: kendall Dont know about Australia, but, there are mental midgets in Washington DC. |
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19 Feb 02 - 09:21 AM (#653314) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: Mooh I'd choose to be a pre-European contact native north American, living in the Great Lakes region. Peace, Mooh. |
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19 Feb 02 - 10:04 AM (#653346) Subject: RE: If you couldn't be ??? what would you be From: M.Ted Whatever I was, I'd probably end up moving anyway-- |