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Thread #107557 Message #2231260
Posted By: gnu
08-Jan-08 - 01:22 PM
Thread Name: BS: If Canadians voted in US election....
Subject: RE: BS: If Canadians voted in US election....
Charley... very few people know about that, or so it seems. The Brits sat down with the Yanks over tea and crumpets and the Yanks managed to get the border along the St. Croix. Apparently the Brits couldn't read a map. (Maybe they just couln't read the Native Peoples river names?) I forget the name of the last river they held, but it was indeed a fair piece beyond the St. Croix.
Lobster... back then, lobster, crab, seaweed, whatever, used to be hauled on shore by the netfull and thrown in the fields for fertilizer. Lobster only became "popular" around here in the great depression. And, man-o-man is it "popular" now... $12 a pound for live markets today.