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Question for the Texans reading [Feb. 24th, 2003|12:24 pm]
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This is running in today's news over here:

Educationalists in Texas have called in the BBC to help US school pupils notorious for their lack of proficiency in geography.

Are things really that bad?
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[User Picture]From: [info]bluegutterfrog
2003-02-24 05:24 am (UTC)

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Where is England again? No! It isn't that bad! well, at least not at my school.
[User Picture]From: [info]_random_
2003-02-24 06:57 am (UTC)

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> Where is England again?

You know that 51st white star they snuck onto your flag a few years back..? That's us.
[User Picture]From: [info]bluegutterfrog
2003-02-24 07:05 am (UTC)

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oOoo, I thought that was Canada
[User Picture]From: [info]_random_
2003-02-24 07:41 am (UTC)

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Canada? I thought that was still ours? I'm sure the Queen visited there a while back and they saluted her...
[User Picture]From: [info]venal_anatomica
2003-02-24 09:23 am (UTC)

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Where's Texas?

Oh! I think that's down the street, next to the Throckmortons! Great people, them Throckmortons.
[User Picture]From: [info]_random_
2003-02-24 09:29 am (UTC)

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I dunno about that - have you seen what they get up to during the full moon?
[User Picture]From: [info]venal_anatomica
2003-02-24 06:24 pm (UTC)

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No! Well, once...but I thought it was a nightmare...it took a few months of therapy to calm me down. Thanks for rubbing salt in the wound...
[User Picture]From: [info]_random_
2003-02-25 02:59 am (UTC)

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Always happy to help :o)
[User Picture]From: [info]stalkerofursoul
2003-02-24 11:12 am (UTC)

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pfffft who cares where England is! We have New England, the old ones not important!

o_0
[User Picture]From: [info]_random_
2003-02-25 03:00 am (UTC)

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A pale, pale substitute for the real thing... heck, they even have a town called Hanover there don't they? Everyone knows Hanover's in Germany.
[User Picture]From: [info]stalkerofursoul
2003-02-24 11:19 am (UTC)

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I admit, anything I know about England, Ive learned in Inspector Morse novels.
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2003-02-24 11:49 am (UTC)

Ah, Inspector Morse novels

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It is actually quite safe to visit Oxford. You are relatively unlikely to die in real life, the murder rate there is considerably lower than Colin Dexter would have you believe.

You are, however, quite likely to be run over by a herd of cyclists or trampled to death by a tour party, not done away with in an incredibly elegant puzzle featuring opera, the master of an exclusive college and his sexual misadventures

L ;- ))
[User Picture]From: [info]stalkerofursoul
2003-02-24 12:20 pm (UTC)

Re: Ah, Inspector Morse novels

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Ehe. Good to know. Though I would like to visit some of the places he talks about. Not to mention the pubs.
From: [info]nathaara
2003-02-24 04:24 pm (UTC)

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Uh... I haven't heard anything about that. Although, Texas is a pretty big state, I think I should have heard something. But then again, my district is one of the best in the state and the country, so that might be why Geography doesn't seem to be a problem... hmmm...

Me, I can find Iraq, England, Canada, and even Australia on a map... but to find or even get to Texas you need the Texas Pledge of Allegiance and a passport. ;)

DRI
[User Picture]From: [info]stalkerofursoul
2003-02-25 12:35 am (UTC)

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and a shotgun!
[User Picture]From: [info]_random_
2003-02-25 03:03 am (UTC)

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There's a big building in Trafalgar Square in central London called the Texas Embassy. It's near the embassies of New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, Malaysia and several other countries and it flies the Texan flag outside. It was years before I discovered that it wasn't a diplomatic outpost but was in fact a restaurant...
[User Picture]From: [info]_random_
2003-02-25 03:11 am (UTC)

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And here's a link to it.
From: [info]nathaara
2003-02-25 01:41 pm (UTC)

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ROTF!!!!

DRI