and where are you from?..

says...
"Leanne" wrote:

The post about european posters got me thinking.

Where are you all from??

Where am I from? Or where do I live? Two totally different answers.

From: Born in Alabama. Raised in Alabama and Texas.

Live: Melbourne, Australia.

I was born in Melbourne, Australia
and grew up in NSW, with brief stints in both Akld, NZ and Sacramento,
CA

Now I am at full -circle, back in Melbourne, a place I really call
'home'


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Baby, I can't wait to meet you !
EDD: 10-Apr-2004

says...
"Serenity" wrote ...

I'm enjoying the posting about where we are from, but NC OJ PT mean
nothing
to me as far as places go.
Please could you explain?
S

I'm puzzled by all the abbreviations too.
I wonder if anybody other than the Aussies or Kiwis would know where I was
if I said I was in FNQ, ... or Qld, or NSW, or Vic for that matter

FNQ.
Not unless I knew you were an Aussie


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Baby, I can't wait to meet you !
EDD: 10-Apr-2004

says...
Vicky Bilaniuk wrote:

We do both standard and daylight here, and I have to tell you that
daylight savings time is the BEST. I wish that we would do away with
standard time completely.

Daylight savings time all year round? Yep, I would be happy with
that. I don't care what time they pick. Just pick one and stick with
it.

There was a valid reason to have daylight savings time during WWI
(which is when it started). The governments just kept it after that.
There is no reason to have 2 times in this day and age. I wished I
lived in one of those places that doesn't have DST.

I love it !

It's like a pay bonus or something - keeps you feeling alive !

Viva la difference !


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Baby, I can't wait to meet you !
EDD: 10-Apr-2004

says...
I'm from Greensboro, NC

I live in south central Indiana, in a University town.

For the poor woman who doesn't know the state abbreviations in the
United States, I apoligize for the "American-centric" nature of those
posts. It's so easy for us Americans to forget that not everyone
knows what our state abbreviations mean!

I read them, know most, ask when I don't.
Then, in here, there's enough Aussies and NZ'ers that I feel I can also
type Vic, NSW and etc.

If I type an abbrev. that is not known by another, I have no problem in
spelling it out.

It's how we learn and expand.
I have no problem with others using abbreviations.



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Baby, I can't wait to meet you !
EDD: 10-Apr-2004

says...
Leanne wrote:

Where are you all from??

I'm from Alice Springs, Australia.

Next??


1.5 hours drive north of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

what town would that be, Larissa ?


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Baby, I can't wait to meet you !
EDD: 10-Apr-2004

says...
"Leanne" wrote ...

Where are you all from??

I'm from Alice Springs, Australia.

Next??



country Victoria, Australia

what town, naffi ?


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Baby, I can't wait to meet you !
EDD: 10-Apr-2004

says...
"A&G&K" wrote:

I hear ya! We did try daylight saving a few years back and we *hated* it.
Don't need it, don't want it.

I have lived with daylight savings my entire life.

me too, I love it.

I HATE the way it
screws with my system twice a year. It takes me weeks to get used to
the new time. I wish governments would just go back to standard time.

nah.
where's the fun in that ?


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Baby, I can't wait to meet you !
EDD: 10-Apr-2004

Buzzy Bee wrote:

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 17:53:07 -0500, Vicky Bilaniuk
wrote:
but then again I might just have mucked up the snipping as usual!


Yes, although there is a move to stop using it, apparently. They are
using UMT, now, or something weird like that. Universal time, but I
forget the short version.


UTC - Universal Time Co-ordinated. Which is the same as GMT.
Phasing it out would be useful if the UK were to change to GMT/UTC + 1
permanently.


This is what I don't understand. Where I live, it was always dark when
I got up to go to school (and just barely cracking dawn while I was on
the bus). OK, perhaps the city kids who only had to walk 5 minutes
could get to see some daylight, but I was a country kid and I had a 45
minute bus ride. It never bothered me too much to go in the dark. It
was better to come home and still have some daylight left. I would
think it more dangerous to let the kids play outside at night. I know
that most parents don't do that - they make the kids stay in, but I
think that kids should be able to go out.


Whether its dark or not depends very much on where you are in the
timezone. The further east, the earlier the sunrise, so if you are
well to the east of your time zone's 'block' (as the UK is) it will
rise earlier than if you are in the west.

I'm in pretty much the middle of the southern chunk of Ontario. That
would put me pretty far west in the timezone (EST).

toypup wrote:

straw, Ohio is shaped like an "O," etc.

That reminds me of a looney tunes cartoon: Ohio is high in the middle
and round at the ends. I forget the rest of the joke. I thought it was
cute. I'll have to watch it again to be reminded of how they lead into
it. ;-) It's on the looney tunes gold edition (DVD set), in the
episode that is remarkably similar to Singing in the Rain (the movie
with Gene Kelly et al.), although it came out earlier.

How many could name most/all states without looking them up?

I could probably name them all but I don't know if I could put them all on a
map - particularly the North East states and the square ones in the middle


I'll admit I
couldn't do all the counties in Britain either.
I have to add that I hadn't heard of over half of the states, and don't
know
much about the ones I have heard of, certainly couldn't place them on a
map.
I can pass on a tip that one of my tutors at Uni.. gave me:
"soil technicians from Alabama are the most boring people to meet in
Greenland!" (he'd just come back from a conference of mathematical
modelling
of glaciers in Greenland)
Debbie