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    Quote Originally Posted by Rex Brynen View Post
    Hey, I just thought it was a fun map
    eh dang canuckians stirring up trouble... You from Quebec ?
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    Quote Originally Posted by selil View Post
    eh dang canuckians stirring up trouble... You from Quebec ?
    Can't be...he posted in English.

    And it's clear to me that Rex posted the map as a fun sort of thing (although the KSC might have been a better place for that - or one less prone to confuse folks)...not as a serious expression of economic worth or value. From there it took a turn.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve Blair View Post
    Can't be...he posted in English.

    And it's clear to me that Rex posted the map as a fun sort of thing (although the KSC might have been a better place for that - or one less prone to confuse folks)...not as a serious expression of economic worth or value. From there it took a turn.
    Naw mate. Texas now owns Canada. We are once again the biggest state in the Union and rightfully so...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tom Odom View Post
    Naw mate. Texas now owns Canada. We are once again the biggest state in the Union and rightfully so...
    But we have more nukes than you do..... And once we ally with North Dakota, we'll have a respectable bomber fleet to supplement our missiles. [Boris voice from Goldeneye] We....are...inwincible!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve Blair View Post
    But we have more nukes than you do..... And once we ally with North Dakota, we'll have a respectable bomber fleet to supplement our missiles. [Boris voice from Goldeneye] We....are...inwincible!
    You'll have to get those folks in Minot to stop sending their nukes down to Louisiana--otherwise Tom, from his JRTC mole site, will figure out how to get them out of Cajun Land over to that Lone Star/Maple Leaf State/Republic/Dominion thingy.

    I wonder how you combine "Blue Bonnets of Texas" with "Maple Leaf Forever" and "Oh Canada" to get a singable national anthem.

    By the way, I also wonder whether the Habs, Senators, Leafs, and Stars can merge to bring about a hockey team that can win Lord Stanley's Cup? Even with all that talent to draw from, beating the Red Wings still looks tough.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tom Odom View Post
    Naw mate. Texas now owns Canada. We are once again the biggest state in the Union and rightfully so...
    Plus, we have Texas Rangers AND Mounties! How cool is that?

    Take that, Montana Highway Patrol/Tunisian National Gendarmerie.


    Actually, I did have a semi-serious point in posting the map, since--whatever the caveats that might be placed on measuring national economic power, and on how economic power contributes to military-strategic power--it does rather nicely highlight global disparities.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rex Brynen View Post
    Plus, we have Texas Rangers AND Mounties! How cool is that?

    Take that, Montana Highway Patrol/Tunisian National Gendarmerie.


    Actually, I did have a semi-serious point in posting the map, since--whatever the caveats that might be placed on measuring national economic power, and on how economic power contributes to military-strategic power--it does rather nicely highlight global disparities.
    Yeah...but our guys still have a number on their badges that commemorates vigilante action....

    That and we DIDN'T have either singing Mountie movies or Chuck Norris pretending to be one of us......

    And yeah, the point of the map is well-taken, both for the reasonably serious point you had and some of the comparisons that have arisen in its less serious wake.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve Blair View Post
    That and we DIDN'T have either singing Mountie movies or Chuck Norris pretending to be one of us......
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    Quote:
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    That and we DIDN'T have either singing Mountie movies or Chuck Norris pretending to be one of us......
    But we have Jerry Jeff Walker and Ted Nugent

    As well as the legacies of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Warren Zevon

    Besides Mounties are cool
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