Heh.. French *Guiana* !?!

Post #13,824 by Ashton 10/17/01 4:35:42 PM Reply	Heh.. French Guiana !?! Ah yes.. they Are a funny race.. they.. However that last wasn't so bad after all, now was it? Especially good antidote to anyone's creeping Puritan tendencies, I'd say :-P But then the Brits thought to keep Their version of a Guiana a while too. And Spain - well, they managed to fuck up a whole continent! from their tiny medieval-think prison. How's come we aren't ragging the Spaniards for setting things up for the [ugh] missionaries and the predictable genocides of kinda neat red folk hereabouts ? (At least - ain't never heard of a &*$%($^ Finnish Guiana! or Danish Equatorial Africa! or Swedish Protectorate!) Er well - the Danes did got Iceland, but - it's a dry heat.. Never mind. Just contemplating how we all got ourselves into the bizness mindset, despite its common thread of utter boredom.. in its repetitive, subhuman daily droid-work [??] with lies for breakfast. What are we then: just fucking biped packrats? Ashton
Post #13,839 by a6l6e6x 10/17/01 5:53:24 PM Reply	The Danes do have Greenland. 2,175,600 sq km (about 84% ice-capped) is not chicken feed. That's slightly more than three times the size of Texas. [link\|http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/gl.html\|According to the CIA.] Alex Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
Post #13,858 by Ashton 10/17/01 7:14:18 PM Reply	Yabut a climate just as ugly - only opposite temp direction!
Post #13,942 by CRConrad 10/18/01 8:54:11 AM Reply	Yeah, they kept it when Iceland broke free. So what?
Post #14,033 by a6l6e6x 10/18/01 5:00:19 PM Reply	Ashton was obsolving Danes of New World "colonies". Alex Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
Post #14,043 by CRConrad 10/18/01 5:42:03 PM Reply	Ah, OK,I see. But since the prevailing definition of "New... ...World" seems to be, "that stuff Columbus found (and never mind the Vikings)", the case could be made that Greenland is actually "Old" World. OTOH, of course, they did have colonies in the "Real New World", as did Sweden. Both had some islands in the Carribean IIRC (Sweden's is (was?) called St Bartholome'), and what used to be New Sweden is now pretty much Delaware, I gather. Dunno if Denmark had anything on the North American mainland, though. Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Knows Fucking Everything
Post #13,914 by mhuber 10/18/01 1:52:59 AM Reply	Well, there was at one point. If I recall correctly, there was, at one point, a bit of a certain island that was called "Danelaw". ---- "You don't have to be right - just use bolded upper case" - annon.
Post #13,943 by CRConrad 10/18/01 8:54:49 AM Reply	And what continental shelf, exactly, do you think... ...that little island rests on??? The "Channel" is an intra-continental sound. (Or is Staten Island not a part of North America, either?) WTF is it with you Americans and your conception of geography -- do you ALL somehow fucking think Britain is not a part of Europe?!? Who the fuck told you that -- Maggie Thatcher on one of her anti-EU sprees, or what? Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Knows Fucking Everything
Post #13,967 by mhuber 10/18/01 11:26:57 AM Reply	Sure, for some values of "Europe" But it sure ain't part of Denmark. ---- "You don't have to be right - just use bolded upper case" - annon.

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