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I'm sorry.


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I was doing some sporcling - which I often do - and there was a quiz on Asian capitals where they give you the city, you name the country - which I have done before more than once - except this time at the end something new came up.

Ramallah.

Now this is not unheard of. Sometimes new countries are born. I believe South Sudan, Africa was the most recent (capital = Juba).

Anyway, I didn't know Ramallah so I finally clicked "Don't Know."

The answer is Palestine.

Now I am way out of touch with the news these days - so I don't know if something official has happened or someone just decided to add that to their quiz because of their own personal beliefs or what.

But there it is: Ramallah, Palestine.
 
It used to be Rangoon - back when the country was called Burma - but it became Yangon and the country became Myanmar.

I don't know what happens with these changes. It's like Peking becoming Beijing. Did something actually change or is it just better translations??? Don't know.



However that city (Yangon) is no longer the capital. The capital of Myanmar is now Naypyidaw.
 
Mudcat
I was doing some sporcling - which I often do - and there was a quiz on Asian capitals where they give you the city, you name the country - which I have done before more than once - except this time at the end something new came up.

Ramallah.

Now this is not unheard of. Sometimes new countries are born. I believe South Sudan, Africa was the most recent (capital = Juba).

Anyway, I didn't know Ramallah so I finally clicked "Don't Know."

The answer is Palestine.

Now I am way out of touch with the news these days - so I don't know if something official has happened or someone just decided to add that to their quiz because of their own personal beliefs or what.

But there it is: Ramallah, Palestine.
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Palestine became a country a couple months ago. There was a vote in the United Nations. Israel was very upset.
 
Muddy, I tried to look cool at Timmy Horton's by implementing one of your signature moves. I thought, wait till these people see how a real Canadian drinks coffee, via modifying the faulty plastic lid design. Watch and learn and be amazed...I was thinking.


Somehow I lost grip and hot coffee spilled on my hand. People laughed at me. I still have a red mark the next day.
 
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Saulty
Palestine became a country a couple months ago. There was a vote in the United Nations. Israel was very upset.
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Cool. I need people here to keep me informed of current events. I have been way out of the loop since I stopped working when I had my daily paper and the lunchroom TV on the news channel all day.

Jon Stewart can only do so much.
 
Blitty
Muddy, I tried to look cool at Timmy Horton's by implementing one of your signature moves. I thought, wait till these people see how a real Canadian drinks coffee, via modifying the faulty plastic lid design. Watch and learn and be amazed...I was thinking.


Somehow I lost grip and hot coffee spilled on my hand. People laughed at me. I still have a red mark the next day.
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Laughed at you? Maybe that is a Montreal reaction - and very probably a New York reaction - but people around here would not laugh at you. They would try to help you in an extremely polite way (and suppress the laughing until you were gone).
 
Here's how my day started today. I threw off the covers and got out of bed and, as I strode towards the bathroom, with visions of an all-fucking-business Alec Baldwin in my head, said out loud, "A-B-C."

I've been working on a song for a long time now. Probably the most difficult puzzling song I have done (well, second most). Anyway, I am right on the verge of being done with it and my plan for today is NOT to do a bunch of tinkering and see where that leaves things and see how everyone feels. No. My plan is to finish. My plan is to CLOSE.




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