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Don’t you just love Americans for being geographically challenged. Look at the photo which is part of the map display in the 390th BG memorial at Pima.
When did the Mersey get a barage to turn the estuary into a lake? And just why would Southport want to be renamed Liverpool? May be the original disapeared under the lake formed by the barage? (one can only hope) :p
By: Newforest - 30th July 2008 at 08:40
It appears on my screeen and it works as I have just proooved! Or not. IEspell is a programme that has to be downloaded from IE and I am not using IE for this post.:)
By: Moggy C - 30th July 2008 at 07:37
Doesn’t appear on my screen. :confused:
How odd
Moggy
By: stangman - 30th July 2008 at 01:13
spell checker revealed
is this it ?
By: Bager1968 - 30th July 2008 at 00:46
Well, obviously. You came up with ‘all of Europe.’
My mistake, as I am used to thinking of the eastern border of Europe being where the USSR/CIS started… so any former Soviet “republic” isn’t Europe to me.
It is hard to re-draw the borders in my mind, unless I stop and re-think the map.
That comes from being born in the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis (the shipments of equipment to Cuba started in June 1962, one month before I was born), and completing my 8 years in the USMC 4 months before the “fall of the Berlin wall”.
By: Zebedee - 29th July 2008 at 15:01
I think its a tad unfair to castigate our American cousins over this one… As a resident of the Wirral for most of my 39 years, I’ve lost track of the amount of times our beloved little peninsula has been replaced with the River “Dersey”…
Admitadly this is the first time i’ve seen it replaced by a lake…
Zeb
By: BeeJay - 29th July 2008 at 14:05
Thats hardly fair.
Who here, hands down, could pinpoint and draw the state borders of Illinois on a map? Or name the capital of Montana?
Montanaville??:D:o
By: Arabella-Cox - 29th July 2008 at 09:39
Errrrrrrrrrrr………I can’t find it either.
Spell check is useful but if folk just read through what they had written before hitting the “send” button I am sure they would “self check” many mistakes. Certainly works in my case, doesn’t mean some don’t get through.!!!!
Planemike
By: Moggy C - 29th July 2008 at 09:28
.. on the right hand side of the reply box is a little tick, with ABC above it.
Any chance of a screen shot Bruce? I can’t see it :confused:
Moggy
By: Pete Truman - 29th July 2008 at 08:54
Many years ago, when I was a student at Portsmouth, the carrier USS Enterprise docked with it’s compliment of escorting warships, they were doing a final European tour on the way home from action in Vietnam.
One evening it happened be my 19th birthday and we went out on the town, which of course happened to be full of USN sailors. A group of sailors from the Enterprise latched on to us, they were of a similar age and background, except whereas they should have been at college like us, they had just been forced to fight a war, in fact it turned out to be probably the best birthday celebration I ever had, but thats another story.
What was very very funny, was that when the sailors found out I was from Nottingham, they questioned me intensely about the Robin Hood legend and decided on the spot that I should take them up to Sherwood Forest, like now, pal. When I pointed out it was 200 miles away and I didn’t have a car, they started to make arrangements to hire one. No, No, 200 miles on British roads will take all night, it’s winter, it’s dark, your ship sails at 8:00 in the morning. It didn’t make any difference, their minds were set, they were determined to see the real Sherwood Forest, end of story. I seem to remember that one of them was from Kansas and he pointed out that 200 miles was nothing to him to get to the nearest decent shopping mall.
In the end I got out of it by promising to get them into the Tricorn nightclub, no mean feat. There happened to be a Student Union conference on the floor above, I appeared at the lift with 6 US sailors in full uniform, flashed my Union card and explained that they were ‘American Student Union Observers’, it worked, we went up to the conference, swapped lifts and went back down a floor to the night club kitchen and got in by the back way.
What a night ensued.
Americans, I love em.
If any of you who took part in that evening are looking at this by the way, please let me know, I’d love to know what happened to you guys.
By: Bruce - 29th July 2008 at 08:41
The forum software does have a spellchecker – on the right hand side of the reply box is a little tick, with ABC above it.
Job done….
Bruce
By: Arthur - 29th July 2008 at 07:26
I guess you included Ukraine… etc?
Well, obviously. You came up with ‘all of Europe.’
By: Bager1968 - 29th July 2008 at 05:46
I guess you included Ukraine… etc?
By: Arthur - 28th July 2008 at 13:52
When you remind them that (not including Alaska) the US is larger (much larger) than all of Europe, they say “Cannot be, old chap!”
Europe: 10.400.000 km²
United States, including Alaska: 9.629.091 km²
I know it’s a tight fit for all those American egos, but all of Europe is definately bigger than all of the US and A :diablo:
By: Arabella-Cox - 28th July 2008 at 10:20
but knowing that saying Hampshire will mean nothing to the locals I’m lucky to be able to say “I live close to Stonehenge” because they have at least heard of that
We must be pretty close then, Thats how I describe where I live, substituting Hampshire for Wiltshire (although its marginal).
By: Moggy C - 27th July 2008 at 23:09
High on my wish list for 2009, is that all aviation forum could include a spell checker !
Ditch Internet Explorer and upgrade to Mozilla Firefox and you’ll find a very serviceable spell checker for your forum postings.
Moggy
By: Arabella-Cox - 27th July 2008 at 22:39
Oi leave my dislesix fingers out of it. wot use are spool chuckers anyway. 😮
By: Bager1968 - 27th July 2008 at 22:27
Well, we get plenty of your blokes who can’t understand why they won’t be able to rent a car & drive from New York City to Denver and back in one weekend, or who fail to understand that Washington, D.C. is not in Washington State… or that they are over 2,000 miles distant from each other.
When you remind them that (not including Alaska) the US is larger (much larger) than all of Europe, they say “Cannot be, old chap!”.
Do they mention that the first take-off of an aircraft was from a USN warship on 14 Nov. 1910, and the first landing of an aircraft on a ship was on a USN warship (18 Jan. 1911), followed a couple of hours later by a successful take-off?
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/ev-1910s/ev-1910/ely-birm.htm
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/ev-1910s/ev-1911/ely-pa.htm
And that the first take-off from a RN ship was not until 10 Jan. 1912? http://www.rafweb.org/Biographies/Samson_CR.htm
And the RN’s MOD site claims “In a remarkable event on 2 August 1917 Squadron Commander E.H. Dunning landed his Sopwith Pup on Furious’ flying off deck, the first aircraft to land on a ship.”
http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/server/show/nav.3919
:rolleyes::rolleyes:
By: keithnewsome - 27th July 2008 at 22:17
High on my wish list for 2009, is that all aviation forum could include a spell checker ! (says he after checking this very carefully) I think !
By: Moggy C - 27th July 2008 at 22:03
And how many Brits would’ve heard of Pima?
I’ve owned a couple
A black 1.7, followed by one of the 500 limited edition Ford Racing Pimas
Moggy
By: tbyguy - 27th July 2008 at 21:56
…constently…
…cluless…
…opertunity…
…just how difficult is it to open an Atlas and copy it?
Apparently it’s about as difficult as you opening a dictionary and copying it. :rolleyes:
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