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- From: patrick@rio-grande.is.rice.edu (Patrick L Humphrey)
- Subject: Re: From the Commonwealth to 53rd State
- In-Reply-To: wright@tsunami.cs.odu.edu's message of Wed, 23 Dec 1992 17:45:34 GMT
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- In article <WRIGHT.92Dec23124535@tsunami.cs.odu.edu> wright@tsunami.cs.odu.edu (LET'S DO EDUCATION) writes:
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- In article <phone.724965258@coombs> phone@coombs.anu.edu.au (matthew green) writes:
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- avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed) writes:
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- >So when does Australia become the 53rd state ?
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- Become ? Isn't Australia already part of the oh, so amazing United
- States of America ?
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- You can join the United States' Manifest Destiny if you wish, but there is
- only _one_ Commonwealth in the US and that is VIRGINIA.
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- Oh? You might want to notify the folks in Frankfort, then, as they've only
- been calling themselves the Commonwealth of Kentucky for the past 200 years.
- :-)
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- --PLH, we knew to get out when the gettin' was good
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