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[chickisoup]

Hi Deb!
I recognize that sewing machine! I worked on one just like it when I was doing corrections on mistakes on leather Cherokee shoes when I worked in a small shoe factory in my very younger days (I am NOT saying how many years ago that was!!!)

Hope your trip is going well AL!

 

[chickadoodles]

Al safe and happy trails!

Scg I hope you also have safe and happy trails.

Deb look on Ebay I found a heavy duty leather sewing machine on ebay years ago. It was very old and took some large fuses or some type of fuses in the center of the body of the machine. It worked like a charm.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

@ChickenCanoe

Crazy scary story.

Glad you didn't smash into the pillars.

When I got to Austin, I pulled over and took a nap for a couple hours.



Most Americans have atrocious knowledge of geography.

 

[vehve]

CC, did you see the video a couple years back where they give people a map and ask them to point out different countries? Scary stuff.

 

[perchie.girl]

My favorite map of the US By an Austrailian.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

CC, did you see the video a couple years back where they give people a map and ask them to point out different countries? Scary stuff.

Oh yes, quite scary.
I love those tests where they ask people to point out countries or even states.
It isn't restricted to high school students though.
There are several versions of the following.



The European maps in the following link are hilarious. A handful are quite good though.
http://www.boredpanda.com/americans-place-european-countries-on-map/



http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/0502_060502_geography_2.html

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Here's Jay Leno.

 

[CanuckBock]

Heel low:

We enjoy handing foreigners "Crappy Tire" money in exchange fer their dollars. It IS honoured face value at CT...if'n you have a CT store to go to in yer area...

Yup...even got the image of...the King of Canada on it too.

Wanna buy a bridge, eh? Well do yah...lotsa good uses for bridges??

How about one of our igloos...got a great sale on them before spring break up, eh.

RCMP as in Royal Canadian Mounted Police, eh.... ​

A Canadian calls the RCMP "Hello is the RCMP?? I'm calling about my neigbour Antoine Smith. He is hiding marijuana in his firewood!"

The next day the RCMP descends on Antoine's house and search the shed where the firewood is kept.

They bust open every piece of firewood, but find no marijuana. They apologize to Antoine and leave.

The phone rings at Antoine's.

"Hey Antoine, did the RCMP come to your house?"

"Yep!"

"Did they chop all your firewood?"

"Yep!"

"Happy Birthday Buddy!"

Good Day from up here in the Great White North, eh Hosers...

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Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

Edited to call out Wisher fer the joke I typed since I learned up how to do that...

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I'm sorry, I had to share more.

 

[vehve]

CC, most of those European maps were pretty good. And I don't think you need tobe able to place every country in the world, as long as you know what continent it belongs to it's already pretty good. I have trouble placing African countries. And I wouldn't get all the states in the US right either.