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We have cows, beer, and deep fried cheese curds, often handed to you by retirees in undersized paper hats.

But only in the summer, otherwise it's cold as f~%@, still got the beer, cows (they're incredibly warm to cuddle with on a cold winter's night) and cheese curds, but they're usually reached by midnight drunken snowmobile forays, lousy with whitetail deer.


Didn't Wisconsin cheese win the best cheese in the world in some contest recently?

The town I grew up in had a cheese making plant. I miss cheese curds.


It did.


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When I was in college a bunch of friends and I drove into Wisconsin from the UP of Michigan. Because compared to the UP, Wisconsin is a glowing beacon of modern civilization... and we wanted to watch a current movie and that was the closest place with a modern theater and a shopping mall. Apparently they use hay to winter proof the roads in northern Wisconsin instead of salt. And I had never seen SO MANY deer in my life. Whole herds just standing in the road munching on the hay. And they weren't about to give up their spots to some cars, we had to bump and swerve our way past them all at super slow speeds. It was just crazy.


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Chemlak wrote:
Set wrote:
No relation to 'Old' Hampshire, wherever the hell that is.
Hampshire, England, Great Britain, United Kingdom: county. The "bit in the middle, right at the bottom". Known for... being in the middle, right at the bottom, and thus not being too close to London to be all swanky, nor too close to Cornwall to think that it's not actually part of England, nor too close to Birmingham to "talk loik this". May contain nuts.

And birthplace of the legendary Troggs.


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captain yesterday wrote:
snowmobile

*Eyebrow twitch*

Just another part of the linguistic gulf between Alaska and the rest of the world, just another part of the linguistic gulf between Alaska and the rest of the world, just another part of the linguistic gulf between Alaska and the rest of the world...

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What do you call them? "Moose-equalizers?"


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I'm Hiding In Your Closet wrote:
What do you call them? "Moose-equalizers?"

Snowmachines.

Because they are not toys.[/indignant nostril-flared snorting]

And, I suspect, because in the early days, they weren't competing in the popular imagination with snow-making equipment at ski areas... but yeah.

May have to go make a "How to speak Alaskan" primer somewhere around here...


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Cole Deschain wrote:
I'm Hiding In Your Closet wrote:
What do you call them? "Moose-equalizers?"

Snowmachines.

Because they are not toys.[/indignant nostril-flared snorting]

And, I suspect, because in the early days, they weren't competing in the popular imagination with snow-making equipment at ski areas... but yeah.

May have to go make a "How to speak Alaskan" primer somewhere around here...

Up where I'm originally from (New York's eastern Adirondacks), they're "sleds," or, less commonly "rigs" or "skids." They don't much go for multi-syllable words in the Champlain Valley.


Looks like we're going down the regional dialect rabbit hole yet again...

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Cole Deschain wrote:

May have to go make a "How to speak Alaskan" primer somewhere around here...

Well, the question must now be asked:

What is "Alaskan for Beer?"


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David M Mallon wrote:
Up where I'm originally from (New York's eastern Adirondacks), they're "sleds," or, less commonly "rigs" or "skids." They don't much go for multi-syllable words in the Champlain Valley.

"Rig," "sled," and "ride" are acceptable up here in a way "Snowmobile" is not.

I'm Hiding In Your Closet wrote:
What is "Alaskan for Beer?"

As one of the fifty United States?

Beer is of wildly varying quality- we have some pretty decent local breweries and microbreweries, but we run the gamut from godawful homebrew in nominally dry villages all the way to vast stacks of Bud Lite cans accruing in homes in more settled communities...


I'm just going by what the Ski-Doo ads call them, I've never actually ridden one, but they are always parked at the various country bars littering the landscape.

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Come Mr. Tally-man, tally me Paizo!:

USA...
-...But Not Particularly Happy About It: 5
-...But Refuses to Admit It: 3
-...But a Suspected Secessionist: 2
-...Bordering On Our Resource-Rich But Disaster-Prone TMI Territory: 8
-...And Maybe a Bit Too Enthusiastic About It: 7
-...And Suspiciously Taciturn About It: 3
-...But Not For Much Longer: 2
-...True-Blue, Red-Blooded, White-Hat Citizens Remaining: 11
-...in Sum Total: 41

Denmark: 2

UK (modern fantasy's loyal homeland): 16

Poland: 2

South Africa: 1

Italy (if you ever miraculously find a black-and-white composition notebook with better-than-pedestrian-quality drawings, cartoons, and notes, all in English, that looks like it might be about 18 years old, somewhere around there, let me know): 2

Australia: 5

Sweden: 2

Canada (C'mon, Tiny little Britain's got you beat by more than double!): 7

UAE: 1

Germany: 4

France: 4

New Zealand Middle-Earth: 4

Egypt: 1

Belgium, man!: 1

Finland (And it's dark too?!? Wish I was there!): 2

The Netherlands: 2

Mexico: 2

Chile (not so much a country as a vertebral column for a continent): 1

The Action Figure Homeworld Taiwan: 1

Thpain: 1

Israel (Please clear the runway!): 1

Argentina: 1

Liberty's Edge

USA by way of Sweden, but not for much longer . . .


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I'm Hiding In Your Closet wrote:
What do you call them? "Moose-equalizers?"

We are here to STAND UP for moose rights!


Gorbacz wrote:
It's not just the Anglo-Saxons, we're calling the place 'Bawaria'. Also, we're calling Aachen 'Akwizgran' and Koeln is 'Kolonia' while Kiel is 'Kilonia', because we could.

Köln, Cologne, Colonia, Kolonia are all coming from the original roman name of that city: Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium (city rights since 50AC)

as the people there like to sing: Viva Colonia


aeglos wrote:
Gorbacz wrote:
It's not just the Anglo-Saxons, we're calling the place 'Bawaria'. Also, we're calling Aachen 'Akwizgran' and Koeln is 'Kolonia' while Kiel is 'Kilonia', because we could.

Köln, Cologne, Colonia, Kolonia are all coming from the original roman name of that city: Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium (city rights since 50AC)

as the people there like to sing: Viva Colonia

Aachen/Akwizgran in latin: Aquisgranum


You can throw up a Kuala Lumpur Malaysia into that there tally of yours if you wish to.


Gorbacz wrote:
It's not just the Anglo-Saxons, we're calling the place 'Bawaria'

Bavaria/Bawaria in German: Bayern (the name of the place and of the people) but the original germanic tribe is named "Bayuwaren" sometimes the people of Bavaria are called that as well, or as cuss word: Bazies

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Born in Belgium, but native of California, with Spanish, Chinese, Filipino and a smidgen of Belgian blood in my veins, and now living in Cheliax (Manhattan) New York.

RPG Superstar 2009 Top 16

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Born in Trinidad now living in New York.


Squeeze another one into Essex, England, UK.
Loving Davids map, thank you.


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Current map of locations, according to best information available
Updated
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Update #7


Limeylongears wrote:
Chemlak wrote:
Set wrote:
No relation to 'Old' Hampshire, wherever the hell that is.
Hampshire, England, Great Britain, United Kingdom: county. The "bit in the middle, right at the bottom". Known for... being in the middle, right at the bottom, and thus not being too close to London to be all swanky, nor too close to Cornwall to think that it's not actually part of England, nor too close to Birmingham to "talk loik this". May contain nuts.
And birthplace of the legendary Troggs.

If given the opportunity, ask my dad how he saved their lives.


captain yesterday wrote:
I'm just going by what the Ski-Doo ads call them, I've never actually ridden one, but they are always parked at the various country bars littering the landscape.

Here in Quebec, we tend to just call them Ski-Doo, even if they have a proper nomanclature.

@ Cole Deschain: Snow Machine, Snow Mobile, Snow Bike... I think snow machine might be used more for the Van/mini-Van version.


I'm Hiding In Your Closet wrote:


UK (modern fantasy's loyal homeland): 16

...

Canada (C'mon, Tiny little Britain's got you beat by more than double!): 7

Since the population of Canada's about 35 million and the UK's is 64 million, that's about right :)


aeglos wrote:
or as cuss word: Bazies

Says the guy who lives in the next state over!

My home city is a lot closer to Frankfurt (just up the Main, in fact) than it is to München, by the way.


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Kirth Gersen wrote:
aeglos wrote:
or as cuss word: Bazies

Says the guy who lives in the next state over!

My home city is a lot closer to Frankfurt (just up the Main, in fact) than it is to München, by the way.

Aschaffenburg ?


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Curse my American phonetic desire to pronounce that as Ass Chaffing Burg!

It's okay, I'll show myself out.


aeglos wrote:
Kirth Gersen wrote:
My home city is a lot closer to Frankfurt (just up the Main, in fact) than it is to München, by the way.
Aschaffenburg ?

Würzburg/Kitzingen.


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captain yesterday wrote:

Curse my American phonetic desire to pronounce that as Ass Chaffing Burg!

It's okay, I'll show myself out.

well in German the city is just one R away from Ass Monkey Castle


another Aussie here - South Australia (the state, not a generalisation)

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David M Mallon wrote:
David M Mallon wrote:
Current map of locations, according to best information available
Update #7

That looks like a Cold War Era map of where the strategic first strike nuclear warheads will hit.

Compared to the mess we have to deal with these days, I miss the Cold War.

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baron arem heshvaun wrote:
I miss the Cold War.

We can start it up again!

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David M Mallon wrote:


Update #7

*sigh*

*sulk*

*sigh*

*sob*

While I'd give almost anything to still live in the Bay Area, please move me to the southern central region of New Mexico. I've lived here for coming up on 14 years now - hated every one.


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The cold war was not what I would call better than this. Seriously.

Scarab Sages

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More to the point, it directly caused nearly all of this. There goes Einstein's definition of insanity tapdancing across our radar like the scorpion in Atari's Centipede again.


baron arem heshvaun wrote:
David M Mallon wrote:
David M Mallon wrote:
Current map of locations, according to best information available
Update #7

That looks like a Cold War Era map of where the strategic first strike nuclear warheads will hit.

Compared to the mess we have to deal with these days, I miss the Cold War.

You know, just for the record, almost certainly a strategic target for Cold Era NATO nuclear strike is about half an hour of walk from where I live... For about a decade I was living at the edge of big target sign for nukes.

A second nuclear target, and explicitly confirmed on released list from 1954/59, was about 40 minutes of walk to the west - an old airfield strip, though it was abandoned by my times and quite probably off the newer lists by the eighties.


Of course, if that was Cold Era nuclear strikes plan, it would be much thicker on our side...

Scarab Sages

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But...but...they said we had to becauseUSTHEMUSTHEMUSTHEMDOYOULOVEAMERICA?DOYOULOVEAMERICA???DOYOULOVEAMERI CAPRECIOUSBODILYFLUIDS???!!!???!!!???
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Mein Fuhrer! I can walk!


Sissyl wrote:
The cold war was not what I would call better than this. Seriously.

How can a world situation that gave us Tom Clancy be anything but good.

:)


Aranna wrote:
Sissyl wrote:
The cold war was not what I would call better than this. Seriously.

How can a world situation that gave us Tom Clancy be anything but good.

:)

~laughter~


Yeah, sorry. Forgot about him.


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A smallish town just north of Oslo.
Born in the USA but haven't felt American for years. I still vote in elections to try to support sanity.

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Gorbacz wrote:
Shouldn't we break the UK down into whisky producing regions and the shoddy everything else? ;-)
Kajehase wrote:

UK:

Pop-and-football-country (Basically Yorkshire + Lancashire + Northumbria)

I can't believe you just linked Yorkshire with Lancashire.

How could you? You monster.


Sissyl wrote:
The cold war was not what I would call better than this. Seriously.

You can't exactly call it worst either.


Snorter wrote:
Gorbacz wrote:
Shouldn't we break the UK down into whisky producing regions and the shoddy everything else? ;-)
Kajehase wrote:

UK:

Pop-and-football-country (Basically Yorkshire + Lancashire + Northumbria)

I can't believe you just linked Yorkshire with Lancashire.

How could you? You monster.

Given that I'd already put east and west Yorkshire in the same category I figured I could just keep going :p


Nutcase Entertainment wrote:
Sissyl wrote:
The cold war was not what I would call better than this. Seriously.
You can't exactly call it worst either.

No. "Worst" would mean none of us lived on this Earth today. Which is what everyone was waiting for during the Cold war.

Scarab Sages

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Update! Update! Update!:

USA...
-...But Not Particularly Happy About It: 5
-...But Refuses to Admit It: 3
-...But a Suspected Secessionist: 2
-...Bordering On Our Resource-Rich But Disaster-Prone TMI Territory: 9
-...And Maybe a Bit Too Enthusiastic About It: 7
-...And Suspiciously Taciturn About It: 3
-...But Not For Much Longer: 3
-...True-Blue, Red-Blooded, White-Hat Citizens Remaining: 12
-...in Sum Total: 44

Hamletopia Denmark: 2

UK (modern fantasy's loyal homeland): 17

Poland: 2

South Africa: 1

Italy (if you ever miraculously find a black-and-white composition notebook with better-than-pedestrian-quality drawings, cartoons, and notes, all in English, that looks like it might be about 18 years old, somewhere around there, let me know): 2

Australia F***EN 'STRAYA!: 6

Sweden: 2

Canada (C'mon, Australia's got you nearly equaled!): 7

UAE: 1

Germany Ken: 4

France Ryu: 4

New Zealand Middle-Earth: 4

Osirion Egypt: 1

Belgium, man!: 1

Finland: 2

The Netherlands: 2

Mexico: 2

Chile (not so much a country as a vertebral column for a continent): 1

Planet of the Action Figures Taiwan: 1

Thpain: 1

Israel (Please clear the runway!): 1

Argentina: 1

(Imma chargin') Malaysia: 1

Norway (Scandinavia: Each Sold Separately. Collect The Whole Set!): 1

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