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Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by ChicagoMotorman on Thu Jul 2 08:51:06 2015

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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by R2ChinaTown on Thu Jul 2 08:54:53 2015, in response to Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by ChicagoMotorman on Thu Jul 2 08:51:06 2015.

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Not in upstate NY, anyway. They just think that it's a day we celebrate by eating dates and cow chips and shoot off those mini scuds for practice.

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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by LuchAAA on Thu Jul 2 13:19:12 2015, in response to Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by ChicagoMotorman on Thu Jul 2 08:51:06 2015.

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but AMericans do!

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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Jul 2 16:58:35 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by R2ChinaTown on Thu Jul 2 08:54:53 2015.

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Yeah, but ours is more up close and personal and the cheese is free. :)



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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by R2ChinaTown on Thu Jul 2 17:02:46 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by R2ChinaTown on Thu Jul 2 08:54:53 2015.

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Don't see you in the picture. More of your make believe world, no doubt.

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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by 3-9 on Thu Jul 2 17:08:44 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Jul 2 16:58:35 2015.

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Only if it's mozzarella or sharp cheddar. :-)

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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Jul 2 17:29:59 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by R2ChinaTown on Thu Jul 2 17:02:46 2015.

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Heh. You really need to go find that lawyer, you'll never have to work again. :)

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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Jul 2 17:31:15 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by 3-9 on Thu Jul 2 17:08:44 2015.

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We've got that too. :)

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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by AlM on Thu Jul 2 17:35:00 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Jul 2 17:31:15 2015.

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You missed the days of upstate before they had amenities. You want bread? The Wonder Bread is in aisle 3.



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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Jul 2 17:49:48 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by AlM on Thu Jul 2 17:35:00 2015.

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That had to be out of towners. Everybody up here did Freihofer's until it got sold. And those cookies! :)

And out of the cities up here, they DELIVERED right up to the end.



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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by AlM on Thu Jul 2 18:01:43 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Jul 2 17:49:48 2015.

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My days upstate precede yours by 25 years. My parents came to New York in July 1950 and spent the summer at the summer house of my mother's childhood friend in far western Greene County. I was born in early 1951 and there's hardly a year I haven't been back.

Believe me, when I was young, it was Wonder Bread (and its ilk) or starve.

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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by bingbong on Thu Jul 2 18:14:29 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by AlM on Thu Jul 2 18:01:43 2015.

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He spent his childhood summers two hills further north. I spent much of mine around Indian lake, which was an hour plus north of you both. It was Friehofers or Vermont's Koffe Kup for baked goods. Yeah, you could get Wonder bread, the NYC staple, but why? The local bakeries were so much better.

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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by R2Chinatown on Thu Jul 2 18:19:32 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Jul 2 17:29:59 2015.

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I guess that would be unlike you who will probably have to work until you fall over on the side of the road.

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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by 3-9 on Thu Jul 2 18:19:54 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by AlM on Thu Jul 2 18:01:43 2015.

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Hah, yeah, I had Wonder bread when I was a kid too. Now, it's one of those things I'm absolutely NOT nostalgic for. :-)

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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Jul 2 18:21:17 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by AlM on Thu Jul 2 18:01:43 2015.

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Same age, bro. My folks had a summer house in southwestern Albany county out route 145 in the hills on a lake. We spend every summer up there instead of the stinking city. That's why when I finally had my fill of the city, I moved up to where I lived as a kid full time.

In Albany county though, the Freihofer's bread truck came every other day, the Bordens milk truck came the alternating days and we even had an ice cream truck daily way way out in the sticks. On Saturdays, it would be the once a week 20 mile haul down to Middleburgh to hit up the A&P for supplies. But since bread and milk were delivered, we didn't want any Wonder bread. :)

Should have moved a bit further north. You would have LOVED Freihofer's. For a while, you could even find their ORIGINAL stuff in the city. Now that they're owned by Bimbo you can probably find it anywhere down there, but it's gone completely to shit.

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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Jul 2 18:22:38 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by 3-9 on Thu Jul 2 18:19:54 2015.

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My folks always bought Arnold. Stuff was always stale right out of the wrapper. Heh.

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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Jul 2 18:25:08 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Jul 2 18:21:17 2015.

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Oh ... meant to add ... my folks bought that house in 1948, so I was tooling upstate when I was still in diapers.

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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Jul 2 18:29:04 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by R2Chinatown on Thu Jul 2 18:19:32 2015.

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I can quit anytime I want to. Retired from the state back in 1998. Retirement is cool for a few weeks, then it gets boring. I'm gonna keep piling money into the bank until THAT gets boring. :)

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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by LuchAAA on Thu Jul 2 19:29:11 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by AlM on Thu Jul 2 18:01:43 2015.

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your vague posts are one of your trademarks.

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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by AlM on Thu Jul 2 19:33:47 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Jul 2 18:21:17 2015.

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Ah, OK. I think though until about 1970 anything west of Windham or Hunter was still the wilderness. That's when the predecessor to the Great American moved from a really small building to a full size market.

Better down at lower elevations. :)




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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Jul 2 19:59:27 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by AlM on Thu Jul 2 19:33:47 2015.

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Heh. Yeah, it was mostly summer residents, and everything got boarded up for winter. They didn't really do much road plowing either, the locals who lived year round could be counted in the dozens and had snow cats and the like.

Middleburgh is over in Schoharie county to give you an idea of the distances, so those trucks were pretty handy. They came door to door for you. But in winter, you were truly on your own. That's why most upstate kitchens are as large as they are, they double as meatpacking plants. Heh.

We'd head up this way normally through Saugerties so we could hit up the huge Grand Union in Cairo for long term rations, the A&P in Middleburgh was only moderate-sized but it did the trick.

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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by R2Chinatown on Thu Jul 2 20:52:14 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Jul 2 18:29:04 2015.

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Ah yup. :)

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Re: It isn't legal to properly Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by RockParkMan on Thu Jul 2 21:01:31 2015, in response to Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by ChicagoMotorman on Thu Jul 2 08:51:06 2015.

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Fireworks freedom doesn't exist so who gives a fuck?

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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Jul 2 21:21:46 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by R2Chinatown on Thu Jul 2 20:52:14 2015.

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Works for me! :)



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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by B68 slow poke on Thu Jul 2 21:38:27 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Jul 2 21:21:46 2015.

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YEP

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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by Newkirk Images on Fri Jul 3 09:30:58 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by AlM on Thu Jul 2 18:01:43 2015.

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I was born in early 1951

You just gave your age away, which is the same as mine. :)

Bill Newkirk

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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by Newkirk Images on Fri Jul 3 09:34:18 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by 3-9 on Thu Jul 2 18:19:54 2015.

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Hah, yeah, I had Wonder bread when I was a kid too. Now, it's one of those things I'm absolutely NOT nostalgic for. :-)



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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by AlM on Fri Jul 3 09:34:55 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by Newkirk Images on Fri Jul 3 09:30:58 2015.

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I'm not stating my birthday because you never know what automatic internet trolls are collecting information. But I've got no problem with people here knowing how ancient I am. :)

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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by AlM on Fri Jul 3 09:37:10 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by bingbong on Thu Jul 2 18:14:29 2015.

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The local bakeries were so much better.

Ah, you were in a more civilized upstate.

There were no local bakeries west of the Catskill escarpment then.




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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Jul 3 09:49:05 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by AlM on Fri Jul 3 09:34:55 2015.

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I was born on the day of the pear in the year one hundred ninety one.

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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by AlM on Fri Jul 3 10:17:26 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Jul 3 09:49:05 2015.

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Is that in Nilet's calendar? :)



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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by R2ChinaTown on Fri Jul 3 10:37:14 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by Newkirk Images on Fri Jul 3 09:30:58 2015.

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Well, at least you were smart enough not to tell anyone.

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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by AlM on Fri Jul 3 10:43:38 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by R2ChinaTown on Fri Jul 3 10:37:14 2015.

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But he just did.


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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by R2ChinaTown on Fri Jul 3 10:48:16 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by AlM on Fri Jul 3 10:43:38 2015.

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Duh, you think so? You are the sharpest tack in the box.

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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by Fred G on Fri Jul 3 12:20:56 2015, in response to Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by ChicagoMotorman on Thu Jul 2 08:51:06 2015.

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Turns out it's even worse than we thought


your pal,
Fred

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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by ChicagoMotorman on Fri Jul 3 12:55:39 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by Fred G on Fri Jul 3 12:20:56 2015.

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LOL. The onion.

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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by Olog-hai on Fri Jul 3 13:53:50 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by R2ChinaTown on Thu Jul 2 08:54:53 2015.

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They eat cow chips up there?

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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by AlM on Fri Jul 3 13:57:27 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by Olog-hai on Fri Jul 3 13:53:50 2015.

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That's what he thinks. His understanding of upstate NY is somewhat limited. He thought Cuomo was an upstater and wanted proof that the Sheriff of Clinton County was one.



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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by R2ChinaTown on Fri Jul 3 14:01:56 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by AlM on Fri Jul 3 13:57:27 2015.

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Zzzzzzzzzzzzz old timer

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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by R2ChinaTown on Fri Jul 3 14:03:08 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by Olog-hai on Fri Jul 3 13:53:50 2015.

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How else would you account for his breath?

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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Jul 3 16:50:09 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by AlM on Fri Jul 3 10:17:26 2015.

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No. But it would make more sense if I knew how to write that in French.

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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri Jul 3 16:58:03 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by Newkirk Images on Fri Jul 3 09:34:18 2015.

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What the hell is WRONG with you people? That stuff was made in New Jersey. This stuff was at least made on Long Island ...



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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri Jul 3 17:07:03 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by Olog-hai on Fri Jul 3 13:53:50 2015.

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As a matter of fact, we do. And they're delicious!



(imported au Canada)

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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by AlM on Fri Jul 3 17:12:17 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Jul 3 16:50:09 2015.

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If I got it right, I think you would say:

Je suis ne le jour du poire (or le troisieme Brumaire) en l'annee cent quatre-vingt et onze.

I'm too lazy to figure out how to do accents, so a bold e denotes one with an accent aigu and an italicized e denotes one with an accent grave.

The French say "four twenty" for 80, and "four twenty and eleven" for 91.


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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri Jul 3 17:14:56 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by AlM on Fri Jul 3 17:12:17 2015.

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Correct! That's because the French aren't republicans and can math. :)

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Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July

Posted by Spider-Pig on Fri Jul 3 17:17:05 2015, in response to Re: Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by AlM on Fri Jul 3 17:12:17 2015.

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I do know how to count in French, so I do know that they gave up when they got to 60.

Also accents are easy on a Mac. Just doing my duty for the cult. ت

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Can You Answer The 21 Questions That Every American Should Know? (WAS Why We Celebrate 4th of July)

Posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Mon Jul 6 12:25:34 2015, in response to Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July, posted by ChicagoMotorman on Thu Jul 2 08:51:06 2015.

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here is the quiz

I got 21/21

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Re: Can You Answer The 21 Questions That Every American Should Know? (WAS Why We Celebrate 4th of July)

Posted by AlM on Mon Jul 6 12:39:15 2015, in response to Can You Answer The 21 Questions That Every American Should Know? (WAS Why We Celebrate 4th of July), posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Mon Jul 6 12:25:34 2015.

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So did I. I wasn't actually 100% sure whether Election Day can ever be November 1, but I got it right.


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Re: Can You Answer The 21 Questions That Every American Should Know? (WAS Why We Celebrate 4th of July)

Posted by bingbong on Mon Jul 6 12:55:18 2015, in response to Can You Answer The 21 Questions That Every American Should Know? (WAS Why We Celebrate 4th of July), posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Mon Jul 6 12:25:34 2015.

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Not a very hard test. 21-21. :-)

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Re: Can You Answer The 21 Questions That Every American Should Know? (WAS Why We Celebrate 4th of July)

Posted by ChicagoMotorman on Mon Jul 6 13:38:08 2015, in response to Can You Answer The 21 Questions That Every American Should Know? (WAS Why We Celebrate 4th of July), posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Mon Jul 6 12:25:34 2015.

fiogf49gjkf0d
We salute you! You got the top score! Which means you got more answers right than 90% of the population. You understand the intricacies of this great nation and how it works. You might as well move to D.C. right now, they could use a mind like yours to set things right!

What other questions should every American be able to answer? Tell us in the comments!



Does this mean I also got all the answers correct?

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