[=SDC=] Q47. Stannah rep, go home....
Jitze Couperus
In which country might you expect not to find any stairs?
Jitze, KBM and Bar
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Richard Maurer
In which country might you expect not to find any stairs?
Flatland
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Philip Eden
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> In which country might you expect not to find any stairs?
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Philip Eden
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> Panellorry Jitze wrote:
> In which country might you expect not to find any stairs?
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> Flatland
That was quick!
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>In which country might you expect not to find any stairs?
Totally non-serious answers:
Laputa, because people descending them might fall off the island.
The former Yugoslavia, because it's just the same story over and over again.
Khyrghyzstan, because they have steppes instead.
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Pat Durkin
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Philip Eden
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republic between North Ossetia and Chechnia.
Philip Eden
Rich Ragan
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Denmark. The name derives from *dhen "low" or "flat" and Germanic "mark":
"border land" and/or "border forest"
Rich
Rich Ragan
Namibia. Namib means "area where there is nothing" in the Nama language.
This would, of course, mean no stairs either.
Rich
Robert Lieblich
Whereas in Kazakhstan there are plenty of steppes.
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Missing the point again
Jitze Couperus
At first I thought this might be a mear miss (or more correctly
a near hit) until I googled your answer and came to the
conclusion that you must be studying FSL (Finnish as a
Second Language)
Jitze
Rich Ragan
I pondered sending this one earlier. FSL now prompts me to submit it.
Suomi (Finnish name), Soome (Estonian name), Sum' (Old Russian name): may
derive from the Finnish root suo for "marsh" or from the Baltic root zeme
for "land"
We know it as Finland, home of the wild vappu.
Rich
Mickwick
>In which country might you expect not to find any stairs?
Burkina Faso, the Land of Dignity.
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Skitt
> In which country might you expect not to find any stairs?
Antarctica.
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Weatherlawyer
> One might, incorrectly, expect not to find any stairs in Greenland.
Come on Pip, sport; you aught to know the answer with credentials like
yours.
Weatherlawyer
Not a few have been too specific to have submitted the correct answer.
Nyasaland and Lakeland might also be considered such.
Then there is the Pratchettesque stab at it:
"Ioffinge'yoffle." (Yourfingeryoufool.)
the Omrud
> In which country might you expect not to find any stairs?
Sealand.
However, having expected not to find any stairs, I see that I am
wrong:
http://www.havenco.com/photos/sealand.jpg
but that doesn't change the fact that I expected there to be none.
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Philip Eden
answer must be Bangladesh or "Free Bengal", the home of
the bungalow or "bangla house".
Philip Eden
Jitze Couperus
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>"Jitze Couperus" <couperus-e...@znet.com> wrote in message
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>> On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 13:17:35 +0100, "Philip Eden"
>> <philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom> wrote:
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>> >"Jitze Couperus" <couperus-e...@znet.com> wrote in message
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>> >> In which country might you expect not to find any stairs?
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>> >Bungalovia, which my atlas shows me is a small Russian
>> >republic between North Ossetia and Chechnia.
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>> At first I thought this might be a mear miss (or more correctly
>> a near hit) until I googled your answer and came to the
>> conclusion that you must be studying FSL (Finnish as a
>> Second Language)
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>> Jitze
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>I pondered sending this one earlier. FSL now prompts me to submit it.
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> Suomi (Finnish name), Soome (Estonian name), Sum' (Old Russian name): may
>derive from the Finnish root suo for "marsh" or from the Baltic root zeme
>for "land"
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>We know it as Finland, home of the wild vappu.
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Clearly thinking ouside the box that contains no cigars.
But that gives me a chance to debunk the supposed
etymology of the cry for help "mayday!"
Some think it comes from the Froggish "M'aider" but
in fact it has it origins with what started out as gleefull
cries in Finland - Mayday! A call to celebrate.
But that subsides into a chastened whimper of
"mayday" the next morning when the guy pulls you
out of the gutter in the main square of town, and asks what
happened.
Vappu, verb, intransitive. To become totally legless.
Jitze
Jitze Couperus
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>"Jitze Couperus" <couperus-e...@znet.com> wrote in message
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>> On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 13:17:35 +0100, "Philip Eden"
>> <philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom> wrote:
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>>>"Jitze Couperus" <couperus-e...@znet.com> wrote in message
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>>>> In which country might you expect not to find any stairs?
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>>>Bungalovia, which my atlas shows me is a small Russian
>>>republic between North Ossetia and Chechnia.
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>> At first I thought this might be a mear miss (or more correctly
>> a near hit) until I googled your answer and came to the
>> conclusion that you must be studying FSL (Finnish as a
>> Second Language)
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>Ah, well, if my weak little joke briefly excited your interest, the
>answer must be Bangladesh or "Free Bengal", the home of
>the bungalow or "bangla house".
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Oh Indeedy! Thank You!
Sheepmeister - over here!
(And no - I haven't figured out how the slug line relates either)
Jitze
Weatherlawyer
Jitze Couperus wrote:
> In which country ...
For some reason I read that as: "what type of country".
Cloud country. Mind you, it is still true until you realise that such
places are less than ethereal and not quite so Therial.
Philip Eden
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which makes stair-lifts. Their TV ads used to top and
tail "Countdown" on Ch4, a sadly addictive programme
which counts among its audience a large proportion of
that generation which might have a particular need for a
chair-lift. Plus a few hereabouts who probably don't.
Philip Eden
Areff
> In which country might you expect not to find any stairs?
Greece.
Rick Wotnaz
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> In which country might you expect not to find any stairs?
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I don't know if this really works, but: Goa.
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