OK folks bored and were in for some severe thunderstorms until Mid-week.

Heres a simple True/False ? for you and please no maps


Statement is:

Some of Canada is south of some of Nevada!

[ 12-29-2003, 08:18 AM: Message edited by: HawaiianCamaro ]

Without looking at a map, it HAS to be true - otherwise, why would you ask? Unless, of course, this is trick question, in which case there is a tiny country calld "Neveda" somewhere up around the 85th parallel, and you were trying to fool us into thinking you were talking about Nevada with a fake typographical error (we all make thme, tsurt me)....aw heck....how could Canada possibly be South of Nevada?...I live in Ore-gone and I KNOW I have to turn LEFT to get there(from my house, facing Boise).

If the answer is true, then NY City is also further south than the northern NV border...

Jeff C., You always hide the results until all the votes are in! No part of the Country of Canada is south of any part of the state of Nevada! Although I have heard some rumor that one of our states is technically not a state somehow... I think it was Ohio. Something about the wording on a legal document,,,


Dan B graemlins/clonk.gif

Here is an intersting one....part of Oregon is only one hour different than part of Florida. Eastern Oregon is in the Mountain time zone, and western Floida (panhandle) is in the Central time zone - a one hour difference. Amazing, but true!

Oh, and LA is EAST of Reno (I think)

Dan, it's the flat maps that mess us up... If you use longitude and latitude as a point of reference you will see it's quite possible.

What about Canadian embassies in foreign countries. Aren't they considered sovereign Canadian teritory?

Mr.DanB:

I agree with Dennis. The first place to see the sunrise in NA is near this point. (Hint) There are no MOON-Rises here. :D J/K Also, four states are not really considered states, they are Commonwealths. Pennsylvania: Virginia: Massachusetts: Kentucky:

Rick

you forgot the Republic of Texas in the list of non states

I stand corrected. And shame on Dennis for looking at the globe. :D Mr. Jeff: I was out of town when you posted about the Super Chevy Show In Vegas and didn't see your post until it was too late. Next time you are around, look me up and say hello.

Rick

Where is "Neveda"? Spelling error or different location?

Originally posted by RSS:
I stand corrected. And shame on Dennis for looking at the globe. :D Mr. Jeff: I was out of town when you posted about the Super Chevy Show In Vegas and didn't see your post until it was too late. Next time you are around, look me up and say hello.

Rick What globe? I spent several years doing Cartography and dealing with aerial photography and the curvature of the earth... tongue.gif graemlins/beers.gif

Well, In Alabama, if you marry your female cousin and ya'll divorce, you are still considered related if the divorce was final before July 1st of the year.

Now this is funny, and left go on might have even funnier answers. Canada is the second largest land mass on earth and is north of the 48 states, but south of Alaska. Our coasts to the west lies along the City of Vancouver (above Seattle)(host of the 1988 and 2010 Olympics) and our eastern Coasts lie off the coast of Newfoundland (above ummmm? where's that map....Maine?) lmao here!

As Kyvox stated, the only thing that could be south of Nevada is am embassy or a whack of old Canadians snow birding in Arizona or Florida for the winter months.

Here is a funny one though, on a trip to Disney Land in 1991 I had the girl at the park booth as for my Zip. I told her we don't have Zip's where I live, we have Postal Codes. She then said, you must be from Canada then to which I responed yes.
This California Blonde then asked me, is Canada above Idaho. I said yes, but it's much bigger then Idaho. She said no way, I'm from Idaho and our state is bigger than Canada. (lmao now) I told her that you could take all the people in California and stuff them in half of one Province and still have room for New York in the other half. Then I told her that we could take all the mid west states and put in them in one other Province. (her eyes open wide and mouth dropped) so then I told her that we would still have 13 more provinces that could do the same thing. ThenI asked her to go out after work and get a map of the USA, and look above every US Border state and see if she could name the country above it. It was kind of funny at the time and left me wondering if she ever took a geography class in high school.

Poll Results: US/Canada trivia (41 votes.)
Some of Canada is south of some of Nevada
Choose 1
False 46% (19)
True 54% (22)

Answer is TRUE
Some of Canada is south of some of Nevada. You will have to go to the Great Lakes area to see just what parts.

I'm going to check. ;)
And I've always wondered why, with 13,000 + members, why we don't get better responses to polls?

Originally posted by hugger_sixty_nine:


Here is a funny one though, on a trip to Disney Land in 1991 I had the girl at the park booth as for my Zip. I told her we don't have Zip's where I live, we have Postal Codes. She then said, you must be from Canada then to which I responed yes.
This California Blonde then asked me, is Canada above Idaho. I said yes, but it's much bigger then Idaho. She said no way, I'm from Idaho and our state is bigger than Canada. (lmao now) I told her that you could take all the people in California and stuff them in half of one Province and still have room for New York in the other half. Then I told her that we could take all the mid west states and put in them in one other Province. (her eyes open wide and mouth dropped) so then I told her that we would still have 13 more provinces that could do the same thing. ThenI asked her to go out after work and get a map of the USA, and look above every US Border state and see if she could name the country above it. It was kind of funny at the time and left me wondering if she ever took a geography class in high school. That reminds me of a friend's wife....he was trying to eplain to her the difference between Washington State and Washington, DC, and her reply was "I was never very good at geometry."

I voted true, but initially had thoughts of Nova Scotia on my mind. It wasn't until hugger_sixty_nines geography lesson that something reminded of being in Niagara Falls and passing through Toronto on vacation. So I looked at a globe (no maps) :D and found the area just east of Detroit. Good question. I also found the time zone difference between Florida and Oregon interesting as well!!

Good one Hawaiian. You got me with one foot on the ground and the other firmly planted between teeth graemlins/clonk.gif

Payback will be coming (lol)

Two MOONS for Jeff for such a bizarre geographical fact! Now, "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood"?
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Dan graemlins/beers.gif

Hugger_Sixty_Nine;

In addition to the geography lesson ( :D ) I meant to say, "Great web site, nice job!!"

Rick

Parts of Canada are south of parts of Michigan (and several other states). Atlanta is west of Detroit. Georgia is the largest state, area wise, east of the Mississippi River. Manhatten is the smallest county in the United States (in area). I enjoy geographical trivia also. Sorry if I bored anyone.

Toby, not bored no way smile.gif Jeff I LOVE Hawaii!!! But another trivia fact; its the most remote place on earth. And it has no snakes. (heard the snake thing from our tour guide so I hope its true!)

Isn't Canada the only country in the world where 98 percent of the people generally live just up to about a 100 miles north of it's southern border and 3000+ miles along it's southern borders length b/c if they lived any farther north it gets tooo cold??

Kind of a strip populated country sorta thing...

pdq67

Well its true that it gets cold in the winter, which unfortunately is about 8 mos. of the year. But it gets well over 100F sometimes in the summer, just like Alaska which can have super nice summer days. I'll bet if the 'strip population' thing is true, its probably because of all the major metro areas have close proximity to the border, i.e. Toronto, Montreal, etc. The country doesn't get significantly colder the farther North you go - its pretty cold in winter already.
But the weather can be quite variable. I was watching chicks in bikinis playing frisbee in December one year when I was in school - a warm front (called a Chinook) blew in and it was +65 or so for a few days. smile.gif

That's interesting b/c I was at Massena, NY once at ALCOA in the first or so of Feb. and the day we got there it had to be 18 below zero F!!

Got up the next morning and heard chainsaws going, or what I thought were chainsaws!! Was only two cycle portable generators in the backs of P/U's that were supplying power to torpedo heaters!! They just stuck torpedo heaters under the front bumpers of the vehicles parked on the street for like five minutes or so and when the motors got warm enough they fired right off!! COOL!!

Stayed a couple of weeks and they had a spring thaw AND all the snow melted off just like you are talking about!! Happened at the time of their winter festival, so go figure...

pdq67

pdq67: its -18C here tonite, going down to -30 to -37C here this weekend. Brrrrr. But I have a heated garage heh heh.
Here in the West where I live we get these great warm fronts that break up the monotony of the deep-freeze.

Hey there hugger_sixty_nine buddy! I like your site! (he lives 100 mi. South of me)

ruquikr
Tech Team

Hey there hugger_sixty_nine buddy! I like your site! (he lives 100 mi. South of me) Howdy Neighbor!

Yea it's fricking cold here this week as well. About -20 Celcius today and going to -28 or -30 tonight from what I hear. This weather should be lasting about a week or so as the cold air is pushing down from the pole over Alaska and into our sandbox. I am sure this front pushes down into the mid west states as well and is sure to affect Montana, Idaho, Colorade and the Dakota's.

I live in Calgary where we often get these freak warm spells called "Chinooks" as the warm pacific jet streams come over the rocky's and pushes the cold air out for weeks at a time. Where the rest of the northern US states and Eastern Canada get the cold, we are often over 40-50 degree's in January and February for sometimes a week straight. Only one problem, it can be +15 Celcius one day, and then it can go 30 degree's the other way in a 24 hour period. Kicks the crap out of ya when it's that drastic.

As for the comment about Canada's population living along the US Canadian Border, that is mostly true. The bulk of the Major City's are within a short drive of the border. There are also some northern cities that are significant in size, but most are along the border.

PDQ67 should win a couple acres of vast Canadian land in (Saskatchewan) for coming up with that little trivia note. Most have no idea about that and it was very accurate. As for the land in Saskatchewan, it can also be had for free but nobody wants to live there (lol) j/k but almost!