@moshe said in countries / states represented here?:
@BigDub said in countries / states represented here?:
@moshe said in countries / states represented here?:
@BigDub said in countries / states represented here?:
@moshe said in countries / states represented here?:
30 years ago I was interested in Ham radio.
I obtained my Advanced Class license, but never had the money to buy a radio "rig".Anyway,
a tradition in ham radio was to obtain confirmation of contacts
with as many states and countries a possible.How many states and countries are represented here ?
I born in California, Missouri.
Raised in Grandview, Missouri, a suburb south of Kansas City.
Moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota,
then Dallas, Texas,
then Bowling Green, Ohio.
Then I moved to Louisville, Kentucky, in 1992 to take a job in the engineering department of a TV station.I have lived in Kentucky longer than in any other place in my life,
but I will never feel at home here.
I often joke that I am not a low-class Kentuckian,
because I am a high-class Missourian with culture and sophistication, as Harry Truman was famous for.One woman once complained to Mrs. Truman,
"Your husband is always saying "manure"".
Mrs. Truman replied,
"It took me 30 years to get him to use that word".Then there was the time that a reporter criticized the concert of Truman's daughter.
Truman threatened to whip his...See, we Missourians have class...
Morris / moshe
I think we have folks from the Netherlands, Austria, Australia, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Nigeria, Canada? I am not 100% certain of all of these.
Me? Born in Norwegian Lutheran Hospital, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, parents both Norwegian American. Now I live in Hillsborough, NJ.You would have felt right at home in Minneapolis.
Full of Swedes and Finns and other Scandanavians.
An old woman taught me how to do the "skoni" accent,
which she always laughed at.
The accent of stereotypical Swedes as seen in movies.As a person of German Baptist ancestry, I too found it amusing.
Morris / moshe
Hold on here, a minute. I see no mention of Norwegians. Just saying.
I wasn't born yesterday.
I did a Google search.
There is no such place as North Weegia...
Morris / moshe
"you can tell if a man is from Norway, when his head cannot fit through the doorway"
that has always been my guide.
There are two kinds of people in this wide big world.
Norwegians, and those who pine away wishing they were.