"Elko T"  wrote in message    
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   > Blair Leatherwood wrote:   
   >> On 11/12/13, 10:42 AM, John W. Kennedy wrote:   
   >>> On Friday, November 8, 2013 1:09:10 AM UTC-5, Joe Chicago wrote:   
   >>>> I just found a YouTube thing called Star Wreck, an Eastern European    
   >>>> spoof on both ST:TNG and Bab 5. Fairly amusing. They even made a point    
   >>>> of having Garabaldi put his hands in his pockets!   
   >>>   
   >>> Although Finland is in Europe and is eastern, it is not generally    
   >>> regarded as "Eastern Europe", as it was never part of the Byzantine    
   >>> Empire, is not Eastern Orthodox, has never been Turkic or Islamic, is    
   >>> not Slavic, and was never a component or satellite of the Soviet Union.   
   >   
   >   Hmmm. It /was/ part of the Russian Empire for over 100 years, and the    
   > second largest religious denomination is the Eastern Orthodox. As for the    
   > rest, true.   
   >   
   >   
   >> Not only that, it's not usually considered Scandinavia--huge debate on    
   >> that one, but I'm on the "it's not Scandinavian" side.   
   >   
   >   That depends on where one studied geography. We had the same discussion    
   > in rec.sport.soccer. Some learn that the Scandinavian peninsula starts up    
   > at the north kink. I, however, learned it as the "Scandinavian Tiger".    
   > (You can picture it as a big cat form, Finland and parts of Russia being    
   > the hind legs and the tail.)   
   >   
   >   
   >> Poor Finland.  I think the only reason it exists is to have a language in    
   >> which to dump all the consonants no one else uses.   
   >   
   >   What about Georgia, then? :)   
      
   And Wales, too. There's the old joke about a Wheel of Fortune puzzle where    
   the topic is Welsh place names and the contestant loses control of the wheel    
   because he asks to buy a vowel.   
   --- SBBSecho 2.24-Win32   
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