Text 15270, 61 rader
Skriven 2014-05-15 18:26:49 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
  Kommentar till text 15111 av David Drummond (3:640/305)
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Greetings David!

 DD>>> About 1/4 the size of WesternAus - not that big then...

 RW>> Considering the population of the two, Texas is the big thing in
 RW>> industry and agriculture. WesternAus is nothing but desert.

 DD> And shit loads of mining resources - plus the cattle industry. In the
 DD> south west there's the Margaret River wine production plus some in
 DD> the Swan Valley.

We have a shitload of mining rewources too. It's called fracturing for oil
and gas. Our cattle industry is just as big as it has always been, with
what they call Long Horn cattle now a rarity, which was the mainstay of
east coast tablefare, until the white-faced red hereford came along.

 RW>>>> Alaska is Area: 1,530,694 kmý

 DD>>> A lot of frozen nothing....

 RW>> On the contrary, lots of wildlife, oil, gas and trees. Not much of
 RW>> that in WesternAus, cept' for the crocs and lizards...

 DD> And other native Australian wildlife -  kangaroos, dingos, wombats.

Not very table worthy though.

 DD>>>>>> Sometimes I forget how small the countries are in Europe.......

 MvdV>>>>> Netherlands: 41,526 kmý.

 RW>>>> Going for smallest?! Rhode Island, 3145 kmý...

 DD>>> The city of Mt Isa here in Queensland has a land area of 43,349 kmý

 RW>> 8^) But no shoreline like RI's.

 DD> Nope just lead, copper and zinc mines.

Rhode Island has the fishing industry to keep it going.

 DD>>> I guess Rhode Island really is small for a whole state.....

 RW>> Yeah, but its existence makes up 50 states instead of 49. Hard to
 RW>> configure a star arrangement on the flag for 49 states.

 DD> ROFL - so Rhode Island is just there to make up the numbers and make
 DD> the flag easier to lay out?

No, Rhode Island is one of the original 13 colonies that helped to kick
English royalty out of here. I would imagine there are plenty of English
Royalists there, but they're not talking.


    Have a day!

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