Where is everyone from??

[NightKnight]

Oohh, hello then. Where do you live?

[Lalwendë]

PS Poutine is chips ("fries" to our American friends) covered with beef gravy and cheese curds. Food of the gods.

Well, leave out the cheese and then you have chips ‘n’ gravy, a dish of the gods if ever there was one and I fully applaud the Canadian culinary taste. One of the finer points of cuisine where I grew up was exceptionally good gravy, preferably eaten with mushy peas and Steak & Kidney Pudding, also known as a "Babby’s ‘ead". On the subject of cheese, Apple Pie was also traditionally eaten with a great lump of cheese. Prefer custard myself.

Claims to fame from the area I grew up in? Many marvellous, weird and wonderful bands and successful football teams (those that don't play in a red strip of course), incomprehensible regional accents, disgusting culinary habits such as cheese and apple pie...

Yes Minister is superb ... Ihave heard that truly it can be taken more or less as documentary but having failed the aptitude tests, I could neither confirm nor deny....

The tests I did were easy peasy (spelling, putting things in alphabetical order), but then they were for the downtrodden admin grunt grade - the ones they are trying to fire in huge numbers, grrrr . Trying to get straight in at any higher level necessitates a weird skill combination of mind-reading and the black arts. I know people with MAs and PhDs who have failed to get in. So feel quite pleased with yourself.

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

Indeed Aman, I was most disappointed to learn that Sir Sean was not offered the part of Gandalf for our favourite film trilogy.

I would offer a huge list of Scottish achievments a la Fordim, however I am as un-patriotic as they come so I don't think I'll bother. I think there was one other Scot on the Downs but she hasn't been around for ages.

And as for kilts, they definitely rule!

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

The tests I did were easy peasy (spelling, putting things in alphabetical order), but then they were for the downtrodden admin grunt grade - the ones they are trying to fire in huge numbers, grrrr . Trying to get straight in at any higher level necessitates a weird skill combination of mind-reading and the black arts. I know people with MAs and PhDs who have failed to get in. So feel quite pleased with yourself.

Glad you assume it wasn't the easy peasy ones I failed.....

[The Only Real Estel]

Back on topic, suffice it to say that I live in the Midwest USA - I'm not really allowed to say more than that

Wow...that's like, uh...kinda close to me.

[the phantom]

Estel and Firefoot- Midwesterners rule!!

wanders away muttering about the Cubs...

Heh... expect to be muttering about the Cubs for the rest of your life.

the bugs get really, really big here

Yeah, no kidding. My cousin in Houston used to collect bugs and show 'em off when I went down to visit.

And Fordim, I'm astounded. I had no idea that all of those things were invented by the Northern United States of Amer- uh... I mean Canada.

[Rimbaud]

And I'm in the right side of the best city. Life is good. Plus, the Empire is seconds from me down the road and I get free gig-tickets direct from the labels. Life is good. My local bar used to be a public convenience, but is now a hazy sofa-strewn über-bar that plays excellent music (well, my records, anyway!). Life is good. I walk barefoot across the road to the off-licence and grocery shops. In that order. Life is good.

The moral of the story is: don't live in Docklands. Ever. *shudders*

[Amanaduial the archer]

at least your teams consistently qualify for play in the World Cup. . .is anyone outside Canada even aware that we have a soccer team?????

...you have a football team?

Sorry, far too easy, but it really had to be said