A sentence spoken by youngest Spock (12) on the way to basketball tonight.
We-Me, Spocklette and him were talking about the "Stans"-Afghan/Paki/Kazakh-etc
Youngest said that there is one of them that is not in the same cluster as the others-well, with smart phones-the relevant maps were pulled up and we saw they are in the same cluster.
At which point-he spoke the title sentence-"I was thinking about Azerbeijan"-A couple of minutes later I started chuckling at the absurdity of the sentence and said that is probably a sentence that is not said very often. He got a kick out of that.
Then we started talking about Chechnya/Dagestan-etc-because he was wondering who the Chechens were. He has read a lot of the "American Sniper/Black Hawk Down" genre and the Chechens make appearance in "The Reaper."
"I Was Thinking about Azerbeijan"
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andrewjackson
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Re: "I Was Thinking about Azerbeijan"
That would be a good trivia question. Which independent -stan borders only one other -stan?Spock wrote:A sentence spoken by youngest Spock (12) on the way to basketball tonight.
We-Me, Spocklette and him were talking about the "Stans"-Afghan/Paki/Kazakh-etc
Youngest said that there is one of them that is not in the same cluster as the others-well, with smart phones-the relevant maps were pulled up and we saw they are in the same cluster.
At which point-he spoke the title sentence-"I was thinking about Azerbeijan"-A couple of minutes later I started chuckling at the absurdity of the sentence and said that is probably a sentence that is not said very often. He got a kick out of that.
Then we started talking about Chechnya/Dagestan-etc-because he was wondering who the Chechens were. He has read a lot of the "American Sniper/Black Hawk Down" genre and the Chechens make appearance in "The Reaper."
Conversely, which independent -stan borders the most other -stans?
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tanstaafl2
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Re: "I Was Thinking about Azerbeijan"
Not that hard a question if you have been to most of them!
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TheConfessor
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Re: "I Was Thinking about Azerbeijan"
Looks like there are seven contiguous Stans.
Borders 1 other Stans = 1
Borders 3 other Stans = 4
Borders 4 other Stans = 1
Borders 5 other Stans = 1
Borders 1 other Stans = 1
Borders 3 other Stans = 4
Borders 4 other Stans = 1
Borders 5 other Stans = 1
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Re: "I Was Thinking about Azerbeijan"
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.