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in thread How many continents have you visited?

Continents like planets have various and changing definitions...

Anyway who wants to live in a worldregion named after an oriental girl which had intercourse with cattle? ;-)

Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

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Re^6: How many continents have you visited?
by swampyankee (Parson) on Jun 16, 2013 at 12:39 UTC

    Versus living in a place named after a self-promoting European?

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      Well you know, if the internet wasn't about porn, it would be about conspiracy theories... =)

      According to Italian wikipedia about the origin of the name Amerigo#Origine_e_diffusione

      Deriva dal nome germanico Emmerich,

      OMG!

      Could it be that Roland Emmerich was always meant to infiltrate American film business and starting to undermine public moral with pictures of total disaster...???

      Let's dig into some obscure copies of long lost archives of remote province towns and we will find clear evidence about a hidden agenda to morally destroy this "Emmerich" continent.

      Cheers Rolf

      ( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

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