Where is everyone from??

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by Shelob

There are the mound-builders, they lived along the Mississippi River at around the time of the middle ages. The mound-builders didn't quite build barrows they built ceremonial mounds (hence their name), but it's probably the closest in that sense...
In South America the Incas mumified their dead and continued to 'worship' them (but that's not really the best word...it's more like they treated them much the same as if they were still alive...spoke with them, brought them food, and I think there were some celebrations when they brought all their old rulers out of their tombs for the day)...
This is all I know off that's similar, though I wouldn't be supprised at 'barrow-ish' ideas appearing elsewhere in the americas...

I would suppose then, that the 'Mexican Day of the Dead' celebrations come from the Inca civilisation? That's interesting, as it is said that the ancient european cultures used to revere their ancestors by leaving food outside barrows and other tombs, even going so far as to hold celebrations in their honour, believing them to be very much still 'alive'. And in the UK there is Silbury Hill, which is seemingly nothing more than a huge mound built to 'enhance' the landscape for some spiritual purpose. Ii fascinates me how common ideas are found to be shared between cultures thousands of miles and years apart.

[Soronumë]

^^ I'm from FINLAND! mwahah.

[Thinlómien]

I'm also from Finland. I'm from Helsinki, the capital.

[wilwarin538]

I'm from Canada, eh! (hehe)

[Encaitare]

Originally posted by Fordim Who Is Not Biased Whatsoever

Canadian women are the best looking women in the world.

I shall quote an indisputable source, one which is widely known and famed in all the most posh circles:

I've been all around this great big world and I've seen all kinds of girls
But I couldn't wait to get back in the States, back to the cutest girls in the world
~California Girls by the Beach Boys

See? You can't argue with Brian Wilson.

[Gil-Galad]

well a european can, and he said that Canadian girls are the best

[Ainaserkewen]

Canada (unlike every nation in Europe and the United States) has never lost a war (including the one we fought with the US when we opened up a big old can of whoop *** on y'all).

It’s the proudest thing in our history because countries are like super competitive men who only value the fights they’ve won. Personally, I think it’s the lack of wars we’ve been in that makes it impressive.

The oldest corporation in the entire world is The Hudson's Bay Company (Canadian).

Better known as today as the Bay, Zellers and Home Outfitters. I absolutely love this part of our history.

Canadian women are the best looking women in the world.

All Canadians are fleet of foot and possessed of extraordinary grace and intelligence.

Where the natives all are happy and the lakes are fresh and clean,
There is no unemployment and no one is mean.
In the summer there’s no mosquitoes,
And the winters are never cold,
There is no clear-cut longing and no ozone hole,
Oh in Canada, your leaders are so swell,
In Canada, no one ever goes to Hell.

You Poor and Fortunate person

Thanks Shelob, I do consider myself fortunate because like you I am also cold all the time, bad circulation I think, Thanks Mom and Dad. Though you get snow every year like clockwork, I’m guessing you don’t live in the Prairies where friends of mine had snow in August!

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Fordim Hedgethistle

Some Interesting Facts About Canada That I Have Already Inflicted On The Downs But Will Do So Again Here

Canadian women are the best looking women in the world.

Merci pour les autres

Thsi may help ... or not

http://www.aaaugh.com/jokes/cultural_differences.html

A varient of this was given me by my American flat mate several years ago. The situation has changes slightly in that we now have 5 terrestrial channels and we have managed to beat the Aussies occasionally ..... once notably (thank you mr Wilkinson )

[Neurion]

Originally Posted by Gil-Galad

is it now...well one thing that caught my eye was not so long ago, maybe it was one of my teachers, but anyways, he said that if humans bled oil, U.S. will be the most humanitarian nation in the world...

Hey Gil! You still owe me an explanation!

[Formendacil]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

http://www.aaaugh.com/jokes/cultural_differences.html

A varient of this was given me by my American flat mate several years ago. The situation has changes slightly in that we now have 5 terrestrial channels and we have managed to beat the Aussies occasionally ..... once notably (thank you mr Wilkinson )

Those are HILARIOUS!!! They have all four countries spot on.

I was especially fond of the sports portrayal. That is so true of us. We obsess about hockey from the start of the season, to the end of the season, and in-between. We obsess about the American teams playing for the cup named after a British Lord (Stanley).

Gil-galad, if no one else here, will well remember all the car flags sporting the Flaming C that were driving around our fair province last May and June.

Hmm... I wonder who would win a hockey game, Gondor or Arnor. Somehow I can picture a crowd of screaming, red jersey-clad Arnorians rowdily cheering on the Fornost Flames in a Game 7 game against the Pelargir Lightning....

*Sigh. Remembers the playoffs.... Even though that's the only hockey he's ever really paid any attention to.*

[Encaitare]

well my teach says the U.S. are only in Iraq for the oil, they are totally ignoring all other things happening in the world, for example in sudan, no u.s. there to help them...no us.s gov't help for the tsunami either, all american-based private companies doing the help...

Perhaps your teacher is a wee bit misinformed...

Must ... not ... get ... political ...

[Ainaserkewen]

Hmm... I wonder who would win a hockey game, Gondor or Arnor. Somehow I can picture a crowd of screaming, red jersey-clad Arnorians rowdily cheering on the Fornost Flames in a Game 7 game against the Pelargir Lightning....

Ah, but where would they get the ice?

[Gil-Galad]

Fornost Flames...thats great....

[Formendacil]

Originally Posted by Ainaserkewen

Ah, but where would they get the ice?

Well, if I remember my Silmarillion right, Melkor was a big ice-maker at one time. Perhaps the executors of the Utumno Estate (Messrs. Gorthaur, Balrog, & Smaug) sold the company. I can imagine the EHL (Elven Hockey League) having been interesting in purchasing it to provide an arena for the Lindon Canucks and the Rivendell Maple Leaves. Or perhaps Cirdan went into the ice-and-zamboni business after that disastrous foray into discovering the north-east passage. THAT was quite a mission. One king and two palantiri never seen again, and the Ring of Barahir saved only by a turn of luck...

Still, the great days of the EHL are long gone. Remember when Wayne Gretzndil played with the Annuminas Oilers? Pity they traded him to the Minas Tirith Kings....

[Ainaserkewen]

You have me in stitches Formendacil, I have to say Hockey has never been this amusing. Even the guy next to me is asking what the heck the EHL is. For the sake of pride, I didn't tell him.

Remember when Wayne Gretzndil played with the Annuminas Oilers? Pity they traded him to the Minas Tirith Kings....

Gretzndil!

I thought about someone getting steamed of how off topic we are with this Canadian Hockey theme, but then I thought, what is the topic again? Oh yeah, where everyone is from...I'm...uh, from Canada, if you didn't know that already.

[Milady Revenwyn]

I belong in either Edoras or Hobbiton, however I'm originally from San Jose, CA. I currently go to school in Searcy, AR.

United States, of course. :P

[Formendacil]

Originally Posted by Ainaserkewen

You have me in stitches Formendacil, I have to say Hockey has never been this amusing.

Hockey can be very amusing. Particularly if you don't take the game as seriously as diehard hockey fans do. Okay, so I was cheering Calgary all the way last spring, but it didn't break my heart when Tampa Bay won, and I never really watched a game before, and hardly a game since.

Originally Posted by Ainaserkewen

I thought about someone getting steamed of how off topic we are with this Canadian Hockey theme, but then I thought, what is the topic again? Oh yeah, where everyone is from...I'm...uh, from Canada, if you didn't know that already.

I'm probably risking the wrath of the Barrow-wight just by having replied, but I'm sure that an adept BDer will turn this thread back to its original source eventually. Or else send it packing to the Mirth forum.

It IS a mirthful topic after all. I can see it going on indefinitely as the games are played out between the various teams (not all that unlike the Warg-praising thread, if I think about it...).

For example, since middle-earth is a much less pampering culture than our own, the EHLPA would not have objected to a salary cap (which might be because the EHL could hire goons... er orks... to make them play), so we would be in the middle of a hockey season right now.

One wonders how the Fornost Flames would be doing after their run at the Stewardly Cup. Daeron Sutter would likely be pushing his team just as hard, and Jarome Igindur would still be scoring a great deal (assuming his was still with the team and not traded to some expensive team like the Osgiliath Rangers), and Miika Kiprussion would still be a great goalie, but would the FIRE be there!!! Would the fans still have cause to roam the streets of Fornost in rowdy ecstasy? Would hockey fans in Bree still flock to the Prancing Pony to catch the show together? Would tickets at the Palantir Stadium still cost an arm and a leg? (To be extracted by one of the orks at the door.)

These are the questions that haunt the middle-earthian hockey fan. Well, that and whether or not he'll get in trouble for giving this thread false directions, so that it is now lost in the jungles of crossover hockey mirth, and far off the straight road leading to the location all BDers wish they hailed from: Valinor.

[Neurion]

Originally Posted by Gil-Galad

when did i say that!?


well my teach says the U.S. are only in Iraq for the oil, they are totally ignoring all other things happening in the world, for example in sudan, no u.s. there to help them...no us.s gov't help for the tsunami either, all american-based private companies doing the help...

Ouch, and this person still has a teaching cerificate?

[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by Encaitare

Must ... not ... get ... political ...

Good advice.

Originally Posted by Formendacil

I'm probably risking the wrath of the Barrow-wight just by having replied, but I'm sure that an adept BDer will turn this thread back to its original source eventually. Or else send it packing to the Mirth forum.

You could always start a new thread in the Mirth forum.

In other words, please try to stick broadly to the topic at hand.

[Mithalwen]

Formendacil et al - I have Herenistarioned a thread called "Sport in Middle Earth" in Books.. though maybe it belongs in Mirth

[Celebuial]

I'm from Leicester, England. I couldn't really be bothered to read all the other replies to this(there's so many pages!!!!!) so I don't know if any one else is from around here! Oh well!!!!

[AbercrombieOfRohan]

I'm sorry, Mr. Barrow-Wight and Mr. Saucepan Man, but I just have to point formendacil and other BD-er's with an interest in hockey to this site. Just a quick little off-topic note. Don't hurt me *cowers*.

go here: http://www.geocities.com/sotto-voce/caribou.html

[Mithalwen]

Well there are assorted Brits but I can't think of anyone very close or even midlands..I am far south, Lal is North, Eomer far north... I think there are a few London-ish / commuter belt.... nothing came up on the search but who knows.. not everyone decalsre their location (for whatever reason)..

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

Well there are assorted Brits but I can't think of anyone very close or even midlands..I am far south, Lal is North, Eomer far north... I think there are a few London-ish / commuter belt.... nothing came up on the search but who knows.. not everyone decalsre their location (for whatever reason)..

I think Phervasion is from near Brum, not sure which side though. I'm in (not from, even if this comment does restart the war of the Roses ) Yorkshire, and so is davem, and Amanaduial The Archer is from near Manchester if I'm not mistaken, and narfforc is from Lancashire. So, Celebuial, there are some of us quite near to you

[Mithalwen]

Not exactly round the corner though.... It is all North to me ... save that having roots in Warwickshire, Leicester is on the fringes of my known Universe - (I wonder if that will cause the Yorkists and Lancastrians to forget their differences in order to gang up on the southerner? I did have a friend who reckoned a mutual friend was a Northerner because she was born in Salisbury ... but I think that was a bit extreme......

[Amanaduial the archer]

Far North?! I should say so - Eomer is Scottish, methinks!

Leicester...that would be maybe two hours drive away from me, less by train - I live in Greater Manchester. Survey this handy map

A little closer to you is Mattius, a fellow RPG and an all around delightful fellow: he is, as he has said before on this thread, is from Sheffield. Or maybe Lady_Báin, an inhabitant of Peterborough, but I ain't seen her any time recently.

So hey, you're not alone. *stares wistfully into space

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

Leicester is on the fringes of my known Universe - (I wonder if that will cause the Yorkists and Lancastrians to forget their differences in order to gang up on the southerner?

Such differences can be easily settled when southerners come along and 'give cheek'. Of course, I hasten to add, Lancashire did win. Wars of over five hundred years ago are not easily forgotten...

[Garen LiLorian]

Surprising number of fellow North Carolin...inininiers.
In Boone, myself, at least at the present moment. Although quite proud of my California birthplace (and we don't talk about the 12 years in Iowa...)

Canadian women are the best looking women in the world

Ok, so we can talk about it. Jack Kerouac said Iowan women were the most beautiful in the world. You gonna argue with Kerouac? Huh?


Thought not.

[the phantom]

Jack Kerouac said Iowan women were the most beautiful in the world.

I wish! (Iowa is but a two minute drive away from me)

In my experience though, girls from SW Omaha are much hotter than the ones across the river. Then again, Iowa is where I found my last girlfriend.

But I have to agree with Fordy on this. A ridiculously large percentage of the girls I've met from Canada were off the charts. You guys up there are blessed.

[Nimrodel_9]

Canadian women are the best looking women in the world

Says who?! Well, I guess I can agree with that. Partly. My friend is from Canada and she is one of the prettiest girls I have ever seen. I think Arab women are the most beautiful though.

[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by The Saucepan Man

... please try to stick broadly to the topic at hand.

We wouldn't want this thread closed down now, would we?

[Gil-Galad]

This Week on Off-Topic Posts, How the Where Everyone is Thread evolved into Which place has the hottest women? Iowa? Omaha? or the leading champion, Canada...

[Neurion]

From Nowhere I come, to Somewhere I go.

Where Life will lead me, I cannot know.

A warrior born, a scholar as well, treading a path 'twixt Heaven and Hell.

One ill step, I can ill afford, but yet I go on for the love of my Lord.

[Beleg Cuthalion]

Originally Posted by the phantom

A ridiculously large percentage of the girls I've met from Canada were off the charts. You guys up there are blessed.

I wish I could see a few of them.

[Bêthberry]

And Gil-Galad wondered why he didn't get a Personal Title last time round, right, SaucePanMan?

Consider it part of the skill or art of a Downer to know where the line is, and to dance nimbly there but not cross over into chat-slews or tar pits of off-topicness which mar the fertile fields of good discussion.

In short, please be good gardeners and prune the infelicitous phrases.

[Neurion]

I don't get it. I said where I'm from, and Gil-Galad accuses me of being off-topic?!?

[Ainaserkewen]

What ever happened to the World Map that showed where a lot of Downers lived in the World? That was interesting because then we could see which countries were "Downs Owned" as it were, or empty...like most of Antarctica. Do you think that anyone in Antarctica even surfs the internet? (random question of the morning).

And I'd also like to thank those of you solidifying Canadian hotness, now that Stalker thread is going to be growing a little.

I wish I could see a few of them.

I'm sure that wasn't your intention Beleg(hence the smilie, I know), but that's what I first thought of.

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

Such differences can be easily settled when southerners come along and 'give cheek'. Of course, I hasten to add, Lancashire did win. Wars of over five hundred years ago are not easily forgotten...

Well, I have to admit that I was indoctrinated at an early age by a Yorkie history teacher so I still am of the "Richard III" was stitched up brigade... and my best friend in the world is a Yorkie..... so we have more or less worked through the North - SOuth thing....

The French thing is worse.. in france I am often held personally responsible for everything since the 100 years war ...... and here some people think I must be French cos I was bilingual.... doubly damned....

[Amanaduial the archer]

What ever happened to the World Map that showed where a lot of Downers lived in the World?

It vanished, unfortunately. It was pretty impressive actually - there were a surprising amount of 'Downs-owned' countries, as you put it, Ainaserkewen - world domination, here we come! But it couldn't hold more than a couple of hundred Downer points, I think, so the newew points eventually started wiping off the older ones. I can't remember exactly why, but it stopped working. Being as there was no one who seemed to have the time, facilities and knowledge to start up and maintain a new one, the map vanished.

Pity, really. Good while it lasted.

[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by Aman

It vanished, unfortunately.

I am sure that it's still there somewhere. Burra posted a link to it on a thread much like this one about a year ago and I went along and pinpointed myself, sadly wiping another Downer of the face of the earth in the process since, as Aman points out, it had only limited capacity.