So I'm reading the NYTimes piece on Putin and realizing: (a) Russia is pretty much a super power again, and (b) I really have no idea which countries were carved out of the USSR. This latter epiphany actually came up when I read about the King of the Turkmen dying.
Anyway, test your contemporary geography skills!
Countries of the former Soviet Union include:
Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Tajikstan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan
Can you name all 15?
Bounce him back to reception.
Yes, but
which reception?
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If he tries again, I'm just sending him to the national number and having done with it. I don't even know if the department he wants is in this
state.
Ridiculously, I don't think I realized that Armenia is a country.
It's also a neighborhood in Hollywood.
Ridiculously, I don't think I realized that Armenia is a country.
That's what I'm saying. Who knows
anything
about Kyrgyzstan?
Who knows anything about Kyrgyzstan?
When I was working for an insurance company, I had to type Kyrgyzstan at least 15 times a day because it was one of the countries you can't get business travel insurance for. And I'm still not entirely sure how it's pronounced.
So I know two things about Kyrgyzstan -- hard to spell, and uninsurable!
Can you name all 15?
You forgot Freedonia and Turduckenstan.
Who knows anything about Kyrgyzstan?
I do!
It grows to about 13-15 feet (sometimes as large as 20 feet, weighs in at about 4500 pounds, lives in coastal waters where the temperature stays between 54 to 75 degrees F, can range as far as 12,500 kilometers and can dive up to 4200 feet.
They have rows and rows of razor sharp teeth, and will eat anything that moves, though its typical diet consists of seals, sealions, cetaceans, and large birds and fish. They have to keep swimming constantly, in order to keep water moving over their gills, or they'll die.
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Oh, wait. That's a great white shark.
In random news, possibly my favorite part of our Christmas family gathering was when my one cousin and I started singing "Dick in a Box," (the "one, cut a hole in the box" part) with hand/arm movements, and my other cousin's husband joined in from across the room.
For Xmas my husband gave me a box, with a hole cut in it, and inside were pictures of Dick Cavett, Dick Van Dyke, Dick Van Patten, Moby Dick, etc.
