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Location: NJ | I'm not positive, but I think St. Helena is/was part of the Tristan da Cunha archipelago . . . |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Cliff, you were right all along, you clever b*****d! :D
Courtesey of Wikipedia again...
Saint Helena is an island of volcanic origin and a British overseas territory in the South Atlantic Ocean. The territory consists of the island of Saint Helena, as well as the dependencies of Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Helena
Ozwatto, Tassie doesn't get a mention, but Perth does. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | from: 'Navigation in the Information Age: Potential Use of GIS for Sustainability and Self-Determination in Hawai`i'
-Cogswell and Schiøtz, 1996
"Hawai`i is the most geographically isolated archipelago in the world, and originally had a tremendous diversity of microclimates, life forms, and natural renewable energy sources. Despite its natural wealth, Hawai`i now imports 50-75% of its own foodstuffs, and over 75% of its energy (Department of Geography, U. Hawai`i, 1983: 159). Ecological degradation over the last century, caused by development and ignorance, has caused many species of life to become extinct, and still threatens many more. The transformation of the Islands from a series of rich, dynamic and interconnected ecosystems and cultural systems to its present state is one of many factors that has intensified a movement toward reclaiming Hawaiian sovereignty." |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Think it's time for an OFC poll?
Lanaki and JeffW and Cogswell and Schitz vs Cliff and Muzza and Wikipedia.
(Yeah, I know I spelled Schitz wrong, but I can't find the funny scandinavian O on my keyboard, and the way I spelled it is funnier anyway :D ) |
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Location: NJ | What the f@ck does Cogswell know??
In 50 years his SON is gonna found a Corporation based on the Manufacturing/Sales of COGS in the latter half of a totally DIGITAL 21st Century! . . .
EVERYBODY knows that SPROCKETS are the Wave of the Future!! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Jane! Get me off this crazy thing! |
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Location: NJ | Don't even get me STARTED about "Schitz". . . .
(Imagine the "crank calls" HE gets at 3AM . . .) |
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| don't know why I'm here... my post just jumped threads, then I tried to delete and couldn't... anyway guess the server burped.
gotta love this place.
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Is that Jack Schitz???? He owes me money! |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | I think this thread has to be one of the most diverse OFC thread hijacks in the history of the OFC.
Someone starts with the Iraq war and dead pets. :(
For some weird, unexplainable reason, someone responds with a reference to Ovation guitars. Unnecessary and out of order! :rolleyes:
Here's a potted summary of where the thread went from there;
bad spelling
snow
pet food
llamas
Seattle
guns
bears with WOMD
bad smells
Yogi bear
work (and that's the first page done)
anna nicole's baby
voting
the colour of the sky
the perfect storm
Christmas
Gilligan's alter ego
the olympics and a photo of an Ovation
vipers with wood bits
snakes (that's page 2)
Praying
the OFC calendar
Omaha
Canadians and prostrate exams
Llamas again and back to the original post. (Fillhixx - bad boy!)
Afghanistan
the Hawaiian Interstate
The 'internationalness' of the OFC
back on thread (boring) :o
WWIII
the difference between Poland and the USA
freedom of speech
lawyers
facts (who needs em?) which eloquently concludes page 3. Only 6 to go (so far)
Wabbit's DVD
Polish Chicago Bulls fans
Polish prisons
brown packages and those magazines
bomb squads
Back to the DVD again
a recently deceased fish and reference to an obscure plastic backed USA made guitar (Don't know how THAT fits in this forum) :confused:
mainland tourists
saluting over the toilet
the buddhist snowpea growers association
Pizza (great subject to finish page 4 with, eh?)
Beer (Yay!) :D
a round tuit
early retirement
jumbo shrimps and the Hawaiian Interstate
a feeble reference to the original thread :o
a picture of a dog and a piece of guitar
gibson guitars and eBay
at the end of page 5, our old mate, Jason, offers to help out yet another OFCer with his extensive spare parts stock. (Ain't this a great place?) :D
Now we're on page 6 and the posts are referring more and more to earlier posts, and not too many new topics. And I'm tiring...
only 4 pages to go. What happened to the original topic? Who cares?
Schallers, Grovers and headstocks - both attached and dismembered
Print shops - 'Then and Now'!
Bodoni and Galliard, whatever THEY are??
back to snakes in Hawaii - no mention of the Interstate.
the power of stupid people
hawaiian blind snakes
Canadians, Brits, Aussies, Poles, Manx's, Franks, etc.
The world's remotest land mass (aha, we're back to 'conflict') ;)
Guam brown tree snakes
skunks, squirrels, armadillos, wild pig, deer, feral goats, feral donkeys, wild chickens and mongeese (sp?)
digestive tracts
Woody hitting 8K and Cliff approaching 10K
the taste of chicken compared to mongoose
the remotest landmass debate is hotting up - Pitcairn, St Helena, Hawaii, Easter Island are all in the running.
a Hawaiian Elmer Fudd impersonation and we hit the (current) last page.
farting and blowing up neighborhoods
the efficiency of using ONE finger in the US, but we need to use 2 in Britain and Australia. (twice as offensive?)
The debate about remote landmass has nearly run its course as NOBODY is brave enough to take on Cliff. (JeffW backs down, but Lanaki's probably sleeping.)
Scandinavian excrement and digital sprockets.
And we come to the current end of the thread with another complaint about not being able to delete our own threads and unpaid debts.
Have I missed anything... and are there any subjects that we HAVEN'T covered?
Don'tcha love it here?
[EDIT] Oh, b****r it! I've just started the 10th page. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | For a New Yorker, who has family living in Perth, Perth is the most remote inhabited spot. Sorry Hawaii, you may be remote for wild life, but for humans with airplanes, Perth wins. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | There is some wiggle room in the specicific language, but this from the Dept of the Intereior
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | by Jeff W's link
Isolated in the mid Pacific, the Hawaiian Islands are the most remote major island group on earth. I think the key is in the word 'major'.
Geez I'm glad we sorted that out.
Where's 4fingers gone???? He's missing the fun. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | I think the minimum humour requirement stopped him at the entrance.
Don't tell him about balogna-in-the-shoes!
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Location: big island | muzza
~mahalo for the reader's digest version of this thread. i had a challenge keeping my breakfast down while reading it from laughing so hard.
not to belabor this issue or whip a dead horse but:
hawaii's "islands" are simply the tops of the undersea volcanic mountain range that form them.
yes the islands are close to each other, but as an "entity", the whole place is the furthest away from any other land mass. |
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By all means, do continue! |
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Location: big island | i see we are back on topic now, animals. thanks phil! |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Even better. Pet Food! |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | I guess the term "remote" is probably the issue. That means many different things. To me, if it has a McDonalds, it's not remote in any sense of any definition. Now if it's intended to really mean isolated by water, than that is different. If it really means isolated from travel, than that is different. If you can go to an airport, buy a ticket and be there in 24 hours (lets not get picky about timezones), it is neither isolated nor remote. |
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Location: big island | i meant to say that, phil.
Miles, Miles, Miles...we're talking miles, Miles! |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Well if you are just talking distance from another significant land mass, than just looking at a Map shows Hawaii is in the middle of the pacific, all alone. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Originally posted by Lanaki:
yes the islands are close to each other, but as an "entity", the whole place is the furthest away from any other land mass. No it ain't. |
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Location: big island | okay phil,
this is an obvious case of cruelty to dead animals. that guy has been beating that horse for over three hours now, and that's only counting since you found/posted him.
i wonder though...is he only beating the horse as long as someone is watching? if i click off of this thread and no one else is perusing it, does the guy stop? |
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