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    American English: Regional Dialects?

    In Florida, where I'm from, a po-boy can be any sandwich with meat and cheese on a roll.
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    Career Change: How common in your culture?

    I'm currently on my third career.:cool:
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    Religion Five Mythological Characters Please

    Good call on Paradise LostTsuyoiko.
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    Religion Five Mythological Characters Please

    My favorites are Anansi the spider, and the native american coyote stories.
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    What is your favourite American TV series ?

    The Law & Order shows are all great. Made my week when Mike Logan came back.
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    Southern U.S. accents disappearing?

    I grew up in Florida, but after living so many places my accent kind of disapeared.
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    What is your favourite American TV series ?

    Currently my favorite show is "lost". Thank God for DSL so I can download it. They're supposed to start airing it in Japan this spring I believe. It's going to be huge over here.
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    Mouse gets revenge.

    Here's an update from the AP. FORT SUMNER, N.M. -- A small -town rumor that sparked world -wide interest about a mouse burning down a house has been found to be untrue. After 81-year-old Chano Mares's house burned down Saturday in Fort Sumner, news services picked up the quirky story...
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    Where have you traveled to or Where do you want to Travel to?

    Ive been all over the US, or about 40 states at least. Ive been a bunch of places in Canada, and I've been in northern Mexico. The only place else I've been is Germany. I went to Berlin, Munich, Rothenberg, Ludwidsburg, and some other little towns around there. Next week I leave for Izumo...
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    Try Reading This!!!

    that was pretty amazing. I read it at full speed, but I can read upside down at full speed too. Because that is my mutant power.
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    Visit North Korea !

    To me that whole trip sounds Horrible! You might as well not go and just watch a government film on life in North Korea. Obviously on such a strictly regimented tour you're not going to get any kind of a feeling for what life in North Korea is really like.
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    How much do you feel the passing of the seasons ?

    When I went to college up in Missouri I really felt the seasons, especially spring, seeing everyone shed their winter coats. But now that I'm back in Florida the only difference is that it rains less in the winter than the summer.
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    Armed and Dangerous..........dolphins?

    oh my god that rocks.
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    Favourite Poet and/or Poem

    Any list of great poems has to include Milton's Paradise Lost. Although it's way too long to quote here
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    Favourite Poet and/or Poem

    My Favorite poet is T.S. Eliot, and favorite poem is The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock S?fio credesse che mia risposta fosse A persona che mai tornasse al mondo, Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma perciocche giammai di questo fondo Non torno vivo alcun...
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