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From: Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com>
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Subject: Re: Awfully quiet in here...
Date: 10 Nov 2024 17:45:33 GMT
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On 2024-11-10, Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
> On 11/10/2024 8:40 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
>> On Sat, 9 Nov 2024 19:20:07 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
>> <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 11/9/2024 5:03 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>>> D  <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, 9 Nov 2024, Paul S Person wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> So if not having a lot of people around is a good thing, Wyoming would
>>>>>> probably work.
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you think I would be allowed to wear a cowboy hat and walk around
>>>>> with a gun in Wyoming? That would be a strong incentive!
>>>>
>>>> Wyoming is tiny and Texas is huge and both will allow you to do these
>>>> things.  Actually having cattle is no longer considered necessary to
>>>> wear the hat.
>>>> --scott
>>>>
>>> O_o  I've driven across both Wyoming and Texas more than once.  Wyoming
>>> ain't "tiny".
>> 
>> Not by the standards of, say, Rhode Island.
>> 
>> It is quite normal for the Great Plains.
>> 
> My apologies, for some reason I was thinking of Montana.

But still, Wyoming is the 10th largest state, a bit less than twice
the median size.  Not a tiny state (except in comparison to Alaska)!

Chris