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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: Awfully quiet in here...
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2024 09:03:39 -0800
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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.

>> And if Texas is "huge" what does that make Alaska?
> 
> Big enough that Texas could be made the third-largest State by
> dividing Alaska in two (if done evenly enough).


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