"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
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> My gawd, all those stereotypes about American's geographical ignorance are
> coming to life here. Michigan is a US state. It is in the US. It is
dived
> into two portions, one being the peninsula between Lakes Huron and
Michigan
> and the other being the peninsula between Lakes Michigan and Superior/

Good gravy, you're right! I should have known better than that, as a child
I was up at the Great Lakes for vacation, and I used to swim in Lake Oswego.

> And to one of the follow-ups here.... It's Boxing Day, not Boxer day, and
> Boxing Day is nothing like Thanksgiving. It's more of an extended
Christmas,
> a day off for the hired help. though it seems to have involved into a sale
day
> at the malls.

"Boxer" day...how silly! Boxing Day is the day after Christmas (and it's
not "the day you put away boxes from Christmas presents", although maybe
that could help certain people remember the name!) Boxing Day is also
called the Feast of St. Stephen. Of course, in the USA we call it Kwanzaa.

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