Without any effort Tina Fey already looks a LOT like Palin....I bet they have her host SNL just so she can do a whole bunch of Palin skits.
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Without any effort Tina Fey already looks a LOT like Palin....I bet they have her host SNL just so she can do a whole bunch of Palin skits.
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Originally posted by malmo
3. South Africa=Wisconsin
2. Saudi Arabia=Tennessee
and above all
1. Russia=NJ
A knee slapper.
Minnesota=Norway.
This calls for Ole/Lena jokes.
"A beautiful theory killed by an ugly fact."
by Thomas Henry Huxley
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Very interesting map, Malmo !
But I'm trying to square some of the data with the 2007 reports by the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the CIA World Factbook, and it isn't matching up very well at all.
For instance, according to the numbers I've come up with so far, here are some of the U.S. State / Country comparisons that seem way out of wack.
GDP of Turkey = more than twice that of Washington State.
Nigeria = almost 3 times Hawaii
Australia = almost twice Ohio
Ecuador = more than 1 1/2 times North Dakota
Russia = almost 3 times New Jersey
Mexico = 1 1/2 times Illinois
Romania = 2 1/2 times Delaware
Ukraine = 3 times Idaho
And so on. I'm thinking there must be some sort of metric that I am missing in the way the U.S. numbers were calculated, although even the rank order within the States is quite different. For instance the "map-maker" had the State of New York as the 7th largest GDP in the USA, but others rank it 3rd, behind only California and Texas.
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Originally posted by rasbVery interesting map, Malmo !
But I'm trying to square some of the data with the 2007 reports by the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the CIA World Factbook, and it isn't matching up very well at all.
For instance, according to the numbers I've come up with so far, here are some of the U.S. State / Country comparisons that seem way out of wack.
GDP of Turkey = more than twice that of Washington State.
Nigeria = almost 3 times Hawaii
Australia = almost twice Ohio
Ecuador = more than 1 1/2 times North Dakota
Russia = almost 3 times New Jersey
Mexico = 1 1/2 times Illinois
Romania = 2 1/2 times Delaware
Ukraine = 3 times Idaho
And so on. I'm thinking there must be some sort of metric that I am missing in the way the U.S. numbers were calculated, although even the rank order within the States is quite different. For instance the "map-maker" had the State of New York as the 7th largest GDP in the USA, but others rank it 3rd, behind only California and Texas.
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Originally posted by croflashLol at the Canada comparison.
According to my numbers the GDP of Canada is ahead of
Brazil and Russia, which are ahead of India, which is just
about equal to Texas. Mind you, these are 2007 numbers,
and there are huge changes happening out there, by the day.
For instance, even in Canada, Alberta has passed B.C. and
Quebec over the last couple of years, and is predicted to pass
Ontario in GDP within the next 5 years. If Ontario was a State,
it would be ranked 7th in GDP.
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Originally posted by PegoA knee slapper.
Minnesota=Norway.
This calls for Ole/Lena jokes.
Ole and Lena got married. On their honeymoon trip they were nearing Minneapolis when Ole put his hand on Lena's knee.
Giggling, Lena said, "Ole, you can go a little farder now if ya vant to"... so Ole drove to Duluth.ops:
A Norwegian, a Swede and a Dane made a bet about who could stay the longest in a stinky pig barn. They all went in at the same time. After only two minutes the Dane came running out. Five minutes later the Swede stumbled out the door. After ten minutes, all the pigs ran out.
cman :twisted:
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