I've lost track. Who here is:

Canadian

Australian

British

Singaporean/Japanese/Asian

Continental European

American

Else

I know this categorization odd, but these seem the primary geographic venues of non-American fraysters.

I'll assume non-responders American, and will re-post this occasionally over the next while to garner a larger representation.

The strength and weakness of bb's is that nobody knows the country of any individual poster lest that poster declare.

Declare, please.

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I've always thought "Waltz around Texas" iconic, like "Sidewalks of New York", or "Waltzing Matilda", or even your favorite -- "The Marseillaise".

When these iconic melodies are employed in contra-indication, they become their opposite; evil.

Witness "Waltzing Matilda" in "On The Beach", or "Sidewalks of New York" as background for murder, or "The Marseillaise" as contrapuntual to French Indochine excursions.

I've always thought "Waltz Across Texas" gorgeous, but indicative of something less iconic than ironic.

And I think Willie and Waylon do a better version than the Iconic Ernest Tubbs, but Youtube won't let me find copyrighted clips.

Waltz across Texas has become almost like the state song. It's just an old West Texas Honky Tonk, Texas Two-Step dancing tune but dear to the heart of most Texans.

I have never visited New York, and walked along the streets and avenues without thinking of that song, The Sidewalks of New York.

Waltzing Matilda...I hate that f***ing song. In the movie it goes on and on until you just can't watch it anyway.

I love The Marseillaise even though I don't like the Frogs.

Jack

And it's Ernest Tubb...not Tubbs.

Because inquiring minds wish to know if they're talking with people from Lower or Upper Slobovia, or Shangrila, or the cradle of civilization east or west, or mundane North America, or interplanetary, or the South Pole (once, I recall, though it may have been in another forum).

Doesn't your inquisitive mind wish to know?

although I believe that nationality is largely a meaningless distinction to an anonymous message board, and possibly in any context, really.

Well after being banished from Atlantis my ancestors settled Europe, tired of the constant fighting they crossed the channel to explore the inviting white cliffs. There they started building the foundations for a very tall building by stacking stones horizontally in a circular design. After it was found to be too cumbersome of a task for such limited benefit they mischievously left it for future generations to ponder.

Bored, and chafed from ill fitting pants they took their pants installed tubes and reeds and invented bagpipes. While the haunting wales from the bagpipes were strangely satisfying they realized they needed to cover themselves out of respect for the women folk and the children. Since their pants had all been turned to instruments they borrowed their wives skirts.

Now in the damp climes of their island home they found that their skirts were quite practical and they eliminated chaffing. But no self respecting man wants to wear his wife's skirt so he called his new clothes a kilt.

Why kilt? Because they kilt anyone who made fun of them.

Sometime later after learning of a man from the southern parts of the lands they originally settled had found a great big new place with almost no body home they began to take notice of the new continent that everyone was rushing too. Now my ancestors being originally from Atlantis were no fools. they knew how hard it was to settle a continent and to form new countries so they waited a century or so before they came to visit the brave new world.

Unfortunately they got here a little too soon and were caught up in a revolution of sorts. Now being from Atlantis and all this messy revolution was just not to their liking at all. See my ancestors rather like orderly things but they have never much took to tyrants and bullies either. In fact we Atlantis refugees now dislike empire building so bad the Romans had to build a fence to separate us from the rest of the world they controlled. They just never could defeat us.

Anyhow we sort of liked the spunk of these new Worlders and how they stood up to the old world so we sided with them. You know they were not doing do well till we began to help them and then when those frenchies came in the rest is history.

But all that was a long time ago and a bit before my time, we don't where kilts anymore and besides many of the men in this country who wear skirts actually call them skirts and that will never do.

So I wear my chaffing pants in the damp and humid Midwest, work hard all day and keep my Atlantis heritage to myself. I don't know if anything I just wrote is true, but it makes for a nice biography, hopefully it will satisfy an Enquirer.

You have an understanding based on your own unique perception. The truth is there is only one true answere to your question. If you really want to know the answere read my question the answere is there.

does our origins really matter now? which came first? does it really matter when we all understand what the other is saying?My origins are soo vast that I could not easily answere that question. I can tell you that I sit in the USA/which sits on the PLANET/i could go on and on and on

But does the USA sit on the planet or is it lying down? And does the right of the nation include all of the planet directly beneath it to the core, or is the core considered planetary property and sovereignty only through to the bottom of the mantle?

inquiring minds want to know

Ah but there are other answers and it is only my sworn secrecy as a descendent of Atlantis that prevents your enlightenment.