nunavut!?

[mip]

did you guys know about nunavut?i didn't until right now! i was looking at maps, and saw a strange "nu" on the east side of the northwest territories of canada, and then i saw a boundary line, and then i zoomed in and saw "nunavat." and then, friends, i googled

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[iamoddd]

somehow, i knew about nunavut. i don't know why or how, but i remember learning about it. maybe it was a northwest territory and we learned what all of them were, by name.

i remember making up all kinds of sad puns about it in my head. well, i guess only one kind of pun. it usually followed this format: "that nonsense?! i'll have nunavut!" "(insert thing)?! i'll have nunavut!"

i'd venture to say that i think of the word, "nunavut," at least once every 1.5 years.

[mip]

i lived in ignorance of nunavut until tonight! i can't believe it! :(

[iamoddd]

all the puns you missed!

well, i don't know about a lot of things.

i don't know as many vocabulary words as thee, for instance.

[mip]

you know about plants and about driving and about snow and about musics and about nunavut!

i had a botanie time today. i hope i didn't kill a baby african violet-et that has no root system yet but had to be removed from its bigplant. eep. i love the odor of peat mozz.

[tomservo42]

best coat of arms ever: http://www.canadiandesignresource.ca/officialgallery/?p=880

[mip]

an igloo wearing a crown! what a king!

[tomservo42]

used to be the desktop background for my work computer. The igloo king is great, but I for one am partial to the narwhal humping the circle.

[hockeyophile]

I remember reading about the newly-created Nunavut in 1999. And since I love to browse through articles about countries and states and provinces and cantons and all other kinds of national divisions, I know quite a few things about Nunavut. There aren't that many people up there, and the capital city looks a bit dreary. But I'm still fascinated by it!

[mip]

me too!

[hockeyophile]

Isn't it weird how the map on Wikipedia shows Greenland due north of most of North America? I am so used to seeing it northeast of the US and Canada on most regular wall maps. I know those wall maps aren't realistic, but they messed up my perception of where Greenland is!

But back to Nunavut. Wanna take a trip there someday? I can't be the only one who wants to visit the weirdest places on Earth. It would be cool to say we've been to Nunavut. It would be cooler to have people look really confused when we say that too, either because they can't imagine why we'd go there, or because they've never heard of it (more likely).

I'll have Nunuvut!

[hockeyophile]

Stop being fascinated. It is just dreary. I've been there 4 times (for work) and dread it all year. The capital city, Iqaluit, we dubbed "Sqalid." Become fascinated with Fiji, or Norfolk Island, or someplace where the sun shines and the grass grows...

signed, a sad cold Canuck