Sorry -- The Bob message was NOT an April first message.------Johnnie ---------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Wait a minute! This story is ridiculously unbelievable, it's Canadian and it's circulating on April 1st (almost).... so Ed Dahl must be lurking in the background somewhere, pulling our collective leg again. > Subject: Bob Territory of Canada > Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 09:46:05 EST > From: "Johnnie D. Sutherland" <[log in to unmask]> > > Could the Canadians on the list give me some information on what I hope is > a joke. Someone on another list commented that the Northwest Territories of > Canada are going to be split into two provinces, the Eastern part to be named > Nunavut, and the Western part Bob. I can accept all but the Bob part. If I > remmember my Canadian history course correctly the new province is not the > first to be carved out of the Northwest Territories, so you could use "bob" > to mean a small piece??? > > Johnnie Sutherland > University of Georgia > [log in to unmask] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * WILLIAM C. BARROW 13537 Cedar Road University Heights, OH 44118 (216) 397-8327 [log in to unmask] http://www.csuohio.edu/CUT/wcb2.htm - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Data-GIS Specialist Cleveland State University Library 1860 East 22nd St., #201 Cleveland, OH 44115-2403 (216) 687-6998 http://web.ulib.csuohio.edu/gis/DL_index.htm * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *