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To: DeaconBenjamin

Interesting.

I thought it must be a misspelling of boars or even bores, but no, it’s really Boers in Georgia.


2 posted on 02/26/2012 5:39:08 PM PST by SuzyQue
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To: SuzyQue

Those Boer farmers better take Georgia up on their offer and get the heck out of Dodge.

Else they might wind up like the white farmers in Zimbabwe — much worse.


5 posted on 02/26/2012 5:45:54 PM PST by heye2monn
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To: SuzyQue
It's the Georgia in the Beatles' song, "Back in the USSR."

"...and Georgia's always on my mind..."

Maybe it would prevent confusion if we used the natives' name for their own country, but it's a hard name to remember (sort of like the native name for Greenland is, or the Maori name for New Zealand). Or we could follow the Russians and call it "Gruziya." Or maybe go back to "Colchis." Maybe the Boers can take up raising sheep...with golden fleece.

9 posted on 02/26/2012 6:21:15 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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