• Susaga@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 month ago

    If only I had the self-confidence of the guy who went to Australia and said “this place is called New South Wales now.”

    • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I always wanted to be a fly on the wall when they named the colony (later state) of Virginia.

      “We should name this place after Queen Elizabeth.”
      “Excellent idea, Elizabethia it is!”
      “No, no. Virginia. 'Cause she’s never… you know. Wink wink, nudge nudge.”