Comments on: Ocean State Measuring Shtick

By: fred

fred — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:14:47 +0000

or they could throw a curve-ball and just make rhode island part of connecticut. then how would they measure large amounts of land?

By: Tim Abbott

Tim Abbott — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:39:56 +0000

Wow, we lose a Rhode Island of tropical rainforest every week!

And five Rhode Islands make a Connecticut (more or less).

By: Terry

Terry — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:30:30 +0000

Jake,

Of course it depends on which county you’re talking about. San Bernardino County, for example, is considerably bigger than the sum total of the three states of southern New England.

The country I really want to visit is the principality of Andorra, which (I am told) is about 180 square miles compared to San Bernardino County’s 20,000 or so. Now that’s my kind of country! You can walk around most if it in a day or two.

Terry2,

I was wondering when you were going weigh in since you are an Ocean Stater. But rumor has it you are moving to South Carolina just to vote for Stephen Colbert.

By: Terrence McCarthy

Terrence McCarthy — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:54:09 +0000

Making RI an official unit of measurement’s a great idea. Any ideas on what to call it? RI has become like ” bread basket. ” Remember that guessing game in which one asks, ” Is it bigger than a bread basket? ”

And I, like you, do not hate the Yankees. Even though I’m a long time Sox fan.

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:27:32 +0000

“The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, which is the size of Rhode Island”

That didn’t seem right to me, so I checked it out. You are right. They are similar in size. Lux is a bit smaller, but it seems a lot smaller when you are there. It must be because so much of Rhode Island is water. Lux, on the other hand, seems more like the size of a large American county. A rather boring one. That said, there are a couple of good restaurants in town.